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Kensal Town market report W10, London
The standing W10 (Kensal Town) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 8,563 sales registered with HM Land Registry in W10 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for W10 (London) is £702,500, from 54 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £983,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £10,850 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,563 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district W10 covering Kensal Town, || Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where W10 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
In the W10 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £702,500, from 54 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £983,500, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
W10 prices by floor area
A square metre of W10 home has cost about £10,850 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving W10 146% above the national figure.
W10's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £702,500 | £702,500 | 54 |
| 2025 | £735,000 | £752,576 | 230 |
| 2024 | £724,000 | £769,761 | 168 |
| 2023 | £730,000 | £802,092 | 147 |
| 2022 | £850,000 | £996,722 | 219 |
| 2021 | £720,000 | £911,613 | 243 |
| 2020 | £795,000 | £1,031,529 | 163 |
| 2019 | £715,000 | £937,194 | 168 |
| 2018 | £652,800 | £870,195 | 161 |
| 2017 | £650,000 | £886,535 | 180 |
| 2016 | £675,000 | £944,332 | 263 |
| 2015 | £615,000 | £868,995 | 295 |
| 2014 | £606,000 | £859,717 | 264 |
| 2013 | £500,000 | £719,450 | 315 |
| 2012 | £460,000 | £677,063 | 302 |
| 2011 | £399,500 | £603,091 | 218 |
| 2010 | £430,000 | £674,351 | 319 |
| 2009 | £400,000 | £643,003 | 192 |
| 2008 | £350,000 | £573,724 | 161 |
| 2007 | £355,000 | £602,179 | 411 |
| 2006 | £324,000 | £562,423 | 386 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 310 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 370 |
| 2003 | £238,700 | £439,743 | 304 |
| 2002 | £244,000 | £459,084 | 411 |
| 2001 | £215,000 | £413,327 | 352 |
| 2000 | £204,500 | £401,331 | 346 |
| 1999 | £171,600 | £341,990 | 354 |
| 1998 | £139,000 | £280,581 | 335 |
| 1997 | £121,200 | £248,557 | 355 |
| 1996 | £97,000 | £204,569 | 295 |
| 1995 | £91,000 | £197,820 | 272 |
In cash terms the typical W10 home went from £91,000 in 1995 to £702,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 255%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the W10 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 (+24.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−14.1%). 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 years (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 71% of the typed total. In 2014, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,325,000 against £517,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, W10
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 | £1,325,000 (2014) | – | 10 |
| Semi-detached | £1,500,000 (2012) | – | 100 |
| Terraced | £1,032,500 | 18 | 2,368 |
| Flats | £540,000 | 35 | 6,016 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
W10 recorded 137 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 361 sales a year before the financial crisis and 164 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around W10
W10 falls under Kensington and Chelsea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,591 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,567 a month here against £5,497 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £702,500 median purchase price, a rent of £3,591 a month (£43,092 a year) works out at a 6.1% 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.
How W10 trades
Only 137 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes W10 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
W10 (Kensal Town): the questions that come up
Is W10 (Kensal Town) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in W10 (Kensal Town)?
Are property prices falling in W10 (Kensal Town)?
Will W10 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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 is for sale in W10 right now
Everything above is what homes in W10 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 24 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the W10 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: W prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the W area. 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
W10 ranks 8 of 25 in the W 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.
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.
Inside W10, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| W10 4 | £845,000 | 22 |
| W10 5 | £565,000 | 8 |
| W10 6 | £625,000 | 24 |
How W10 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the W area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| W1S | £4,666,000 | -9% |
| W1K | £4,085,000 | +0% |
| W1B | £2,003,800 | -53% |
| W1J | £1,700,000 | +14% |
| W1G | £1,450,000 | -14% |
| W8 | £1,135,000 | -45% |
| W1D | £1,007,500 | +64% |
| W11 | £950,000 | -21% |
| W1U | £893,200 | -31% |
| W1H | £892,500 | -40% |
| W4 | £822,500 | +6% |
| W2 | £740,000 | -22% |
| W1W | £725,000 | -12% |
| W10 (this report) | £702,500 | -2% |
| W13 | £691,000 | +6% |
| W1T | £675,000 | -56% |
| W6 | £661,000 | -12% |
| W9 | £625,000 | -9% |
| W12 | £623,800 | -17% |
| W5 | £585,000 | +2% |
| W14 | £577,500 | -21% |
| W7 | £571,800 | +6% |
| W1F | £565,000 | -53% |
| W3 | £430,000 | -24% |
Selling a home in W10? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at W10's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working W10: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim W10.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with W10 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual W10 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.