Using the original 1935 London Monopoly board, money.co.uk has analysed the current average property value on each Monopoly street to reveal how much it costs to live on the 22 London streets featured on the board in 2021 and how much prices have increased since the creation of Monopoly.
You can view the research in full here: https://www.money.co.uk/mortgages/trading-up
Here’s how the 10 most expensive streets on the Monopoly board look today:
Based on current average property prices on each of the streets, Oxford Street is now the most expensive square on a Monopoly board, with a house costing an average of £6.8m in the real world. On the other hand, Mayfair, which takes the lead as the most expensive square on the game board, comes in fourth place, with properties costing £2.5m on average.
Taking the second spot is Mayfair’s board companion Park Lane, where houses cost an average of £3m in the real world. Great Marlborough Street comes in third, climbing an incredible 14 places when ranked against how much the squares cost on the Monopoly board, with a current value of £2.8m.
Back to the start of the board, Old Kent Road keeps its place as one of the cheapest streets both on the board and in real life, with homes selling for £396k right now.
So just how much more expensive are the real-world Monopoly streets compared to their equivalents on the board?
Top 10 streets with the biggest increase in price
Today, homes on 14 of the 22 Monopoly squares (64%) sell for an average of £1m or higher, and four of these for between £2m and £7m.
The average in-game value of the 22 streets on the board (including both the street and house price) is £313, which increases to £1,651,930 in real life, making them 527,750% more expensive.
At the very top end of the scale, properties on Oxford Street are worth a whopping 1,504,257% more than they are on the Monopoly board. The street which has seen the smallest increase still saw prices reach 95,939% more expensive, Bond Street priced at £480 in the game and £460,988 in real life.