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Kensington market report W8 7, London
The W8 7 (Kensington) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,494 HM Land Registry entries for W8 7 (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: 14 registered 2026 sales put the W8 7 (London) median at £1,900,000, down 23% on five years earlier, with a mean of £2,895,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £19,400 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,494 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
W8 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside W8 (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 W8 7 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 a home in W8 7 sells for
Take the 14 registered 2026 sales in W8 7 and the middle price, the median, is £1,900,000. The mean lands at £2,895,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in W8 7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in W8 7 costs about £19,400 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts W8 7 567% above the country at large.
W8 7's median sold price, 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 | £1,900,000 | £1,900,000 | 14 |
| 2025 | £1,700,000 | £1,740,652 | 63 |
| 2024 | £1,950,000 | £2,073,251 | 76 |
| 2023 | £2,132,500 | £2,343,097 | 64 |
| 2022 | £2,200,000 | £2,579,751 | 77 |
| 2021 | £2,475,000 | £3,133,669 | 100 |
| 2020 | £2,420,000 | £3,140,000 | 63 |
| 2019 | £2,158,500 | £2,829,277 | 64 |
| 2018 | £2,325,000 | £3,099,269 | 91 |
| 2017 | £2,150,000 | £2,932,384 | 87 |
| 2016 | £1,852,500 | £2,591,666 | 52 |
| 2015 | £1,810,000 | £2,557,530 | 73 |
| 2014 | £1,800,000 | £2,553,614 | 87 |
| 2013 | £1,985,000 | £2,856,217 | 79 |
| 2012 | £1,700,000 | £2,502,188 | 87 |
| 2011 | £1,410,000 | £2,128,558 | 93 |
| 2010 | £1,517,500 | £2,379,831 | 88 |
| 2009 | £1,122,500 | £1,804,428 | 84 |
| 2008 | £1,277,500 | £2,094,092 | 74 |
| 2007 | £996,000 | £1,689,493 | 121 |
| 2006 | £1,000,000 | £1,735,872 | 196 |
| 2005 | £915,000 | £1,628,331 | 145 |
| 2004 | £811,200 | £1,473,298 | 214 |
| 2003 | £687,500 | £1,266,542 | 108 |
| 2002 | £660,000 | £1,241,784 | 141 |
| 2001 | £642,800 | £1,235,750 | 130 |
| 2000 | £525,000 | £1,030,313 | 181 |
| 1999 | £420,000 | £837,038 | 190 |
| 1998 | £392,500 | £792,289 | 160 |
| 1997 | £346,000 | £709,576 | 169 |
| 1996 | £312,500 | £659,049 | 167 |
| 1995 | £317,500 | £690,196 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical W8 7 home went from £317,500 in 1995 to £1,900,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 175%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the W8 7 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 2010 (+35.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−12.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.8% | +9.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.2% | −9.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in W8 7
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 14 W8 7 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 59 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around W8 7
For renting purposes W8 7 sits in Kensington and Chelsea. The ONS average private rent there is £3,591 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £1,900,000 median sold price, £3,591 a month is £43,092 a year, a gross yield of 2.3%: 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.
The shape of the W8 7 market
Only 14 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes W8 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the W8 district median, W8 7 sits 67% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: W8 7 (Kensington)
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What happens to W8 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 23% over five years in cash but down 39% 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 W8 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 67 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole W8 district, not just W8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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 W8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: W prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the W area, 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 W8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of W8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| W8 4 | £725,000 | 13 |
| W8 5 | £1,425,000 | 13 |
| W8 6 | £1,475,000 | 22 |
Zoom out to the full W8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how W8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in W8 7? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at W8 7'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.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to W8 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual W8 7 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.
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.