[title]
If you’ve ever attempted to get on the property ladder, you’ll know that the more desirable a place is to live in, the higher the house prices tend to be. Obviously, everyone would love to set up home in areas with great transport links, excellent schools, sprawling green spaces and wholesome community vibes. But, for a lot of us, extortionate property prices stand in the way.
It’ll come as little surprise that owning somewhere in most of the sseven areas named by the Sunday Times as the London’s best neighbourhoods to live this year cost upwards of £500,000 – much more than the average UK property price of around £269,000. So, how much can you expect to pay to live in London’s most coveted areas?
Walthamstow
Walthamstow was the paper’s overall winner for London’s best place to call home this year, and is actually one of the cheapest of the lot. An average property in ’Stow costs £532,800, according to land registry data collected by Halifax. Two-bed flats backing onto Lloyd Park start at around £450,000 but you’re looking at around £800,000 to £1.2m if you’d rather one of the Victorian terraces in fancier parts like the Village, Church Lane and Brunswick Street.
East Dulwich
The most expensive postcode on the Times’ list is East Dulwich. Buying a property there will set you back an average of £817,800. The Times says anyone interested in making the move here should ‘allow £900,000 to £1.1 million for a three-bedroom Victorian terrace on Heber Road, Silvester Road or Fellbrigg Road, and at least £1.25 million for a four-bedroom house on or around Melbourne Grove’. If you want to live on those streets for less, there are two-bed flats starting at £400,000.
Wembley Park
At the other end of the scale, the most affordable area on the Times’ list is Wembley Park, where average property prices are £474,000. Right now, there’s a development project underway that’ll bring 8,000 new flats to the area. For one-beds, 25 percent shared ownership starts at around £80,000. Elsewhere, two bedders with views over Olympic Way and Egin Gardens start at £525,000.
The average property prices in the Sunday Times’ best places to live in London, from cheapest to most expensive
Wembley Park: £474,000
Walthamstow: £532,800
Telegraph Hill: £552,500
Bloomsbury: £650,100
Stoke Newington: £722,100
Twickenham: £770,200
East Dulwich: £817,000
Explore the Sunday Times’ full list of the 72 best places to live in the UK here.
ICYMI: The most ‘average’ London neighbourhood, according to Reddit
Plus: The most expensive street in London has been revealed for 2025.
Get the latest and greatest from the Big Smoke – from news and reviews to events and trends. Just follow our Time Out London WhatsApp channel.
Stay in the loop: sign up to our free Time Out London newsletter for the best of the city, straight to your inbox.