A home in Camden Town typically costs about £706,000, and most of what that buys is a flat. Flats go for well over half a million. Terraced houses go for well over a million. Semi-detached houses barely come up at all. Prices have come off over the last year, and the starting point is still a long way up.
The Land Registry recorded 207 sales in the year to May 2026 at a typical price of £706,000. Flats made up 171 of them, at a typical £635,000. The 32 terraced houses fetched a typical £1,376,250, and the four semi-detached sales came in at £2,400,000, a column so short that one sale more or less would rewrite it. Sir Charles Pratt began granting leases for houses on this land in 1791. The leases have outlasted the earl, and the flat buyer of 2026 is still mostly buying one.
The house-price index for the area fell by about 6% in the twelve months to May 2026, to an average of about £805,800, and flats on their own fell by about 7%. Over five years the index is down 1.8%. Those are real drops for a market this expensive, and they describe the year just gone, which is all an index ever does.
Band D is the most common council tax band here, and only about 12% of homes are in bands A or B. Camden Council's band D bill is about £2,208 a year. The bands were set long before anyone paid £635,000 for a flat, so the bill is the one cost in Camden Town that still looks modest next to the price.
Camden as a whole has a typical private rent of about £2,720 a month as of April 2026, down 4% on a year earlier. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics' index for the borough. By size, the borough averages about £1,980 for a one-bed, £2,530 for a two-bed, £2,950 for a three-bed and £3,845 for four bedrooms or more. With about three-quarters of local households renting, the landlord's maths is the one that sets the tone here.
The Office for National Statistics models typical household income across the area at about £73,900 a year before tax, and that figure describes the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical flat at £635,000, that is a stretch even for a well-paid couple, and a terraced house at well over a million is out of reach on income alone. The money buying the terraces mostly arrived with the buyer.
Among the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 40% of the total, the typical price was about £10,540 per square metre, behind a typical home of about 75 square metres. It is worth asking for the certificate on any flat that interests you and checking the floor area against the price per square metre, because a converted Victorian flat with a sloping ceiling can lose a surprising amount of its space to the roof.
At the 2021 Census, about 35% of homes had one bedroom, 35% had two, 20% had three and 10% had four or more. Anyone searching here for a three-bed is fishing in a fifth of the stock, and the four-bed hunter in a tenth of it. The Stables were built for horses, and they had more room per head than most one-bed flats here.
For most buyers, Camden Town is a poor deal on price: the past year's fall knocked a little off, and a flat still costs more than most incomes here can stretch to.