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Kensington Olympia market report W14, London
The W14 (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: 21,118 sales registered with HM Land Registry in W14 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for W14 (London) is £577,500, from 124 registered sales, down 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £813,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,118 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
W14 is the postcode district covering Kensington Olympia, Holland Park || Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where W14 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 W14
The W14 median stands at £577,500 for 2026, built from 124 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £813,100, 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 W14
Measured by floor area, the last five years of W14 sales average about £11,210 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 W14 103% above the national figure.
A typical W14 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £577,500 | £577,500 | 124 |
| 2025 | £635,000 | £650,185 | 429 |
| 2024 | £695,000 | £738,928 | 429 |
| 2023 | £680,000 | £747,154 | 357 |
| 2022 | £681,400 | £799,019 | 427 |
| 2021 | £735,000 | £930,605 | 575 |
| 2020 | £722,500 | £937,459 | 322 |
| 2019 | £745,000 | £976,517 | 353 |
| 2018 | £700,000 | £933,113 | 348 |
| 2017 | £730,000 | £995,647 | 359 |
| 2016 | £850,000 | £1,189,158 | 515 |
| 2015 | £785,000 | £1,109,205 | 601 |
| 2014 | £750,000 | £1,064,006 | 714 |
| 2013 | £540,000 | £777,006 | 631 |
| 2012 | £440,000 | £647,625 | 555 |
| 2011 | £464,400 | £701,065 | 570 |
| 2010 | £432,500 | £678,271 | 545 |
| 2009 | £400,000 | £643,003 | 407 |
| 2008 | £395,000 | £647,488 | 355 |
| 2007 | £415,500 | £704,804 | 878 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 1,007 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 727 |
| 2004 | £272,800 | £495,458 | 856 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 773 |
| 2002 | £270,000 | £508,003 | 1,187 |
| 2001 | £237,200 | £456,005 | 972 |
| 2000 | £218,000 | £427,825 | 1,119 |
| 1999 | £180,000 | £358,731 | 1,143 |
| 1998 | £146,800 | £296,326 | 972 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 1,143 |
| 1996 | £110,500 | £233,040 | 945 |
| 1995 | £100,000 | £217,385 | 780 |
In cash terms the typical W14 home went from £100,000 in 1995 to £577,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 166%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 51% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the W14 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 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 86% of the typed total. In 2023, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £14,398,800 against £607,500 for a flat, 23.7 times the price.
Median by property type, W14
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 | £14,398,800 (2023) | – | 76 |
| Semi-detached | £1,620,000 (2011) | – | 122 |
| Terraced | £1,245,000 | 12 | 2,830 |
| Flats | £555,000 | 111 | 18,015 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.1% | −11.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.7% | −9.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −3.8% | −7.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in W14
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 274 sales completed in W14. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 940 sales a year before the financial crisis and 353 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around W14
The local authority for W14 is Hammersmith and Fulham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,770 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,959 a month for a typical one-bed to £4,110 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hammersmith and Fulham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £577,500 median purchase price, a rent of £2,770 a month (£33,240 a year) works out at a 5.8% 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.
The shape of the W14 market
Among the 25 measurable districts of its area, W14 ranks 21 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: W14 (Kensington Olympia)
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What happens to W14 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 21% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in W14 right now
Everything above is what homes in W14 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 144 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the W14 median sold price.
22% 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.
- 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.
Moving up a bedroom in W: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the W area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
W14 ranks 16 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 W14, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W14 0 | £552,500 | 30 |
| W14 8 | £675,000 | 33 |
| W14 9 | £545,000 | 61 |
How W14 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 | £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 (this report) | £577,500 | -21% |
| W7 | £571,800 | +6% |
| W1F | £565,000 | -53% |
| W3 | £430,000 | -24% |
Before you sell in W14: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in W14, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from W14's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded W14 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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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.