A typical home in Hornsey sells for about £620,000, and in most cases that money buys a flat. A flat goes for around half a million. A terrace costs more than double that. Detached houses come up so rarely they barely count as a market. The headline price describes a two-bedroom flat with ideas above its station.
The Land Registry recorded 349 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £620,000. Flats made up 229 of them, at a typical £505,000. The 98 terraced houses sold for around £1,310,000, the 18 semis for around £1,031,000, and the four detached houses for around £1,445,000. Four sales in a year makes the detached figure an anecdote with a price attached. The terraces are the real dividing line: below it, a buyer is choosing between flats; above it, between Hornsey and somewhere with a smaller garden and a bigger number on the sign.
The house-price index for the area had the average at about £634,000 in May 2026, up about 2% on a year earlier. Flats rose by about 1% over the same twelve months. Neither figure is a boom. The flats in particular have spent the year doing very little at a very high price.
Band C is the most common council-tax band in Hornsey, and about 19% of homes are in the two cheapest bands, A and B. Haringey charges about £2,314 a year for a band D home, the figure most readers can hold up against their own bill. Bands were set on 1991 values, so a terrace that now costs well over a million can still carry a band that looks modest; check the band on the specific address, since two flats in the same converted house can sit in different ones.
Renting in Haringey costs about £2,210 a month for a typical private let as of April 2026, a mean across the whole borough taken from the Office for National Statistics index and about 2% higher than a year earlier. By size, the borough averages are about £1,634 a month for one bedroom, £2,030 for two, £2,346 for three and £3,188 for four or more. Studio and room rents are not published. The two-bedroom figure is the one most Hornsey tenants will recognise, given what the housing stock is mostly made of.
Average household income across Hornsey, as modelled by the Office for National Statistics for the financial year to March 2023, was about £77,200 a year before tax. That is a comfortable income almost anywhere, and here it makes a flat a stretch and a terrace a different career. The figure is a few years old, and household incomes measured in 2023 have been paying 2026 prices ever since.
Of the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 49% of the total, the median price was about £8,852 a square metre, and the typical home behind that figure measured around 113 square metres. Square metres are what buyers here are really paying for, and the half of sales nobody measured were presumably not any cheaper.
At the 2021 census, about 30% of Hornsey's homes had one bedroom, 33% had two, 18% had three and 19% had four or more. The four-bedroom share is bigger than the three-bedroom share, which tells you the district is mostly small flats plus a layer of large family houses, with little in between for the family that needs one more room than it has.
Hornsey is expensive in the way that costs most: the flats are pricey and the houses are a long jump beyond them. On price alone it is a poor deal for most buyers, and the people who make it work usually brought the money with them.