A typical West Ealing home costs about £800,000, and the flats are the only thing holding that number down. A terrace costs closer to £870,000. A semi costs more than a million. Prices have eased slightly over the past year. None of that makes it cheap, just a bit less expensive than it was.
The Land Registry recorded 268 sales in West Ealing in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £801,000. Flats were the busiest end of the market after terraces: 98 sold at a median of about £453,000. The 107 terraced houses went for about £870,000, the 55 semis for about £1,100,000, and the eight detached houses for about £1,811,000. Eight detached sales in a year is barely a market, so the big family house here usually comes with a party wall.
On the official house price index for the area, prices fell 2.5% in the year to May 2026, to an average of about £569,000. Flats fell further, by 4.7%. Over five years the index is up about 6%. A drop of a couple of percent on a home costing several hundred thousand pounds is real money to a seller. It barely changes the sum a buyer needs to raise.
Ealing Council puts the most common council-tax band here at E, and only about 9% of homes are in bands A or B. A band D bill is about £2,139 a year. The orchards and market gardens that once covered this stretch of the Uxbridge Road have become a tax base that rarely lands in the bottom two bands.
Across the whole borough of Ealing, the Office for National Statistics' rent index puts the average private rent at about £2,060 a month as of April 2026, up 1% on the year. That's a mean across the borough, so a West Ealing flat may well come in above or below it. By size, the borough averages are about £1,590 for one bedroom, £1,980 for two, £2,340 for three and £3,220 for four or more. No reliable figure exists for studios or single rooms.
In the financial year to March 2023, the Office for National Statistics modelled average household income across the area at about £85,700 gross, before tax. That figure is now a few years old, and gross is the number people quote while net is the number that pays the mortgage. Against a median sale price of about £801,000, even a well-paid couple here needs a large deposit or a flat. The London-to-Oxford coach used to stop at the Halfway House on the Uxbridge Road, and a lot of buyers' budgets stop about halfway too.
For the sales that could be matched to a floor area on an energy certificate, about 76% of them, the median price was about £8,200 per square metre on a typical floor area of about 110 square metres. Look up the floor area on the energy certificate for the home you're viewing and compare it with the asking price. An Edwardian conversion can lose a surprising amount of floor to stairs and landings.
Bedroom sizes are spread fairly evenly. At the 2021 census about 22% of homes had one bedroom, 29% had two, 22% had three and 26% had four or more. With only eight detached sales in a year, most of those four-bedroom homes are tall terraces and semis, and the price per square metre applies to every extra floor.
West Ealing is expensive, and the past year's small dip in prices has only taken a little off the top. Buyers who need a house rather than a flat will find it a hard place to make the numbers work.