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St Pancras market report WC1H, London
The standing WC1H (St Pancras) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,070 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WC1H (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 WC1H (London) came in at £445,000, out of 22 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £476,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,980 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,070 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WC1H is the postcode district covering St Pancras, UCL Institute of Education 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 WC1H 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 WC1H prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for WC1H is £445,000, taken from 22 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £476,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WC1H
Per square metre, WC1H homes have averaged around £11,980 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WC1H 56% above the national figure.
WC1H'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 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 52 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 73 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 59 |
| 2022 | £452,000 | £530,022 | 65 |
| 2021 | £394,700 | £499,741 | 62 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 38 |
| 2019 | £330,200 | £432,813 | 44 |
| 2018 | £342,500 | £456,559 | 50 |
| 2017 | £395,000 | £538,740 | 53 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 72 |
| 2015 | £446,000 | £630,198 | 92 |
| 2014 | £482,500 | £684,511 | 128 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 180 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 86 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 103 |
| 2010 | £254,000 | £398,337 | 82 |
| 2009 | £236,000 | £379,372 | 97 |
| 2008 | £303,000 | £496,681 | 55 |
| 2007 | £302,500 | £513,124 | 110 |
| 2006 | £227,000 | £394,043 | 127 |
| 2005 | £187,200 | £333,141 | 102 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 127 |
| 2003 | £165,500 | £304,891 | 124 |
| 2002 | £180,000 | £338,668 | 122 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 132 |
| 2000 | £138,000 | £270,825 | 97 |
| 1999 | £90,100 | £179,565 | 161 |
| 1998 | £78,800 | £159,063 | 170 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 149 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 133 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 103 |
In cash terms the typical WC1H home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 241%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2014. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WC1H 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 (+69.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−22.1%). 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, 99% of the typed total.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £641,200 (2003) | – | 27 |
| Flats | £445,000 | 22 | 2,983 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +15.6% | +12.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WC1H recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 118 sales a year before the financial crisis and 54 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.
The shape of the WC1H market
Only 53 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WC1H 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. WC1H is currently the cheapest district of its postcode area by median price, which cuts both ways: the lowest entry price, and the least priced-in expectation.
The rental side of WC1H
The local authority for WC1H is Camden, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £2,759 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,008 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £3,890, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Camden
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £445,000 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 7.4%: 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.
WC1H (St Pancras): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WC1H (St Pancras)?
Are property prices falling in WC1H (St Pancras)?
Is WC1H (St Pancras) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WC1H prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in WC1H now
Everything above is what homes in WC1H sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% above the WC1H median sold price.
33% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every WC1H 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.
What another bedroom costs in WC
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WC area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WC1H ranks 8 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WC1H, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WC1H 0 | £285,000 | 9 |
| WC1H 8 | £475,000 | 3 |
| WC1H 9 | £504,000 | 10 |
How WC1H compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WC area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WC1A | £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 (this report) | £445,000 | +13% |
Selling a home in WC1H? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WC1H, open the average prices map and zoom from the WC1H shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WC1H sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working WC1H: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WC1H.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WC1H already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WC1H 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.
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.