NW3 house prices are built from 27,409 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £480,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -10.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -36.1%.
Median price paid
£480,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-10.8%
Change in real terms
-36.1%
Median per m²
£6,344
HM Land Registry27,409 sales5,584 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026
Section 01
How NW3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median NW3 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £188,125 | £417,726 |
| 2000s | 10 | £399,950 | £728,591 |
| 2010s | 10 | £895,000 | £1,261,950 |
| 2020s | 7 | £1,000,000 | £1,021,739 |
The highest yearly median on record for NW3 is £1,095,000 in 2022; the lowest is £142,750 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £142,750 to £825,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £316,972, so the real change over the whole record is +160.3% — about +3.13% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: -10.8% in cash against -36.1% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 79 GILLING COURT Belsize Grove | 26 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £475,000 | £475,000 |
| FLAT 7 18 Lambolle Road | 22 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £765,000 | £765,000 |
| 15 the Mount Square | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £1,600,000 | £1,600,000 |
| 27A Ferncroft Avenue | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £375,000 |
| 49 Fellows Road | 17 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £1,055,000 | £1,055,000 |
| FLAT 108 HILLFIELD COURT Belsize Avenue | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,150,000 | £1,150,000 |
| 23 Heath Drive | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £11,000,000 | £11,000,000 |
| FLAT 7 GODOLPHIN HOUSE, 76 – 84 Fellows Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £625,000 | £625,000 |
| FLAT 13 CLEAVER HOUSE Adelaide Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 14 New End | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £6,350,000 | £6,350,000 |
| 24 Flask Walk | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £1,800,000 | £1,800,000 |
| APARTMENT 29 WESTFIELD, 15 Kidderpore Avenue | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,000,000 | £1,000,000 |
| LOWER GROUND FLOOR FLAT 224 Finchley Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £700,000 | £700,000 |
| SECOND FLOOR FLAT 14 Elsworthy Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,550,000 | £1,550,000 |
| BASEMENT FLAT 57 Primrose Gardens | 2 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £592,600 | £592,600 |
| FLAT 5 1 Redington Gardens | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,275,000 | £1,275,000 |
| FLAT 67 ANTRIM MANSIONS Antrim Road | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,200,000 | £1,200,000 |
| FLAT E 25 Lancaster Grove | 26 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £675,000 | £675,000 |
| FLAT 55 STANBURY COURT, 99 Haverstock Hill | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £784,000 | £784,000 |
| FLAT 20 24 – 28 Buckland Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £740,000 | £740,000 |
| FLAT 2 16 Kidderpore Gardens | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,245,000 | £1,245,000 |
| GROUND FLOOR FLAT 18 Downside Crescent | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| FLAT 6 42 Eton Avenue | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £522,500 | £522,500 |
| FLAT 3 24 Lyndhurst Road | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £835,000 | £835,000 |
| FLAT 5 48 Frognal | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £765,000 | £765,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to NW3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 79 GILLING COURT Belsize Grove | £86,000 (1998) | £475,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| FLAT 7 18 Lambolle Road | £650,000 (2019) | £765,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -1.5% |
| 27A Ferncroft Avenue | £60,000 (1995) | £375,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 15 the Mount Square | £1,025,000 (2015) | £1,600,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +0.9% |
| FLAT 7 GODOLPHIN HOUSE, 76 – 84 Fellows Road | £595,000 (2012) | £625,000 (2026) | +0.4% | -2.5% |
| FLAT 13 CLEAVER HOUSE Adelaide Road | £390,000 (2013) | £460,000 (2026) | +1.3% | -1.6% |
| APARTMENT 29 WESTFIELD, 15 Kidderpore Avenue | £480,000 (2000) | £1,000,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
| LOWER GROUND FLOOR FLAT 224 Finchley Road | £569,000 (2014) | £700,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.3% |
| SECOND FLOOR FLAT 14 Elsworthy Road | £70,000 (1997) | £1,550,000 (2026) | +11.3% | +8.4% |
| BASEMENT FLAT 57 Primrose Gardens | £333,000 (2000) | £592,600 (2026) | +2.2% | -0.4% |
| FLAT 5 1 Redington Gardens | £415,000 (1997) | £1,275,000 (2026) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| FLAT E 25 Lancaster Grove | £650,000 (2020) | £675,000 (2026) | +0.6% | -3.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. NW3 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 22,470 | 82.0% | £420,000 | £1,000 – £10,900,000 |
| Terraced | 2,717 | 9.9% | £1,050,000 | £2,800 – £19,250,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1,302 | 4.8% | £1,575,000 | £5,250 – £11,001,000 |
| Detached | 920 | 3.4% | £2,100,000 | £3,000 – £25,900,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in NW3
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 7,591 certificates cover NW3, and their median floor area is 72 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 72 m² | about 775 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 48 m² | about 517 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 110 m² | about 1,184 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 37.9% | 2,874 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 14.4% | 1,094 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in NW3
22,504 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4,905 freehold — 82.1% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £420,000 and the median freehold sale £1,320,000 — a gap of +214.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 22,504 | 82.1% | £420,000 |
| Freehold | 4,905 | 17.9% | £1,320,000 |
| New build | 1,026 | 3.7% | £615,000 |
| Existing home | 26,383 | 96.3% | £475,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +29.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 1,625 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in NW3
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barnet, 49.4% of 195,643 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 594 | 0.3% |
| B | 31,003 | 15.8% |
| C | 65,110 | 33.3% |
| D | 68,916 | 35.2% |
| E | 24,462 | 12.5% |
| F | 4,540 | 2.3% |
| G | 1,018 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barnet at £1,939 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,491 for a one-bedroom home and £2,243 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £480,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.85% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of NW3, 782 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 169 violent, 50 burglary, 70 vehicle-related and 159 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.7 times busier.
Against the 389,344 residents the 2021 census counted in Barnet, that is 2.01 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around NW3
The 2021 census counted 389,344 residents in Barnet across 148,917 households. 53.7% of those households own their home and 46.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a NW3 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The UCL Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 972 |
| Haverstock School | Secondary | Community school | 878 |
| Gospel Oak Primary School | Primary | Community school | 421 |
| New End Primary School | Primary | Community school | 295 |
| Rosary Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 279 |
| Fitzjohn's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| Fleet Primary School | Primary | Community school | 216 |
| Hampstead Parochial Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 208 |
| Christ Church Primary School, Hampstead | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 194 |
| St Paul's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hampstead Heath Rail Station | Rail | 0.6 km |
| Belsize Park Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
| Belsize Park Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.6 km |
| Belsize Park Station | Tram | 0.6 km |
Section 09
How NW3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. NW3 sits above that national figure — +204.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £6,344 per square metre, across 5,584 of the 27,409 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £1,000 to £25,900,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
NW3 sits in Barnet, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barnet at 14.9 times median local earnings of £38,294 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside NW3
- NW3 1£675,000 median
- NW3 2£400,000 median
- NW3 3£457,000 median
- NW3 4£435,000 median
- NW3 5£500,000 median
- NW3 6£440,000 median
- NW3 7£730,000 median
The closest districts
- NW62.0 km · £342,000
- NW82.2 km · £392,000
- NW12.9 km · £380,000
- N193.3 km · £299,999
- NW23.4 km · £250,000
- W93.4 km · £337,000
- N73.8 km · £305,000
- W24.2 km · £392,750
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in NW3?
The median price paid in NW3 across every sale on the register is £480,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in NW3?
27,409 sales are on record for NW3, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have NW3 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -10.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -36.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were NW3 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,095,000, set in 2022. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in NW3?
£6,344 per square metre, from the 5,584 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 26 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “NW3 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.