EC3A house prices

EC3A house prices are built from 147 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 29 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £585,000. Across the 20 years from 2005 to 2025 the median moved +507.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +241.0%.

HM Land Registry147 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Aug 2025

The chart tracks the median EC3A house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for EC3A is £2,045,000 in 2024; the lowest is £158,750 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £158,750 to £1,914,875.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £344,365, so the real change over the whole record is +468.1% — about +6.17% 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.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +507.9% in cash against +241.0% 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.

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.

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 EC3A values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. EC3A is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

146 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1 freehold — 99.3% 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 £605,000 and the median freehold sale £318,000 — a gap of -47.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +315.5%. 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 61 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. EC3A sits above that national figure — +271.4%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £5,959 per square metre, across 6 of the 147 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 £20,000 to £4,275,000. 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.

Sectors inside EC3A

• EC3A 5£270,000 median
• EC3A 7£1,781,250 median

This district mostly covers London.

What is the average house price in EC3A?

The median price paid in EC3A across every sale on the register is £585,000. 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 EC3A?

147 sales are on record for EC3A, the most recent completing on 29 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have EC3A house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +507.9% between 2005 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +241.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were EC3A house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £2,045,000, set in 2024. 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 EC3A?

£5,959 per square metre, from the 6 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 29 Aug 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, “EC3A 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.