A typical home in West Brompton sells for about £940,000, and the typical home is a flat. Flats go for about £825,000, terraced houses for about two million, and the handful of semis cost what a small company is worth. Prices have come down over the past year, but not far enough to change who can afford them. The most expensive word in West Brompton is "house".
The Land Registry recorded 123 sales in West Brompton in the year to May 2026, at a median of £940,000. Flats made up 102 of them, with a median of £825,000. The 17 terraced houses sold at a median of £2,000,000. Four semi-detached houses sold at a median of about £11,290,000, and with only four sales, one large villa on a big plot can move that figure on its own.
The Land Registry's house price index for the area recorded the average price down about 11% in the year to May 2026, and flats on their own fell by about the same amount. A drop that size is real money at these prices. It's also a published change over a year that has already happened, and nothing in it says what the next year does. Buyers who read an 11% fall as a sale are assuming the shop restocks at the old price.
Band G is the most common council-tax band in West Brompton, and only about 2% of homes are in bands A or B. Kensington and Chelsea's band D bill is about £1,667 a year. Band D is the figure every comparison quotes, and very few households here are in it.
Kensington and Chelsea's typical private rent comes to about £3,600 a month, a borough-wide mean from the Office for National Statistics' rental index for April 2026. On the same measure, a one-bed averages about £2,570 a month, a two-bed about £3,340, a three-bed about £3,970 and a four-bed or bigger about £5,510. The index carries no reliable figure for a studio or a single room, so there is no number to quote for one.
The Office for National Statistics models gross household income before tax across West Brompton at about £86,000 for the financial year to March 2023. That's a good income almost anywhere, and it still leaves a £940,000 median out of reach on earnings alone. Most buyers here arrive with equity, family money or a second salary, and a lot of residents rent and keep the deposit in the bank.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, about 30% of the total, the median price per square metre was about £13,500, and the typical home behind that figure measured about 143 square metres. The measured sales lean towards homes big enough to have certificates on file, so the figure describes part of the market, not all of it. Measure the hallway when you view, because at that rate it isn't being thrown in. In a market made mostly of flats, also ask for the service charge history and the years left on the lease. Those two numbers decide what a flat is really worth more often than the asking price does.
At the 2021 census, about 30% of West Brompton's households had one bedroom, about 40% had two, about 17% had three and about 13% had four or more. Two bedrooms is the standard home here, and the third bedroom is a minority taste. Most of the four-bed-and-bigger homes are in the terraces, at the terrace price.
House prices are poor value in West Brompton, even after a year of falls. The neighbourhood is worth paying for in other ways, but nobody gets it cheaply.