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Kensal Town market report W10 5, London
The standing W10 5 (Kensal Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,103 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in W10 5 (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for W10 5 (London) is £565,000, from 8 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £1,722,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,103 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
W10 5 is one sector of W10 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where W10 5 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 a home in W10 5 sells for
Take the 8 registered 2026 sales in W10 5 and the middle price, the median, is £565,000. The mean lands at £1,722,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in W10 5
By floor space, homes in W10 5 have sold for about £10,880 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving W10 5 98% above the national figure.
W10 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £565,000 | £565,000 | 8 |
| 2025 | £660,000 | £675,783 | 70 |
| 2024 | £622,000 | £661,314 | 41 |
| 2023 | £665,000 | £730,673 | 42 |
| 2022 | £680,000 | £797,378 | 53 |
| 2021 | £575,000 | £728,024 | 47 |
| 2020 | £689,000 | £893,992 | 56 |
| 2019 | £510,000 | £668,488 | 36 |
| 2018 | £603,500 | £804,477 | 37 |
| 2017 | £642,200 | £875,896 | 74 |
| 2016 | £625,000 | £874,381 | 98 |
| 2015 | £577,500 | £816,008 | 122 |
| 2014 | £530,000 | £751,898 | 69 |
| 2013 | £500,000 | £719,450 | 95 |
| 2012 | £402,500 | £592,430 | 55 |
| 2011 | £377,500 | £569,880 | 46 |
| 2010 | £286,800 | £449,776 | 68 |
| 2009 | £331,000 | £532,085 | 47 |
| 2008 | £346,200 | £567,495 | 37 |
| 2007 | £350,000 | £593,697 | 79 |
| 2006 | £290,800 | £504,792 | 72 |
| 2005 | £266,800 | £474,796 | 58 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 94 |
| 2003 | £240,000 | £442,138 | 71 |
| 2002 | £226,000 | £425,217 | 102 |
| 2001 | £187,000 | £359,498 | 73 |
| 2000 | £205,000 | £402,313 | 77 |
| 1999 | £153,000 | £304,921 | 87 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 79 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 83 |
| 1996 | £85,000 | £179,261 | 63 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical W10 5 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £565,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 206%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 37% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the W10 5 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 2020 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−16.5%). 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) | −14.4% | −16.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.0% | −4.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in W10 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 8 W10 5 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 78 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.
Reading the W10 5 market
This is a thin market: 8 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the W10 district median, W10 5 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around W10 5
W10 5 falls under Kensington and Chelsea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,591 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £2,567 a month for a typical one-bed to £5,497 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £565,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,591 a month (£43,092 a year) works out at a 7.6% 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 W10 5 (Kensal Town)
How much did a house sell for in W10 5 (Kensal Town)?
Are property prices falling in W10 5 (Kensal Town)?
Is W10 5 (Kensal Town) a good place to buy a house?
Are W10 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in W10 now
The live side of the market holds 24 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W10 district, not just W10 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% 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.
"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 W10 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.
Moving up a bedroom in W: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the W 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 | — | — | £1,185,000 | £1,648,050 (+39%) | £2,400,000 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £650,000 | £850,000 (+31%) | £1,175,000 (+38%) | £1,681,250 (+43%) |
| Terraced | £563,825 | £675,000 (+20%) | £875,000 (+30%) | £1,200,000 (+37%) | £1,750,000 (+46%) |
| Flat | £450,000 | £630,000 (+40%) | £1,100,000 (+75%) | £2,300,000 (+109%) | £4,100,000 (+78%) |
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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in W10
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of W10, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W10 4 | £845,000 | 22 |
| W10 6 | £625,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full W10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W10 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in W10 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in W10 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from W10 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded W10 5 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 W10 5.
Keep digging
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See every individual W10 5 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.