The typical home in Stoke Newington sells for about £582,000, and that usually buys a flat. Flats go for about half a million. Terraces cost well over a million. Semis turn up so rarely they might as well be folklore. A house here is a seven-figure purchase, and most buyers end up with one floor of somebody's building.
The Land Registry recorded 289 sales in Stoke Newington in the year to late May 2026, at a median of about £582,000. Flats made up 211 of those sales at a median of £500,000. The 72 terraced houses that sold had a median of £1,332,500, and only five semi-detached houses changed hands, at a median of £1,155,000. Anyone holding out for a semi is waiting for one of five owners a year to leave.
The house-price index for the area moved by 0.1% in the twelve months to May 2026, putting its average at about £608,000. Flats on the same index fell 0.6% over the year. Both changes are small enough to call flat. Neither says what next year will do, and a buyer hoping for a correction will need more than a tenth of a percent to talk about.
Council tax is mostly band C here, with about 26% of homes in bands A and B. A band D home in Hackney pays about £2,060 a year, which is the figure to set against your current bill.
Hackney's typical private rent runs at about £2,620 a month as of April 2026, a mean across the whole borough from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, rising about 3% on the year. Across Hackney, one-bedroom homes average about £1,970 a month, two-bedroom homes about £2,450, three-bedroom homes about £2,800 and four bedrooms or more about £3,620.
Household income in Stoke Newington is modelled by the Office for National Statistics at about £72,700 a year, gross and before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Set that beside a £582,000 median sale and a single typical income does not get you far. The flat is where most buyers end up, and two incomes are what most of them need to get there. The income figure is three years old and comes before the tax office takes its cut, so the price has had longer to settle than the pay has.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 48% of them, the median price was about £9,500 a square metre. The typical floor area behind that figure is 86 square metres. That is what the money buys here: a decent-sized flat with nothing to spare.
The 2021 census put about 28% of Stoke Newington's homes at one bedroom, 33% at two, 21% at three and 17% at four or more. Companies hold about 4,990 property titles in the N16 district, so a flat buyer should find out early who owns the freehold and what they charge. The third bedroom is a minority interest here, and it is priced like one.
House prices in Stoke Newington sit in the middle of the pack for what you get. A flat is within reach on two good salaries, a house is not, and the index has spent a year barely moving.