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St Albans market report AL1 1
The standing AL1 1 (St Albans) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,068 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL1 1 (St Albans) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for AL1 1 (St Albans) is £475,000, from 46 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £585,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,940 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,068 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
AL1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside AL1 (St Albans). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where AL1 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in AL1 1
The AL1 1 median stands at £475,000 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £585,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in AL1 1
A square metre of AL1 1 home has cost about £6,940 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, AL1 1 sits 67% above the national market.
A typical AL1 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 46 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 130 |
| 2024 | £538,800 | £572,855 | 117 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 113 |
| 2022 | £550,000 | £644,938 | 135 |
| 2021 | £500,000 | £633,065 | 178 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 111 |
| 2019 | £487,500 | £638,996 | 86 |
| 2018 | £517,500 | £689,837 | 122 |
| 2017 | £488,500 | £666,265 | 153 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 170 |
| 2015 | £427,500 | £604,058 | 136 |
| 2014 | £394,800 | £560,093 | 182 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 142 |
| 2012 | £325,500 | £479,095 | 116 |
| 2011 | £333,000 | £502,702 | 113 |
| 2010 | £315,000 | £494,001 | 133 |
| 2009 | £278,800 | £448,173 | 102 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 121 |
| 2007 | £305,000 | £517,365 | 207 |
| 2006 | £274,000 | £475,629 | 265 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 169 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 186 |
| 2003 | £237,000 | £436,611 | 179 |
| 2002 | £205,500 | £386,646 | 240 |
| 2001 | £175,000 | £336,429 | 195 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 190 |
| 1999 | £136,200 | £271,439 | 240 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 205 |
| 1997 | £108,000 | £221,486 | 258 |
| 1996 | £87,200 | £183,901 | 164 |
| 1995 | £79,700 | £173,256 | 164 |
In cash terms the typical AL1 1 home went from £79,700 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 174%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL1 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1997 (+23.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −8.7% | −10.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −1.5% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | 0.0% | −3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in AL1 1
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 46 sales completed in AL1 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 204 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around AL1 1
The local authority for AL1 1 is St Albans, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,925 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,266 a month here against £2,897 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, St Albans
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £475,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,925 a month (£23,100 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How AL1 1 trades
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL1 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the AL1 district median, AL1 1 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: AL1 1 (St Albans)
How much did a house sell for in AL1 1 (St Albans)?
Are property prices falling in AL1 1 (St Albans)?
Is AL1 1 (St Albans) a good place to buy a house?
Are AL1 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in AL1 right now
The live side of the market holds 80 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL1 district, not just AL1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Abbots Park, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
- Abbots Park, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
- Alma Road, St. Albans, Herts, AL1, St Albans
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every AL1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in AL
Real sold prices by size across the AL area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £528,750 | £610,000 (+15%) | £717,500 (+18%) | £875,000 (+22%) | £1,250,000 (+43%) |
| Semi-detached | £417,000 | £475,000 (+14%) | £589,000 (+24%) | £717,000 (+22%) | £950,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £325,000 | £427,000 (+31%) | £456,000 (+7%) | £555,000 (+22%) | £600,000 (+8%) |
| Flat | £236,874 | £310,000 (+31%) | £380,000 (+23%) | £550,000 (+45%) | £760,000 (+38%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the AL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
AL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in AL1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL1, one report each:
Zoom out to the full AL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in AL1 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL1 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL1 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL1 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual AL1 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.