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Kensington market report W8 6, London
The W8 6 (Kensington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,633 sales registered with HM Land Registry in W8 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: 22 registered 2026 sales put the W8 6 (London) median at £1,475,000, down 11% on five years earlier, with a mean of £2,027,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £16,870 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,633 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like W8 6 is a single group of streets within W8 (London), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where W8 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.
Today's W8 6 prices, from the sold record
22 sales were registered in W8 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £1,475,000. The mean works out at £2,027,500, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in W8 6
By floor space, homes in W8 6 have sold for about £16,870 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts W8 6 418% above the country at large.
The price of a typical W8 6 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,475,000 | £1,475,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £1,716,200 | £1,757,240 | 106 |
| 2024 | £1,775,000 | £1,887,190 | 63 |
| 2023 | £1,975,000 | £2,170,043 | 70 |
| 2022 | £1,985,000 | £2,327,639 | 100 |
| 2021 | £1,659,000 | £2,100,508 | 92 |
| 2020 | £1,151,200 | £1,493,706 | 57 |
| 2019 | £1,625,000 | £2,129,986 | 58 |
| 2018 | £1,250,000 | £1,666,274 | 40 |
| 2017 | £1,727,500 | £2,356,137 | 96 |
| 2016 | £1,837,500 | £2,570,681 | 106 |
| 2015 | £1,700,000 | £2,402,100 | 95 |
| 2014 | £1,272,500 | £1,805,264 | 98 |
| 2013 | £1,562,500 | £2,248,282 | 116 |
| 2012 | £935,000 | £1,376,203 | 86 |
| 2011 | £905,000 | £1,366,202 | 98 |
| 2010 | £750,000 | £1,176,193 | 99 |
| 2009 | £850,000 | £1,366,382 | 91 |
| 2008 | £925,000 | £1,516,270 | 69 |
| 2007 | £810,000 | £1,373,986 | 129 |
| 2006 | £525,000 | £911,333 | 166 |
| 2005 | £427,500 | £760,778 | 162 |
| 2004 | £474,000 | £860,877 | 163 |
| 2003 | £380,000 | £700,052 | 131 |
| 2002 | £415,000 | £780,819 | 183 |
| 2001 | £412,500 | £793,010 | 140 |
| 2000 | £457,000 | £896,863 | 164 |
| 1999 | £360,000 | £717,461 | 187 |
| 1998 | £291,300 | £588,010 | 160 |
| 1997 | £225,000 | £461,430 | 179 |
| 1996 | £220,000 | £463,970 | 180 |
| 1995 | £235,000 | £510,854 | 127 |
In cash terms the typical W8 6 home went from £235,000 in 1995 to £1,475,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 43% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W8 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 2013 (+67.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−29.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.1% | −16.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.3% | −6.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −2.2% | −5.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.3% | +2.4% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 22 W8 6 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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.
Rents around W8 6
W8 6 falls under Kensington and Chelsea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,591 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,567 a month here against £5,497 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Kensington and Chelsea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, which against the £1,475,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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.
What kind of market W8 6 is
This is a thin market: 22 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within W8, this sector trades 30% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about W8 6 (Kensington)
Are property prices falling in W8 6 (Kensington)?
Is W8 6 (Kensington) a good place to buy a house?
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Will W8 6 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
W8's current homes for sale
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in W
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the W area. 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%) |
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 4 | £725,000 | 13 |
| W8 5 | £1,425,000 | 13 |
| 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 6: 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 W8 6'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 W8 6.
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See every individual W8 6 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.