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High Holborn market report WC1V, London
The standing WC1V (High Holborn) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 141 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC1V (London) since 1996, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to May 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WC1V (London) home changed hands for £763,000 in 2026 (median of 1 registered sales, up 35% on five years earlier), with the mean at £763,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,930 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 141 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1996, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WC1V is a postcode district covering High Holborn in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WC1V 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 buyers actually paid in WC1V
The 2026 median for WC1V is £763,000, taken from 1 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £763,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in WC1V
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WC1V costs about £11,930 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WC1V trades 168% above the country as a whole.
A typical WC1V home, priced year by year (1996 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 | £763,000 | £763,000 | 1 |
| 2025 | £1,200,000 | £1,228,696 | 1 |
| 2024 | £972,500 | £1,033,967 | 1 |
| 2022 | £650,000 | £762,199 | 1 |
| 2021 | £565,000 | £715,363 | 5 |
| 2020 | £915,000 | £1,187,231 | 4 |
| 2018 | £1,000,000 | £1,333,019 | 3 |
| 2016 | £1,200,000 | £1,678,812 | 1 |
| 2015 | £1,462,500 | £2,066,513 | 2 |
| 2014 | £590,000 | £837,018 | 1 |
| 2013 | £1,101,000 | £1,584,229 | 3 |
| 2012 | £850,000 | £1,251,094 | 1 |
| 2011 | £615,000 | £928,413 | 5 |
| 2010 | £648,500 | £1,017,015 | 7 |
| 2009 | £440,000 | £707,304 | 4 |
| 2008 | £480,000 | £786,821 | 3 |
| 2007 | £410,000 | £695,474 | 3 |
| 2006 | £327,500 | £568,498 | 10 |
| 2005 | £495,000 | £880,901 | 5 |
| 2004 | £425,000 | £771,883 | 6 |
| 2003 | £450,000 | £829,009 | 3 |
| 2002 | £470,000 | £884,301 | 23 |
| 2001 | £357,500 | £687,276 | 46 |
| 1997 | £266,000 | £545,512 | 1 |
| 1996 | £187,500 | £395,429 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical WC1V home went from £187,500 in 1996 to £763,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 93%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2015, and today's median remains roughly 63% under it: a 2015 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WC1V 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 2015 (+147.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−46.4%). 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) | −36.4% | −37.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.2% | +1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −4.4% | −7.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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 WC1V
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WC1V recorded 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 14 sales a year before the financial crisis and 2 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.
The rental side of WC1V
WC1V falls under Camden, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £763,000 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
How WC1V trades
Only 15 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WC1V 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.
Common questions on WC1V (High Holborn)
How much did a house sell for in WC1V (High Holborn)?
Are property prices falling in WC1V (High Holborn)?
Is WC1V (High Holborn) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WC1V prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 35% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WC1V now
Everything above is what homes in WC1V sold for. The live side of the market holds 2 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 110% above the WC1V median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 WC1V 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WC
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WC area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WC1V ranks 4 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WC1V, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WC1V 6 | £763,000 | 1 |
How WC1V 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 (this report) | £763,000 | +35% |
| WC1R | £590,000 | -28% |
| WC2R | £575,000 | -41% |
| WC1N | £530,000 | -13% |
| WC1H | £445,000 | +13% |
Before you sell in WC1V: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WC1V, open the average prices map and zoom from the WC1V shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WC1V 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 WC1V.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WC1V. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WC1V 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.
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.