City of London
EC4A house prices in City of London
Sold prices, council tax, schools, deprivation and planning for City of London, from official UK data in one place.
Typical sold price
£681,500
Range £451,800–£9,656,013 · 80 real sales
- Real sales
- 80
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Jan 2020 and 12 Aug 2026.
Summary
House prices in EC4A: the typical (median) sold price is £681,500, well above the UK average (£272,611) (UK House Price Index, July 2026). EC4A is a quiet market, with about 1 recorded sale a month. By property type, 96% were flats (typically £570,000) and 2% were detached homes (typically £37,500,000).
Data from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, up to 28 August 2026.
Council tax on a Band D home there is £1,330 a year: City of London's published charge for 2026-27.
Source: Council tax: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, City of London, 2026-27.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on EC4A: a quiet market, so take your time
EC4A is a thin market, at roughly 1 sale a month, which gives us little to generalise from, so read the middle figure with caution and the individual sales with interest.
If you are selling, most EC4A sales sit between £451,800 and £9,656,013, which makes £681,500 a blunt instrument, so benchmark against near-identical homes, not the headline; sales are too rare here to hurry, so give the price a local agent’s sense-check; a quick cash sale buys certainty at a cost, usually about 70–85% of market value as a rough guide, not a quote, so weigh it carefully.
Sell houseIf you are buying, typical prices in EC4A sit well above the UK average, so a premium over the average needs a reason you can see in the sold homes of the same type.
On any EC4A home we would check the lease (length, ground rent and service charge), what has been applied for nearby (8,316 applications on record within 500 m) and whether the home is at risk of flooding, and ask a conveyancer to read the title.
Averages only go so far, so the free EC4A OfferCheck sets flood, crime, planning and council tax beside the sold prices.
Get OfferCheckOur opinion, drawn from the figures on this page: not advice and not a forecast. We earn from OfferCheck reports and from introducing sellers to cash buyers, so weigh it with that in mind (see our disclosure). We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA.
At a glance
EC4A in four numbers
The headline figures from the records below, each one real and dated.
Typical price
£681,500
HM Land Registry
Sales a month
1.0
Across 80 sales
Council tax, Band D
£1,330
A year
The data, honestly
House prices in EC4A
These 80 sales are what every figure here rests on. The typical price is the middle sale.
By property type
Average house price in EC4A by property type
Detached homes have the highest typical price at £37,500,000, and flat / maisonette the lowest at £570,000.
See the figures
| Type | Sales | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 1 | £37,500,000 | £37,500,000–£37,500,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | £1,750,000 | £1,750,000–£1,750,000 |
| Flat / maisonette | 51 | £570,000 | £450,000–£930,000 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Jan 2020 and 12 Aug 2026.
24-month trend
Typical price by quarter in EC4A
The quarterly typical price rose 299.0%, from £520,000 in Q2 2024 (2 sales) to £2,075,000 in Q3 2026 (1 sale).
See the figures
| Quarter | Typical price | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2024 | £520,000 | 2 |
| Q3 2024 | £571,300 | 3 |
| Q4 2024 | £4,700,000 | 3 |
| Q1 2025 | £495,000 | 5 |
| Q3 2025 | £590,000 | 6 |
| Q4 2025 | £537,500 | 1 |
| Q1 2026 | £665,000 | 2 |
| Q3 2026 | £2,075,000 | 1 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Jan 2020 and 12 Aug 2026. Median of each quarter's recorded sales.
Range and mix
The spread of EC4A prices
How far prices run either side of the typical one, who owns what, and homes that have sold twice.
Price range
Where most EC4A homes sold
Eight in ten sales fell between £451,800 and £9,656,013, around a typical £681,500.
Lower and upper end are the 10th and 90th percentile of recorded sales.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Jan 2020 and 12 Aug 2026.
Mix of homes
Who is selling in EC4A
Flat / maisonette homes were 96% of recorded sales (51 of 53). 26% of sales were freehold and 74% leasehold.
Property type
- Detached2%
- Terraced2%
- Flat / maisonette96%
Tenure
- Freehold26%
- Leasehold74%
See the figures
21 freehold (26%) and 59 leasehold (74%) across the 80 most recent recorded sales in EC4A. Leasehold is normal for flats; check the remaining lease term before you offer.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, between 17 Jan 2020 and 12 Aug 2026.
Sold twice: what the same home resold for
The strongest price signal there is: the same door, sold twice. Change shown in £, %, and per year. A big % over two decades is smaller than it looks.
