Barbican, London house prices are built from 2,941 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 28 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £345,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -15.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -39.3%.
Median price paid
£345,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-15.3%
Change in real terms
-39.3%
Median per m²
£6,000
HM Land Registry2,941 sales469 with floor areaLatest sale 28 May 2026
Section 01
How Barbican, London prices moved
The chart tracks the median Barbican, London 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 | £127,750 | £283,665 |
| 2000s | 10 | £325,000 | £592,054 |
| 2010s | 10 | £790,000 | £1,113,900 |
| 2020s | 7 | £825,000 | £842,935 |
The highest yearly median on record for Barbican, London is £925,000 in 2025; the lowest is £103,336 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £103,336 to £755,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £229,454, so the real change over the whole record is +229.3% — about +3.92% 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: -15.3% in cash against -39.3% 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 92 Lauderdale Tower | 28 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,375,000 | £1,375,000 |
| 4 Brandon Mews | 6 May 2026 | Terraced | £980,000 | £980,000 |
| Flat 702 Willoughby House | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £775,000 | £775,000 |
| 215 Bunyan Court | 20 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| Flat 87 John Trundle Court | 5 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £417,500 | £417,500 |
| Flat 341 Lauderdale Tower | 20 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £1,625,000 | £1,625,000 |
| Flat 43 Defoe House | 17 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| Flat 312 Ben Jonson House | 15 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £736,000 | £736,000 |
| Flat 554 Ben Jonson House | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £955,000 | £975,761 |
| Flat 529 Willoughby House | 18 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £775,000 | £791,848 |
| Flat 91 Speed House | 17 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £820,000 | £837,826 |
| Flat 409 Seddon House | 9 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £975,000 | £996,196 |
| Flat 316 Ben Jonson House | 9 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £745,000 | £761,196 |
| Flat 529 Ben Jonson House | 8 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,055,000 | £1,077,935 |
| Flat 201 Ben Jonson House | 8 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £985,000 | £1,006,413 |
| Flat 301 Gilbert House | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £865,000 | £883,804 |
| Flat 301 Willoughby House | 26 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,040,000 | £1,062,609 |
| Flat 49 John Trundle Court | 25 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| Flat 272 Cromwell Tower | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,600,000 | £1,634,783 |
| Flat 76 Defoe House | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £928,500 | £948,685 |
| Flat 27 John Trundle Court | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £382,000 | £390,304 |
| Flat 172 Cromwell Tower | 11 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,600,000 | £1,634,783 |
| Flat 112 Thomas More House | 5 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £1,040,000 | £1,062,609 |
| Flat 98 Andrewes House | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £725,000 | £740,761 |
| Flat 363 Ben Jonson House | 31 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £520,000 | £531,304 |
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 Barbican, London values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 92 LAUDERDALE TOWER Barbican | £387,500 (2000) | £1,375,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| FLAT 702 WILLOUGHBY HOUSE Barbican | £255,000 (2003) | £775,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +2.1% |
| FLAT 341 LAUDERDALE TOWER Barbican | £445,000 (2000) | £1,625,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| FLAT 312 BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican | £249,500 (2003) | £736,000 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| FLAT 554 BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican | £119,000 (1996) | £955,000 (2025) | +7.4% | +4.7% |
| FLAT 529 WILLOUGHBY HOUSE Barbican | £725,000 (2019) | £775,000 (2025) | +1.1% | -3.0% |
| FLAT 316 BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican | £92,000 (1995) | £745,000 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| FLAT 529 BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican | £112,500 (1995) | £1,055,000 (2025) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
| FLAT 201 BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican | £146,000 (1997) | £985,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| FLAT 301 GILBERT HOUSE Barbican | £340,000 (2005) | £865,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +1.8% |
| FLAT 301 WILLOUGHBY HOUSE Barbican | £365,000 (2003) | £1,040,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.0% |
| FLAT 49 JOHN TRUNDLE COURT Barbican | £85,000 (1998) | £410,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barbican, London 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 | 2,933 | 99.7% | £345,000 | £16,000 – £3,400,000 |
| Terraced | 7 | 0.2% | £875,000 | £120,000 – £980,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 0.0% | £125,000 | £125,000 – £125,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Barbican, London
2,941 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 | 2,941 | 100.0% | £345,000 |
| Freehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| New build | 143 | 4.9% | £161,000 |
| Existing home | 2,798 | 95.1% | £365,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -55.9%. 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 35 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 Barbican, London compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barbican, London sits above that national figure — +119.0%.
Within London the street ranks 7776 of 21431 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £285,000 (+21.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £6,000 per square metre, across 469 of the 2,941 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 £16,000 to £3,400,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Moor Lane£641,250 median
- Bridgewater Square£225,000 median
- Frobisher Crescent£540,000 median
- Fann Street£750,000 median
- Brandon Mews£208,750 median
- Wallside£605,000 median
- Monkwell Square£444,000 median
- The Postern£795,000 median
- Lambert Jones Mews£720,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 139, THOMAS MORE HOUSE Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 80, JOHN TRUNDLE COURT Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 30, DEFOE HOUSE Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 703, SEDDON HOUSE Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 705, BRYER COURT Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 307, MOUNTJOY HOUSE Barbican6 sales
- FLAT 112, THOMAS MORE HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 141, SHAKESPEARE TOWER Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 123, DEFOE HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 238, BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 110, SEDDON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 134, THOMAS MORE HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 222, BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 220, BEN JONSON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 77, THOMAS MORE HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 65, SPEED HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 107, ANDREWES HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 114, WILLOUGHBY HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 127, DEFOE HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 403, BRYER COURT Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 213, CROMWELL TOWER Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 45, BRETON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 37, BRETON HOUSE Barbican5 sales
- FLAT 340, WILLOUGHBY HOUSE Barbican5 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Barbican, London?
The median price paid in Barbican, London across every sale on the register is £345,000. 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 Barbican, London?
2,941 sales are on record for Barbican, London, the most recent completing on 28 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Barbican, London house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -15.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -39.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Barbican, London house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £925,000, set in 2025. 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 Barbican, London?
£6,000 per square metre, from the 469 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 28 May 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, “Barbican, London 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.