A typical Wembley home sells for about £480,000, and the most likely thing it buys is a flat. Flats go for about £375,000. Houses start well past half a million. Prices have slipped a little over the past year. Looking at the arch is free, but living under it costs London money.
The Land Registry recorded 185 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £480,000. Flats made up 92 of those sales and went for a median of about £375,000. The 43 terraced houses sold for around £575,000 and the 40 semis for around £655,000. Only ten detached houses changed hands, at a median of about £626,000, which is too small a pile of sales to read much into. The semi is the real top of the market here, and there are almost as many of them selling as terraces.
The direction of travel is gently downhill. The official house price index for the area puts the average at about £549,000 as of May 2026, down 3% on a year earlier. Flats have fallen harder, down 5% to an average of about £382,000. Over five years the index is up about 5% in total. For a corner of London with a national stadium in it, that is a remarkably flat line, and the people stuck with it are flat owners who bought near the top. Anyone buying a flat here should line up recent sales in the same block against the asking price, because a 5% drop has not always reached the particulars yet.
Council tax lands in the middle of the scale. Band D is the most common band in Wembley, and only about 8% of homes sit in the two cheapest bands, A and B. Brent charges about £2,235 a year at band D, the figure to hold against your current bill.
Renting is no cheaper a ticket in. Across Brent as a whole, typical private rent is about £1,990 a month as of April 2026, down about 4% on a year earlier. That is a borough mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index, so it averages across homes of every kind. By size, the borough runs at about £1,560 a month for one bedroom, £1,910 for two, £2,240 for three and £3,030 for four or more. Landlords have given up a little more ground over the year than sellers have.
Local incomes make the purchase a stretch. The Office for National Statistics modelled median household income here at about £65,900 for the financial year to March 2023, gross and before tax, so it is a figure from three years ago that never reaches the bank account in full. Set against a £480,000 median sale, a typical household is looking at a big deposit or a long mortgage, and usually both. A flat at about £375,000 is where most local buyers can actually get a foothold.
By floor area, homes go for a median of about £6,060 per square metre, across the 63% of sales that could be matched to an energy certificate. The typical home behind that figure measures about 89 square metres, which is a comfortable flat or a modest house. Bigger houses do not always come cheaper by the metre, so the figure is a guide to the market and does not price any single property.
The stock is more house-shaped than the sales suggest. At the 2021 Census about 16% of homes had one bedroom, 28% had two, 35% had three and 21% had four or more. Three bedrooms is the most common size, which is the interwar semi talking, even though the flats are what turn up for sale most often.
Wembley prices are middling for this side of London. Flats are a reachable way in, the houses ask a full London price, and the past year has made both a little easier to negotiate.