Houses in Northwood cost about £700,000 at the middle of the market, and the middle is the cheap end of the argument. A detached house runs past a million. A semi costs about three-quarters of that. Flats are the way in for most people, and even they start around £400,000.
The Land Registry recorded 152 sales in Northwood in the year to May 2026, at a median of £700,000. Detached houses went for about £1,140,000 across 51 sales, semis for £785,000 across 37, terraces for £515,000 across 17 and flats for £400,000 across 47. Only 17 terraces changed hands all year, so anyone hunting for the cheapest house in town is hunting a rare animal.
The house-price index for the area moved very little over the year. The average price stood at about £468,000 in May 2026, down 0.7% on twelve months earlier, which is the market shuffling its feet. Flats did more of the giving way, down 3.5% over the same year. That index is a broader average than Northwood's own sales, which is why it lands so far below the Land Registry median.
The most common council-tax band in Northwood is G, and only about 6% of homes are in bands A or B. A Band D bill comes to about £2,045 a year. In Northwood, band D is the modest option.
Renting gets priced at borough level. Typical private rent across Hillingdon was about £1,550 a month in April 2026, a mean from the Office for National Statistics index covering the whole borough. By size, that comes to about £1,240 for a one-bed, £1,570 for a two-bed, £1,890 for a three-bed and £2,610 for four bedrooms or more. There is no published figure for studios or single rooms.
Income here is high and still loses the race. The Office for National Statistics modelled gross household income, before tax, at about £81,000 in Northwood for the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical sale of £700,000, that is a stretch even for the households already living here, and a much longer one for a first-time buyer on a single salary. The local salaries are good. The local prices are better at their job.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, about 80% of the year's total, the median price per square metre was about £6,260, and the typical home behind that figure had about 115 square metres of floor space. That is a reasonable amount of room for the money by London standards, and most of what you are paying for is the room plus the postcode it comes with. When comparing two homes, ask for the floor area in square metres and check it against the energy certificate, because a generous description of a box room does not show up in the square-metre price.
The bedroom count explains a lot of the bill. In Census 2021, about 14% of Northwood households had one bedroom, a quarter had two, 24% had three and 37% had four or more. Northwood builds for the family that has already had all its children.
Houses in Northwood are expensive by any measure a buyer will use, and the value case is poor unless the neighbourhood itself is what you came to buy. Anyone shopping on price alone will find the numbers here hard to make work.