N3 house prices are built from 11,764 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 17 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £315,750. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved -2.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -30.3%.
Median price paid
£315,750
Change in cash, 2016–2026
-2.6%
Change in real terms
-30.3%
Median per m²
£3,799
HM Land Registry11,764 sales2,580 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Jun 2026
Section 01
How N3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median N3 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 | £115,000 | £255,354 |
| 2000s | 10 | £280,000 | £510,078 |
| 2010s | 10 | £495,000 | £697,950 |
| 2020s | 7 | £630,000 | £643,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for N3 is £675,000 in 2021; the lowest is £86,235 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £86,235 to £555,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £191,482, so the real change over the whole record is +189.8% — about +3.49% 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: -2.6% in cash against -30.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36A Lichfield Grove | 17 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 3 Voysey Close | 16 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| 185 Long Lane | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £650,000 | £650,000 |
| FLAT 27 REGENCY HOUSE, 269 Regents Park Road | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £560,000 | £560,000 |
| FLAT 51 322 Regents Park Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £487,000 | £487,000 |
| 33 Hendon Avenue | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £4,415,000 | £4,415,000 |
| 8 Bibsworth Road | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £942,500 | £942,500 |
| 40 Arden Road | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £1,285,000 | £1,285,000 |
| 15A Dollis Road | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £500,000 | £500,000 |
| 24 Elm Park Road | 19 May 2026 | Terraced | £980,000 | £980,000 |
| 43B Station Road | 18 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £464,000 | £464,000 |
| 23 Cyprus Gardens | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £900,000 | £900,000 |
| 1 Primrose Close | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £726,000 | £726,000 |
| FLAT 5 80 Hendon Lane | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 176 Regents Park Road | 12 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £530,000 | £530,000 |
| FLAT 22 195 Ballards Lane | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 29 Queens Road | 7 May 2026 | Terraced | £435,000 | £435,000 |
| 18A Brownlow Road | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £555,000 | £555,000 |
| 12 Vines Avenue | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £795,000 | £795,000 |
| 8 Templars Crescent | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £1,095,000 | £1,095,000 |
| 13 St Ronans | 30 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £380,000 | £380,000 |
| FLAT 2 STANTON COURT Princes Avenue | 23 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £408,000 | £408,000 |
| GROUND FLOOR MAISONETTE 261 Squires Lane | 16 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £590,000 | £590,000 |
| FLAT 6 NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE, 237 Ballards Lane | 16 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £412,000 | £412,000 |
| 33 Dollis Road | 16 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
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 N3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36A Lichfield Grove | £132,000 (2000) | £425,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 185 Long Lane | £60,000 (1995) | £650,000 (2026) | +8.0% | +5.2% |
| 3 Voysey Close | £425,000 (2001) | £650,000 (2026) | +1.7% | -1.0% |
| 19 Falkland Avenue | £725,000 (2016) | £403,000 (2026) | -5.7% | -8.8% |
| FLAT 27 REGENCY HOUSE, 269 Regents Park Road | £250,000 (1999) | £560,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.4% |
| FLAT 51 322 Regents Park Road | £641,500 (2017) | £487,000 (2026) | -3.0% | -6.3% |
| 5 Priory Close | £495,000 (2007) | £363,000 (2026) | -1.6% | -4.4% |
| 8 Bibsworth Road | £183,000 (1999) | £942,500 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 33 Hendon Avenue | £1,040,000 (2004) | £4,415,000 (2026) | +6.8% | +3.8% |
| 15A Dollis Road | £83,000 (1999) | £500,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
| 1 Primrose Close | £180,000 (2001) | £726,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| FLAT 5 80 Hendon Lane | £192,500 (1996) | £450,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. N3 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 | 6,411 | 54.5% | £243,600 | £1,000 – £2,450,000 |
| Semi-detached | 2,597 | 22.1% | £482,000 | £1,300 – £4,550,000 |
| Terraced | 1,843 | 15.7% | £364,000 | £2,500 – £1,750,000 |
| Detached | 913 | 7.8% | £805,000 | £69,353 – £4,415,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in N3
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,715 certificates cover N3, and their median floor area is 71 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 71 m² | about 764 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 54 m² | about 581 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 104 m² | about 1,119 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 32.0% | 1,188 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 12.3% | 456 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in N3
6,631 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5,133 freehold — 56.4% 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 £243,600 and the median freehold sale £480,000 — a gap of +97.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 6,631 | 56.4% | £243,600 |
| Freehold | 5,133 | 43.6% | £480,000 |
| New build | 624 | 5.3% | £372,475 |
| Existing home | 11,140 | 94.7% | £314,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +18.6%. 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 824 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 07
Living in N3
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barnet, 49.4% of 195,643 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 594 | 0.3% |
| B | 31,003 | 15.8% |
| C | 65,110 | 33.3% |
| D | 68,916 | 35.2% |
| E | 24,462 | 12.5% |
| F | 4,540 | 2.3% |
| G | 1,018 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barnet at £1,939 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,491 for a one-bedroom home and £2,243 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £315,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.37% 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 N3, 357 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 88 violent, 16 burglary, 43 vehicle-related and 97 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times busier.
Against the 389,344 residents the 2021 census counted in Barnet, that is 0.92 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around N3
The 2021 census counted 389,344 residents in Barnet across 148,917 households. 53.7% of those households own their home and 46.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
9 state and independent schools have a N3 postcode: 8 primary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moss Hall Junior School | Primary | Community school | 474 |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 431 |
| Akiva School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 418 |
| Pardes House Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 359 |
| Manorside Primary School | Primary | Community school | 237 |
| Chalgrove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 217 |
| St Theresa's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 180 |
| Tudor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 164 |
| Moss Hall Nursery School | Nursery | Local authority nursery school | 98 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Finchley Central Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.1 km |
| Finchley Central Underground Station | Metro or underground | 0.1 km |
| Finchley Central Station | Tram | 0.1 km |
| West Finchley Underground Station | Metro or underground | 1.1 km |
Section 09
How N3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. N3 sits above that national figure — +100.5%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,799 per square metre, across 2,580 of the 11,764 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 £1,000 to £4,550,000. 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.
N3 sits in Barnet, in London.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barnet at 14.9 times median local earnings of £38,294 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside N3
The closest districts
- NW73.2 km · £360,000
- N103.4 km · £312,500
- NW94.4 km · £250,000
- NW25.0 km · £250,000
- N85.5 km · £310,000
- NW35.5 km · £480,000
- EN55.6 km · £271,000
- HA85.7 km · £244,950
This district mostly covers London.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in N3?
The median price paid in N3 across every sale on the register is £315,750. 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 N3?
11,764 sales are on record for N3, the most recent completing on 17 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have N3 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -2.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -30.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were N3 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £675,000, set in 2021. 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 N3?
£3,799 per square metre, from the 2,580 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 Jun 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, “N3 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.