WC2A 2 house prices are built from 195 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2019 and the most recent on 7 May 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £1,900,000.
Median price paid
£1,900,000
HM Land Registry195 salesLatest sale 7 May 2025
Section 01
How WC2A 2 prices moved
The chart tracks the median WC2A 2 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2019 to 2023. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 1 | £1,550,000 | £2,185,500 |
| 2020s | 4 | £1,790,000 | £1,828,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for WC2A 2 is £2,842,962 in 2021; the lowest is £1,550,000 in 2019. Across the full 5-year record the cash median has moved from £1,550,000 to £1,790,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £2,027,365, so the real change over the whole record is -4.6% — about -1.17% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT S703 18 Portugal Street | 7 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £2,800,000 | £2,860,870 |
| APARTMENT W201 18 Portugal Street | 31 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,320,000 | £1,348,696 |
| APARTMENT W606 18 Portugal Street | 22 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £1,130,000 | £1,189,030 |
| APARTMENT E9 18 Portugal Street | 19 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £950,000 | £999,627 |
| APARTMENT W302 18 Portugal Street | 12 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £2,430,000 | £2,625,517 |
| APARTMENT W4 18 Portugal Street | 22 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £1,790,000 | £1,934,023 |
| APARTMENT E5 18 Portugal Street | 14 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £1,372,400 | £1,482,823 |
| APARTMENT E106 18 Portugal Street | 31 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £2,775,000 | £2,998,276 |
| APARTMENT W5 18 Portugal Street | 25 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £1,564,000 | £1,689,839 |
| APARTMENT W106 18 Portugal Street | 3 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £1,950,000 | £2,259,244 |
| APARTMENT N205 18 Portugal Street | 30 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £1,860,000 | £2,154,971 |
| APARTMENT W703 18 Portugal Street | 28 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £2,400,000 | £2,780,608 |
| APARTMENT S5 18 Portugal Street | 23 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £2,656,500 | £3,077,786 |
| APARTMENT W104 18 Portugal Street | 21 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £4,000,000 | £4,634,347 |
| APARTMENT S506 18 Portugal Street | 20 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £2,450,000 | £2,838,537 |
| APARTMENT E4 18 Portugal Street | 25 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £2,600,000 | £3,012,325 |
| APARTMENT W404 18 Portugal Street | 25 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £2,560,000 | £2,965,982 |
| APARTMENT S901 18 Portugal Street | 11 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £9,903,900 | £11,474,527 |
| APARTMENT W702 18 Portugal Street | 7 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £4,930,000 | £5,711,832 |
| APARTMENT W701 18 Portugal Street | 7 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £4,200,000 | £4,866,064 |
| APARTMENT S605 18 Portugal Street | 24 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £2,495,000 | £3,152,285 |
| APARTMENT N5 18 Portugal Street | 17 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £2,600,000 | £3,284,946 |
| APARTMENT E504 18 Portugal Street | 29 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £2,840,000 | £3,588,172 |
| APARTMENT W802 18 Portugal Street | 6 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £3,800,000 | £4,801,075 |
| APARTMENT E501 18 Portugal Street | 15 Sep 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £3,856,427 | £4,872,367 |
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 WC2A 2 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT S703 18 Portugal Street | £2,400,000 (2020) | £2,800,000 (2025) | +3.1% | -1.6% |
| APARTMENT W201 18 Portugal Street | £1,302,075 (2019) | £1,320,000 (2025) | +0.2% | -3.8% |
| APARTMENT W606 18 Portugal Street | £1,220,000 (2019) | £1,130,000 (2024) | -1.5% | -5.7% |
| APARTMENT W302 18 Portugal Street | £2,450,000 (2019) | £2,430,000 (2023) | -0.2% | -4.9% |
| APARTMENT W106 18 Portugal Street | £1,786,000 (2019) | £1,950,000 (2022) | +3.0% | -1.1% |
| APARTMENT N205 18 Portugal Street | £1,674,000 (2019) | £1,860,000 (2022) | +3.6% | -0.5% |
| APARTMENT W703 18 Portugal Street | £2,317,500 (2020) | £2,400,000 (2022) | +1.8% | -3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. WC2A 2 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 | 195 | 100.0% | £1,900,000 | £834,900 – £11,508,135 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in WC2A 2
195 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 195 | 100.0% | £1,900,000 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 151 | 77.4% | £1,548,500 |
| Existing home | 44 | 22.6% | £2,605,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -40.6%. 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 155 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 09
How WC2A 2 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. WC2A 2 sits above that national figure — +1,106.3%.
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £834,900 to £11,508,135. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
The wider district is WC2A.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in WC2A 2?
The median price paid in WC2A 2 across every sale on the register is £1,900,000. 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 WC2A 2?
195 sales are on record for WC2A 2, the most recent completing on 7 May 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
When were WC2A 2 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £2,842,962, set in 2021. 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 WC2A 2?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 7 May 2025. 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, “WC2A 2 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.