Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 902 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC2B (London) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to December 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
WC2B is the postcode district covering Drury Lane, Kingsway, Aldwych 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 WC2B sits
Click the map to open WC2B on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£900,000median sold price, 2025
-25%five-year change (cash)
46sales in the last 12 months
3.7%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WC2B sells for
The 2025 median in WC2B is £900,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, £4,508,000, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so WC2B trades 228% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WC2B home, 1995 to 2025
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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2025
£900,000
£900,000
23
2024
£850,000
£882,619
27
2023
£1,284,800
£1,378,712
20
2022
£1,180,200
£1,351,598
40
2021
£1,500,000
£1,854,839
39
2020
£1,200,000
£1,520,661
51
2019
£1,110,000
£1,420,965
31
2018
£1,015,000
£1,321,415
22
2017
£1,332,500
£1,774,952
25
2016
£845,200
£1,154,828
44
2015
£812,500
£1,121,250
28
2014
£702,500
£973,343
20
2013
£955,000
£1,342,057
21
2012
£825,000
£1,185,938
21
2011
£700,900
£1,033,378
18
2010
£690,000
£1,056,826
19
2009
£360,000
£565,188
16
2008
£560,000
£896,520
17
2007
£625,000
£1,035,414
23
2006
£475,000
£805,283
33
2005
£540,000
£938,539
31
2004
£275,000
£487,789
25
2003
£385,000
£692,699
33
2002
£402,500
£739,614
36
2001
£362,500
£680,612
47
2000
£390,000
£747,500
62
1999
£275,000
£535,261
59
1998
£160,000
£315,429
27
1997
£133,500
£267,388
14
1996
£115,000
£236,866
17
1995
£125,000
£265,385
13
In cash terms the typical WC2B home went from £125,000 in 1995 to £900,000 in 2025, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 239%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 51% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WC2B 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 2005 (+96.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−35.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2024)
+5.9%
+2.0%
5 years (since 2020)
−5.6%
−10.0%
10 years (since 2015)
+1.0%
−2.2%
20 years (since 2005)
+2.6%
−0.2%
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
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WC2B recorded 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 30 sales a year recently, against 36 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WC2B
WC2B falls under Camden, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £900,000 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: 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.
Will WC2B prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 25% over five years in cash but down 41% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
WC2B ranks 10 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 WC2B, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.