Moving to Hampstead

A heath the size of a small town and a village centre that barely feels like London at all.

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What you'll actually be looking at

Village cottages

Small, older houses on the lanes near Hampstead High Street, genuinely rare.

Detached & semi-detached houses

The dominant stock on the roads around the Heath, mostly Victorian and Edwardian.

Mansion flats

Larger purpose-built blocks nearer the tube and the village centre.

Who it suits

Established families wanting space and the Heath Downsizers who still want a house, not a flat Buyers prioritising schools and green space over a short commute

Getting around

  • Northern line, plus London Overground from Hampstead Heath and buses 24, 46, and 268.
  • A genuinely longer ride in — about 20 minutes direct to Waterloo, 22 to Victoria via an Euston change.

The honest take

Why people move here

The Heath itself — 320 hectares of genuinely wild green space inside London, unmatched by anything else on this list.

What catches people out

It's a longer, slower commute into the centre than the postcode's reputation suggests — worth timing yourself before assuming.

Where it sits on price

One of the most expensive parts of North London — priced closer to prime-central addresses than to its immediate neighbours.

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