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Marylebone market report W1U, London
The standing W1U (Marylebone) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,338 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in W1U (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical W1U (London) home changed hands for £893,200 in 2026 (median of 16 registered sales, down 31% on five years earlier), with the mean at £1,296,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £20,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,338 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
W1U is a postcode district covering Marylebone in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where W1U 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 W1U sells for
In the W1U property market, the 2026 median sale price is £893,200, from 16 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £1,296,300, 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 W1U
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in W1U costs about £20,080 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, W1U runs 213% above it.
W1U'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 | £893,200 | £893,200 | 16 |
| 2025 | £2,125,000 | £2,175,815 | 77 |
| 2024 | £1,450,000 | £1,541,648 | 89 |
| 2023 | £1,537,500 | £1,689,337 | 82 |
| 2022 | £1,296,000 | £1,519,708 | 43 |
| 2021 | £1,300,000 | £1,645,968 | 63 |
| 2020 | £1,550,000 | £2,011,157 | 38 |
| 2019 | £1,350,000 | £1,769,527 | 71 |
| 2018 | £2,300,000 | £3,065,943 | 81 |
| 2017 | £1,737,500 | £2,369,776 | 68 |
| 2016 | £1,841,000 | £2,575,577 | 63 |
| 2015 | £1,170,000 | £1,653,210 | 68 |
| 2014 | £1,208,000 | £1,713,759 | 82 |
| 2013 | £985,000 | £1,417,317 | 95 |
| 2012 | £950,000 | £1,398,281 | 93 |
| 2011 | £806,200 | £1,217,052 | 80 |
| 2010 | £740,000 | £1,160,511 | 96 |
| 2009 | £702,500 | £1,129,275 | 78 |
| 2008 | £760,000 | £1,245,800 | 125 |
| 2007 | £700,000 | £1,187,395 | 157 |
| 2006 | £495,000 | £859,257 | 153 |
| 2005 | £420,000 | £747,431 | 124 |
| 2004 | £408,000 | £741,008 | 104 |
| 2003 | £409,200 | £753,846 | 124 |
| 2002 | £418,800 | £787,969 | 160 |
| 2001 | £321,000 | £617,106 | 162 |
| 2000 | £300,000 | £588,750 | 153 |
| 1999 | £275,500 | £549,057 | 206 |
| 1998 | £230,000 | £464,271 | 190 |
| 1997 | £205,000 | £420,414 | 165 |
| 1996 | £136,800 | £288,505 | 126 |
| 1995 | £140,800 | £306,078 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical W1U home went from £140,800 in 1995 to £893,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 71% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the W1U 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 2016 (+57.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−58.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What W1U has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −58.0% | −58.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −7.2% | −11.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −7.0% | −10.0% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 95% of the typed total.
Median by property type, W1U
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £3,750,000 (2025) | – | 170 |
| Flats | £798,800 | 14 | 3,114 |
How many homes change hands in W1U
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
W1U recorded 68 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 142 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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.
How W1U trades
This is a thin market: 68 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.
The rental side of W1U
For renting purposes W1U sits in Westminster. The ONS average private rent there is £3,163 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £2,517 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,378, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, which against the £893,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
Asked and answered: W1U (Marylebone)
How much did a house sell for in W1U (Marylebone)?
Are property prices falling in W1U (Marylebone)?
Is W1U (Marylebone) a good place to buy a house?
Will W1U prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 31% over five years in cash but down 46% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in W1U now
Everything above is what homes in W1U sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 20 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 311% above the W1U median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 10% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 W1U 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.
What another bedroom costs in W
Real sold prices by size across the W area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
W1U ranks 19 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.
W area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside W1U, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| W1U 1 | £1,075,000 | 7 |
| W1U 2 | £495,000 | 2 |
| W1U 3 | £1,100,000 | 2 |
| W1U 4 | £1,500,000 | 3 |
| W1U 5 | £685,000 | 3 |
| W1U 6 | £1,300,000 | 5 |
| W1U 7 | £770,000 | 3 |
| W1U 8 | £3,850,000 | 17 |
How W1U 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 (this report) | £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 | £577,500 | -21% |
| W7 | £571,800 | +6% |
| W1F | £565,000 | -53% |
| W3 | £430,000 | -24% |
Selling in W1U? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in W1U, open the average prices map and zoom from the W1U shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded W1U sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim W1U.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with W1U already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual W1U 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.