A home in Holborn costs about £930,000, and in that sentence "houses" is mostly a figure of speech. Every recent sale was a flat. There were hardly any sales at all. The handful that went through still came within touching distance of a million.
The Land Registry recorded four sales in Holborn in the year to May 2026. All four were flats, and the median was about £930,000. No houses sold, so there is no typical house price to give. With a sample that small, the median depends on which four flats happened to come up, and a fifth sale at either end could move it a long way. In practice the price here is whatever the last flat on Lincoln's Inn Fields fetched.
The house price index for the area gives a steadier read, and it has gone down. Over the twelve months to May 2026 the average price fell about 6% to about £806,000, and flats on their own fell about 7% to about £667,000. Over five years the index is down 1.8%. Six per cent off a central London flat is a real discount, though the asking prices may take a while to admit it. Those are published past changes and they predict nothing about next year. The same index puts the average terraced house at about £1.5 million, which is the price of a rare thing in a place made almost entirely of flats.
Council tax starts in the middle of the scale and goes up. Band D is the most common band, only about 3% of homes are in bands A or B, and Camden's Band D bill is about £2,210 a year. Behind the Georgian doors in Holborn it's usually a flat, and the council still bills it well up the bands.
Most people here rent. Across the whole of Camden, the typical private rent was about £2,720 a month in April 2026, an average from the Office for National Statistics index, down 4% on the year. By size, Camden's average is about £1,980 a month for one bedroom, £2,530 for two, £2,950 for three and £3,850 for four or more. These figures cover the whole borough, so they mix Holborn flats with homes elsewhere in Camden that come with gardens. There is no published figure for studios or rooms. Ask any landlord near High Holborn what those go for and the answer will be "less than you'd hope".
On income, buying is a long way out of reach. The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £78,500 across Holborn for the financial year to March 2023. Next to a median sale price heading for £1 million, that comfortable salary buys a good view of other people's flats. The income figure is three years old and averaged over several neighbourhoods. It includes students and young renters, so it pulls the typical earnings down without saying much about who can actually afford to buy. With almost everything for sale here a flat, get the lease length and the latest service charge statement before anything else. In a building this old those two papers can change the real price more than the asking figure does.
Small homes dominate. At the 2021 census about 44% of Holborn's homes had one bedroom, 37% had two, 14% had three and 5% had four or more. A buyer who wants a third bedroom is competing for a small slice of a small market. One who wants a fourth is mostly hoping.
Holborn is poor value by any ordinary measure. A median close to a million buys a flat, probably with one bedroom, and an index that has spent the last year coming down.