Rees Street Islington

29 addresses across 2 postcodes (N1), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 21605784.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £1,115,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 14 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 6, E: 4).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band F; Band D in Islington costs £2,108 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Essex Road, about 600 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 80 m away, and Shoreditch Park (7.0 hectares) is about 210 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 25.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 10.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 18 to 19 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is New North Health Centre, about 130 m away, with 14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 330 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 71% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 423 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£1,115,000£1,115,000£1,115,000
20241£2,180,000£2,180,000£2,180,000
20232£1,765,250£1,700,000£1,830,500
20211£729,365£729,365£729,365
20193£1,090,000£672,000£1,650,000
20171£187,500£187,500£187,500
20151£2,250,000£2,250,000£2,250,000
20142£1,218,500£825,999£1,611,000
20121£608,000£608,000£608,000
20102£832,500£740,000£925,000
20091£585,000£585,000£585,000
20081£814,000£814,000£814,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 May 202518A N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£1,115,000Leasehold.
21 Aug 202415 N1 7ARTerraced£2,180,000
31 Aug 202313 N1 7ARTerraced£1,700,000
18 May 20239 N1 7ARTerraced£1,830,500
30 Jun 2021FLAT A, 12 N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£729,365Leasehold.
8 Jul 20194 N1 7ARTerraced£1,650,000
17 May 201915 N1 7ARTerraced£1,090,000
24 Apr 201918B N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£672,000Leasehold.
2 Jun 2017FLAT A, 12 N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£187,500Leasehold.
31 Mar 20151 N1 7ARTerraced£2,250,000
12 Sep 201417 N1 7ARTerraced£1,611,000
23 Jan 201418A N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£825,999Leasehold.
20 Jan 201218A N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£608,000Leasehold.
10 Jun 201013 N1 7ARTerraced£740,000
19 May 201010 N1 7ARTerraced£925,000
31 Jul 200911 N1 7ARTerraced£585,000
3 Oct 200814 N1 7ARTerraced£814,000
26 Oct 2007FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR MAISONETTE, 18 N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£465,000Leasehold.
28 Sep 20071 N1 7ARDetached£1,395,000
15 Jun 20073 N1 7ARTerraced£795,000
2 Dec 200510 N1 7ARTerraced£540,000
16 May 200319 N1 7ARTerraced£600,000
26 Nov 200214 N1 7ARTerraced£605,000
19 Oct 20014 N1 7ARTerraced£427,500
8 Jun 200119 N1 7ARTerraced£406,000
28 Jul 200018A N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£250,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 19975 N1 7ARSemi-detached£220,000
22 May 199618A N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£104,000Leasehold.
10 May 1996FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR MAISONETTE, 18 N1 7ARFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from March 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

14 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 117 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (8); Flat (5); House, semi-detached (1). Built: before 1900 (9); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (7); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Islington in 2026-27: Band D £2,108 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,405£1,640£1,874£2,108£2,577£3,045£3,514£4,216

