Most expensive houses in England and Wales - with one that cost £72.3million

30 January 2024 , 09:09

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42 Old Church Street in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The most expensive house sold in England and Wales last year changed hands for a staggering £72.3million.

That’s according to the latest data from the Land Registry. The newly built 42 Old Church Street in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea was sold for £73.2million in March last year. That’s 209 times the price of an average home last year of £350,396.

The property is in one of the most desirable neighbourhoods in the country, conveniently located just off the Kings Road in Chelsea and across the street from the glamorous Chelsea Pig pub. It’s comfortably the most that any house sold for last year.

Radlett House in Camden was the next most expensive home sold in 2023. The mansion cost its new owners £42.9million according to the Land Registry data. To Mayfair next for the country’s most expensive flat sold last year.

Apartment 802 in 1 Ashburton Place was sold for £38.6million in June. That’s followed by 38 Clarendon Road in Kensington and Chelsea, which was sold for £35.0million. Wentworth Court in Runnymede, Surrey, is next on the list of the country’s most expensive sales last year.

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At £34.0million it’s also the priciest property outside of London. An apartment on Grosvenor Square, London, is next on the list at £33.9million. That’s followed by a semi-detached property.

In 2008, the whole site ready for development (Google Maps)

There were a total of 15,689 houses sold for £1.0million or more in England and Wales in 2023. That’s down from 29,737 such homes in 2022. Half of those sold this year were in Greater London.

Surrey, meanwhile, was home to another 9% of them, Hertfordshire 4% of them, Hampshire 3%, and Buckinghamshire another 3%. A total of 137 homes were sold for over £1.0 million in Greater Manchester, which is the most of any county outside of the South.

Work on the house beginning in 2018 (Google Maps)

Top 50 most expensive homes sold

• £73,200,000, 42 Old Church Street, Kensington And Chelsea
• £42,900,000, Radlett House Radlett Place, Camden
• £38,640,000, 1, Apartment 802, Ashburton Place, City Of Westminster
• £35,000,000, 38 Clarendon Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £34,000,000, Wentworth Court Ridgemead Road, Runnymede
• £33,853,751, 20, Apartment 4.02, Grosvenor Square, City Of Westminster
• £32,500,000, 7 Tregunter Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £31,250,000, 2 Holland Villas Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £30,000,000, 57 Clarendon Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £28,000,000, 1 St John's Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea
• £26,000,000, 69 Avenue Road, Camden
• £24,700,000, 30 The Little Boltons, Kensington And Chelsea
• £24,300,000, 74 Addison Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £23,515,937, 7 Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea
• £22,500,000, 19 Lansdowne Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £20,750,000, Chesham Place Meadow Road, Runnymede
• £20,000,000, 35 Portland Place, City Of Westminster
• £18,400,000, 8 Tregunter Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £18,000,000, Buxmead, 67, Flat 7, The Bishops Avenue, Barnet
• £18,000,000, 22 Holland Villas Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £17,800,000, 21 Mulberry Walk, Kensington And Chelsea
• £17,750,000, 16 Lansdowne Crescent, Kensington And Chelsea
• £17,500,000, 6 Gainsborough Gardens, Camden
• £16,800,000, 44 Lansdowne Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £16,750,000, 29, Basement Flat, Lennox Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea
• £16,650,000, 20, Apartment Ce16.01, Dacre Street, City Of Westminster
• £16,650,000, 9, Flat 16, Whistler Square, City Of Westminster
• £16,500,000, 12 The Little Boltons, Kensington And Chelsea
• £16,500,000, Bishops Heath Bishopsgate Road, Runnymede
• £16,250,000, 14 Tregunter Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £16,150,000, 20 Ladbroke Square, Kensington And Chelsea
• £16,000,000, 14 Mulberry Walk, Kensington And Chelsea
• £15,500,000, 2 Cheyne Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea
• £15,300,000, 88 Elgin Crescent, Kensington And Chelsea
• £15,290,000, 19, Apartment 6.2, Trevor Square, City Of Westminster
• £14,500,000, High Lanes North Drive, Runnymede
• £14,500,000, 139 Hamilton Terrace, City Of Westminster
• £14,398,765, 10 Addison Crescent, Kensington And Chelsea
• £14,250,000, 48 Manchester Street, City Of Westminster
• £14,200,000, 59 Hamilton Terrace, City Of Westminster
• £14,200,000, 63 Eaton Place, City Of Westminster
• £13,950,000, 36 Warwick Avenue, City Of Westminster
• £13,700,000, 21 Thurloe Square, Kensington And Chelsea
• £13,500,000, 25 Eldon Road, Kensington And Chelsea
• £13,500,000, 106 Panorama Road, Bournemouth, Christchurch And Poole
• £13,500,000, 15 Chepstow Villas, Kensington And Chelsea
• £13,000,000, 42 Chepstow Villas, Kensington And Chelsea
• £13,000,000, 26a, Flat 3, Albemarle Street, City Of Westminster
• £13,000,000, 20, Apartment Ce18.01, Dacre Street, City Of Westminster
• £13,000,000, 1, Apartment 6.5, Grosvenor Square, City Of Westminster

David Dubas-Fisher