West London market report W
The W (West London) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 262,791 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the W postcode area (West London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the W postcode area (West London) came in at £670,000, out of 1,982 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £968,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,790 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 262,791 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
W is the postcode area centred on West London, taking in 25 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Where W 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.
What W homes really sell for
In the W property market, the 2026 median sale price is £670,000, from 1,982 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £968,000, 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 W
Per square metre, W homes have averaged around £10,790 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, W sits 135% above the national market.
The price of a typical W home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £670,000 | £670,000 | 1,982 |
| 2025 | £730,000 | £747,457 | 5,834 |
| 2024 | £755,000 | £802,720 | 6,031 |
| 2023 | £765,000 | £840,548 | 5,602 |
| 2022 | £725,000 | £850,145 | 6,901 |
| 2021 | £739,100 | £935,796 | 7,666 |
| 2020 | £750,000 | £973,140 | 4,876 |
| 2019 | £700,000 | £917,532 | 4,955 |
| 2018 | £740,000 | £986,434 | 5,391 |
| 2017 | £760,000 | £1,036,564 | 5,347 |
| 2016 | £710,000 | £993,297 | 6,192 |
| 2015 | £670,000 | £946,710 | 6,805 |
| 2014 | £660,000 | £936,325 | 7,632 |
| 2013 | £530,000 | £762,617 | 8,030 |
| 2012 | £485,000 | £713,859 | 7,016 |
| 2011 | £470,000 | £709,519 | 7,025 |
| 2010 | £455,000 | £713,557 | 7,150 |
| 2009 | £411,000 | £660,686 | 5,501 |
| 2008 | £410,000 | £672,077 | 5,178 |
| 2007 | £392,500 | £665,789 | 11,484 |
| 2006 | £339,500 | £589,329 | 12,685 |
| 2005 | £313,000 | £557,014 | 9,381 |
| 2004 | £300,000 | £544,859 | 10,908 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 10,104 |
| 2002 | £270,000 | £508,003 | 12,919 |
| 2001 | £240,000 | £461,388 | 11,662 |
| 2000 | £220,000 | £431,750 | 11,472 |
| 1999 | £185,000 | £368,695 | 12,923 |
| 1998 | £153,000 | £308,841 | 11,319 |
| 1997 | £135,000 | £276,858 | 12,806 |
| 1996 | £117,500 | £247,802 | 11,088 |
| 1995 | £107,500 | £233,688 | 8,926 |
In cash terms the typical W home went from £107,500 in 1995 to £670,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 187%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 35% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W 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 2014 (+24.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −8.2% | −10.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.5% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −1.9% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 70% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,850,000 against £540,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, W
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 | £1,850,000 | 33 | 4,292 |
| Semi-detached | £1,194,200 | 155 | 18,802 |
| Terraced | £952,500 | 438 | 55,829 |
| Flats | £540,000 | 1,356 | 183,868 |
How many homes change hands in W
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
W recorded 3,722 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 11,327 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,270 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.
The shape of the W market
Flats dominate what actually sells, at 68% of last year's transactions, and the headline median follows them. House buyers should lean on the type split above rather than the overall figure.
What homes rent for around W
For renting purposes W sits in Westminster, the local authority covering most of the W area (parts fall under Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £2,517 a month for a typical one-bed to £5,378 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £670,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 5.7%: 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.
Asked and answered: W (West London)
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What happens to W prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% 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.
On the market in W today
Everything above is what homes in W sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 505 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 53% above the W median sold price.
W registered 3,722 sales in the last twelve months; the 505 homes listed now would take about 7 weeks to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
24% 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every W 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.
When homes in W change hands
March is when W changes hands most (11.9% of the 32,034 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.5%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,216 | 6.9% |
| February | 2,340 | 7.3% |
| March | 3,823 | 11.9% |
| April | 2,083 | 6.5% |
| May | 2,286 | 7.1% |
| June | 3,602 | 11.2% |
| July | 2,450 | 7.6% |
| August | 2,708 | 8.5% |
| September | 2,934 | 9.2% |
| October | 2,689 | 8.4% |
| November | 2,594 | 8.1% |
| December | 2,309 | 7.2% |
What another bedroom costs in W
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the W area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | — | — | £1,230,000 | £1,600,500 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £593,250 | £749,000 (+26%) | £920,000 (+23%) | £1,237,500 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £515,000 | £670,000 (+30%) | £875,000 (+31%) | £1,175,000 (+34%) | £1,550,000 (+32%) |
| Flat | £440,000 | £583,265 (+33%) | £850,000 (+46%) | £1,125,687 (+32%) | £2,369,000 (+110%) |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the W area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the W area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable W district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| W1S Mayfair (east), Hanover Square | £5,846,000 | +14% | 3 |
| W1K Mayfair (north), Grosvenor Square | £4,042,500 | -1% | 8 |
| W1B Portland Place, Regent Street | £3,250,000 | -24% | 3 |
| W1J Mayfair (south), Piccadilly | £1,700,000 | +14% | 1 |
| W1G Harley Street | £1,450,000 | -14% | 9 |
| W8 Kensington | £1,150,000 | -44% | 72 |
| W1U Marylebone | £1,066,900 | -18% | 20 |
| W1H Marylebone | £951,400 | -36% | 30 |
| W11 Notting Hill, Westminster | £945,000 | -21% | 89 |
| W1T Fitzrovia, Tottenham Court Road | £835,000 | -45% | 21 |
| W4 Chiswick, Gunnersbury | £825,000 | +6% | 237 |
| W1W East Marylebone, Great Portland Street | £775,000 | -6% | 17 |
| W1D Soho (south east), Chinatown | £765,000 | +24% | 3 |
| W2 Paddington, Bayswater | £750,000 | -21% | 150 |
| W13 West Ealing, Northfields (north and west) || Ealing | £707,500 | +9% | 150 |
| W10 Kensal Town, || Kensington and Chelsea | £665,000 | -8% | 69 |
| W6 Fulham, Hammersmith | £650,000 | -13% | 160 |
| W12 White City, Wormwood Scrubs | £629,600 | -16% | 163 |
| W9 Maida Hill, Maida Vale | £625,000 | -9% | 131 |
| W5 Ealing, South Ealing | £620,000 | +8% | 196 |
| W14 Kensington Olympia, Holland Park || Hammersmith and Fulham | £575,000 | -22% | 148 |
| W7 Hanwell, Boston Manor (part) || Ealing | £572,000 | +6% | 105 |
| W1F Soho (north west) | £532,500 | -56% | 2 |
| W3 Acton, West Acton | £440,000 | -22% | 195 |
| W1N | £405,000 | -55% | 1 |
Selling a home in W? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in W, open the average prices map and zoom from the W shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded W sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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See every individual W 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.