marketcodeAsking price
£898,698 12 months to Aug 2026
96 listings
+40.2% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).
Postcode district
EC4A property market
Index +1% y/y · Asking £23,300/m² · Asking rent £2,857 a month · Gross yield 5.3% · 12 months, listings to Aug 2026
What is EC4A?
- Buildings
- 148
- Mixed-use buildings
- 19%
- HMO-shaped units
- 12%
What does EC4A cost?
EC4A: asking price £898,698 (12 months to Aug 2026, 96 listings). +40.2% on the previous 12 months.
Asking price per m²
£23,300/m² 12 months to Jun 2026
30 listings
Sold price per m²
Not published
Only 1 observed month: the 12-month figure needs 6; the monthly line is drawn.
Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.
ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices
What does EC4A earn?
EC4A: asking rent £2,857 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 66 lets).
Asking rent
£2,857 a month 12 months to Jul 2026
66 lets
Gross yield, asking basis
5.3% 12 months to Aug 2026
193 lets
+4.2% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.
How liquid is EC4A?
EC4A: completed sales 23 (12 months to Jan 2025, 23 sales). +9.5% on the previous 12 months.
Completed sales
23 12 months to Jan 2025
23 sales
+9.5% on the previous 12 months.
Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.
New listings
49 12 months to Aug 2026
49 listings
Never-reduced cohort: undercounts new listings by the reduction share.
Price reductions
47 12 months to Aug 2026
47 listings
Reductions dated by the last reduction; several reductions of one listing count once.
Who is active in EC4A?
5 agents listed homes for sale in EC4A; the three largest took 75% of the listings.
- Agents active
- 5
- Top three agents’ share
- 75%
- New homes among listings
- 0.0%
days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.
Who owns EC4A?
Corporate landlords hold 63% of the 51 units in EC4A whose freeholder is classified; 95% of all units are not yet classified.
- Corporate landlords63% of classified · 32 units
- Individuals (not traceable in bulk)35% of classified · 18 units
- RMC2.0% of classified · 1 units
Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.
Where does EC4A rank?
EC4A ranks 4th of 6 postcode districts in City and County of the City of London for gross yield, asking basis, at 5.3%.
Sold price per m² · postcode districts in City and County of the City of London
| # | Area | Sold price per m² | Sample | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EC2Y | £13,253/m² | 98 | measured |
Gross yield, asking basis · postcode districts in City and County of the City of London
EC4A ranks 4th of 6 postcode districts in City and County of the City of London for gross yield, asking basis, at 5.3%.
Where next from EC4A?
- City and County of the City of LondonThe wider market this area sits in.
- EC1ANeighbouring postcode district · £17,262/m²
- EC2MNeighbouring postcode district
- EC2NNeighbouring postcode district
- EC2RNeighbouring postcode district
- EC2VNeighbouring postcode district
- EC2YNeighbouring postcode district · £12,949/m²
- EC3ANeighbouring postcode district · £10,870/m²
- EC3MNeighbouring postcode district
- EC1NNext door, in another authority · £6,206/m²
- WC1VNext door, in another authority
- WC2ANext door, in another authority · £20,644/m²
- WC2RNext door, in another authority · £37,446/m²
- WC1XNext door, in another authority · £15,517/m²
- WC1RNext door, in another authority · £11,728/m²
- Homes for sale in EC4ALive sale listings, the same place and cohort.
- Homes to rent in EC4ALive lettings, the same place.
- Completed sales in EC4ARegistered completions, newest first.
- Planning applications in EC4AApplications and decisions on record.
Questions about EC4A
- What is the average rent in EC4A?
- Homes to let in EC4A asked a median £2,857 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 66 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.
- What is the gross rental yield in EC4A?
- 5.3% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 193 lets. +4.2% on the previous 12 months.
Where these figures come from, and what is not published
| Figure | Dataset | Window | Last month | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asking price | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 96 listings |
| Asking price per m² | the area_facts listing rollup | 12 months to Jun 2026 | Jun 2026 | 30 listings |
| Asking rent | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Jul 2026 | Jul 2026 | 66 lets |
| Gross yield, asking basis | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 193 lets |
| Completed sales | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Jan 2025 | Jan 2025 | 23 sales |
| New listings | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 49 listings |
| Price reductions | MarketCode market evidence | 12 months to Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 | 47 listings |
| Live listings | MarketCode market evidence | on 20 Sep 2026 | 20 Sep 2026 | — |
- Sold price per m²
- Only 1 observed month: the 12-month figure needs 6; the monthly line is drawn.
- Sold price
- Only 1 observed month: the 12-month figure needs 6; the monthly line is drawn.
- Turnover
- Only 4 observed months: the 12-month figure needs 12; the monthly line is drawn.
- Listings for sale
- Only 6 observed months: the 12-month figure needs 12; the monthly line is drawn.
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