Local market reports › W area › W3
Acton market report W3, London
The W3 (Acton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 22,333 HM Land Registry entries for W3 (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 recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in W3 (London) came in at £440,000, out of 195 registered, down 22% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £604,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,510 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 22,333 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district W3 covering Acton, West Acton, South Acton 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 W3 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 W3 homes really sell for
Across 195 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) W3 home went for £440,000. The mean is £604,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in W3
A square metre of W3 home has cost about £7,510 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, W3 runs 54% above it.
W3's median sold price, 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 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 195 |
| 2025 | £526,000 | £538,578 | 554 |
| 2024 | £486,000 | £516,718 | 687 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 564 |
| 2022 | £537,000 | £629,694 | 979 |
| 2021 | £565,000 | £715,363 | 681 |
| 2020 | £550,000 | £713,636 | 564 |
| 2019 | £512,500 | £671,765 | 587 |
| 2018 | £530,000 | £706,500 | 569 |
| 2017 | £540,000 | £736,506 | 518 |
| 2016 | £522,000 | £730,283 | 598 |
| 2015 | £471,400 | £666,088 | 604 |
| 2014 | £460,000 | £652,590 | 589 |
| 2013 | £360,000 | £518,004 | 800 |
| 2012 | £335,000 | £493,078 | 704 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 535 |
| 2010 | £288,200 | £451,972 | 645 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 422 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 413 |
| 2007 | £292,500 | £496,161 | 1,083 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 1,251 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 733 |
| 2004 | £232,500 | £422,265 | 812 |
| 2003 | £225,000 | £414,505 | 789 |
| 2002 | £216,000 | £406,402 | 947 |
| 2001 | £185,000 | £355,653 | 834 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 797 |
| 1999 | £143,500 | £285,988 | 1,031 |
| 1998 | £115,000 | £232,136 | 811 |
| 1997 | £93,100 | £190,929 | 792 |
| 1996 | £88,200 | £186,010 | 701 |
| 1995 | £83,400 | £181,299 | 544 |
In cash terms the typical W3 home went from £83,400 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 40% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the W3 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 (+27.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−16.3%). 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, 64% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £1,063,900 against £425,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, W3
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 | £1,063,900 (2025) | – | 363 |
| Semi-detached | £1,030,000 | 26 | 3,765 |
| Terraced | £922,500 | 30 | 3,922 |
| Flats | £390,000 | 136 | 14,273 |
What W3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −16.3% | −18.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.9% | −9.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −3.7% | −7.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.7% | −4.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in W3
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 356 sales completed in W3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 906 sales a year before the financial crisis and 596 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.
The shape of the W3 market
Flats dominate what actually sells, at 68% of last year's transactions, and the headline median follows them. House buyers should lean on the type split above rather than the overall figure. In its area's price order W3 comes 24 of 25, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of W3
W3 falls under Ealing, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £2,060 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,590 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,217, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Ealing
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £440,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,060 a month (£24,720 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
Common questions on W3 (Acton)
Is W3 (Acton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in W3 (Acton)?
Are property prices falling in W3 (Acton)?
What happens to W3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 22% 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.
W3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in W3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 62 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% below the W3 median sold price.
W3 registered 356 sales in the last twelve months; the 62 homes listed now would take about 2 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
50% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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.
When homes in W3 change hands
Take the 3,465 W3 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: November completions lead with 11.3% of the total, January trails with 6.1%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 213 | 6.1% |
| February | 219 | 6.3% |
| March | 369 | 10.6% |
| April | 219 | 6.3% |
| May | 251 | 7.2% |
| June | 335 | 9.7% |
| July | 291 | 8.4% |
| August | 280 | 8.1% |
| September | 334 | 9.6% |
| October | 314 | 9.1% |
| November | 393 | 11.3% |
| December | 247 | 7.1% |
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 | — | — | — | £1,230,000 | £1,600,500 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £593,250 | £749,000 (+26%) | £920,000 (+23%) | £1,237,500 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £515,000 | £670,000 (+30%) | £875,000 (+31%) | £1,175,000 (+34%) | £1,550,000 (+32%) |
| Flat | £440,000 | £583,265 (+33%) | £850,000 (+46%) | £1,125,687 (+32%) | £2,369,000 (+110%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
W3 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside W3, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W3 0 | £650,000 | 21 |
| W3 6 | £399,000 | 42 |
| W3 7 | £423,900 | 44 |
| W3 8 | £432,500 | 64 |
| W3 9 | £440,000 | 24 |
How W3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the W area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| W1S | £5,846,000 | +14% |
| W1K | £4,042,500 | -1% |
| W1B | £3,250,000 | -24% |
| W1J | £1,700,000 | +14% |
| W1G | £1,450,000 | -14% |
| W8 | £1,150,000 | -44% |
| W1U | £1,066,900 | -18% |
| W1H | £951,400 | -36% |
| W11 | £945,000 | -21% |
| W1T | £835,000 | -45% |
| W4 | £825,000 | +6% |
| W1W | £775,000 | -6% |
| W1D | £765,000 | +24% |
| W2 | £750,000 | -21% |
| W13 | £707,500 | +9% |
| W10 | £665,000 | -8% |
| W6 | £650,000 | -13% |
| W12 | £629,600 | -16% |
| W9 | £625,000 | -9% |
| W5 | £620,000 | +8% |
| W14 | £575,000 | -22% |
| W7 | £572,000 | +6% |
| W1F | £532,500 | -56% |
| W3 (this report) | £440,000 | -22% |
Before you sell in W3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in W3, open the average prices map and zoom from the W3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded W3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about W3. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every W3 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.