Chelsea Embankment, London house prices

Chelsea Embankment, London house prices are built from 208 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £617,500. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +84.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +51.9%.

HM Land Registry208 sales44 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jul 2025

The chart tracks the median Chelsea Embankment, London house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2021. 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 Chelsea Embankment, London is £3,456,250 in 2016; the lowest is £216,500 in 1995. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £216,500 to £1,751,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £480,732, so the real change over the whole record is +360.2% — about +6.05% 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: +84.3% in cash against +51.9% 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 Chelsea Embankment, 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. Chelsea Embankment, London is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

206 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2 freehold — 99.0% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £617,500 and the median freehold sale £797,500 — a gap of +29.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

A further 10 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 Kensington and Chelsea, 46.6% of 126,595 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% 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 Kensington and Chelsea at £3,596 a month as of Jun 2026 — £2,572 for a one-bedroom home and £3,967 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £617,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.99% 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 SW3, 970 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 232 violent, 38 burglary, 69 vehicle-related and 179 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 5.8 times busier.

Against the 143,375 residents the 2021 census counted in Kensington and Chelsea, that is 6.77 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 143,375 residents in Kensington and Chelsea across 66,884 households. 32.7% of those households own their home and 67.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

6 state and independent schools have a SW3 postcode: 4 primary, 1 nursery, 1 secondary. 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. Chelsea Embankment, London sits above that national figure — +292.1%.

Within London the street ranks 2568 of 21431 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £285,000 (+116.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £5,813 per square metre, across 44 of the 208 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 £42,500 to £6,190,000. 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.

Chelsea Embankment, London sits in Kensington and Chelsea, in London.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Kensington and Chelsea at 25.2 times median local earnings of £45,600 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

• Sloane Avenue£220,000 median
• Beaufort Street£385,000 median
• Chelsea Manor Street£327,000 median
• Elm Park Road£360,000 median
• Oakley Street£420,000 median
• Walton Street£615,000 median
• Draycott Place£500,000 median
• Brompton Road£430,000 median
• Old Church Street£794,500 median
• Whiteheads Grove£640,250 median
• Embankment Gardens£381,000 median
• Basil Street£421,000 median
• Flood Street£750,000 median
• Elystan Street£611,000 median
• Tite Street£872,500 median
• Sloane Court West£795,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 3, 14 Chelsea Embankment9 sales
• FLAT 1B, 11 Chelsea Embankment6 sales
• FLAT 5, 14 Chelsea Embankment6 sales
• FLAT E, 4 Chelsea Embankment5 sales
• FLAT 9, DELAHAY HOUSE, 15 Chelsea Embankment5 sales
• FLAT 6, 14 Chelsea Embankment5 sales
• FLAT 1, 7 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 4, SUN HOUSE, 6 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 5, TURNER'S REACH HOUSE, 8 – 10 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 6, the RIVER HOUSE, 3 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT C, 4 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 3, DELAHAY HOUSE, 15 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 7, the RIVER HOUSE, 3 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 24, 9 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 8, DELAHAY HOUSE, 15 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT H, 4 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 2A, 11 Chelsea Embankment4 sales
• FLAT 3, CHEYNE HOUSE, 18 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 1, DELAHAY HOUSE, 15 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 4, TURNER'S REACH HOUSE, 8 – 10 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 21, 9 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 28, 9 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 10, DELAHAY HOUSE, 15 Chelsea Embankment3 sales
• FLAT 17, 9 Chelsea Embankment3 sales

Back to London house prices.

What is the average house price in Chelsea Embankment, London?

The median price paid in Chelsea Embankment, London across every sale on the register is £617,500. 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 Chelsea Embankment, London?

208 sales are on record for Chelsea Embankment, London, the most recent completing on 24 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Chelsea Embankment, London house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +84.3% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +51.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Chelsea Embankment, London house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £3,456,250, set in 2016. 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 Chelsea Embankment, London?

£5,813 per square metre, from the 44 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 24 Jul 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, “Chelsea Embankment, 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.