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Kensal Town market report W10 6, London
The W10 6 (Kensal Town) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,867 HM Land Registry entries for W10 6 (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for W10 6 (London) is £625,000, from 24 registered sales, down 27% on five years earlier; the mean is £917,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £12,180 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,867 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like W10 6 is a single group of streets within W10 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where W10 6 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 buyers actually paid in W10 6
In the W10 6 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £625,000, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £917,300, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in W10 6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of W10 6 sales average about £12,180 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving W10 6 119% above the national figure.
A typical W10 6 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £625,000 | £625,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £873,000 | £893,876 | 91 |
| 2024 | £785,000 | £834,616 | 65 |
| 2023 | £775,000 | £851,536 | 61 |
| 2022 | £1,000,000 | £1,172,614 | 83 |
| 2021 | £860,000 | £1,088,871 | 106 |
| 2020 | £920,000 | £1,193,719 | 45 |
| 2019 | £621,200 | £814,245 | 52 |
| 2018 | £1,030,000 | £1,373,009 | 41 |
| 2017 | £842,500 | £1,149,085 | 54 |
| 2016 | £715,000 | £1,000,292 | 90 |
| 2015 | £710,000 | £1,003,230 | 106 |
| 2014 | £678,000 | £961,861 | 119 |
| 2013 | £575,000 | £827,368 | 119 |
| 2012 | £625,000 | £919,922 | 141 |
| 2011 | £472,500 | £713,293 | 102 |
| 2010 | £500,000 | £784,129 | 159 |
| 2009 | £450,800 | £724,665 | 92 |
| 2008 | £410,000 | £672,077 | 73 |
| 2007 | £450,000 | £763,325 | 161 |
| 2006 | £360,000 | £624,914 | 199 |
| 2005 | £315,000 | £560,573 | 129 |
| 2004 | £300,000 | £544,859 | 173 |
| 2003 | £245,000 | £451,349 | 141 |
| 2002 | £261,500 | £492,010 | 198 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 192 |
| 2000 | £210,500 | £413,106 | 186 |
| 1999 | £195,000 | £388,625 | 161 |
| 1998 | £157,200 | £317,319 | 168 |
| 1997 | £139,000 | £285,061 | 199 |
| 1996 | £115,000 | £242,530 | 173 |
| 1995 | £98,500 | £214,124 | 164 |
In cash terms the typical W10 6 home went from £98,500 in 1995 to £625,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 192%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 54% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the W10 6 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 (+48.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−39.7%). 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) | −28.4% | −30.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.2% | −10.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.3% | −4.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
Sales activity in W10 6
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 24 W10 6 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 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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 W10 6 market
This is a thin market: 24 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. 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. Against the W10 district median, W10 6 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around W10 6
For renting purposes W10 6 sits in Kensington and Chelsea. The ONS average private rent there is £3,591 a month (May 2026). 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 £625,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,591 a month (£43,092 a year) works out at a 6.9% 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.
Asked and answered: W10 6 (Kensal Town)
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Where do W10 6 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 27% over five years in cash but down 43% 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.
W10's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 24 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W10 district, not just W10 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in W
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%) |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the W area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
W area districts: five years of change
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 5 | £565,000 | 8 |
Zoom out to the full W10 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W10 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in W10 6? 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 W10 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from W10 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded W10 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual W10 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.