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Paddington market report W2 6, London
The standing W2 6 (Paddington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,666 sales registered with HM Land Registry in W2 6 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in W2 6 (London) came in at £695,000, out of 20 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £759,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,630 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,666 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
W2 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside W2 (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 W2 6 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.
W2 6 sold prices: where the market stands
The W2 6 median stands at £695,000 for 2026, built from 20 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £759,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
W2 6 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in W2 6 costs about £11,630 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so W2 6 trades 144% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical W2 6 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £695,000 | £695,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £575,000 | £588,750 | 57 |
| 2024 | £755,000 | £802,720 | 71 |
| 2023 | £760,000 | £835,054 | 70 |
| 2022 | £620,000 | £727,021 | 106 |
| 2021 | £582,000 | £736,887 | 97 |
| 2020 | £692,500 | £898,533 | 62 |
| 2019 | £559,000 | £732,715 | 72 |
| 2018 | £642,400 | £856,331 | 70 |
| 2017 | £692,500 | £944,500 | 56 |
| 2016 | £685,000 | £958,322 | 95 |
| 2015 | £601,500 | £849,920 | 86 |
| 2014 | £702,500 | £996,619 | 120 |
| 2013 | £550,000 | £791,395 | 119 |
| 2012 | £560,000 | £824,250 | 120 |
| 2011 | £525,000 | £792,548 | 139 |
| 2010 | £436,500 | £684,544 | 144 |
| 2009 | £441,200 | £709,233 | 128 |
| 2008 | £412,200 | £675,683 | 106 |
| 2007 | £437,500 | £742,122 | 256 |
| 2006 | £348,500 | £604,951 | 254 |
| 2005 | £270,000 | £480,491 | 179 |
| 2004 | £300,000 | £544,859 | 349 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 249 |
| 2002 | £247,500 | £465,669 | 227 |
| 2001 | £220,000 | £422,939 | 231 |
| 2000 | £200,000 | £392,500 | 199 |
| 1999 | £177,500 | £353,748 | 246 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 192 |
| 1997 | £130,000 | £266,604 | 219 |
| 1996 | £88,500 | £186,643 | 187 |
| 1995 | £89,100 | £193,690 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical W2 6 home went from £89,100 in 1995 to £695,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 259%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2014; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2014 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W2 6 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 (+46.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−23.8%). 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) | +20.9% | +18.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.1% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
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.
W2 6 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 243 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
What homes rent for around W2 6
For renting purposes W2 6 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 £695,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.5%. 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.
Reading the W2 6 market
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes W2 6 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.
What people search before landing on W2 6 (Paddington)
Searches like property valuation paddington
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £695,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
W2 6 (Paddington): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in W2 6 (Paddington)?
Are property prices falling in W2 6 (Paddington)?
Is W2 6 (Paddington) a good place to buy a house?
Are W2 6 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in W2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 227 homes currently on the market from 18 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W2 district, not just W2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every W2 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: W prices by size
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%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the W area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the W area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in W2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of W2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W2 1 | £740,000 | 21 |
| W2 2 | £667,500 | 28 |
| W2 3 | £664,200 | 15 |
| W2 4 | £900,000 | 13 |
| W2 5 | £938,800 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full W2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in W2 6? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in W2 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the W2 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded W2 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working W2 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim W2 6.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about W2 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every W2 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.