🔍
— ACRERIGHT AREA REPORT · POSTCODE SECTOR
Home › Westminster › W1G 8 · postcode sector

W1G 8

⇄⌂

653 people · median £1,200,000 · Westminster

Fast broadband
Westminster Council · Conservative-controlled   32/54 seats · 59% · OCD 2026
Loading…

What does it cost? This postcode sector

A typical home here sells for £1,200,000, up 18% over five years. That's about 16× local earnings — around the 20.2× five-year average.

Sold price history

2025 · 12 sales
£706k£1m£1.4m£1.7m£2m2010201720252025 +75%−50%£1,650,000
Median sold price · 12 months to May 2026£1,200,000
5-year change+18%
Full history since 1995
£0k£524k£1m£1.6m£2.1m1995201020252025 +75%−50%£1,650,000
HM Land Registry Price Paid

By property type

Flat
£1.1m
Typical home price compared with annual local pay16× · five-year average 20.2×
HM Land Registry, 12 months

Resold at a loss from Westminster15%

Of the homes across Westminster that sold again within five years, 15% went for less than the owner paid. Lower is better. Better than London (18%).

By property type
Flats15%
New-build vs second-hand
Bought new24.9%
Bought second-hand13.8%
Overall
Typical resale gain+46.2% · ~13.3-yr hold
Same home sold twice within five years (5,835 resale pairs) across Westminster — the finest grain we hold repeat-sale outcomes at · HM Land Registry · cash terms, not inflation-adjusted

Home ownership31%

Owned outright
21%
With a mortgage
10%
Private rented
64%
Social rented
5%
Households owning their home · ONS Census 2021

Council tax£1,048

Westminster City Council£538
Greater London Authority£511
Council tax bands A–H
Band A£699
Band B£815
Band C£932
Band D (baseline)£1,048
Band E£1,281
Band F£1,514
Band G£1,747
Band H£2,097
Full-year charge for every band, derived from Band D at the statutory ratios (A = 6/9 of Band D … H = 18/9). MHCLG 2026/27.
Pick your band — the breakdown recalculates · MHCLG 2026/27 · hand-curated each April

£12,626 per square metre

What this means ▾

The sold price divided by the home's recorded floor area, which makes differently-sized homes easier to compare. The median across districts Acreright covers is £3,803.

HM Land Registry + EPC floor areas

Prices by street in W1G 8 15 streets — this postcode sector, broken down

StreetMedian priceSales5-year change
Wimpole Street£637,750168-27.7%
Marylebone Street£386,225158+15.6%
Weymouth Street£300,000138—
De Walden Street£710,00049—
New Cavendish Street£650,00048—
Westmoreland Street£630,00047—
Wheatley Street£610,00025—
Harley Place£1,087,50024—
Median & 5-year change use residential sales only (category-A, type D/S/T/F); the 5-year change compares the last 24 months vs the 24 months five years earlier. Each street’s sales recorded inside this area since 1995 — click a street → its full sold-price page · HM Land Registry Price Paid

Neighbourhood prices in Westminster how W1G 8 compares · from Westminster

⌃ Fastest 5-yr growth: Millbank +11.5%
NeighbourhoodMedian price5-year changeSales, 12m
Millbank£780,000+11.5%202
Maida Vale£790,000+11.4%487
St. John's Wood£875,000+11.3%433
Maida Hill£570,000+9%193
Knightsbridge£3,050,000+1.7%78
Sorted by 5-year change — click a row → the map flies there; click the name → its full report · HM Land Registry, 12 months

Homes in W1G 8 — sold prices

Filters
AddressTypeBedsEPCPriceDate
11 sales in 12 months — showing 10 · Search & browse every home →
Type a street, address or postcode to narrow this list; clear to see the latest sales. Click any home → its full report (sale history, EPC, estimate). Beds inferred from floor area · HM Land Registry + EPC
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…
Loading…

One short email when this area’s prices, crime and schools figures update. No accounts, no spam, one-click unsubscribe. Privacy.

Sources & dates: every figure carries its own source line with the data vintage; the full table is in Overview → "All figures, sources and dates".

Part of Westminster

About  ·  Methodology  ·  Attribution  ·  Press
build 2df6ccf · 2026-10-05 16:05