W1U — house prices & area data
A free, sourced snapshot of W1U, Cities of London and Westminster from Acreright. Every figure shows its source and date; where the data isn’t reliable we say so rather than guess.
W1U is a postcode district in Cities of London and Westminster. Homes here sold for a median of £1,300,000 over the last year, down 3.7% over five years. 3,844 sales are on record. It sits among England’s less-deprived areas (54% of its postcodes are in the least-deprived 30%). 66% of homes are rated EPC C or better.
- £595,000 median sold price (all time)
- £1,300,000 median price, last 12 months
- 3,844 recorded sales
- -3.7% 5-year price change
- 54% of postcodes in England’s least-deprived 30%
- 66% of homes rated EPC C or better
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid & English Indices of Deprivation, Jul 2026
Recent sales
| Address | Type | Price | Date |
|---|
| Luxborough Tower Luxborough Street | Flat | £685,000 | May 2026 |
| Bickenhall Mansions Bickenhall Street | Flat | £1,300,000 | May 2026 |
| 23 York Street | Other | £2,700,000 | Apr 2026 |
| St Andrews Mansions Dorset Street | Flat | £1,750,000 | Apr 2026 |
| Bickenhall Mansions Bickenhall Street | Other | £85,000 | Mar 2026 |
| 69 Chiltern Street | Terraced | £5,000,000 | Mar 2026 |
| 43A Chiltern Street | Flat | £1,175,000 | Mar 2026 |
| 16 Montagu Mansions | Flat | £650,000 | Mar 2026 |
| 10 Sherlock Mews | Terraced | £1,925,000 | Mar 2026 |
| 21 Bulstrode Street | Flat | £495,000 | Mar 2026 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid · Jul 2026
Crime last 12 months
Most common- Shoplifting 1,369
- Theft from the person 1,253
- Other theft 976
Source: police.uk street-level crime (Open Government Licence) · Jun 2025 – May 2026. Locations are anonymised "on or near" markers — where crime clusters, not a specific address.
Street-level crime map near here →
Across the wider Westminster district
The figures below cover Westminster — the council district W1U sits within, the finest grain we publish for schools, health, transport, amenities and who lives here.
- £825,000 median home price (HM Land Registry Price Paid, May 2026)
- 204,235 residents (ONS Census 2021 (Nomis), 2021)
- 100% of inspected schools rated Good or Outstanding (Get Information About Schools (GIAS) + Ofsted inspections MI, 2026)
- ≈55 min fastest train to London (OpenStreetMap + National Rail timetable (ATOC/RDG, GTFS), 2026)
- 75% of premises can get gigabit broadband (Ofcom Connected Nations 2024, Jul 2024)
- 33.1 recorded crimes per 1,000 people (police.uk, Jun 2026)
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Prices by postcode sector
| Sector | Median price | Sales |
|---|
| W1U 1 | £400,000 | 395 |
| W1U 2 | £660,000 | 140 |
| W1U 3 | £1,400,000 | 352 |
| W1U 4 | £1,685,000 | 581 |
| W1U 5 | £974,500 | 834 |
| W1U 6 | £1,250,000 | 1,194 |
| W1U 7 | £1,300,000 | 214 |
| W1U 8 | £3,950,000 | 134 |
Median sold price — most recent 12 months where available, else all-time. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid.
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