Pan Peninsula. 40th floor. Canary Wharf views.
Bought for £1.4m in 2018.
Sold for £950k in 2025.
£450,000 gone in 7 years.
The S&P 500 would've turned that £1.4m into £2.7m.
Would you still buy in Canary Wharf?
Dawson Place, Notting Hill
Bought in 2010: £10,500,000
Sold in 2025: £21,788,318
One of the largest residential sales in the UK in 2025. An £11.3m gain (108% return) in 15 years. Detached freehold in W2.
Our little home. Bought in 1982 for £28,000. Just a modest family home in Surrey with a bit of a garden. I remember picking up extra shifts at the post office that summer to save for the deposit. We were so young. Apparently it's worth £1.5 million now but to us it's just home. 🏡
Since 2023, 48,577 properties in England & Wales sold for less than their previous purchase price, wiping out a combined £2 billion.
Over the same period, 765,211 properties sold for a profit. They gained a combined £111 billion.
Source: HM Land Registry
@drumcodeuk Loss rate is simply the % of resales that took place at a loss. So if 1 out of every 100 properties was sold at a loss, the loss rate is 1%
We looked at every London property bought after 2016 and resold between 2024-2026 to find which postcodes had the highest and lowest rates of loss.
Loss rate = the % of total resales where the property sold for less than it was previously bought for.
Highest Loss Rates:
EC1V (Clerkenwell): 57.1%
E14 (Canary Wharf): 55.6%
NW9 (Colindale): 47.9%
E16 (Royal Docks): 43.9%
W8 (Kensington): 41.0%
Lowest Loss Rates:
E20 (Olympic Park): 3.3%
E7 (Forest Gate): 3.6%
SE28 (Thamesmead): 5.4%
E11 (Leytonstone): 5.9%
SE9 (Eltham): 6.2%
Source: HM Land Registry. 37,995 resales analysed.
Rose Square, Fulham Road, Chelsea
Bought in 2014: £5,322,000
Sold in 2025: £3,500,000
A luxury flat in a converted Victorian hospital.
-£1.8m (-34%) in 11 years. Leasehold, 900+ years remaining.
To address one of the main follow up questions; % of London flats that resold at a loss in 2025, by when they were bought:
Bought 2005–2015: 10.6%
Bought 2016–2023: 28.6%
Over 1 in 4 London flats bought after 2016 resold at a loss last year
Source: HM Land Registry
% of London properties resold at a loss in 2025:
Flats: 17.9%
Terraced: 2.8%
Detached: 3.0%
Semi-detached: 2.2%
Roughly 1 in 5 flats vs 1 in 40 houses.
Source: HM Land Registry, 22,000+ London resales analysed
% of London properties resold at a loss in 2025:
Flats: 17.9%
Terraced: 2.8%
Detached: 3.0%
Semi-detached: 2.2%
Roughly 1 in 5 flats vs 1 in 40 houses.
Source: HM Land Registry, 22,000+ London resales analysed
Detached house in Holland Park
One of the biggest property gains in London in 2025.
Bought (1998): £8,100,000
Sold (2025): £28,500,000
+£20,400,000. Up 252% in 27 years.