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band F (25% of about 1,020 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Arlington Square (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 2.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 34 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
N1 7ARnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 19 unlikely
N1 7BEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 15 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 29 addresses are between 18 m and 19 m above sea level (19 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
N1 7AR100%100%100%0%
N1 7BE100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsEssex Road 698,000 journeys in 2024–25600 m (0.4 miles)
Haggerston 3.7 million journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Old Street 6.1 million journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramAngel Underground Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Old Street Underground Station1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Highbury & Islington Underground Station1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 53 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Baring Street Hoxton60 m
Bus or coach stationLondon St Pancras Megabusplus2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Ferry terminalBlackfriars Pier2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parks2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parkimo Parking Finder460 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points67 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity70 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLondon City Airport LCY10.7 km (6.7 miles)
Nearest large airportLondon Heathrow Airport LHR26.6 km (17 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries14 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New North Health Centre130 m
Pharmacies25 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New North Pharmacy130 m
NHS dentists28 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Charles Landau Dental Surgery340 m
HospitalMoorfield Eye Hospital City Road Elective Surgical Hub1 km (0.6 miles)
Police stationMetropolitan Police Service London1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Cooperative Food Gainsborough Studios, Islington Cashzone170 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden14 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,500 m²80 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Shoreditch Park 7.0 ha210 m
Play area28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 440 m²210 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.5 ha1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 14 parks and gardens, 15 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Former Carlton Cinema, a listed building (Grade II*), 610 m (0.4 miles) north-west. 255 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Former Carlton CinemaListed building, Grade II*610 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Church of St John the BaptistListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south-east
3, Terrett's PlaceListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Hoxton HallListed building, Grade II*940 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Bunhill Fields Burial GroundRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.4 km (0.9 miles) south
The Theatre PlayhouseScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Golden Lane Estate Designed LandscapeRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.6 km (1 mile) south
The Curtain PlayhouseScheduled monument1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Benedictine nunnery of St Mary, ClerkenwellScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Tower of LondonWorld Heritage Site3.3 km (2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
New RiverLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Clapton PondLake or reservoir3.3 km (2.1 miles) north-east
Upper PoolTidal water3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
RedriffWetland4.6 km (2.9 miles) south-east
Wick FieldWood4.8 km (3 miles) east
Primrose HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)25.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)10.1205
Particles (PM10)16.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailwaysAircraft
55 to 59100
Under 55282929

1 of the street's 29 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Islington: see them on the Islington page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Rotherfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11260 m No published inspection
Thomas Fairchild Community SchoolPrimary3–11360 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shoreditch Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11400 m (0.2 miles) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
City of London Academy IslingtonSecondary11–18440 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Hackney New Primary SchoolPrimary4–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Hanover Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Mary's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Comet Nursery School and Children's CentreNursery2–5750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Hoxton Garden PrimaryPrimary3–11760 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St John the Baptist Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11790 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St John Evangelist Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
William Tyndale Primary SchoolPrimary3–11940 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Quince Bakery N1 7AARetailers - other100 m4 Good28 Mar 2024
New Surma Tandoori N1 7AATakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good16 Dec 2024
B & B Convenience Store N1 7AARetailers - other100 m5 Very good26 Mar 2018
New Park Montessori Nursery N1 7BEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good25 Nov 2024
Golden Jade N1 7AATakeaway/sandwich shop140 m3 Generally satisfactory4 Sep 2024
Kipferl Patisserie Ltd N1 7BJRetailers - other150 m5 Very good18 Aug 2025
The Hanbury Arms N1 7DUPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Cooks and Books N1 7BJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen170 m5 Very good7 Jan 2025
The Baring N1 3DSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good26 Feb 2026
The Commissary at Holborn Studios N1 7EDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m4 Good13 Jan 2025
Rotherfield Junior School N1 3EESchool/college/university300 m5 Very good2 Feb 2026
ARC Foodbank N1 7DFRetailers - other330 m5 Very good3 Feb 2022
Nina's Greek Finest N1 8QZImporters/Exporters340 m5 Very good20 Oct 2026
Welcome Co-op Angel N1 7FZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets350 m4 Good11 Dec 2025
Saponara N1 8PFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m5 Very good22 Oct 2024

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

423 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting85
Anti-social behaviour82
Violence and sexual offences66
Theft from the person48
Other theft29
Vehicle crime21
Robbery21
Burglary20
Drugs19
Public order14
Other crime6
Criminal damage and arson5
Possession of weapons4
Bicycle theft3

Most of these are attached to: On or near New North Road (109); On or near Wiltshire Row (44); On or near Wilton Villas (38); On or near Supermarket (29); On or near Basire Street (22).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 326 residents in 171 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age4640
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over15%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright23%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)67%32%
Travel to work by car or van3%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)92%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)71%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification0%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)95%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Nina's Greek Finest (importers/exporters, N1 8QZ) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 20 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • N1 7AR: 28 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • N1 7BE: 1 address of 33 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Arlington Square · St Philip's Way · Wilton Square · Rydon Street · Arlington Square · Wilton Square · St Paul Street · Linton Street · Mary Street · The Mews · Arlington Square · Clock Tower Mews

All the streets in N1 and across Islington.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.