Old Street, London house prices

Old Street, London house prices are built from 212 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 5 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £280,000. Across the 10 years from 2013 to 2023 the median moved +33.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.5%.

HM Land Registry212 sales56 with floor areaLatest sale 5 Aug 2025

The chart tracks the median Old Street, London house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2023. 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 Old Street, London is £625,000 in 2023; the lowest is £75,000 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £75,000 to £625,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £162,692, so the real change over the whole record is +315.1% — about +5.41% 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: +33.0% in cash against -1.5% 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 Old Street, 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. Old Street, London is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

170 of the sales on record are leasehold and 42 freehold — 80.2% 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 £292,500 and the median freehold sale £196,000 — a gap of -33.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -25.5%. 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 70 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. Old Street, London sits above that national figure — +77.8%.

Within London the street ranks 10655 of 21431 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-1.8%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,281 per square metre, across 56 of the 212 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 £37,500 to £4,700,000. 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.

Streets nearby

• City Road£603,955 median
• St John Street£370,000 median
• Goswell Road£386,498 median
• Bollinder Place£998,400 median
• Brewhouse Yard£406,980 median
• Dance Square£565,000 median
• Central Street£478,500 median
• Seward Street£295,750 median
• Owen Street£399,500 median
• Macclesfield Road£174,000 median
• Wynyatt Street£290,000 median
• Dallington Street£500,000 median
• Gee Street£321,000 median
• Bartholomew Square£325,000 median
• Brewery Square£425,000 median
• Lever Street£450,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 6, STEADMAN COURT, 165 Old Street5 sales
• FLAT 59, NEWLAND COURT Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 40, NEWLAND COURT Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 2, 70 – 72 Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 16, 70 – 72 Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 5, BARTHOLOMEW COURT, 163 Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 10, 70 – 72 Old Street4 sales
• FLAT 4, STEADMAN COURT, 165 Old Street3 sales
• FLAT 36, NEWLAND COURT Old Street3 sales
• 9 Old Street3 sales
• FLAT 1, 374 – 378 Old Street3 sales
• FLAT 8, 70 – 72 Old Street3 sales
• 136 Old Street3 sales
• FLAT 5, 70 – 72 Old Street3 sales
• 5 Old Street3 sales
• FLAT 33, NEWLAND COURT Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 11, NEWLAND COURT Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 44, NEWLAND COURT Old Street2 sales
• FLAT11, WENLAKE HOUSE Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 22, STEADMAN COURT, 165 Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 23, NEWLAND COURT Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 36, STEADMAN COURT, 165 Old Street2 sales
• 19 Old Street2 sales
• FLAT 2, 56 Old Street2 sales

Back to London house prices.

What is the average house price in Old Street, London?

The median price paid in Old Street, London across every sale on the register is £280,000. 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 Old Street, London?

212 sales are on record for Old Street, London, the most recent completing on 5 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Old Street, London house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +33.0% between 2013 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Old Street, London house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £625,000, set in 2023. 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 Old Street, London?

£4,281 per square metre, from the 56 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 5 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, “Old Street, 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.