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Median price
£1.62m
Eligible sales · trailing 24 months
Per square metre
£16,023/m²
Matched sales · trailing 24 months
5-year change
-25.3%
Rolling 12-month medians, five years apart
From rolling peak
-34.1%
Against the highest rolling 12-month median
Market read
Kensington (W8) has a median sale price of £1.62m — around £16,023 for each square metre of floor area. That leaves the district 57.9% below its peak set in 2019. At 30.8 times median local earnings, that is one of the least affordable ratios in England and Wales. Values have fallen 24.5% over the past five years. Floor area varies far more than room counts suggest: properties recorded with 10 habitable rooms — bedrooms and receptions together — range from 228 to 488 m² here.
Floor-area evidence
Repeat EPC records in this area show some variation in recorded floor area.
Among 3,412 dwellings with repeat EPCs in Kensington, the typical recorded floor-area range was 5%. This describes the consistency of repeated records, not the condition or value of an individual home.
Market signal
Each point is the median of sales in the three months ending that month.
Market shape
Lower-quarter price
£875,000
25% of recent eligible sales were below this
Median price
See headline
Same 24-month sale population
Upper-quarter price
£2.85m
25% of recent eligible sales were above this
Property types
£1.26m
£/m² withheld for evidence
£3.52m
£19,403/m²
Energy-rating evidence
These are matched-sale associations, not a valuation of energy efficiency. Each rating cell contains at least five sales.
£2.59m
£29,388/m²
£1.25m
£14,267/m²
£2m
£15,607/m²
£3.40m
£17,320/m²
Energy-transition evidence
This is the latest available EPC record for each identifiable certified dwelling, not a census of every home or an assessment of an individual property.
EPC sample
9,065
Latest certificate to 2 August 2026
Rated D–G
52%
Current EPC rating in the certificate sample
Potentially higher rating
64%
Potential EPC rating exceeds current rating
EPC potential values are modelled certificate outputs, not quotes for retrofit work, future bills, a value uplift or a letting/compliance conclusion. Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register domestic certificates.
The space signal
Property listings describe homes by bedroom count, but that is not recorded in any public dataset. What is recorded is the number of habitable rooms — bedrooms and reception rooms together — and the total floor area. In Kensington, homes with the same number of habitable rooms vary enormously in size.
| Habitable rooms | Smaller (10th) | Typical | Larger (90th) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 m² | 31 m² | 43 m² | 186 |
| 2 | 37 m² | 49 m² | 67 m² | 578 |
| 3 | 54 m² | 77 m² | 110 m² | 1,165 |
| 4 | 75 m² | 102 m² | 159 m² | 578 |
| 5 | 103 m² | 151 m² | 207 m² | 263 |
| 6 | 122 m² | 154 m² | 237 m² | 188 |
| 7 | 159 m² | 243 m² | 322 m² | 138 |
| 8 | 185 m² | 240 m² | 329 m² | 138 |
| 9 | 214 m² | 269 m² | 404 m² | 145 |
| 10 | 228 m² | 318 m² | 488 m² | 70 |
| 11 | 249 m² | 355 m² | 461 m² | 43 |
| 12 | 335 m² | 457 m² | 531 m² | 33 |
The widest spread here is among homes with 10 habitable rooms, ranging from 228 to 488 m². Two properties advertised the same way can differ by more than half their floor area, which is why price per square metre is a more useful comparison than price alone.
Data current to 22 June 2026.