PEMBERTON HOUSE, 7, PEMBERTON ROW, LONDON
£565,000 (2024)£537,500 (2025)-4.9% over 1.1 yrs (-4.3%/yr)
DEAN WACE HOUSE, 7, WINE OFFICE COURT, LONDON
£750,000 (2021)£615,000 (2025)-18% over 4.3 yrs (-4.5%/yr)
35, FURNIVAL STREET, LONDON
£545,000 (2020)£425,000 (2025)-22% over 5.7 yrs (-4.3%/yr)
11 - 13, BREAMS BUILDINGS, LONDON
£104,181 (2022)£565,000 (2025)+442.3% over 2.9 yrs (+79.7%/yr)
4 - 7, RED LION COURT, LONDON
£571,300 (2024)£495,000 (2025)-13.4% over 0.6 yrs (-22.4%/yr)
4, CRANE COURT, LONDON
£385,000 (2020)£390,000 (2025)+1.3% over 4.4 yrs (+0.3%/yr)
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Real transactions, never estimates. All sales.
On the map
Where EC4A sits in City of London
The pins are the 5 most recent recorded sales: real prices on real streets, not a valuation.
Latest sales
The most recent sales in EC4A
MILES PRESTON & CO, 10, BOLT COURT, LONDON
Other · Freehold · 12 Aug 2026
£2,075,000
ST. DUNSTANS HOUSE, 133 - 137, FETTER LANE, LONDON
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 Mar 2026
£605,000
ST. DUNSTANS HOUSE, 133 - 137, FETTER LANE, LONDON
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 9 Jan 2026
£725,000
PEMBERTON HOUSE, 7, PEMBERTON ROW, LONDON
Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 14 Nov 2025
£537,500
1 - 3, RED LION COURT, LONDON
Other · Freehold · 30 Sept 2025
£4,800,000
Sources: HM Land Registry · postcodes.io / ONS · OpenStreetMap (© contributors). EC4A includes the Castle Baynard ward.
In plain English
What the City of London (EC4A) numbers mean
- Prices here are widely spread: most sales fell between £451,800 and £9,656,013, so the median says little about any one home.
- 74% of these sales were leasehold, which marks a flat-heavy market. Buyers here weigh remaining lease length, ground rent and service charges as much as the price.
- This is a quiet district: only about 1 recorded sale a month.
Only 80 sales sit behind these figures, so they are a rough guide rather than a firm reading.
Based on 80 recorded sales between 17 January 2020 and 12 August 2026. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, to 28 August 2026; page data refreshed 7 October 2026. Compared with the UK House Price Index. Written by Your Property Check (Check Labs Ltd, Birmingham) from this data. How we read the data · spotted a mistake? Tell us. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. UK House Price Index licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Area data
What else the records hold on EC4A
Council tax and schools, each from the body that publishes it, with the sample it rests on stated beside it.
Council tax
What council tax costs in EC4A
£1,330
Band D a year in City of London, 2026-27: the benchmark band every English authority is compared on.
All bands
| Band | 1991 value | A year |
|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £886 |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,034 |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £1,182 |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £1,330 |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £1,625 |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £1,920 |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £2,216 |
| H | over £320,000 | £2,659 |
These are City of London's charges for 2026-27, the authority EC4A falls in, not an estimate for any individual home. A property's band is set by the Valuation Office Agency and we never guess it; look up a band on GOV.UK and read your row. Bands reflect what a home was worth on 1 April 1991, not today.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · 8 of 8 bands published for City of London · data to 2026-27 financial year
Schools
Schools near EC4A
8
open schools within 3 km, nearest City Junior School.
All schools
City Junior School
Independent schools · WC1R 5EY
500 m
Not graded
St Alban's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Local authority maintained schools · EC1N 7SD
528 m
Good · 2019
University of the Arts London
Universities · WC1V 7EY
607 m
Not graded
City Lit
16 plus · Colleges · WC2B 4BA
764 m
Not graded
City of London School
Independent schools · EC4V 3AL
809 m
Not graded
St Paul's Cathedral School
Independent schools · EC4M 9AD
818 m
Not graded
Courtauld Institute of Art
Universities · WC2R 0RN
826 m
Not graded
Charterhouse Square School
Independent schools · EC1M 6EA
831 m
Not graded
School data from the Department for Education “Get Information about Schools” (GIAS) and Ofsted inspection outcomes. Open Government Licence v3.0. The Ofsted grade shown is the last single overall grade on record (single grades were withdrawn in September 2024). Shows nearest schools by distance, not legal catchment areas. Distances are from the EC4A district centroid, not from any address.
