Spring Listings: What's Actually Selling in Marylebone

Fewer new instructions this spring, but the ones that came to market moved fast. A look at what actually sold in Marylebone between March and June.

The headline numbers

We tracked twenty-three Marylebone sales in the period. Average time to offer was twenty-six days, nine days quicker than the same window last year, on eleven per cent fewer new instructions. Two-bedroom mansion flats between Marylebone High Street and Regent’s Park moved fastest, several within a fortnight of listing.

What buyers wanted

Original period detail sold faster than heavily renovated interiors this spring; three of the quickest sales had unrestored fireplaces and cornicing, and buyers specifically asked about it. Off-street parking, rare in the postcode, added a clear premium on the two instances we saw it. Ground-floor flats without outside space were the slowest movers, taking closer to seven weeks on average.

If you are weighing up a Marylebone listing this year, period character is doing more work than a full refurbishment right now. That could change by autumn, but it is what the last four months actually showed.