What is the median house price in W8?

Homes in W8 sold for a median £2,080,447 over the 12 months to Mar 2026, 172 sales. Per square metre that is £16,117/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in W8?

Homes to let in W8 asked a median £6,770 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 1,551 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in W8?

4.6% 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, 3,750 lets. +10.7% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in W8?

1.7% of the homes in W8 changed hands over the 12 months to Nov 2025, 209 sales.

Postcode district

W8 property market

Sold £16,117/m² · Median sold £2,080,447 (172 sales) · Index +1.1% y/y · Turnover 1.7% · 12 months, sales to Mar 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is W8?

Buildings: 3,261
Mixed-use buildings: 7.7%
HMO-shaped units: 1.7%

What does W8 cost?

W8: sold price per m² £16,117/m² (12 months to Mar 2026, 86 sales). +1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£16,117/m² 12 months to Mar 2026

86 sales

+1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£2,080,447 12 months to Mar 2026

172 sales

+1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£1,633,094 12 months to Aug 2026

1,291 listings

+0.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £17,472/m² in Aug 2025 to £15,227/m² in Jun 2026.

Sold price: £1,832,588 in Jun 2016 to £2,459,949 in Jun 2026.

Asking price: £1,660,000 in Jan 2022 to £1,250,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £21,952/m² in Aug 2025 to £18,038/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 90% in Mar 2022 to 108% in Nov 2024.

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

Asking price index: 104 in Jan 2022 to 90.8 in Aug 2026.

What does W8 earn?

W8: asking rent £6,770 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 1,551 lets).

Asking rent

£6,770 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

1,551 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.6% 12 months to Aug 2026

3,750 lets

+10.7% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £5,599 pcm in Aug 2025 to £6,629 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 2.8% in Jan 2022 to 6.2% in Aug 2026.

How does W8 vary by home size?

Asking price in W8 runs from £717,252 for 1 bedroom to £6,826,119 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in W8, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£717,252	12 months to Aug 2026	-2.5% on the previous 12 months	207
2 bedrooms	£1,170,613	12 months to Aug 2026	-4% on the previous 12 months	424
3 bedrooms	£2,252,593	12 months to Aug 2026	-2.6% on the previous 12 months	324
4 bedrooms	£3,365,288	12 months to Aug 2026	-12.1% on the previous 12 months	156
5+ bedrooms	£6,826,119	12 months to Aug 2026	-9% on the previous 12 months	134

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is W8?

W8: turnover 1.7% (12 months to Nov 2025, 209 sales). -7.9% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

1.7% 12 months to Nov 2025

209 sales

-7.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

308 12 months to Jan 2026

308 sales

-7.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

444 12 months to Jul 2026

444 listings

Who is active in W8?

30 agents listed homes for sale in W8; the three largest took 28% of the listings.

Agents active: 30
Top three agents’ share: 28%
New homes among listings: 6.7%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns W8?

Corporate landlords hold 50% of the 739 units in W8 whose freeholder is classified; 95% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords50% of classified · 371 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)38% of classified · 284 units
RMC11% of classified · 80 units
Offshore companies0.3% of classified · 2 units
Housing associations0.3% of classified · 2 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 W8 rank?

W8 ranks 1st of 7 postcode districts in Kensington and Chelsea for sold price per m², at £16,117/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in Kensington and Chelsea