Source: Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · 8 open schools within 3 km, 1 with a grade on record
Area context
Planning and deprivation near EC4A
What is being built nearby and how the area ranks, as context for the neighbourhood and never a judgement on a home.
Planning applications
Planning activity around EC4A
8,316
applications within 500 m of the district centre, as last checked 24 July 2026.
Recent applications
City/26/01030/MDCUndecided
404 m
Submission of SuDS Operations and Maintenance Regime pursuant to discharge of condition 15 of planning permission 22/01070/FULMAJ dated 05.01.2024.
Received 2026-07-20
City/26/01026/MDCUndecided
273 m
Submission of Commercial Building Material Design Document pursuant to partial discharge of condition 41(a) of planning permission 20/00997/FULEIA dated 30.07.2021.
Received 2026-07-20
City/26/01020/MDCUndecided
498 m
Submission of details pursuant to discharge of condition 9 of planning permission 25/01203/FULL dated 13.02.2026.
Received 2026-07-17
City/26/01019/MDCUndecided
498 m
Submission of detail pursuant to condition 6 of Planning Permission 25/01203/FULL dated 13.02.2026.
Received 2026-07-17
City/26/01009/MDCUndecided
236 m
Submission of drawings of room layouts pursuant to discharge of Condition 35 of planning permission 24/00648/FULMAJ dated 18.12.2024.
Received 2026-07-16
Islington/P2026/1934/PRAUndecided
424 m
Notification of Prior Approval for the installation of roof-mounted solar photovoltaics (PV) panels and associated works under Schedule 2, Part 14, Class J of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended)
Received 2026-07-14
Applications are matched within 500 m of the EC4A district centroid, so this is activity in the area, not at any one address. Register wording and status are reproduced as the local planning authority published them. Showing 6 of 20 held; run a live planning search for EC4A for the current picture.
Source: Local planning authority records via PlanIt · 8316 applications matched within 500 m of the district centre · data to 24 July 2026
Deprivation (IMD)
Area profile for EC4A
Decile 8 of 10
Median across 12 sampled postcodes; 1 is the most deprived 10% of England, 10 the least.
Read the detail
Across the 12 sampled EC4A postcodes, deprivation runs all in decile 8, with a median of decile 8 of 10: where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived.
EC4A 3DQ, the sampled postcode sitting at that median: On the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, this postcode falls in decile 8 of 10, where 1 is among the most deprived 10% of England and 10 the least deprived. It's area context for the wider neighbourhood, not a judgement on any individual home.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (English Indices of Deprivation 2025, MHCLG). Deprivation is published for small areas (LSOAs), not for postcode districts, so EC4A spans several. We sampled 12 postcodes in EC4A: the ones with the most recent recorded sales, up to a limit of 12. That is a convenience sample, not a random one, so it leans toward streets where homes are changing hands. 12 returned a row. It is context for the neighbourhood, never a judgement on any individual home. How we choose the sample.
Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · 12 postcodes sampled of 12 checked · data to 2025 indices
Cost to run
Two sources, one table
What it costs to run a home in EC4A, band by band
City of London's council tax for 2026-27 set against the EC4A median sold price of £681,500 across 80 recorded sales: the annual running cost beside the purchase price, which neither source shows on its own.
| Band | 1991 valueVOA basis | A yearCity of London | A month÷ 12 | Of the median÷ £681,500 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | up to £40,000 | £886 | £74 | 0.13% |
| B | £40,001–£52,000 | £1,034 | £86 | 0.15% |
| C | £52,001–£68,000 | £1,182 | £99 | 0.17% |
| D | £68,001–£88,000 | £1,330 | £111 | 0.20% |
| E | £88,001–£120,000 | £1,625 | £135 | 0.24% |
| F | £120,001–£160,000 | £1,920 | £160 | 0.28% |
| G | £160,001–£320,000 | £2,216 | £185 | 0.33% |
| H | over £320,000 | £2,659 | £222 | 0.39% |
The last column is the band's annual charge divided by the EC4A median sold price. A comparison of two published figures, not a rate anyone charges. It is not a mapping from price to band: a band records what a home was worth on 1 April 1991 and is set by the Valuation Office Agency, so it cannot be worked out from a 2020s sale price. Look up a specific band on GOV.UK. Instalment counts vary by authority, so the monthly column is simply the year over twelve.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Median across 80 recorded sales. · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities, City of London, 2026-27.
