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St Albans market report AL1 4
The AL1 4 (St Albans) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,462 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in AL1 4 (St Albans) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in AL1 4 (St Albans) sold for £760,000 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier. The mean was £877,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,740 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,462 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL1 4 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 4 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.
Today's AL1 4 prices, from the sold record
The AL1 4 median stands at £760,000 for 2026, built from 51 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £877,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
AL1 4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, AL1 4 homes have averaged around £7,740 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 4 runs 167% above it.
AL1 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £760,000 | £760,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £795,000 | £814,011 | 122 |
| 2024 | £795,800 | £846,099 | 138 |
| 2023 | £812,000 | £892,190 | 131 |
| 2022 | £750,200 | £879,695 | 174 |
| 2021 | £672,100 | £850,965 | 182 |
| 2020 | £611,800 | £793,823 | 128 |
| 2019 | £702,500 | £920,809 | 138 |
| 2018 | £716,800 | £955,508 | 142 |
| 2017 | £750,000 | £1,022,925 | 129 |
| 2016 | £725,000 | £1,014,282 | 159 |
| 2015 | £594,400 | £839,887 | 147 |
| 2014 | £550,000 | £780,271 | 191 |
| 2013 | £550,000 | £791,395 | 176 |
| 2012 | £496,000 | £730,050 | 167 |
| 2011 | £430,000 | £649,135 | 171 |
| 2010 | £425,000 | £666,509 | 184 |
| 2009 | £370,000 | £594,778 | 137 |
| 2008 | £322,500 | £528,646 | 124 |
| 2007 | £391,200 | £663,584 | 234 |
| 2006 | £320,000 | £555,479 | 221 |
| 2005 | £327,000 | £581,928 | 180 |
| 2004 | £304,300 | £552,668 | 188 |
| 2003 | £300,000 | £552,673 | 175 |
| 2002 | £249,700 | £469,808 | 230 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 222 |
| 2000 | £212,000 | £416,050 | 177 |
| 1999 | £155,800 | £310,501 | 250 |
| 1998 | £147,500 | £297,739 | 194 |
| 1997 | £135,000 | £276,858 | 209 |
| 1996 | £113,600 | £239,577 | 210 |
| 1995 | £98,000 | £213,037 | 181 |
In cash terms the typical AL1 4 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £760,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 257%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL1 4 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 2000 (+36.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−17.6%). 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 years (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in AL1 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 51 sales completed in AL1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 203 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the AL1 4 market
This is a thin market: 51 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 38% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around AL1 4
AL1 4 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 £760,000 median sold price, £1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, a gross yield of 3.0%: 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.
AL1 4 (St Albans): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in AL1 4 (St Albans)?
Are property prices falling in AL1 4 (St Albans)?
Is AL1 4 (St Albans) a good place to buy a house?
Where do AL1 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
AL1's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 162 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL1 district, not just AL1 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
26% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Sandridge Road, St. Albans, AL1
- Wallingford Walk, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
- Abbots Park, St Albans, AL1, St Albans
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every AL1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in AL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the AL area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £391,500 | 46 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in AL1 4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL1 4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim AL1 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL1 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual AL1 4 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.