Islington Flat Sold Prices What Recent Sales Really Tell You

These figures come straight from HM Land Registry and cover flats sold across the wider Islington area. That matters. This is not one street, one postcode or one development. It is a broad district, so you will see real variety in the numbers and that is exactly the point.

Twenty six sales were stripped out before any analysis. Those are category B transactions, bulk or non market sales like auction lots sold in job lots, transfers between companies and similar deals that would skew what you pay on the open market. Removing them gives you a cleaner picture of what real buyers actually handed over to real sellers.

Across one hundred and seventy four qualifying flat sales, the median price across the wider Islington area sits at five hundred and sixty thousand pounds. A median is useful because it sits in the middle of the range and is not dragged around by one eye watering outlier the way an average can be.

But here is the honest caveat. A median built from sales spread over months or even years is a lagging indicator. The market moves. Interest rates shift. Sentiment changes. A figure that blends last spring with this spring can quietly mislead you if conditions have shifted in between. Use it as context, not as your anchor.

The most recent registered sale in this dataset completed on the twenty seventh of May 2026 at nine hundred thousand pounds. That is the freshest evidence you have got. A buyer and a seller agreed that price in current conditions, with current mortgage rates, current supply and current demand. It is as live as Land Registry data gets.

That does not mean every flat is worth nine hundred thousand pounds, obviously. What it tells you is that the top end of the market was still transacting at that level just days ago. Pair it with the other May sales and you start to see the real shape of the market right now.

Eight sales completed across the wider Islington area between the twentieth and twenty seventh of May 2026 and the range is striking. Prices ran from three hundred and sixty thousand pounds up to one million four hundred thousand pounds. That is not noise, that is the genuine breadth of the Islington flat market.

Here is what those eight sales looked like.

1. 1Nine hundred thousand pounds, twenty seventh of May 2026
2. 2Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds, twenty seventh of May 2026
3. 3Six hundred and thirty thousand pounds, twenty second of May 2026
4. 4Three hundred and sixty thousand pounds, twenty second of May 2026
5. 5Four hundred and eighty five thousand pounds, twenty second of May 2026
6. 6Four hundred and twenty five thousand pounds, twenty second of May 2026
7. 7One million four hundred thousand pounds, twentieth of May 2026
8. 8Seven hundred and thirty five thousand pounds, twentieth of May 2026

Four of those eight sales sat below the five hundred and sixty thousand pound median. That tells you there is a genuine entry point in this market, not just trophy flats pushing the numbers up.

Start with the recent sales, not the median. Find the ones that are closest in date, closest in size and closest in location to the flat you are looking at. A three hundred and sixty thousand pound sale and a one million four hundred thousand pound sale can both be legitimate and both be in the same district. The difference is almost certainly size, floor, condition, outdoor space and whether the building has a lift.

Ask your estate agent which of these sales they think is the best comparable for the flat you are viewing. If they cannot answer that question specifically, push harder. Vague references to the area median are not good enough when you are committing to a mortgage.

It is worth pausing on those twenty six excluded sales. Category B transactions get removed because they do not reflect what you would pay buying one flat through an estate agent. Bulk deals between investors, transfers within corporate structures and similar arrangements often happen at a discount or at an artificial price that has nothing to do with open market value.

If those sales stayed in the dataset they could drag the median down and make the area look cheaper than it really is for a single buyer. Excluding them is the right call and it means the five hundred and sixty thousand pound median from one hundred and seventy four sales is a more honest reflection of what individual buyers are actually paying.

Land Registry data is brilliant because it is real. These are legally registered prices, not asking prices, not valuations, not estate agent estimates. Every number here is what someone actually paid.

The limitation is timing. There is always a lag between a sale completing and it appearing in the register. The May 2026 sales are very fresh, which is why they are so valuable as a current anchor. The broader median of five hundred and sixty thousand pounds from one hundred and seventy four sales gives you the centre of gravity for the district over a longer window.

Use both. The median tells you where the market has been sitting. The most recent sales tell you where it is right now. Together they give you a much more honest picture than either figure alone.