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Kings Cross market report WC1X, London
The standing WC1X (Kings Cross) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,259 HM Land Registry entries for WC1X (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 June 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 7 registered 2026 sales put the WC1X (London) median at £793,000, down 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,026,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £11,610 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,259 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WC1X is the postcode district covering Kings Cross, Finsbury (west), Clerkenwell (north) 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 WC1X 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 WC1X homes really sell for
Take the 7 registered 2026 sales in WC1X and the middle price, the median, is £793,000. The mean lands at £1,026,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
WC1X prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WC1X at roughly £11,610 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WC1X 178% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WC1X home, 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 | £793,000 | £793,000 | 7 |
| 2025 | £883,000 | £904,115 | 39 |
| 2024 | £999,100 | £1,062,249 | 87 |
| 2023 | £1,228,500 | £1,349,822 | 149 |
| 2022 | £940,500 | £1,102,844 | 105 |
| 2021 | £1,120,100 | £1,418,191 | 129 |
| 2020 | £1,180,900 | £1,532,242 | 70 |
| 2019 | £570,000 | £747,134 | 27 |
| 2018 | £680,000 | £906,453 | 39 |
| 2017 | £920,000 | £1,254,788 | 71 |
| 2016 | £625,000 | £874,381 | 41 |
| 2015 | £742,500 | £1,049,153 | 70 |
| 2014 | £575,000 | £815,738 | 67 |
| 2013 | £500,000 | £719,450 | 66 |
| 2012 | £485,000 | £713,859 | 67 |
| 2011 | £375,000 | £566,106 | 76 |
| 2010 | £382,500 | £599,858 | 58 |
| 2009 | £405,000 | £651,041 | 54 |
| 2008 | £362,500 | £594,214 | 52 |
| 2007 | £350,000 | £593,697 | 80 |
| 2006 | £315,000 | £546,800 | 97 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 81 |
| 2004 | £320,000 | £581,183 | 93 |
| 2003 | £313,400 | £577,359 | 104 |
| 2002 | £220,000 | £413,928 | 65 |
| 2001 | £245,000 | £471,000 | 83 |
| 2000 | £207,500 | £407,219 | 96 |
| 1999 | £181,900 | £362,517 | 76 |
| 1998 | £143,500 | £289,665 | 71 |
| 1997 | £107,000 | £219,435 | 56 |
| 1996 | £112,000 | £236,203 | 49 |
| 1995 | £111,200 | £241,732 | 34 |
In cash terms the typical WC1X home went from £111,200 in 1995 to £793,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 228%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 48% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WC1X 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 2020 (+107.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−26.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WC1X has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.2% | −12.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.7% | −11.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 90% of the typed total.
Median by property type, WC1X
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £2,775,000 (2025) | – | 214 |
| Flats | £760,400 | 6 | 1,980 |
How many homes change hands in WC1X
How many homes change hands
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 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, 43 sales completed in WC1X. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 77 sales a year recently, against 87 a year before 2008. 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 WC1X
For renting purposes WC1X sits in Camden. The ONS average private rent there is £2,759 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £793,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 4.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the WC1X market
This is a thin market: 43 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. 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.
WC1X (Kings Cross): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WC1X (Kings Cross)?
Is WC1X (Kings Cross) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WC1X (Kings Cross)?
Will WC1X prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WC1X's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WC1X sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 13 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% above the WC1X median sold price.
8% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WC1X 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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WC1X ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, WC area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WC1X, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WC1X 0 | £1,917,500 | 2 |
| WC1X 8 | £532,000 | 1 |
| WC1X 9 | £760,400 | 4 |
How WC1X 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 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in WC1X? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WC1X, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WC1X's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WC1X sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual WC1X 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.
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.