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St John's Wood market report NW8 9, London
The NW8 9 (St John's Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,527 sales registered with HM Land Registry in NW8 9 (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 23 registered 2026 sales put the NW8 9 (London) median at £735,000, down 8% on five years earlier, with a mean of £2,716,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,520 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,527 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
NW8 9 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NW8 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where NW8 9 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in NW8 9
In the NW8 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £735,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £2,716,700, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in NW8 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NW8 9 costs about £12,520 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NW8 9 trades 158% above the country as a whole.
A typical NW8 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £735,000 | £735,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £822,500 | £842,168 | 74 |
| 2024 | £652,000 | £693,210 | 104 |
| 2023 | £853,500 | £937,788 | 80 |
| 2022 | £962,500 | £1,128,641 | 106 |
| 2021 | £795,000 | £1,006,573 | 83 |
| 2020 | £830,000 | £1,076,942 | 80 |
| 2019 | £700,000 | £917,532 | 63 |
| 2018 | £950,000 | £1,266,368 | 69 |
| 2017 | £895,000 | £1,220,690 | 79 |
| 2016 | £870,000 | £1,217,139 | 81 |
| 2015 | £750,000 | £1,059,750 | 99 |
| 2014 | £720,000 | £1,021,446 | 146 |
| 2013 | £677,500 | £974,855 | 164 |
| 2012 | £550,000 | £809,531 | 121 |
| 2011 | £603,800 | £911,506 | 158 |
| 2010 | £557,500 | £874,304 | 164 |
| 2009 | £492,500 | £791,698 | 126 |
| 2008 | £410,000 | £672,077 | 115 |
| 2007 | £425,000 | £720,918 | 258 |
| 2006 | £390,000 | £676,990 | 293 |
| 2005 | £327,500 | £582,818 | 203 |
| 2004 | £330,000 | £599,344 | 225 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 205 |
| 2002 | £310,000 | £583,262 | 353 |
| 2001 | £247,300 | £475,422 | 312 |
| 2000 | £225,000 | £441,563 | 285 |
| 1999 | £180,000 | £358,731 | 373 |
| 1998 | £141,500 | £285,628 | 304 |
| 1997 | £142,200 | £291,624 | 312 |
| 1996 | £110,000 | £231,985 | 254 |
| 1995 | £110,000 | £239,123 | 215 |
In cash terms the typical NW8 9 home went from £110,000 in 1995 to £735,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 207%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 42% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NW8 9 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1997 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−26.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.6% | −12.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.7% | −4.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in NW8 9
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
NW8 9 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 267 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the NW8 9 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NW8 9 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around NW8 9
NW8 9 falls under Westminster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,517 a month here against £5,378 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £735,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,163 a month (£37,956 a year) works out at a 5.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on NW8 9 (St John's Wood)
Is NW8 9 (St John's Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW8 9 (St John's Wood)?
Are property prices falling in NW8 9 (St John's Wood)?
Will NW8 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in NW8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 92 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NW8 district, not just NW8 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Townshend Road, St John's Wood, London
- Clifton Hill, St John's Wood, London
- Ordnance Hill, St John's Wood, London
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every NW8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in NW
Real sold prices by size across the NW area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | — | £992,500 | £1,400,000 (+41%) | £2,225,000 (+59%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £568,000 | £680,000 (+20%) | £969,000 (+43%) | £1,525,000 (+57%) |
| Terraced | £490,000 | £545,000 (+11%) | £720,000 (+32%) | £1,150,000 (+60%) | £1,850,000 (+61%) |
| Flat | £424,334 | £586,000 (+38%) | £922,500 (+57%) | £1,675,000 (+82%) | £2,550,500 (+52%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NW area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NW area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NW8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of NW8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NW8 0 | £800,000 | 14 |
| NW8 6 | £1,691,500 | 10 |
| NW8 7 | £610,000 | 20 |
| NW8 8 | £397,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full NW8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NW8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NW8 9? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NW8 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NW8 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NW8 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NW8 9.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NW8 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NW8 9 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.