A typical home in Hammersmith sells for about £727,000, and most of what sells is a flat. A terrace costs well over a million. A third of homes have one bedroom. Prices have slipped back over the past year. A falling market in West London still starts from a West London price.
The Land Registry recorded 272 sales in the year to early May 2026, with a median of about £727,000. Flats made up most of that, 182 sales at a median of about £555,000. The 78 terraced houses went for about £1,345,000. Only eight semi-detached houses sold, at about £2,275,000, and four detached houses at about £2,850,000. Twelve sales between them is a handful of front doors, so those two medians will jump about from one year to the next on whichever houses happen to come up.
The Land Registry's house price index puts the average for the area at about £729,000 in May 2026, down about 11% on a year earlier. Flats fell a little harder, about 12% over the same twelve months. That is a real drop. Even so, the index still puts the average flat at about £565,000, so the fall mostly decides how much of a deposit a first-time buyer needs, and does little to decide whether they can buy here at all.
Band D is the most common council tax band in Hammersmith, and only about 10% of homes are in bands A or B. Hammersmith and Fulham charges about £1,520 a year for band D, and its top band, H, comes to about £3,040. For homes at these prices, the council's bill is one of the smaller costs a buyer will face.
Renting costs about £2,760 a month on average across Hammersmith and Fulham, a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rent index as of April 2026. By size, the borough average is about £1,950 for one bedroom, £2,550 for two, £2,920 for three and £4,090 for four or more. No figure exists for studios or rooms.
The Office for National Statistics models average household income here at about £78,700 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. That is a comfortable income on paper. Set against a median sale of £727,000, buying is a stretch even for the well paid, which helps explain why so many people with good jobs are still renting. The salaries were measured three years ago and before tax, so the real shortfall is bigger than the headline makes it look.
Of the sales the Land Registry and the energy certificate register can match up, about 48% of the total, the median works out at about £10,230 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 103 square metres. The other half of sales had no certificate floor area to match, so this is a reading on just under half the market. Most of what sells is a flat in a converted Edwardian or Victorian house, so ask for the remaining lease length and the last few years of service charges before your solicitor starts the paperwork. A price per square metre tells you nothing about how long the lease has left.
At the 2021 census, about 32% of Hammersmith households had one bedroom, 31% had two, 19% had three and 18% had four or more. Close to two thirds of homes, then, are one or two bedrooms, so the three-bedroom search is where buyers here run into each other.
Hammersmith is expensive to buy into, and a year of falling prices has made it slightly less expensive without changing that. It is a market for people on high salaries who already have the deposit saved.