Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 707 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WC2N (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 May 2025. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
WC2N is the postcode district covering Charing Cross 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 WC2N sits
Click the map to open WC2N on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£1,140,000median sold price, 2025
-35%five-year change (cash)
42sales in the last 12 months
3.3%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in WC2N sells for
The 2025 median in WC2N is £1,140,000, from 9 registered sales; the mean, £1,390,600, 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 WC2N trades 316% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WC2N 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
£1,140,000
£1,140,000
9
2024
£1,525,000
£1,583,521
17
2023
£1,137,500
£1,220,645
14
2022
£2,602,500
£2,980,456
12
2021
£1,150,000
£1,422,043
28
2020
£1,745,000
£2,211,295
15
2019
£1,587,500
£2,032,236
22
2018
£1,395,000
£1,816,132
17
2017
£990,000
£1,318,726
22
2016
£990,000
£1,352,673
23
2015
£1,495,000
£2,063,100
45
2014
£995,000
£1,378,614
31
2013
£837,500
£1,176,935
24
2012
£642,500
£923,594
18
2011
£565,000
£833,013
23
2010
£800,000
£1,225,305
19
2009
£625,000
£981,229
10
2008
£780,000
£1,248,724
9
2007
£595,000
£985,714
23
2006
£461,000
£781,548
16
2005
£537,500
£934,194
16
2004
£515,000
£913,496
25
2003
£467,500
£841,134
12
2002
£380,000
£698,269
15
2001
£350,000
£657,143
16
2000
£380,000
£728,333
25
1999
£350,000
£681,241
54
1998
£330,000
£650,571
49
1997
£249,000
£498,723
73
1996
£185,000
£381,045
14
1995
£277,500
£589,154
10
In cash terms the typical WC2N home went from £277,500 in 1995 to £1,140,000 in 2025, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 93%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 62% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WC2N 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 2022 (+126.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−56.3%). 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)
−25.2%
−28.0%
5 years (since 2020)
−8.2%
−12.4%
10 years (since 2015)
−2.7%
−5.8%
20 years (since 2005)
+3.8%
+1.0%
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.
WC2N recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 16 sales a year recently, against 19 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 WC2N
WC2N falls under Westminster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £2,517 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £5,378, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £1,140,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 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 WC2N prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 35% over five years in cash but down 48% 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
WC2N 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside WC2N, 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.