House prices in 'W1F 8', Tottenham Court Road
This article reveals price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand current housing market in 'W1F 8' (Tottenham Court Road, London) - statistics were last calculated on 03 December 2024.
Defining 'W1F 8'
This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "W1F 8", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it W1F 8, Tottenham Court Road. It is shown in red on the map below.
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Price per square metre
Knowing the average house price in W1F 8 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:
£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area
For example in July 2024, Apartment 10 15, Hollen Street, Tottenham Court Road, W1F 8AZ sold for £3,650,000. Given the internal area of 133 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £3,650,000 ÷ 133 sqm = £27,443.
England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on W1F 8 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.
Distribution of £ per sqm for 'W1F 8' vs 'W1F'
The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in W1F 8 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £23,700 to £24,000, £24,000 to £24,300, £24,300 to £24,600 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 15 sales that took place in W1F 8, Tottenham Court Road, London in the last 24 months.
Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.
You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.
The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in W1F 8, Tottenham Court Road. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £22,660 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of W1F 8 homes.
Box plot of £ per sqm for W1F 8
Tip: click on the chart to see the values.
The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Tottenham Court Road. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'W1F 8' as well as the 'W1F' postcode district.
Property price map for Tottenham Court Road
Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'W1F 8' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.
House price map for Tottenham Court RoadTottenham Court Road house price forecasting
I cannot tell what house prices will do in the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. However we can plot price trends, I have done this in the chart below for W1F 8 (Tottenham Court Road) compared with the wider postcode district of W1F. You can extrapolate from this based on your own views on future interest rates, inflation and other factors.
House price index for W1F 8
Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines
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The chart above shows changes in 'W1F 8' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in W1F 8 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for W1F 8,Tottenham Court Road with the wider postcode district of W1F What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire Westminster local authority.
The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:
Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.
Historic returns for W1F 8
| W1F 8 sector | W1F district | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal | Real | Nominal | Real | |
| 20 yr per annum | 9.6% | 6.7% | 5.8% | 3.0% |
| 20 yr total | 520.9% | 267.7% | 206.8% | 81.7% |
| 10 yr per annum | 5.2% | 2.4% | 0.8% | -2.0% |
| 10 yr total | 66.4% | 26.3% | 8.1% | -17.9% |
| 5 yr per annum | 9.0% | 4.7% | 5.6% | 1.4% |
| 5 yr total | 53.5% | 25.6% | 31.2% | 7.4% |
| 1 yr per annum | 22.8% | 17.9% | 0.6% | -3.4% |
| 1 yr total | 22.8% | 17.9% | 0.6% | -3.4% |
This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.
The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:
Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1
The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:
CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1
Some specific examples:
- Over the past 20 years, W1F district have seen a 3.0% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 81.7% in real terms.
- Over the past 5 years, W1F district have seen a 1.4% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 7.4% in real terms.
Most recent W1F 8 sales
For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.
Tip: hover over dots to see details
Street level data
Nearby geographies
The table below shows how 'W1F 8' compares to the other postcode sectors in W1F.
| Sector | Lower quartile | Median | Upper quartile | Sales in last 2yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WC2H 8 Tottenham Court Road | £12,990 sqm | £13,790 sqm | £15,030 sqm | 14 |
| WC2H 7 Leicester Square | £10,600 sqm | £11,200 sqm | £11,800 sqm | 6 |
| WC2H 0 Leicester Square | £10,300 sqm | £10,650 sqm | £11,010 sqm | 6 |
| WC1E 7 Goodge Street | £11,620 sqm | £13,480 sqm | £14,650 sqm | 11 |
| WC1E 6 Goodge Street | £11,760 sqm | £13,260 sqm | £14,620 sqm | 13 |
| WC1B 3 Tottenham Court Road | £12,630 sqm | £14,740 sqm | £16,230 sqm | 12 |
| WC1A 1 Tottenham Court Road | £12,680 sqm | £12,800 sqm | £12,800 sqm | 11 |
| W1W 7 Oxford Circus | £11,170 sqm | £14,270 sqm | £18,400 sqm | 16 |
| W1W 6 Great Portland Street | £10,750 sqm | £13,950 sqm | £15,770 sqm | 28 |
| W1T 4 Goodge Street | £12,920 sqm | £13,730 sqm | £15,240 sqm | 23 |
Raw data
Our analysis of W1F 8 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.
| Address | Paid | sqm | £/sqm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apartment 10 15, Hollen St, Tottenham Court Road, London | £3,650,000
Jul-2024
|
133 | 27,443 |
| Apartment 502c 1, Fareham St, Tottenham Court Road, London | £2,300,000
Jul-2023
|
101 | 22,772 |
| Apartment 103c 1, Fareham St, Tottenham Court Road, London | £1,630,900
Jun-2023
|
77 | 21,180 |
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