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Lincoln's Inn Fields market report WC2A, London
The WC2A (Lincoln's Inn Fields) house price history in full, 1998 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 239 HM Land Registry entries for WC2A (London), going back to 1998: 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 August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 1 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in WC2A (London) sold for £650,000 in 2026, the median of 1 registered sales, down 77% on five years earlier. The mean was £650,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £22,920 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 239 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1998 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district WC2A covering Lincoln's Inn Fields, Royal Courts of Justice, Chancery Lane sits in London. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WC2A 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 WC2A prices, from the sold record
1 sales were registered in WC2A in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £650,000. The mean works out at £650,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WC2A
Per square metre, WC2A homes have averaged around £22,920 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, WC2A runs 128% above it.
The price of a typical WC2A home, 1998 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 | £650,000 | £650,000 | 1 |
| 2025 | £2,060,000 | £2,109,261 | 2 |
| 2024 | £950,000 | £1,010,045 | 3 |
| 2023 | £1,790,000 | £1,966,773 | 5 |
| 2022 | £2,628,200 | £3,081,864 | 12 |
| 2021 | £2,843,000 | £3,599,605 | 18 |
| 2020 | £1,739,100 | £2,256,518 | 55 |
| 2019 | £1,507,400 | £1,975,841 | 108 |
| 2018 | £2,300,000 | £3,065,943 | 7 |
| 2017 | £866,900 | £1,182,365 | 10 |
| 2012 | £819,500 | £1,206,202 | 3 |
| 2011 | £385,000 | £581,202 | 1 |
| 2010 | £1,710,000 | £2,681,720 | 1 |
| 2005 | £580,000 | £1,032,166 | 1 |
| 2004 | £865,000 | £1,571,009 | 2 |
| 2002 | £255,000 | £479,780 | 2 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 5 |
| 1998 | £130,000 | £262,414 | 3 |
In cash terms the typical WC2A home went from £130,000 in 1998 to £650,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 148%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 82% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WC2A 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 2018 (+165.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−77.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WC2A has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −68.4% | −69.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −25.6% | −29.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −15.1% | −18.7% |
| 14 years (since 2012) | −1.6% | −4.3% |
| 21 years (since 2005) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 register shows 1 WC2A sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 5 sales a year over the last five years against 3 before the financial crisis. 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 kind of market WC2A is
Only 1 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WC2A 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.
The rental side of WC2A
The local authority for WC2A 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.
Against the £650,000 median purchase price, a rent of £2,759 a month (£33,108 a year) works out at a 5.1% 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.
WC2A (Lincoln's Inn Fields): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WC2A (Lincoln's Inn Fields)?
Are property prices falling in WC2A (Lincoln's Inn Fields)?
Is WC2A (Lincoln's Inn Fields) a good place to buy a house?
Will WC2A prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 77% over five years in cash but down 82% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WC2A's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in WC2A sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 323% above the WC2A median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every WC2A 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: WC prices by size
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 | £475,000 | £800,000 (+68%) | £1,300,000 (+63%) | — | — |
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
WC2A ranks 14 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WC2A, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WC2A 2 | £2,060,000 | 2 |
How WC2A compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WC area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WC2R | £1,500,000 | +53% |
| WC2B | £1,457,500 | -10% |
| WC1V | £1,356,500 | +140% |
| WC1A | £1,325,000 | -67% |
| WC1B | £1,200,000 | +9% |
| WC2N | £1,200,000 | +24% |
| WC2H | £855,000 | -14% |
| WC1E | £850,000 | -8% |
| WC2E | £800,000 | +37% |
| WC1X | £793,000 | -29% |
| WC2A (this report) | £650,000 | -77% |
| WC1R | £590,000 | -28% |
| WC1N | £567,500 | -7% |
| WC1H | £357,000 | -10% |
Before you sell in WC2A: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WC2A'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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WC2A already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WC2A 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.