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Kensington Olympia market report W14 8, London
The W14 8 (Kensington Olympia) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,851 sales registered with HM Land Registry in W14 8 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical W14 8 (London) home changed hands for £675,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, down 27% on five years earlier), with the mean at £1,149,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £13,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,851 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
W14 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside W14 (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where W14 8 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 W14 8 sells for
33 sales were registered in W14 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £675,000. The mean works out at £1,149,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in W14 8
By floor space, homes in W14 8 have sold for about £13,530 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts W14 8 137% above the country at large.
W14 8'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 | £675,000 | £675,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £885,000 | £906,163 | 108 |
| 2024 | £1,100,000 | £1,169,526 | 129 |
| 2023 | £934,000 | £1,026,238 | 106 |
| 2022 | £900,000 | £1,055,353 | 167 |
| 2021 | £928,100 | £1,175,094 | 252 |
| 2020 | £1,135,000 | £1,472,686 | 99 |
| 2019 | £1,250,000 | £1,638,451 | 103 |
| 2018 | £1,637,500 | £2,182,818 | 127 |
| 2017 | £1,512,400 | £2,062,762 | 140 |
| 2016 | £1,297,000 | £1,814,516 | 258 |
| 2015 | £990,000 | £1,398,870 | 259 |
| 2014 | £1,015,000 | £1,439,955 | 333 |
| 2013 | £695,000 | £1,000,036 | 184 |
| 2012 | £626,200 | £921,688 | 150 |
| 2011 | £550,000 | £830,288 | 157 |
| 2010 | £550,000 | £862,542 | 143 |
| 2009 | £538,300 | £865,322 | 124 |
| 2008 | £480,000 | £786,821 | 107 |
| 2007 | £500,000 | £848,139 | 275 |
| 2006 | £415,000 | £720,387 | 299 |
| 2005 | £395,000 | £702,941 | 244 |
| 2004 | £371,500 | £674,717 | 232 |
| 2003 | £345,000 | £635,574 | 217 |
| 2002 | £380,000 | £714,967 | 435 |
| 2001 | £300,800 | £578,273 | 312 |
| 2000 | £275,000 | £539,688 | 375 |
| 1999 | £222,500 | £443,431 | 403 |
| 1998 | £177,500 | £358,296 | 276 |
| 1997 | £156,000 | £319,925 | 327 |
| 1996 | £137,500 | £289,981 | 259 |
| 1995 | £126,700 | £275,426 | 218 |
In cash terms the typical W14 8 home went from £126,700 in 1995 to £675,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 145%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 69% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the W14 8 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 (+46.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−23.7%). 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) | −23.7% | −25.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.2% | −10.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −6.3% | −9.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −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.
How many homes change hands in W14 8
How many homes change hands
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.
W14 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 299 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
The rental side of W14 8
The local authority for W14 8 is Kensington and Chelsea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, which against the £675,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the W14 8 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. Within W14, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: W14 8 (Kensington Olympia)
How much did a house sell for in W14 8 (Kensington Olympia)?
Are property prices falling in W14 8 (Kensington Olympia)?
Is W14 8 (Kensington Olympia) a good place to buy a house?
Will W14 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 27% over five years in cash but down 43% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in W14 now
Turning to what is actually available: 144 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W14 district, not just W14 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- North End Road, West Kensington, West Kensington
- Elsham Road, London
- Queen's Club Gardens, London, Greater London, W14 9TQ, London
"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 W14 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%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in W14
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of W14, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W14 0 | £552,500 | 30 |
| W14 9 | £545,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full W14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in W14 8? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in W14 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from W14 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded W14 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim W14 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to W14 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual W14 8 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.
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.