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?

We can't find John & Margaret's home on HM Land Registry, but sounds like it appreciated in value by 5,257% over the past 44 years 😂

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

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.

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

We analysed every property resale in 2025 across some of Britain's largest cities using HM Land Registry data Loss rates shown below = % of resales where the property sold for less than it was last purchased for London: 12.9% Birmingham: 6.1% Liverpool: 5.6% Sheffield: 5.0% Leicester: 4.8% Leeds: 4.2% Cardiff: 4.2% Nottingham: 3.9% Manchester: 3.8% Bristol: 3.8%