W2 house prices are built from 29,154 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £392,750. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -17.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -41.1%.
Median price paid
£392,750
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-17.8%
Change in real terms
-41.1%
Median per m²
£5,729
HM Land Registry29,154 sales7,554 with floor areaLatest sale 22 Jun 2026
Section 01
How W2 prices moved
The chart tracks the median W2 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 | £149,000 | £330,850 |
| 2000s | 10 | £332,250 | £605,262 |
| 2010s | 10 | £820,000 | £1,156,200 |
| 2020s | 7 | £950,000 | £970,652 |
The highest yearly median on record for W2 is £1,022,500 in 2020; the lowest is £118,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £118,000 to £730,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £262,016, so the real change over the whole record is +178.6% — about +3.36% 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: -17.8% in cash against -41.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 64 6 Hermitage Street | 22 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,050,000 | £1,050,000 |
| FLAT 2 63 Queens Gardens | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £925,000 | £925,000 |
| 52 Bourne Terrace | 15 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| FLAT 11 119 Westbourne Terrace | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £462,500 | £462,500 |
| FLAT 2 26 Hereford Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £522,500 | £522,500 |
| 210D Gloucester Terrace | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| APARTMENT 207 4 Merchant Square East | 2 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £750,000 | £750,000 |
| FLAT 8 22 Palace Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,455,000 | £1,455,000 |
| 87A Talbot Road | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £835,000 | £835,000 |
| 14 Somers Crescent | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £2,600,000 | £2,600,000 |
| FLAT 24 LANGLEY HOUSE Alfred Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 33 Talbot Road | 21 May 2026 | Terraced | £2,300,000 | £2,300,000 |
| APARTMENT 43 11 Sheldon Square | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £790,000 | £790,000 |
| FLAT 5 21 Hyde Park Square | 19 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £2,992,500 | £2,992,500 |
| FLAT 4 17 – 19 Chilworth Street | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £875,000 | £875,000 |
| FLAT 5 147 – 149 Gloucester Terrace | 13 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £842,000 | £842,000 |
| FLAT 6 SPIRE HOUSE Lancaster Gate | 11 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £2,200,000 | £2,200,000 |
| FLAT 23 AUBREY HOUSE, 7 Maida Avenue | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,950,000 | £1,950,000 |
| 47 Archery Steps | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £710,000 | £710,000 |
| 13 Park Place Villas | 5 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £4,650,000 | £4,650,000 |
| 37 Park Steps | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| FLAT 15 BARNESS COURT, 6 – 8 Westbourne Terrace | 1 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £664,170 | £664,170 |
| FLAT A 25 Craven Hill Gardens | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £506,455 | £506,455 |
| APARTMENT 38 GARRETT MANSIONS, 287 Edgware Road | 29 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,393,500 | £1,393,500 |
| 42A Orsett Terrace | 28 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £400,000 |
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 W2 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 64 6 Hermitage Street | £1,265,000 (2016) | £1,050,000 (2026) | -1.8% | -5.1% |
| FLAT 2 63 Queens Gardens | £950,000 (2022) | £925,000 (2026) | -0.7% | -4.3% |
| 52 Bourne Terrace | £172,500 (2001) | £500,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| FLAT 2 26 Hereford Road | £77,000 (1995) | £522,500 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 210D Gloucester Terrace | £125,000 (1997) | £775,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| APARTMENT 207 4 Merchant Square East | £545,000 (2010) | £750,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| 87A Talbot Road | £100,000 (1997) | £835,000 (2026) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
| FLAT 8 22 Palace Court | £499,000 (2001) | £1,455,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
| 30 Newton Road | £241,000 (2002) | £785,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 14 Somers Crescent | £385,000 (1996) | £2,600,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| FLAT 24 LANGLEY HOUSE Alfred Road | £250,000 (2010) | £385,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 33 Talbot Road | £445,000 (1997) | £2,300,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. W2 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 | 26,342 | 90.4% | £365,000 | £1,000 – £27,000,000 |
| Terraced | 2,499 | 8.6% | £1,050,000 | £2,000 – £38,500,000 |
| Semi-detached | 218 | 0.7% | £1,600,000 | £95,000 – £29,250,000 |
| Detached | 95 | 0.3% | £1,560,000 | £45,000 – £44,750,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in W2
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 10,144 certificates cover W2, and their median floor area is 60 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -21.1%. 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 | 60 m² | about 646 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 41 m² | about 441 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 85 m² | about 915 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 49.8% | 5,050 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 7.7% | 783 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in W2
26,612 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,542 freehold — 91.3% 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 £365,000 and the median freehold sale £1,190,203 — a gap of +226.1%. 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 | 26,612 | 91.3% | £365,000 |
| Freehold | 2,542 | 8.7% | £1,190,203 |
| New build | 2,382 | 8.2% | £520,000 |
| Existing home | 26,772 | 91.8% | £385,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +35.1%. 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 2,495 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 W2
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Ealing, 48.4% of 174,041 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 269 | 0.2% |
| B | 26,630 | 15.3% |
| C | 57,380 | 33.0% |
| D | 65,295 | 37.5% |
| E | 20,039 | 11.5% |
| F | 3,354 | 1.9% |
| G | 1,074 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Ealing at £2,067 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,595 for a one-bedroom home and £2,357 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £392,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.32% 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 W2, 1,817 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 367 violent, 91 burglary, 90 vehicle-related and 438 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 10.9 times busier.
Against the 367,115 residents the 2021 census counted in Ealing, that is 4.95 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 W2
The 2021 census counted 367,115 residents in Ealing across 133,657 households. 48.2% of those households own their home and 51.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a W2 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westminster Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,003 |
| Marylebone Boys' School | Secondary | Free schools | 561 |
| Edward Wilson Primary School | Primary | Community school | 254 |
| St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 250 |
| Hallfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| St Mary Magdalene & St Stephen's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 168 |
| St James & St John Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 143 |
| United Colleges Group | 16 plus | Further education | — |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bayswater | Tram | 0.4 km |
| Bayswater Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.4 km |
| Royal Oak Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.5 km |
| Royal Oak | Tram | 0.5 km |
Section 09
How W2 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. W2 sits above that national figure — +149.4%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £5,729 per square metre, across 7,554 of the 29,154 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 £44,750,000. 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.
W2 sits in Ealing, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Ealing at 13.7 times median local earnings of £39,483 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 W2
- W2 1£515,000 median
- W2 2£367,500 median
- W2 3£410,000 median
- W2 4£425,000 median
- W2 5£380,000 median
- W2 6£330,000 median
The closest districts
- W91.2 km · £337,000
- W81.7 km · £725,000
- NW82.0 km · £392,000
- W142.9 km · £350,000
- NW63.1 km · £342,000
- SW33.2 km · £595,000
- NW13.5 km · £380,000
- W123.9 km · £331,000
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in W2?
The median price paid in W2 across every sale on the register is £392,750. 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 W2?
29,154 sales are on record for W2, the most recent completing on 22 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have W2 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -17.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -41.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were W2 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,022,500, set in 2020. 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 W2?
£5,729 per square metre, from the 7,554 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 22 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, “W2 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.