Bow house prices,and what they mean.

The median existing home in Bow sold for £465,000 over the 12 months to July 2026, broadly flat on the year before, and 461 homes sold there in 2025. Covers Fairfield Road, Roman Road, Old Ford and Bow Common. Neighbourhood boundaries are informal: these figures cover the postcode sectors E3 2, E3 4, E3 5.

Median sold price: £465,000; Existing homes, including flats
Change on the year: 0.0%; vs the previous 12 months
Homes sold: 461; in 2025
Sold above £500,000: 44%; England: 19%

By type of home

What each type sells for.

Median sold prices by property type in Bow, the 12 months to July 2026
Type	Median	Change	Sales
Detached houses	Too few sales	n/a	2
Semi-detached houses	Too few sales	n/a	2
Terraced houses	£925,000	+1.5%	71
Flats and maisonettes	£432,500	−3.4%	313

Check the price range for one type of home. Half of existing homes sold went for between £370,000 and £640,000, and 81% were leasehold. New builds, counted separately: 1% of sales in the 12 months to July 2025.

Price spread

Where sales fall.

Under £150k9
£150k to £250k15
£250k to £350k54
£350k to £500k138
£500k to £750k103
£750k to £1m38
£1m+31

Ten years of prices

The median sold price, year by year.

Calendar years. Five-year change (2020 to 2025): +2.6%.

How it compares

Against the wider area.

Bow£465,000
Tower Hamlets£460,000
England£295,000

Busiest months

January: 7% of sales
February: 8% of sales
March: 11% of sales
April: 6% of sales
May: 6% of sales
June: 8% of sales
July: 9% of sales
August: 10% of sales
September: 9% of sales
October: 9% of sales
November: 9% of sales
December: 8% of sales

Share of completed sales by month, 2022 to 2025. The three busiest months are highlighted.

What the numbers mean

Reading the Bow market, from both sides.

Figures tell you what has happened. What they mean for one home, and one decision, depends on the details.

If you are selling

A flat market

Prices in Bow have been broadly flat, within 0.0% of the previous 12 months. Without a rising market to lean on, the asking price has to be justified by the home itself and by what similar homes have actually sold for.

Buyers with more at stake

With about one in 2 sales above £500,000, many buyers in Bow are borrowing large sums. Their lender's valuer has to agree with the price, so an asking price that runs ahead of local comparable sales can unravel weeks after an offer is accepted.

Why down-valuations happen

When sales complete

Completions in Bow have peaked in March, August and October over the last four years. Sales usually take a few months to complete, so those peaks reflect offers agreed well before.

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If you are buying

Steady prices

With prices in Bow broadly flat on the year, there is less pressure to rush, and more reason to judge each home on recent comparable sales rather than on the asking price.

A higher-value market

About one in 2 sales in Bow is above £500,000, compared with 19% across England. At these prices a down-valuation or a survey issue moves the numbers by tens of thousands of pounds, which is when an independent view is worth having.

Down-valuations explained

Plenty of leasehold

81% of homes sold in Bow were leasehold, mostly flats. Lease length, service charges and ground rent all affect value and whether a lender will lend, so they deserve attention before an offer, not after.

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Local knowledge

What Jon knows about these streets.

From Jon's years in London estate agency and branch management from 2000 onwards.

Bow and Bromley-by-Bow (E3)

Bow is where much of Tower Hamlets’ family housing sits. The Victorian terraces around Roman Road and towards Victoria Park are the most sought after, and the Tredegar Square conservation area adds handsome Georgian and early Victorian houses. Proximity to Victoria Park and the Regent’s Canal is a recognised premium.

Alongside the period streets there is a lot of post-war and former council housing, and newer flats along the canals and on the Olympic Park side, around Fish Island, where warehouses have given way to new developments.

The A12 and the Bow roundabout run through the area, so road noise and air quality vary sharply from one street to the next, and that shows in prices. For houses, buyers tend to look at original features, extensions and loft conversions, and in conservation areas the rules on what can be changed. For flats, the leasehold checks apply as everywhere in east London.

Jon's notes describe the character of an area and what tends to drive value there. The figures above show what the market is doing now.

Questions

Bow house prices: common questions.

What is the average house price in Bow?

The median sold price of an existing (second-hand) home in Bow over the 12 months to July 2026 was £465,000, based on 388 sales registered with HM Land Registry so far. Half of them went for between £370,000 and £640,000. New builds are counted separately, because they take much longer to be registered.

Are house prices in Bow going up or down?

The median sold price in Bow is 0.0% compared with the previous 12 months. Over five years (2020 to 2025), the median has changed by +2.6%. Averages move with the mix of homes sold, so a change of a few per cent can reflect which homes happened to sell as much as a change in values.

How much does a house cost in Bow?

Median sold prices in Bow over the 12 months to July 2026: terraced houses £925,000; flats and maisonettes £432,500.

How many homes sell in Bow each year?

461 homes sold in Bow in 2025, and sales of existing homes were −6.2% on 2024. These are standard open-market sales at full price; repossessions, sales to companies and buy-to-let purchases that Land Registry can identify are excluded.

Why might a home in Bow sell for more or less than these figures?

These are medians across every home sold, so they mix flats with large detached houses and plain homes with exceptional ones. A single home's value depends on what comparable homes nearby have sold for, its condition and the market at the time. Sales also take weeks or months to appear in Land Registry records (new builds up to a year), so the latest months are still filling in.

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