The Barnet sales market has settled into a more measured rhythm this quarter, and the team at Hunters Barnet (hunters-barnet.co.uk) report a noticeable shift in buyer behaviour across EN4 and EN5. Where 2024 was characterised by hesitation around interest rates, 2026 buyers are arriving better prepared, with mortgage agreements in place and a clear picture of what they want.
Family houses on the established roads between High Barnet and Hadley Wood continue to lead the market. Three- and four-bedroom Victorian and Edwardian properties with through-lounges, original features and gardens of at least sixty feet are attracting multiple offers within the first ten days of marketing. Hunters Barnet’s recent figures suggest these homes are achieving an average of 98 per cent of asking price, with several recent sales above guide.
The flat market tells a different story. One- and two-bedroom apartments — particularly those in purpose-built blocks of the late 1990s and early 2000s — are taking longer to move, with average days-on-market closer to eight weeks. Buyers in this segment are increasingly first-time purchasers using the new shared-equity products, and they are notably more price-sensitive than their counterparts further up the chain.
What is genuinely changing the local picture is the supply side. Hunters Barnet’s instruction book grew by roughly eighteen per cent year-on-year, driven largely by downsizers releasing equity from larger family homes. This is feeding stock into the system at exactly the level where demand is strongest, and we expect the rebalancing to continue through the summer.
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