Address by address
Address by address
What individual homes in EC4A sold for
The 24 most recently sold doors of the 45 distinct addresses in the records we hold for EC4A. Real recorded transactions: never estimates.
MILES PRESTON & CO, 10, BOLT COURT, LONDON
EC4A 3DQ · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£2,075,000
2026-08-12
ST. DUNSTANS HOUSE, 133 - 137, FETTER LANE, LONDON
EC4A 1BF · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 6 recorded sales
£605,000
2026-03-02
PEMBERTON HOUSE, 7, PEMBERTON ROW, LONDON
EC4A 3BA · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 recorded sales
£537,500
2025-11-14
1 - 3, RED LION COURT, LONDON
EC4A 3EB · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£4,800,000
2025-09-30
DEAN WACE HOUSE, 7, WINE OFFICE COURT, LONDON
EC4A 3BY · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 3 recorded sales
£615,000
2025-09-25
35, FURNIVAL STREET, LONDON
EC4A 1JQ · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 recorded sales
£425,000
2025-09-23
7 - 9, BREAMS BUILDINGS, LONDON
EC4A 1DT · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£3,560,000
2025-09-09
CLIFFORD'S INN, FETTER LANE, LONDON
EC4A 1BX · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 9 recorded sales
£500,000
2025-08-22
11 - 13, BREAMS BUILDINGS, LONDON
EC4A 1DT · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 4 recorded sales
£565,000
2025-08-15
CLIFFORD'S INN, FETTER LANE, LONDON
EC4A 1BY · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 5 recorded sales
£770,000
2025-03-31
4 - 7, RED LION COURT, LONDON
EC4A 3EB · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 4 recorded sales
£495,000
2025-03-31
148, FLEET STREET, LONDON
EC4A 2BU · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£450,000
2025-01-31
4, CRANE COURT, LONDON
EC4A 2EJ · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 3 recorded sales
£390,000
2025-01-30
ASTON HOUSE, 36 - 37, FURNIVAL STREET, LONDON
EC4A 1JQ · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 4 recorded sales
£650,000
2025-01-09
149, FLEET STREET, LONDON
EC4A 2BU · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£4,700,000
2024-12-11
38 AND 39, FURNIVAL STREET, LONDON
EC4A 1JQ · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£10,000,000
2024-11-29
4, PEMBERTON ROW, LONDON
EC4A 3BA · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£565,000
2024-06-21
5, BREAMS BUILDINGS, LONDON
EC4A 1DT · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£580,000
2024-03-22
PEMBERTON HOUSE, 6, EAST HARDING STREET, LONDON
EC4A 3AS · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£539,000
2024-03-15
4, JOHNSONS COURT, LONDON
EC4A 3EA · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 2 recorded sales
£462,500
2024-02-27
3, CRANE COURT, LONDON
EC4A 2EJ · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£1,600,000
2023-07-20
32, FURNIVAL STREET, LONDON
EC4A 1JQ · Other · Freehold · 1 recorded sale
£2,500,000
2023-06-23
20, ST ANDREW STREET, LONDON
EC4A 3AG · Other · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£1,140,000
2023-06-09
2, GREYSTOKE PLACE, LONDON
EC4A 1GP · Flat / maisonette · Leasehold · 1 recorded sale
£1,347,500
2023-04-21
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. Addresses come from recorded sales since 1995, so homes that have never sold do not appear. 0 of these 24 doors resolve to a confident property record and link through; the rest are listed without a link. We match a door to a property record only where the match is certain, never by guessing.
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The closest districts to EC4A by straight-line distance between district centres.
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Data sources
Every EC4A figure is official and dated
Real recorded data from the UK's official registers, never an estimated valuation.
- HM Land RegistrySold prices
- MHCLGCouncil tax & deprivation
- Department for Education · OfstedSchools
- Local planning authoritiesPlanning applications
- Police.UKStreet-level crime
- Environment AgencyFlood risk
- postcodes.io · ONSGeography
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. Council Tax levels set by local authorities · Department for Education: Get Information about Schools, with Ofsted grades · Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. English Indices of Deprivation 2025 · Local planning authority records via PlanIt · Police.UK · Environment Agency · postcodes.io / ONS. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data to 28 August 2026. Updated monthly. All figures are real, attributed and carry the sample they rest on: never estimates, never a valuation. All sales · Get Free Valuation · About Your Property Check.