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Matched sales153 of 167 sales
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House prices per square metre in W8 (Kensington)
£15,000median per m²Medium confidence
95% CI £14,100–£16,100 per m² · n = 153 matched sales
The median sold price in W8 (Kensington, London) is £15,000 per square metre (£1,390 per ft²), based on 153 matched sales in the 12 months to July 2026, at a median sale price of £1,300,000. Over the 10 years to Q4 2025, the mix-adjusted median price per square metre changed by −0.8% a year in cash terms, or −4.1% a year after inflation.
Map of 167 sales in W8 in the last 12 months; median £15,000 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Prices in W8
Tenure
Median price per m²
£15,000
n = 153 matched sales
Median sale price
£1,300,000
n = 167 sales
How prices are spread in W8
Distribution of £/m² for the matched resale sales in W8 over the last 12 months. The median is £15,000/m² with a 95% CI of £14,100 to £16,100 and a middle 60% running £11,500 to £20,100. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £11,500
- p80 £20,100
- 95% CI £14,100–£16,100
The individual sales appear here once W8's sold-price file loads. The markers are the published statistics.
By property type
| Property type | Median £/m² | Matched sales |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | £20,700/m² | n = 30 |
| Flat | £13,900/m² | n = 119 |
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Tenure
£1,310,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £1,000,000–£1,750,000
87 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 153 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
Property type
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15/07/26 | Flat 13 1 - 5 Hornton Street, London | £890,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £18,500 | |
| 10/07/26 | 24 Peel Street, London | £2,600,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £15,900 | |
| 10/07/26 | Flat 501 Sovereign Court, 29 Wrights Lane, London | £1,700,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £14,300 | |
| 03/07/26 | Flat 2 13 Gordon Place, London | £725,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £13,900 | |
| 02/07/26 | 69F Lexham Gardens, London | £674,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 29/06/26 | Flat 3 9 Airlie Gardens, London | £790,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,000 | |
| 26/06/26 | Flat 6 Bishops Court, 14 Marloes Road, London | £555,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £13,200 | |
| 26/06/26 | 89E Lexham Gardens, London | £200,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £7,410 | |
| 22/06/26 | 17 Eldon Road, London | £10,250,000 | Semi | Freehold | £28,400 | |
| 22/06/26 | Flat 3 1 - 5 Hornton Street, London | £680,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £14,200 | |
| 19/06/26 | Flat 94 Vicarage Court Vicarage Gate, London | £375,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £9,870 | |
| 05/06/26 | 3 Campden Hill Square, London | £11,000,000 | Terraced | Freehold | n/a | |
| 03/06/26 | 32 Leonard Court Edwardes Square, London | £850,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £11,800 | |
| 02/06/26 | 78 Abingdon Road, London | £3,550,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £17,200 | |
| 02/06/26 | Flat 4 31 Marloes Road, London | £850,000 | Flat | Leasehold | n/a | |
| 29/05/26 | 10 Holland Street, London | £3,450,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £16,400 | |
| 27/05/26 | 25 Scarsdale Villas, London | £4,850,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £16,300 | |
| 26/05/26 | Flat 16 Lizmans Terrace, 89 - 95 Earls Court Road, London | £680,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £13,900 | |
| 21/05/26 | Flat 21 Stone Hall Stone Hall Gardens, London | £1,050,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £16,200 | |
| 20/05/26 | Flat 4 58 Lexham Gardens, London | £1,920,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £21,100 |
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Compare W8 with a neighbouring district · league tables
Ranked here: 3rd of 1,662 in most expensive postcode districts in England & Wales · 11th of 22 in where price per square metre fell most in 10 years · 3rd of 198 in most expensive postcode districts in London
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- SW5 · London£11,300/m² median
- SW7 · Kensington£15,200/m² median
- W14 · Holland Park£10,000/m² median
- W11 · Notting Hill£14,600/m² median
- W2 · Bayswater£11,500/m² median
- SW10 · London£12,600/m² median
- SW3 · Chelsea£15,500/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 markets77% of matched sales here are leasehold
- London price per square metre: where value still existsWhere value still exists across London
- What is a good price per square metre?How to read a price per square metre against its area
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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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