Where to buy a home on Crossrail: best-value locations near Elizabeth Line stations

New research reveals the best-value areas within one kilometre of London’s Elizabeth Line stations.
New roundel outside Liverpool Street new Crossrail station
Ross Lydall
Ruth Bloomfield24 May 2022

Trains have finally started running on the Crossrail line on Tuesday morning.

Almost four years late and wildly over budget, trains are finally running along the line.

One aspect of Crossrail that has long been highly efficient is its ability to create micro property booms, with the price of homes close to its stations far outpacing nearby areas.

Over the past five years key locations have seen price growth of almost 50 per cent, despite Brexit and the pandemic, according to new research, although there are still some affordable locations to buy into in the hopes of some Crossrail bounce once the line is finally up and running.

The most pocket-friendly Crossrail option is Abbey Wood, which straddles the London boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley, with average prices of a relatively modest £350,000, according to research by Savills on the price of homes within a kilometre of Elizabeth Line stations.

And there is a decent choice of areas where you could buy an average home for less than £400,000. Most are right on the edge of London: Harold Wood and Chadwell Heath, both on the fringes of Essex, and West Drayton, in outer west London. The most central option is under-regenerating Woolwich, six miles east of Canary Wharf and in Zone 4, where the average price is £383,000.

If you are interested in locations where prices are rising, in hopes of future price growth, many of the best performers over the five years have been clustered in west London.

The league table is led by Southall, where the launch of scores of modern, price-busting new apartments has helped boost prices by 48 per cent, to an average of £423,000.

Leafy Ealing Broadway has also performed strongly. Prices have shot up by almost 42 per cent to an average of £882,000. A single stop away West Ealing has seen price growth of 16.4 per cent, to an average of £707,000, while nearby Hanwell, has seen a 20 per cent price rise to £597,000. Hayes & Harlington’s prices are up 36.3 per cent to an average of £412,000.

In east London, Canary Wharf’s five year price growth has been 37.3 per cent, to an average of £640,000 although the pandemic and WFH have certainly hampered sales of its high rise apartments.

Further out prices in Manor Park are up by 47.7 per cent to an average of £476,000, Chadwell Heath has seen prices rise 35.5 per cent to £363,000, Goodmayes’ prices are up 29.3 per cent to £427,000, and prices in Ilford have increased by 30.6 per cent to an average of £353,000.

BEST VALUE AREAS TO BUY NEAR AN ELIZABETH LINE STATION

Elizabeth Line station

Average house price, Feb 2021

Average house price, Feb 2016

Five-year change (%)

Abbey Wood

£349,674

£292,211

19.70%

Ilford

£353,194

£270,463

30.6%

Chadwell Heath

£363,001

£267,915

35.5%

West Drayton

£369,753

£308,337

19.9%

Harold Wood

£375,672

£319,920

17.4%

Woolwich

£383,278

£332,106

15.4%

Hayes & Harlington

£411,750

£302,023

36.3%

Southall

£422,679

£285,511

48.0%

Seven Kings

£422,869

£326,989

29.3%

Goodmayes

£426,541

£317,386

34.4%

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