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East Marylebone market report W1W, London
The W1W (East Marylebone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,899 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in W1W (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical W1W (London) home changed hands for £725,000 in 2026 (median of 15 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £822,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £16,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,899 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district W1W covering East Marylebone, Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia 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 W1W 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 W1W sells for
The 2026 median for W1W is £725,000, taken from 15 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £822,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in W1W
A square metre of W1W home has cost about £16,630 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, W1W sits 154% above the national market.
The price of a typical W1W home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £725,000 | £725,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £727,000 | £744,385 | 23 |
| 2024 | £1,594,400 | £1,695,175 | 36 |
| 2023 | £830,000 | £911,967 | 31 |
| 2022 | £1,117,500 | £1,310,396 | 37 |
| 2021 | £825,000 | £1,044,556 | 31 |
| 2020 | £1,000,000 | £1,297,521 | 23 |
| 2019 | £1,257,000 | £1,647,626 | 35 |
| 2018 | £1,025,000 | £1,366,344 | 35 |
| 2017 | £1,100,000 | £1,500,290 | 47 |
| 2016 | £1,145,000 | £1,601,866 | 43 |
| 2015 | £881,000 | £1,244,853 | 52 |
| 2014 | £750,000 | £1,064,006 | 72 |
| 2013 | £760,000 | £1,093,564 | 81 |
| 2012 | £597,500 | £879,445 | 48 |
| 2011 | £500,000 | £754,808 | 58 |
| 2010 | £500,000 | £784,129 | 81 |
| 2009 | £400,000 | £643,003 | 61 |
| 2008 | £400,000 | £655,684 | 33 |
| 2007 | £374,000 | £634,408 | 74 |
| 2006 | £341,500 | £592,800 | 100 |
| 2005 | £292,000 | £519,642 | 55 |
| 2004 | £315,000 | £572,102 | 92 |
| 2003 | £290,000 | £534,250 | 70 |
| 2002 | £247,500 | £465,669 | 95 |
| 2001 | £233,500 | £448,892 | 74 |
| 2000 | £206,500 | £405,256 | 92 |
| 1999 | £165,400 | £329,634 | 114 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 80 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 93 |
| 1996 | £105,000 | £221,440 | 56 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical W1W home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £725,000 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 317%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2024, and today's median remains roughly 57% under it: a 2024 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the W1W 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 2024 (+92.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−54.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What W1W has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.3% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.6% | −7.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −4.5% | −7.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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, 99% of the typed total.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £1,400,000 (2007) | – | 22 |
| Flats | £725,000 | 15 | 1,828 |
Sales activity in W1W
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
W1W recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 82 sales a year before the financial crisis and 28 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.
Reading the W1W market
Only 27 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes W1W a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Rents around W1W
The local authority for W1W is Westminster, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £725,000 median purchase price, a rent of £3,163 a month (£37,956 a year) works out at a 5.2% 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.
What people ask about W1W (East Marylebone)
How much did a house sell for in W1W (East Marylebone)?
Are property prices falling in W1W (East Marylebone)?
Is W1W (East Marylebone) a good place to buy a house?
Are W1W prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 31% 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.
W1W's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in W1W sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 176% above the W1W median sold price.
23% 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.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every W1W 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
Real sold prices by size across the W area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
W1W ranks 12 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.
Five-year change in the median, W area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside W1W, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| W1W 5 | £580,000 | 4 |
| W1W 6 | £722,500 | 8 |
| W1W 7 | £1,150,000 | 3 |
How W1W 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 (this report) | £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% |
Before you sell in W1W: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at W1W'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim W1W.
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See every individual W1W 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.