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Charing Cross market report WC2N, London
The WC2N (Charing Cross) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 590 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.
Covers registered sales to January 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WC2N (London) home changed hands for £1,200,000 in 2026 (median of 1 registered sales, up 24% on five years earlier), with the mean at £1,200,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £15,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 590 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WC2N is a postcode district covering Charing Cross in London. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WC2N 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.
The going rate for a home in WC2N
Take the 1 registered 2026 sales in WC2N and the middle price, the median, is £1,200,000. The mean lands at £1,200,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in WC2N
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WC2N costs about £15,080 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WC2N 321% above the country at large.
The price of a typical WC2N home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,200,000 | £1,200,000 | 1 |
| 2025 | £1,000,000 | £1,023,913 | 5 |
| 2024 | £1,350,000 | £1,435,327 | 9 |
| 2023 | £1,025,400 | £1,126,664 | 8 |
| 2022 | £1,275,000 | £1,495,083 | 5 |
| 2021 | £965,000 | £1,221,815 | 7 |
| 2020 | £2,750,000 | £3,568,182 | 7 |
| 2019 | £1,650,000 | £2,162,755 | 11 |
| 2018 | £1,071,200 | £1,427,930 | 10 |
| 2017 | £1,120,000 | £1,527,568 | 8 |
| 2016 | £1,450,000 | £2,028,564 | 11 |
| 2015 | £1,575,000 | £2,225,475 | 39 |
| 2014 | £997,500 | £1,415,128 | 20 |
| 2013 | £837,500 | £1,205,079 | 22 |
| 2012 | £642,500 | £945,680 | 18 |
| 2011 | £565,000 | £852,933 | 23 |
| 2010 | £800,000 | £1,254,606 | 19 |
| 2009 | £625,000 | £1,004,693 | 10 |
| 2008 | £780,000 | £1,278,585 | 9 |
| 2007 | £595,000 | £1,009,286 | 23 |
| 2006 | £461,000 | £800,237 | 16 |
| 2005 | £537,500 | £956,533 | 16 |
| 2004 | £515,000 | £935,341 | 25 |
| 2003 | £467,500 | £861,248 | 12 |
| 2002 | £380,000 | £714,967 | 15 |
| 2001 | £350,000 | £672,857 | 16 |
| 2000 | £380,000 | £745,750 | 25 |
| 1999 | £350,000 | £697,532 | 54 |
| 1998 | £330,000 | £666,129 | 49 |
| 1997 | £249,000 | £510,649 | 73 |
| 1996 | £185,000 | £390,157 | 14 |
| 1995 | £277,500 | £603,242 | 10 |
In cash terms the typical WC2N home went from £277,500 in 1995 to £1,200,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 99%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 66% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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 2020 (+66.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−64.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +20.0% | +17.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.5% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.9% | −5.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
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.
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 | £550,000 (1998) | – | 7 |
| Flats | £1,000,000 (2025) | – | 562 |
Sales activity in WC2N
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
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 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 19 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6 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.
The shape of the WC2N market
This is a thin market: 16 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.
The rental side of WC2N
WC2N falls under Westminster, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £3,163 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £2,517 a month for a typical one-bed to £5,378 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Westminster
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £1,200,000 median sold price, £3,163 a month is £37,956 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
Common questions on WC2N (Charing Cross)
Are property prices falling in WC2N (Charing Cross)?
Is WC2N (Charing Cross) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WC2N (Charing Cross)?
Will WC2N prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 24% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WC2N now
Everything above is what homes in WC2N sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 1 home currently on the market from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 52% below the WC2N median sold price.
0% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every WC2N home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in WC
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WC area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat | £495,000 | £860,000 (+74%) | £1,405,000 (+63%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WC2N ranks 6 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.
WC area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WC2N, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WC2N 4 | £955,000 | 1 |
| WC2N 5 | £600,000 | 1 |
| WC2N 6 | £1,200,000 | 1 |
How WC2N 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 (this report) | £1,200,000 | +24% |
| WC2H | £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% |
Before you sell in WC2N: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WC2N, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WC2N's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WC2N sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WC2N.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WC2N already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WC2N 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.