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Acton market report W3 8, London
The W3 8 (Acton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,684 HM Land Registry entries for W3 8 (London), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in W3 8 (London) came in at £424,200, out of 54 registered, down 25% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £561,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,360 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,684 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
W3 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside W3 (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 W3 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.
W3 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The W3 8 median stands at £424,200 for 2026, built from 54 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £561,000, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in W3 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in W3 8 costs about £7,360 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, W3 8 sits 49% above the national market.
The price of a typical W3 8 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 | £424,200 | £424,200 | 54 |
| 2025 | £522,100 | £534,585 | 133 |
| 2024 | £540,000 | £574,131 | 119 |
| 2023 | £580,000 | £637,278 | 153 |
| 2022 | £585,000 | £685,979 | 218 |
| 2021 | £565,000 | £715,363 | 207 |
| 2020 | £577,500 | £749,318 | 230 |
| 2019 | £510,000 | £668,488 | 240 |
| 2018 | £590,000 | £786,481 | 164 |
| 2017 | £595,000 | £811,520 | 147 |
| 2016 | £540,800 | £756,585 | 197 |
| 2015 | £498,800 | £704,804 | 149 |
| 2014 | £415,000 | £588,750 | 95 |
| 2013 | £355,000 | £510,810 | 185 |
| 2012 | £325,000 | £478,359 | 93 |
| 2011 | £266,000 | £401,558 | 97 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 105 |
| 2009 | £279,000 | £448,495 | 68 |
| 2008 | £255,000 | £417,999 | 72 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 187 |
| 2006 | £249,500 | £433,100 | 197 |
| 2005 | £237,500 | £422,654 | 144 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 153 |
| 2003 | £202,200 | £372,501 | 144 |
| 2002 | £201,000 | £378,180 | 173 |
| 2001 | £177,000 | £340,273 | 127 |
| 2000 | £156,000 | £306,150 | 155 |
| 1999 | £133,000 | £265,062 | 203 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 136 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 132 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 126 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 81 |
In cash terms the typical W3 8 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £424,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 155%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 48% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W3 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 1998 (+26.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.8%). 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) | −18.8% | −20.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.6% | −9.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.4% | −5.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
W3 8 recorded 54 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 135 sales a year recently, against 160 a year before 2008. 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 W3 8
For renting purposes W3 8 sits in Ealing. The ONS average private rent there is £2,060 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,590 a month here against £3,217 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Ealing
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £424,200 median sold price, £2,060 a month is £24,720 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market W3 8 is
This is a thin market: 54 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.
Asked and answered: W3 8 (Acton)
Are property prices falling in W3 8 (Acton)?
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What happens to W3 8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 25% over five years in cash but down 41% 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 W3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 91 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W3 district, not just W3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
46% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 W3 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in W: the cost
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%) |
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in W3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are W3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W3 0 | £609,000 | 16 |
| W3 6 | £398,000 | 35 |
| W3 7 | £397,500 | 36 |
| W3 9 | £440,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full W3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in W3 8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at W3 8'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.
Estate agents working W3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim W3 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about W3 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every W3 8 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.
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.