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Leicester Square market report WC2H, London
The WC2H (Leicester Square) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 965 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC2H (London) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to June 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 6 registered 2026 sales put the WC2H (London) median at £855,000, down 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,004,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £14,230 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 965 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
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
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 WC2H prices, from the sold record
In the WC2H property market, the 2026 median sale price is £855,000, from 6 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £1,004,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
WC2H prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WC2H costs about £14,230 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WC2H runs 200% above it.
The price of a typical WC2H home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £855,000 | £855,000 | 6 |
| 2025 | £950,000 | £972,717 | 9 |
| 2024 | £907,500 | £964,859 | 24 |
| 2023 | £787,500 | £865,270 | 18 |
| 2022 | £932,500 | £1,093,463 | 12 |
| 2021 | £995,000 | £1,259,798 | 15 |
| 2020 | £791,000 | £1,026,339 | 14 |
| 2019 | £950,000 | £1,245,223 | 11 |
| 2018 | £852,500 | £1,136,399 | 16 |
| 2017 | £936,200 | £1,276,883 | 25 |
| 2016 | £1,165,000 | £1,629,847 | 28 |
| 2015 | £790,000 | £1,116,270 | 23 |
| 2014 | £1,280,000 | £1,815,904 | 25 |
| 2013 | £625,000 | £899,313 | 30 |
| 2012 | £762,500 | £1,122,305 | 27 |
| 2011 | £613,800 | £926,602 | 73 |
| 2010 | £475,000 | £744,922 | 33 |
| 2009 | £473,500 | £761,155 | 18 |
| 2008 | £560,000 | £917,958 | 31 |
| 2007 | £462,500 | £784,529 | 46 |
| 2006 | £432,500 | £750,765 | 46 |
| 2005 | £417,000 | £742,092 | 44 |
| 2004 | £310,000 | £563,021 | 39 |
| 2003 | £295,200 | £543,830 | 33 |
| 2002 | £278,100 | £523,243 | 44 |
| 2001 | £280,000 | £538,286 | 35 |
| 2000 | £235,000 | £461,188 | 32 |
| 1999 | £205,000 | £408,554 | 47 |
| 1998 | £147,000 | £296,730 | 39 |
| 1997 | £176,000 | £360,940 | 59 |
| 1996 | £142,500 | £300,526 | 40 |
| 1995 | £107,500 | £233,688 | 23 |
In cash terms the typical WC2H home went from £107,500 in 1995 to £855,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 266%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2014; the current median sits about 53% below that. Someone who bought at the 2014 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 2014 (+104.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−38.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 99% of the typed total.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £250,000 (1997) | – | 7 |
| Flats | £725,000 | 5 | 914 |
What WC2H has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.0% | −7.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −3.0% | −6.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
WC2H recorded 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 40 sales a year before the financial crisis and 14 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
For renting purposes WC2H 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.
£2,759 a month is £33,108 a year, which against the £855,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the WC2H market
This is a thin market: 15 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. 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.
WC2H (Leicester Square): the questions that come up
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What happens to WC2H prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WC2H now
Everything above is what homes in WC2H sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 6 homes currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the WC2H median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 50% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 WC2H 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WC
Real sold prices by size across the WC area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | £495,000 | £860,000 (+74%) | £1,405,000 (+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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WC2H 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WC2H, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| WC2H 0 | £1,000,000 | 1 |
| WC2H 7 | £925,000 | 1 |
| WC2H 8 | £967,000 | 3 |
| WC2H 9 | £725,000 | 5 |
How WC2H 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 (this report) | £855,000 | -14% |
| WC2E | £800,000 | +37% |
| WC1X | £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 a home in WC2H? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WC2H'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WC2H.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual WC2H sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.