About N5
Islington · London
Also covers Highbury.
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Matched sales198 of 217 sales
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House prices per square metre in N5 (Islington)
£9,740median per m²High confidence
95% CI £9,420–£10,600 per m² · n = 198 matched sales
The median sold price in N5 (Islington, London) is £9,740 per square metre (£905 per ft²), based on 198 matched sales in the 12 months to July 2026, at a median sale price of £650,000. Over the 10 years to Q1 2026, the median price per square metre changed by +0.7% a year in cash terms, or −2.6% a year after inflation.
Map of 217 sales in N5 in the last 12 months; median £9,740 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Postcode district
Prices in N5
Tenure
Median price per m²
£9,740
n = 198 matched sales
Median sale price
£650,000
n = 217 sales
How prices are spread in N5
Distribution of £/m² for the matched resale sales in N5 over the last 12 months. The median is £9,740/m² with a 95% CI of £9,420 to £10,600 and a middle 60% running £7,790 to £12,000. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £7,790
- p80 £12,000
- 95% CI £9,420–£10,600
The individual sales appear here once N5's sold-price file loads. The markers are the published statistics.
By property type
| Property type | Median £/m² | Matched sales |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £12,000/m² | n = 36 |
| Flat | £9,330/m² | n = 156 |
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Tenure
£653,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £522,000–£804,000
67 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 198 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
Property type
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17/07/26 | Front Basement Flat 15 Highbury Hill, London | £490,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,420 | |
| 14/07/26 | 1C Poets Road, London | £600,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £10,500 | |
| 10/07/26 | Flat A 58 Riversdale Road, London | £560,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,400 | |
| 02/07/26 | 4 Melgund Road, London | £1,750,000 | Semi | Freehold | £11,900 | |
| 30/06/26 | 126 Drayton Park, London | £1,310,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £9,700 | |
| 30/06/26 | Flat 5 71E Drayton Park, London | £395,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £6,270 | |
| 29/06/26 | Third Floor Flat 133 Grosvenor Avenue, London | £486,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,530 | |
| 25/06/26 | Flat 4 49 Aberdeen Road, London | £836,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £10,900 | |
| 25/06/26 | Flat 6 Highbury Grove Court Highbury Grove, London | £386,500 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,890 | |
| 24/06/26 | 89A Kelvin Road, London | £535,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,910 | |
| 22/06/26 | Flat 9 Masefield Court Poets Road, London | £542,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £12,300 | |
| 15/06/26 | Flat A 56 Canning Road, London | £565,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 12/06/26 | 62A Mountgrove Road, London | £775,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,250 | |
| 09/06/26 | Flat 1 Orwell Court Petherton Road, London | £530,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,570 | |
| 09/06/26 | Flat 9 73A Drayton Park, London | £510,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £6,990 | |
| 08/06/26 | Flat 4 38 Petherton Road, London | £542,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,100 | |
| 08/06/26 | 2A Grosvenor Avenue, London | £375,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,940 | |
| 05/06/26 | 3 Stadium Mews, London | £626,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £8,690 | |
| 03/06/26 | 83B Petherton Road, London | £940,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,310 | |
| 29/05/26 | 91 Calabria Road, London | £2,750,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £16,200 |
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Compare N5 with a neighbouring district · league tables
Ranked here: 17th of 1,662 in most expensive postcode districts in England & Wales · 17th of 198 in most expensive postcode districts in London
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- N7 · Islington£8,330/m² median
- N16 · Stoke Newington£8,970/m² median
- N1 · Islington£10,500/m² median
- N4 · Stroud Green£8,670/m² median
- E8 · Dalston£8,850/m² median
- N19 · London£8,820/m² median
- N1C · London£14,600/m² median
Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.
Further reading
- Freehold and leasehold are different markets79% of matched sales here are leasehold
- Cash terms, real terms, and which to trustPrices here rose 0.7% a year in cash and fell 2.6% after inflation
- How much space does your budget buy?The median sale here is 67 m², against about 86 m² nationally
- London price per square metre: where value still existsWhere value still exists across London
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HM Land Registry sold prices to July 2026 (registrations lag sales by 2–8 weeks) · updated July 2026 · how these figures are made
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RealScout, "House prices per square metre in Islington (N5)", dataset version 2026-07, https://realscout.uk/property-prices/n5. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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