Blackwall Way, London house prices

Blackwall Way, London house prices are built from 733 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2003 and the most recent on 17 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £327,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -7.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -32.9%.

HM Land Registry733 sales192 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Blackwall Way, London house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2003 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 Blackwall Way, London is £500,000 in 2020; the lowest is £250,000 in 2010. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £276,495 to £375,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £522,598, so the real change over the whole record is -26.7% — about -1.40% 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: -7.4% in cash against -32.9% 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 Blackwall Way, London values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

733 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.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -14.3%. 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 18 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Tower Hamlets, 75.4% of 193,363 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 0.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Tower Hamlets at £2,429 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,972 for a one-bedroom home and £2,721 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £327,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.90% 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 E14, 1,258 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 361 violent, 58 burglary, 95 vehicle-related and 313 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 7.5 times busier.

Against the 310,306 residents the 2021 census counted in Tower Hamlets, that is 4.05 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.

The 2021 census counted 310,306 residents in Tower Hamlets across 120,539 households. 25.7% of those households own their home and 74.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

27 state and independent schools have a E14 postcode: 23 primary, 3 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Blackwall Way, London sits above that national figure — +107.9%.

Within London the street ranks 8466 of 21431 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £285,000 (+14.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £5,350 per square metre, across 192 of the 733 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 £95,000 to £1,400,000. 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.

Blackwall Way, London sits in Tower Hamlets, in London.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Tower Hamlets at 7.5 times median local earnings of £66,686 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.

Streets nearby

• Westferry Road£249,950 median
• Narrow Street£300,000 median
• Fairmont Avenue£342,500 median
• Commercial Road£235,000 median
• Millharbour£355,000 median
• Pan Peninsula Square£420,000 median
• St Davids Square£298,500 median
• Park Drive£845,000 median
• Cassilis Road£300,000 median
• Manchester Road£225,000 median
• Burrells Wharf Square£212,000 median
• Boardwalk Place£292,750 median
• Newport Avenue£250,000 median
• Baltimore Wharf£382,613 median
• Branch Road£298,000 median
• Wards Place£750,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 50, SWITCH HOUSE, 4 Blackwall Way5 sales
• FLAT 4, SWITCH HOUSE, 4 Blackwall Way5 sales
• FLAT 108, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 34, AURORA BUILDING, 164 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 36, SWITCH HOUSE, 4 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 12, CORONA BUILDING, 162 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 716, 99 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 13, SWITCH HOUSE, 4 Blackwall Way4 sales
• FLAT 29, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 52, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 113, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 377, NEUTRON TOWER, 6 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 416, NEUTRON TOWER, 6 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 38, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 433, NEUTRON TOWER, 6 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 14, CORONA BUILDING Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 413, NEUTRON TOWER, 6 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 72, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 32, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 57, SWITCH HOUSE, 4 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 5, AURORA BUILDING, 164 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 66, ELEKTRON TOWER, 12 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 378, NEUTRON TOWER, 6 Blackwall Way3 sales
• FLAT 30, AURORA BUILDING, 164 Blackwall Way3 sales

Back to London house prices.

What is the average house price in Blackwall Way, London?

The median price paid in Blackwall Way, London across every sale on the register is £327,500. 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 Blackwall Way, London?

733 sales are on record for Blackwall Way, London, the most recent completing on 17 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Blackwall Way, London house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -7.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -32.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Blackwall Way, London house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £500,000, 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 Blackwall Way, London?

£5,350 per square metre, from the 192 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 17 Mar 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, “Blackwall Way, 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.