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New Oxford Street market report WC1A, London
The WC1A (New Oxford Street) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 349 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WC1A (London) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WC1A (London) came in at £5,162,500, out of 2 registered, up 29% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £5,162,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £13,680 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 349 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WC1A is the postcode district covering New Oxford Street in London. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WC1A 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 WC1A
Across 2 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WC1A home went for £5,162,500. The mean is £5,162,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WC1A
Per square metre, WC1A homes have averaged around £13,680 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WC1A runs 1711% above it.
WC1A's median sold price, 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 | £5,162,500 | £5,162,500 | 2 |
| 2025 | £1,047,500 | £1,072,549 | 8 |
| 2024 | £4,365,000 | £4,640,892 | 10 |
| 2023 | £982,500 | £1,079,528 | 14 |
| 2022 | £1,010,000 | £1,184,340 | 13 |
| 2021 | £4,000,000 | £5,064,516 | 13 |
| 2020 | £710,000 | £921,240 | 4 |
| 2019 | £795,000 | £1,042,055 | 5 |
| 2018 | £1,886,100 | £2,514,207 | 24 |
| 2017 | £1,599,000 | £2,180,875 | 8 |
| 2016 | £664,200 | £929,222 | 4 |
| 2015 | £950,000 | £1,342,350 | 5 |
| 2014 | £586,000 | £831,343 | 10 |
| 2013 | £880,000 | £1,266,232 | 9 |
| 2012 | £700,000 | £1,030,313 | 16 |
| 2011 | £740,000 | £1,117,115 | 8 |
| 2010 | £475,000 | £744,922 | 9 |
| 2009 | £512,500 | £823,848 | 8 |
| 2008 | £575,500 | £943,366 | 10 |
| 2007 | £480,000 | £814,214 | 29 |
| 2006 | £359,800 | £624,567 | 16 |
| 2005 | £332,500 | £591,716 | 8 |
| 2004 | £290,000 | £526,697 | 10 |
| 2003 | £305,000 | £561,884 | 13 |
| 2002 | £304,800 | £573,479 | 10 |
| 2001 | £250,000 | £480,612 | 7 |
| 2000 | £196,000 | £384,650 | 11 |
| 1999 | £260,000 | £518,166 | 13 |
| 1998 | £187,500 | £378,482 | 15 |
| 1997 | £240,000 | £492,192 | 13 |
| 1996 | £166,200 | £350,508 | 12 |
| 1995 | £140,500 | £305,425 | 12 |
In cash terms the typical WC1A home went from £140,500 in 1995 to £5,162,500 in 2026, roughly 37 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 1590%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the WC1A 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 2021 (+463.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−76.0%). 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) | +392.8% | +381.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.2% | +0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +22.8% | +18.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +14.2% | +11.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WC1A
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 18 sales completed in WC1A. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 13 sales a year before the financial crisis and 9 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.
Rents around WC1A
The local authority for WC1A is Camden, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,759 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £2,008 a month here against £3,890 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £5,162,500 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 0.6%: 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 WC1A market
This is a thin market: 18 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. WC1A is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Common questions on WC1A (New Oxford Street)
Is WC1A (New Oxford Street) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WC1A (New Oxford Street)?
Are property prices falling in WC1A (New Oxford Street)?
Will WC1A prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 29% over five years in cash and flat 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 WC1A today
Everything above is what homes in WC1A sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1 home currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 89% below the WC1A median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every WC1A 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.
Moving up a bedroom in WC: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WC 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | £495,000 | £860,000 (+74%) | £1,405,000 (+63%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WC1A ranks 5 of 14 in the WC 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.
WC area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WC1A, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WC1A 1 | £9,000,000 | 1 |
| WC1A 2 | £1,325,000 | 1 |
How WC1A compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WC area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WC1A (this report) | £5,162,500 | +29% |
| WC2B | £2,300,000 | +43% |
| WC2A | £2,060,000 | +18% |
| WC1B | £1,650,000 | +50% |
| WC2N | £1,200,000 | +24% |
| WC2H | £855,000 | -14% |
| WC2E | £800,000 | +37% |
| WC1X | £793,000 | -29% |
| WC1E | £770,000 | -17% |
| WC1V | £763,000 | +35% |
| WC1R | £590,000 | -28% |
| WC2R | £575,000 | -41% |
| WC1N | £530,000 | -13% |
| WC1H | £445,000 | +13% |
Thinking of selling in WC1A? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WC1A, open the average prices map and zoom from the WC1A shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WC1A 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 WC1A.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WC1A already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WC1A 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.