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St John's Wood market report NW8, London
The NW8 (St John's Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 16,092 registered sales in NW8 (London) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NW8 (London) came in at £725,000, out of 73 registered, down 17% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £1,699,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £13,440 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 16,092 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NW8 is the postcode district covering St John's Wood, Primrose Hill (south), Marylebone (north) in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where NW8 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.
Today's NW8 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for NW8 is £725,000, taken from 73 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £1,699,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in NW8
A square metre of NW8 home has cost about £13,440 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NW8 runs 154% above it.
The price of a typical NW8 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £725,000 | £725,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £990,000 | £1,013,674 | 231 |
| 2024 | £939,500 | £998,881 | 318 |
| 2023 | £1,000,000 | £1,098,756 | 297 |
| 2022 | £1,150,000 | £1,348,506 | 461 |
| 2021 | £870,000 | £1,101,532 | 323 |
| 2020 | £820,000 | £1,063,967 | 237 |
| 2019 | £1,061,200 | £1,390,979 | 242 |
| 2018 | £1,000,000 | £1,333,019 | 209 |
| 2017 | £955,000 | £1,302,524 | 266 |
| 2016 | £900,000 | £1,259,109 | 269 |
| 2015 | £820,000 | £1,158,660 | 345 |
| 2014 | £746,500 | £1,059,041 | 448 |
| 2013 | £772,500 | £1,111,550 | 450 |
| 2012 | £570,000 | £838,969 | 339 |
| 2011 | £600,000 | £905,769 | 395 |
| 2010 | £540,000 | £846,859 | 419 |
| 2009 | £475,000 | £763,567 | 367 |
| 2008 | £430,000 | £704,861 | 393 |
| 2007 | £425,000 | £720,918 | 709 |
| 2006 | £392,000 | £680,462 | 856 |
| 2005 | £337,000 | £599,724 | 597 |
| 2004 | £325,000 | £590,263 | 628 |
| 2003 | £280,000 | £515,828 | 647 |
| 2002 | £320,000 | £602,077 | 913 |
| 2001 | £268,000 | £515,216 | 794 |
| 2000 | £265,000 | £520,063 | 973 |
| 1999 | £200,000 | £398,590 | 926 |
| 1998 | £165,000 | £333,064 | 784 |
| 1997 | £165,000 | £338,382 | 1,003 |
| 1996 | £140,000 | £295,254 | 656 |
| 1995 | £124,500 | £270,644 | 524 |
In cash terms the typical NW8 home went from £124,500 in 1995 to £725,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 168%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 48% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NW8 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 2013 (+35.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 87% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £7,732,500 against £850,000 for a flat, 9.1 times the price.
Median by property type, NW8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £7,732,500 (2025) | – | 370 |
| Semi-detached | £5,600,000 (2025) | – | 528 |
| Terraced | £2,800,000 | 5 | 1,254 |
| Flats | £630,000 | 61 | 13,927 |
What NW8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −26.8% | −28.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.6% | −8.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.1% | −5.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 165 NW8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 765 sales a year before the financial crisis and 276 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around NW8
The local authority for NW8 is Westminster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £725,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the NW8 market
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. NW8 sits 3 of 11 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: NW8 (St John's Wood)
Are property prices falling in NW8 (St John's Wood)?
Is NW8 (St John's Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NW8 (St John's Wood)?
Where do NW8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 34% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
NW8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in NW8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 92 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 213% above the NW8 median sold price.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Townshend Road, St John's Wood, London
- Clifton Hill, St John's Wood, London
- Ordnance Hill, St John's Wood, London
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NW area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
NW8 ranks 10 of 11 in the NW area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, NW area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside NW8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| NW8 9 | £735,000 | 23 |
How NW8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NW area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NW3 | £872,500 | -12% |
| NW11 | £822,500 | -17% |
| NW8 (this report) | £725,000 | -17% |
| NW6 | £645,600 | -8% |
| NW7 | £633,000 | +7% |
| NW1 | £630,000 | -10% |
| NW5 | £615,000 | -6% |
| NW4 | £562,600 | +13% |
| NW2 | £550,000 | +3% |
| NW10 | £534,000 | -1% |
| NW9 | £395,000 | -12% |
Thinking of selling in NW8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NW8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NW8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NW8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working NW8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim NW8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NW8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NW8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.