A typical home in Kentish Town costs about £677,500, and that usually buys a flat. Most of what sells here is flats. Terraced houses run past a million and a half. Prices have slipped over the past year, though not far enough to change the answer. Kentish Town costs a lot for what you get indoors.
The Land Registry recorded 170 sales in the year to mid-May 2026, at a median of £677,500. Flats made up 128 of them, at a median of £572,500. The 33 terraced houses that sold went for a median of £1,530,000, and the nine semi-detached houses for about £2,200,000. Flats are the everyday market here. A house coming up for sale is rare enough to count as news.
The direction is down. The official house price index for the area fell about 6% in the twelve months to May 2026, and flats fell slightly further, by about 7%. Over five years the index is down about 2%. Prices did rise about 3% in the latest month, but one month is too short to say anything about where they are heading. Over five years, a typical owner has paid the mortgage on a home that ended up worth slightly less.
Council tax is the one cost here that looks ordinary. The most common band is D, and 19% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill is about £2,208 a year. Next to a £572,500 flat, that is the cheapest line in the household budget.
Renting doesn't bring the cost down much. Private renters across the London Borough of Camden pay a mean of about £2,720 a month as of April 2026. That figure is a borough-wide average from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, and it is down 4% on a year earlier. By size, the borough averages are about £1,980 for one bedroom, £2,530 for two, £2,950 for three and £3,850 for four or more. Kentish Town's own rents will move around those numbers street by street.
Household income here is high, and it still doesn't stretch to the houses. Modelled gross household income, before tax, averaged about £73,000 across Kentish Town in the financial year to March 2023. After tax that falls to about £52,000. A median flat is a serious stretch on that income, and a terraced house is out of reach without capital from somewhere else. The income figures also describe a year that has long since passed.
Price per square metre gives the clearest comparison. The median is about £10,400 a square metre, and the typical floor area behind it is about 100 square metres. That median covers only the 76 sales, about 45% of the total, that could be matched to the floor area on an energy certificate. For any flat on your shortlist, get the floor area from its energy certificate and compare the asking price per square metre. A "spacious two-bed" turns into a measurement very quickly.
The 2021 census shows which homes most buyers are actually choosing between. About 30% of households have one bedroom, 32% have two, 24% have three and 13% have four or more. A buyer who needs a fourth bedroom is shopping in that 13%, and most of those homes are the terraced houses at the top of the price list.
House prices are where Kentish Town scores worst. A buyer pays mainly for the location, and the price per square metre shows how little floor space that money buys.