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St Albans market report AL1 3
The standing AL1 3 (St Albans) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,589 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL1 3 (St Albans) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in AL1 3 (St Albans) sold for £391,500 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, down 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £510,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,589 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL1 3 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 3 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.
The going rate for a home in AL1 3
The AL1 3 median stands at £391,500 for 2026, built from 46 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £510,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in AL1 3
Per square metre, AL1 3 homes have averaged around £6,550 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, AL1 3 runs 37% above it.
The price of a typical AL1 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £391,500 | £391,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 129 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 137 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 121 |
| 2022 | £433,800 | £508,680 | 146 |
| 2021 | £447,500 | £566,593 | 184 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 129 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 141 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 156 |
| 2017 | £405,000 | £552,379 | 129 |
| 2016 | £372,500 | £521,131 | 164 |
| 2015 | £309,000 | £436,617 | 212 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 158 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 301 |
| 2012 | £267,500 | £393,727 | 156 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 235 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 151 |
| 2009 | £226,500 | £364,101 | 104 |
| 2008 | £276,000 | £452,422 | 78 |
| 2007 | £247,500 | £419,829 | 148 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 111 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 109 |
| 2004 | £243,000 | £441,335 | 175 |
| 2003 | £233,800 | £430,716 | 116 |
| 2002 | £190,800 | £358,989 | 142 |
| 2001 | £155,000 | £297,980 | 128 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 121 |
| 1999 | £126,800 | £252,706 | 166 |
| 1998 | £96,500 | £194,792 | 132 |
| 1997 | £82,500 | £169,191 | 123 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 147 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical AL1 3 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £391,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 165%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL1 3 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 1999 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.9% | −3.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.6% | −7.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 AL1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 116 sales a year recently, against 131 a year before 2008. 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.
The rental side of AL1 3
AL1 3 falls under St Albans, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,925 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,266 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,897 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, St Albans
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £391,500 median sold price, £1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the AL1 3 market
This is a thin market: 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Within AL1, this sector trades 29% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
AL1 3 (St Albans): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in AL1 3 (St Albans)?
Is AL1 3 (St Albans) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL1 3 (St Albans)?
Will AL1 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 13% over five years in cash but down 31% 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.
AL1's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 162 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL1 district, not just AL1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Sandridge Road, St. Albans, AL1
- Wallingford Walk, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
- Abbots Park, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every AL1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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 | — | £605,000 | £792,500 (+31%) | £1,160,000 (+46%) | £1,685,000 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £397,500 | £490,000 (+23%) | £640,000 (+31%) | £865,000 (+35%) | £1,150,000 (+33%) |
| Terraced | £375,000 | £440,000 (+17%) | £506,250 (+15%) | £739,000 (+46%) | £950,000 (+29%) |
| Flat | £250,000 | £335,000 (+34%) | £552,500 (+65%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the AL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in AL1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are AL1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL1 1 | £495,000 | 39 |
| AL1 2 | £596,200 | 26 |
| AL1 4 | £760,000 | 51 |
| AL1 5 | £467,500 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full AL1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in AL1 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working AL1 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL1 3.
Go deeper
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See every individual AL1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.