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Kensington market report W8 4, London
The W8 4 (Kensington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,638 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in W8 4 (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 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for W8 4 (London) is £725,000, from 13 registered sales, down 63% on five years earlier; the mean is £1,088,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £17,290 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,638 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
W8 4 is one sector of W8 (London): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where W8 4 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.
The going rate for a home in W8 4
Take the 13 registered 2026 sales in W8 4 and the middle price, the median, is £725,000. The mean lands at £1,088,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
W8 4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in W8 4 have sold for about £17,290 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, W8 4 runs 154% above it.
A typical W8 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £725,000 | £725,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £1,210,000 | £1,238,935 | 51 |
| 2024 | £1,281,200 | £1,362,179 | 58 |
| 2023 | £1,325,000 | £1,455,851 | 48 |
| 2022 | £1,260,000 | £1,477,494 | 66 |
| 2021 | £1,950,000 | £2,468,952 | 73 |
| 2020 | £1,425,000 | £1,848,967 | 42 |
| 2019 | £1,450,000 | £1,900,603 | 31 |
| 2018 | £1,650,000 | £2,199,481 | 39 |
| 2017 | £1,450,000 | £1,977,654 | 42 |
| 2016 | £1,300,000 | £1,818,713 | 49 |
| 2015 | £1,117,000 | £1,578,321 | 57 |
| 2014 | £1,225,000 | £1,737,877 | 83 |
| 2013 | £1,250,000 | £1,798,625 | 73 |
| 2012 | £887,500 | £1,306,289 | 64 |
| 2011 | £813,100 | £1,227,468 | 60 |
| 2010 | £708,100 | £1,110,483 | 76 |
| 2009 | £708,600 | £1,139,081 | 54 |
| 2008 | £600,000 | £983,527 | 61 |
| 2007 | £727,500 | £1,234,043 | 94 |
| 2006 | £520,000 | £902,654 | 107 |
| 2005 | £440,000 | £783,023 | 97 |
| 2004 | £415,000 | £753,721 | 121 |
| 2003 | £380,000 | £700,052 | 97 |
| 2002 | £437,500 | £823,152 | 124 |
| 2001 | £380,100 | £730,723 | 122 |
| 2000 | £370,500 | £727,106 | 134 |
| 1999 | £320,000 | £637,743 | 148 |
| 1998 | £250,000 | £504,643 | 117 |
| 1997 | £230,000 | £471,684 | 154 |
| 1996 | £165,000 | £347,978 | 156 |
| 1995 | £192,000 | £417,378 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical W8 4 home went from £192,000 in 1995 to £725,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 74%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 71% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W8 4 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 2013 (+40.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−40.1%). 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) | −40.1% | −41.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −18.0% | −21.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −5.7% | −8.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in W8 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 13 sales completed in W8 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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 tenants pay around W8 4
For renting purposes W8 4 sits in Kensington and Chelsea. The ONS average private rent there is £3,591 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £2,567 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,497, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £725,000 median sold price, £3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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.
How W8 4 trades
Only 13 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes W8 4 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. Within W8, this sector trades 36% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Searches that land here, answered
To the person who searched property valuation w8
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £725,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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.
What people ask about W8 4 (Kensington)
How much did a house sell for in W8 4 (Kensington)?
Are property prices falling in W8 4 (Kensington)?
Is W8 4 (Kensington) a good place to buy a house?
Will W8 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 63% over five years in cash but down 71% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in W8 today
The live side of the market holds 67 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W8 district, not just W8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 W8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in W: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the W area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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
The spread across the W area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, W area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in W8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are W8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W8 5 | £1,425,000 | 13 |
| W8 6 | £1,475,000 | 22 |
| W8 7 | £1,900,000 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full W8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in W8 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in W8 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the W8 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded W8 4 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 W8 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to W8 4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual W8 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.