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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/barnet

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House prices in Barnet

Homes in Barnet sold for a median of £575,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 6,153 standard sales.

That makes it the ninth most expensive of the 32 London boroughs with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £525,000.

Median sale price£575,0006,153 standard sales
Middle half of prices£405,000 to £830,000
Change since 2016+22%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Postcode districts in Barnet

The dearest district was NW11 (Barnet), at £965,000, and the cheapest was NW9 (Barnet), at £445,000. The dearest median is 2.2 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were N2 (mostly East Finchley ward) and N20 (mostly Whetstone ward), and the next cheapest N12 (Barnet), N11 (Barnet) and HA8 (Edgware).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Barnet, placed at the centre of its postcodes and labelled with the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.
Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. NW11Barnet, 436 sales£965,0000%
  2. N2Barnet, 437 sales£712,000−16%
  3. N20Barnet, 409 sales£680,000+8%
  4. N3Barnet, 426 sales£650,000+6%
  5. NW7Barnet, 576 sales£640,000+8%
  6. EN4Barnet, 573 sales£620,000+6%
  7. EN5Barnet, 755 sales£590,000+4%
  8. NW4Barnet, 391 sales£540,000−10%
  9. HA8Edgware, 701 sales£535,000−3%
  10. N11Barnet, 487 sales£535,000−9%
  11. N12Barnet, 467 sales£515,000+8%
  12. NW9Barnet, 1,105 sales£445,000+1%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in N12 (Barnet), N20 (mostly Whetstone ward) and NW7 (mostly Mill Hill ward), up 8%, and fell most in N2 (mostly East Finchley ward), down 16%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Sanday Drive, London (NW9)142 sales
  • Henshaw Parade, London (NW9)129 sales
  • High Road, London (N20)36 sales
  • Oakleigh Road North, London (N20)33 sales
  • High Road, London (N12)32 sales
  • Finchley Road, London (NW11)31 sales
  • Brownlow Road, London (N11)30 sales
  • Capitol Way, London (NW9)29 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Marsh Lane, London (NW7, £1,782,500), Hampstead Way, London (NW11, £1,432,500) and Hertford Road, East Finchley (N2, £1,360,000).

The cheapest were Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware (HA8, flats, £112,500), Bedford Road, London (N2, flats, £212,500) and Leicester Road, Barnet (EN5, flats, £250,000).

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Barnet, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached546£1,239,500£925,000 to £1,794,000£7,103/m²from 32 sales
Semi-detached1,656£800,000£640,000 to £1,040,000£6,952/m²from 59 sales
Terraced1,130£635,000£515,000 to £782,000£6,099/m²from 38 sales
Flats and maisonettes2,821£405,000£325,000 to £511,000£5,804/m²from 61 sales

Flats and maisonettes were the most common type sold in Barnet, at 46% of sales, ahead of semi-detached houses at 27%.

Detached houses stand out against London as a whole: a median of £1,239,500 here, 39% more than the £892,000 across the region.

996 sales in Barnet, or 16%, were for £1 million or more, against 3% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 22%, from £478,000 in 2016 to £582,000 in 2025, close to the 20% rise across London as a whole.

Leasehold homes

47% of sales in Barnet were leasehold, against 53% across London as a whole. Most of them are flats, so ask for the years left on the lease and the service charge, and read how long a lease should be and what to check about cladding.

Living in Barnet

Crime

74 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Near the middle of all council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

80% of homes can get it

Lower than 83 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

No postcode is in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Lower than 86 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,133 a year in Barnet for 2026 to 2027

Lower than 94 in 100 council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

London boroughs

Median sale price of the 32 London boroughs with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Barnet and the 14 boroughs nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. Westminster£865,000
  2. Camden£770,000
  3. Richmond upon Thames£717,500
  4. Hammersmith and Fulham£705,000
  5. Islington£640,000
  6. Wandsworth£640,000
  7. Hackney£585,000
  8. Barnet£575,000
  9. Haringey£575,000
  10. Brent£550,000
  11. Harrow£550,000
  12. Kingston upon Thames£550,000
  13. Lambeth£543,000
  14. Merton£542,500
  15. Waltham Forest£538,500
All 32 London boroughs, ranked

About these figures

Barnet's figures come from 6,153 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode. The 12 districts listed are those with most of their postcodes in Barnet, so their sales add up to 6,763 instead (how we build council pages). New builds made up 8% of them.

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.