WC2H 7 house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 6 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £344,500. Across the 16 years from 2003 to 2019 the median moved +189.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +100.5%.
Median price paid
£344,500
Change in cash, 2003–2019
+189.7%
Change in real terms
+100.5%
Median per m²
£7,675
HM Land Registry108 sales9 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Nov 2025
Section 01
How WC2H 7 prices moved
The chart tracks the median WC2H 7 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2019. 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 | 4 | £115,000 | £255,354 |
| 2000s | 2 | £281,000 | £511,899 |
| 2010s | 3 | £912,500 | £1,286,625 |
The highest yearly median on record for WC2H 7 is £1,800,000 in 2016; the lowest is £112,500 in 1997. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £115,000 to £912,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £249,462, so the real change over the whole record is +378.4% — about +7.04% 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: +189.7% in cash against +100.5% 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.
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 17A VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 6 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £925,000 | £945,109 |
| FLAT 77 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 4 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £645,250 | £678,957 |
| FLAT B NEWPORT HOUSE, 16 Great Newport Street | 29 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| GROUND FIRST SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 27 Whitcomb Street | 5 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £1,240,000 | £1,304,776 |
| FLAT C 33 Whitcomb Street | 15 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £655,000 | £707,701 |
| FLAT 1 8 Orange Street | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £600,000 | £695,152 |
| FLAT 43 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 1 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £464,500 | £538,164 |
| FLAT 93 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 6 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £800,000 | £1,010,753 |
| FLAT F NEWPORT HOUSE, 16 Great Newport Street | 20 Jan 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £699,000 | £883,145 |
| APARTMENT 4.01 11 Great Newport Street | 6 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £2,299,000 | £2,976,667 |
| 15B VALE ROYAL HOUSE 36 Newport Court | 17 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £610,000 | £789,807 |
| FLAT 15 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 17 Sep 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £421,000 | £545,096 |
| FLAT 114 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 20 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £580,000 | £750,964 |
| APARTMENT 1.01 11 Great Newport Street | 9 Aug 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £830,000 | £1,085,622 |
| FLAT D NEWPORT HOUSE, 16 Great Newport Street | 5 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £912,500 | £1,193,530 |
| APARTMENT 5.01 11 Great Newport Street | 2 May 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £2,850,000 | £3,727,737 |
| APARTMENT 2.04 11 Great Newport Street | 1 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £1,750,000 | £2,288,961 |
| APARTMENT 3.01 11 Great Newport Street | 30 Jan 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £880,000 | £1,151,020 |
| APARTMENT 3.03 11 Great Newport Street | 18 May 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £3,000,000 | £3,998,110 |
| FLAT 50 VALE ROYAL HOUSE Newport Court | 18 Jan 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £542,500 | £722,991 |
| FLAT 17 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | 23 Nov 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £1,100,000 | £1,497,104 |
| APARTMENT 2.04 11 Great Newport Street | 22 Sep 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £1,630,000 | £2,218,436 |
| APARTMENT 1.02 11 Great Newport Street | 24 Feb 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £1,625,000 | £2,211,631 |
| APARTMENT 3.02 11 Great Newport Street | 25 Jul 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £1,850,000 | £2,582,673 |
| FLAT 4.02 11 Great Newport Street | 15 Jul 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £2,250,000 | £3,141,089 |
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 WC2H 7 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GROUND FIRST SECOND and THIRD FLOOR FLAT 27 Whitcomb Street | £695,000 (2007) | £1,240,000 (2024) | +3.5% | +0.5% |
| FLAT C 33 Whitcomb Street | £125,000 (1997) | £655,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| FLAT 1 8 Orange Street | £115,000 (1996) | £600,000 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.0% |
| FLAT 93 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | £607,300 (2014) | £800,000 (2021) | +4.0% | +2.1% |
| FLAT F NEWPORT HOUSE, 16 Great Newport Street | £125,000 (1996) | £699,000 (2021) | +7.1% | +4.8% |
| FLAT 15 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | £460,000 (2010) | £421,000 (2020) | -0.9% | -2.9% |
| FLAT 114 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | £147,000 (1998) | £580,000 (2020) | +6.4% | +4.2% |
| APARTMENT 2.04 11 Great Newport Street | £1,630,000 (2017) | £1,750,000 (2019) | +3.6% | +1.6% |
| 3 IRVING HOUSE, 5 Irving Street | £150,500 (1996) | £1,347,225 (2015) | +12.2% | +9.7% |
| FLAT 52 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | £110,000 (1997) | £585,000 (2015) | +9.7% | +7.3% |
| FLAT 30 VALE ROYAL HOUSE, 36 Newport Court | £290,000 (2007) | £538,000 (2013) | +10.8% | +7.6% |
| FLAT 7 5 Lisle Street | £202,500 (1999) | £1,325,000 (2013) | +14.4% | +11.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. WC2H 7 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 | 103 | 95.4% | £360,000 | £60,000 – £3,000,000 |
| Terraced | 5 | 4.6% | £228,723 | £68,000 – £875,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in WC2H 7
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 102 certificates cover WC2H 7, and their median floor area is 46 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -39.5%. 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 | 46 m² | about 495 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 40 m² | about 431 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 64 m² | about 686 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 70.6% | 72 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 2.0% | 2 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in WC2H 7
104 of the sales on record are leasehold and 4 freehold — 96.3% 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 £349,500 and the median freehold sale £289,362 — a gap of -17.2%. 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 | 104 | 96.3% | £349,500 |
| Freehold | 4 | 3.7% | £289,362 |
| New build | 7 | 6.5% | £202,500 |
| Existing home | 101 | 93.5% | £369,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -45.1%. 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 78 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 WC2H 7 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. WC2H 7 sits above that national figure — +118.7%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £7,675 per square metre, across 9 of the 108 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 £60,000 to £3,000,000. 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
Other sectors in WC2H
The wider district is WC2H.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in WC2H 7?
The median price paid in WC2H 7 across every sale on the register is £344,500. 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 WC2H 7?
108 sales are on record for WC2H 7, the most recent completing on 6 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have WC2H 7 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +189.7% between 2003 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +100.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were WC2H 7 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,800,000, 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 WC2H 7?
£7,675 per square metre, from the 9 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 6 Nov 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, “WC2H 7 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.