Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,209 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC2H (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 September 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
WC2H is the postcode district covering Leicester Square, St. Giles 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 WC2H sits
Click the map to open WC2H on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£788,800median sold price, 2025
-14%five-year change (cash)
50sales in the last 12 months
4.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WC2H sells for
The 2025 median in WC2H is £788,800, from 27 registered sales; the mean, £2,158,200, 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 WC2H trades 188% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WC2H 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
£788,800
£788,800
27
2024
£907,500
£942,325
46
2023
£850,000
£912,131
33
2022
£1,097,500
£1,256,888
25
2021
£937,500
£1,159,274
38
2020
£922,000
£1,168,375
27
2019
£855,000
£1,094,527
38
2018
£937,500
£1,220,519
42
2017
£1,050,000
£1,398,649
45
2016
£1,165,000
£1,591,782
56
2015
£765,000
£1,055,700
41
2014
£995,000
£1,378,614
43
2013
£832,500
£1,169,908
36
2012
£762,500
£1,096,094
27
2011
£613,800
£904,962
73
2010
£475,000
£727,525
34
2009
£473,500
£743,379
18
2008
£560,000
£896,520
31
2007
£462,500
£766,206
46
2006
£432,500
£733,231
46
2005
£417,000
£724,761
44
2004
£310,000
£549,871
39
2003
£295,200
£531,129
33
2002
£278,100
£511,023
44
2001
£280,000
£525,714
35
2000
£235,000
£450,417
32
1999
£205,000
£399,013
47
1998
£147,000
£289,800
39
1997
£176,000
£352,511
59
1996
£142,500
£293,507
40
1995
£107,500
£228,231
23
In cash terms the typical WC2H home went from £107,500 in 1995 to £788,800 in 2025, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 246%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 50% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WC2H 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 2016 (+52.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−23.1%). 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)
−13.1%
−16.3%
5 years (since 2020)
−3.1%
−7.6%
10 years (since 2015)
+0.3%
−2.9%
20 years (since 2005)
+3.2%
+0.4%
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WC2H recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 34 sales a year recently, against 40 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 WC2H
WC2H 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 £788,800 median sold price, £2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% 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
WC2H ranks 8 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 WC2H, 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.