Houses in Acton cost about half a million pounds in the middle of the market, and that middle is mostly flats. A flat goes for about £400,000. A terrace for about £900,000. A semi for around a million. In Acton, getting your own front door costs more than the flat it replaces.
The Land Registry recorded 343 sales in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £494,000. Flats made up 241 of them, at a median of £400,000. The 56 terraced houses had a median of about £903,000, the 41 semis £1,000,000, and the five detached houses about £1,065,000. With five detached sales in a year, that column is closer to gossip than a market, and one big sale either way would move it. A second shared wall saves surprisingly little in Acton, since a terrace and a semi end up within shouting distance of each other.
The house price index for the area put the average at about £569,000 in May 2026, down two and a half per cent on a year earlier, and up about 6% over five years. Flats did worse, with their index price down about 5% over the twelve months to about £397,000. The dip landed hardest on the type of home Acton sells most of.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and about 17% of homes are in Bands A or B. Ealing's Band D bill is about £2,139 a year, with Band A at about £1,426 and Band H at about £4,277.
Ealing's typical private rent was about £2,060 a month in April 2026, a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics index, so it covers far more than Acton, and it was up about 1% on the year. By size it ran to about £1,590 for a one-bed, £1,980 for a two-bed, £2,340 for a three-bed and £3,220 for four bedrooms or more. A landlord charging £1,590 for a one-bed is renting you the same kind of flat that sells for £400,000, which makes buying look sensible right up to the deposit.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income, before tax, at about £74,700 a year for the financial year to March 2023, averaged across the area. On that money a £400,000 flat is within reach for a household with two incomes and a decent deposit. A £900,000 terrace is a stretch most households here cannot make, and the high share of renters in Acton is what that looks like.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 49% of the total, the median price was about £7,300 per square metre, and the typical home behind that figure had about 110 square metres of floor space. Terraces inside the conservation areas, Bedford Park and Acton Green among them, carry rules on windows and extensions, so ask the seller's solicitor early whether the house falls inside one, because that changes what those square metres can become.
At the 2021 census, about 29% of Acton homes had one bedroom, 32% had two, 21% had three and 19% had four or more. Most buyers are choosing between one and two bedrooms, and the market charges a lot for the third.
Acton's prices are middling for this corner of London: a flat is gettable on a good joint income, and a house asks for money most of the people who live here don't have.