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WC2H 0 local market report London

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 164 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC2H 0 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

WC2H 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WC2H (London). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

Where WC2H 0 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.

£1,000,000median sold price, 2026
-58%five-year change (cash)
1sales in the last 12 months
3.3%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in WC2H 0 sells for

The 2026 median in WC2H 0 is £1,000,000, from 1 registered sales; the mean, £1,000,000, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £273,500, so WC2H 0 trades 266% above the country as a whole.

The price of a typical WC2H 0 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.

Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
£6.3M£12.5M£18.8M£25M1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £58,000 at the time · £123,138 in today's money · 2 sales1996: £125,000 at the time · £257,463 in today's money · 7 sales1997: £75,000 at the time · £150,218 in today's money · 5 sales1998: £85,700 at the time · £168,951 in today's money · 10 sales1999: £170,000 at the time · £330,889 in today's money · 9 sales2000: £122,000 at the time · £233,833 in today's money · 7 sales2001: £145,000 at the time · £272,245 in today's money · 4 sales2002: £275,000 at the time · £505,326 in today's money · 5 sales2003: £322,000 at the time · £579,348 in today's money · 4 sales2004: £215,000 at the time · £381,362 in today's money · 9 sales2005: £250,000 at the time · £434,509 in today's money · 7 sales2006: £250,800 at the time · £425,189 in today's money · 6 sales2007: £320,500 at the time · £530,960 in today's money · 4 sales2008: £459,000 at the time · £734,826 in today's money · 6 sales2009: £357,500 at the time · £561,263 in today's money · 2 sales2010: £475,000 at the time · £727,525 in today's money · 3 sales2011: £302,500 at the time · £445,994 in today's money · 4 sales2012: £400,000 at the time · £575,000 in today's money · 4 sales2013: £492,500 at the time · £692,108 in today's money · 6 sales2014: £2,250,000 at the time · £3,117,470 in today's money · 12 sales2015: £1,015,000 at the time · £1,400,700 in today's money · 6 sales2016: £820,000 at the time · £1,120,396 in today's money · 5 sales2017: £846,500 at the time · £1,127,577 in today's money · 3 sales2018: £387,500 at the time · £504,481 in today's money · 4 sales2019: £355,000 at the time · £454,453 in today's money · 6 sales2020: £16,750,000 at the time · £21,225,895 in today's money · 3 sales2021: £2,400,000 at the time · £2,967,742 in today's money · 1 sales2022: £3,060,000 at the time · £3,504,398 in today's money · 3 sales2023: £2,349,400 at the time · £2,521,129 in today's money · 5 sales2024: £550,000 at the time · £571,106 in today's money · 5 sales2025: £1,729,000 at the time · £1,729,000 in today's money · 6 sales2026: £1,000,000 at the time · £1,000,000 in today's money · 1 sales
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YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£1,000,000£1,000,0001
2025£1,729,000£1,729,0006
2024£550,000£571,1065
2023£2,349,400£2,521,1295
2022£3,060,000£3,504,3983
2021£2,400,000£2,967,7421
2020£16,750,000£21,225,8953
2019£355,000£454,4536
2018£387,500£504,4814
2017£846,500£1,127,5773
2016£820,000£1,120,3965
2015£1,015,000£1,400,7006
2014£2,250,000£3,117,47012
2013£492,500£692,1086
2012£400,000£575,0004
2011£302,500£445,9944
2010£475,000£727,5253
2009£357,500£561,2632
2008£459,000£734,8266
2007£320,500£530,9604
2006£250,800£425,1896
2005£250,000£434,5097
2004£215,000£381,3629
2003£322,000£579,3484
2002£275,000£505,3265
2001£145,000£272,2454
2000£122,000£233,8337
1999£170,000£330,8899
1998£85,700£168,95110
1997£75,000£150,2185
1996£125,000£257,4637
1995£58,000£123,1382

In cash terms the typical WC2H 0 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £1,000,000 in 2026, roughly 17 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 712%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 95% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the WC2H 0 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+5000% -5000% 0% 1996 · +115.5% on the year before1997 · −40.0% on the year before1998 · +14.3% on the year before1999 · +98.4% on the year before2000 · −28.2% on the year before2001 · +18.9% on the year before2002 · +89.7% on the year before2003 · +17.1% on the year before2004 · −33.2% on the year before2005 · +16.3% on the year before2006 · +0.3% on the year before2007 · +27.8% on the year before2008 · +43.2% on the year before2009 · −22.1% on the year before2010 · +32.9% on the year before2011 · −36.3% on the year before2012 · +32.2% on the year before2013 · +23.1% on the year before2014 · +356.9% on the year before2015 · −54.9% on the year before2016 · −19.2% on the year before2017 · +3.2% on the year before2018 · −54.2% on the year before2019 · −8.4% on the year before2020 · +4618.3% on the year before2021 · −85.7% on the year before2022 · +27.5% on the year before2023 · −23.2% on the year before2024 · −76.6% on the year before2025 · +214.4% on the year before2026 · −42.2% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 2020 (+4618.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−85.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)−42.2%−42.2%
5 years (since 2021)−16.1%−19.6%
10 years (since 2016)+2.0%−1.1%
20 years (since 2006)+7.2%+4.4%

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.

1020 1995: 2 sales1996: 7 sales1997: 5 sales1998: 10 sales1999: 9 sales2000: 7 sales2001: 4 sales2002: 5 sales2003: 4 sales2004: 9 sales2005: 7 sales2006: 6 sales2007: 4 sales2008: 6 sales2009: 2 sales2010: 3 sales2011: 4 sales2012: 4 sales2013: 6 sales2014: 12 sales2015: 6 sales2016: 5 sales2017: 3 sales2018: 4 sales2019: 6 sales2020: 3 sales2021: 1 sales2022: 3 sales2023: 5 sales2024: 5 sales2025: 6 sales2026: 1 sales1995200020052010201520202026

WC2H 0 recorded 1 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 6 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4 a year over the last five. 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 WC2H 0

WC2H 0 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.

1 bed: £2,008 a month£2,0081 bed2 bed: £2,563 a month£2,5632 bed3 bed: £2,989 a month£2,9893 bed4+ bed: £3,890 a month£3,8904+ bed

Set against the £1,000,000 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.

Will WC2H 0 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 58% over five years in cash but down 66% 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.

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the WC area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other street groups in WC2H

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WC2H, each linking to its own report:

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
WC2H 7£557,5004
WC2H 8£983,5004
WC2H 9£725,0001

Zoom out to the full WC2H district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WC2H compares with its neighbours.

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See every individual WC2H 0 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference WC2H 0 price page. 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.

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.

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