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St Albans market report AL1 5
The standing AL1 5 (St Albans) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,970 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL1 5 (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: 53 registered 2026 sales put the AL1 5 (St Albans) median at £467,500, down 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £485,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,540 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,970 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
AL1 5 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 5 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.
AL1 5 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 53 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) AL1 5 home went for £467,500. The mean is £485,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in AL1 5
A square metre of AL1 5 home has cost about £6,540 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving AL1 5 64% above the national figure.
The price of a typical AL1 5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £467,500 | £467,500 | 53 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 170 |
| 2024 | £527,500 | £560,841 | 162 |
| 2023 | £562,500 | £618,050 | 132 |
| 2022 | £503,800 | £590,763 | 162 |
| 2021 | £490,000 | £620,403 | 163 |
| 2020 | £470,000 | £609,835 | 143 |
| 2019 | £410,000 | £537,412 | 157 |
| 2018 | £420,000 | £559,868 | 165 |
| 2017 | £440,000 | £600,116 | 141 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 144 |
| 2015 | £372,500 | £526,343 | 184 |
| 2014 | £327,500 | £464,616 | 172 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 197 |
| 2012 | £305,000 | £448,922 | 153 |
| 2011 | £263,500 | £397,784 | 190 |
| 2010 | £274,400 | £430,330 | 171 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 137 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 124 |
| 2007 | £264,000 | £447,818 | 231 |
| 2006 | £242,000 | £420,081 | 271 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 199 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 249 |
| 2003 | £202,500 | £373,054 | 199 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 262 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 248 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 218 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 290 |
| 1998 | £99,000 | £199,839 | 251 |
| 1997 | £89,200 | £182,931 | 229 |
| 1996 | £75,200 | £158,593 | 230 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical AL1 5 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £467,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 199%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL1 5 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 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−8.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.6% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 53 AL1 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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 5
The local authority for AL1 5 is St Albans, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £467,500 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.
What kind of market AL1 5 is
This is a thin market: 53 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. Against the AL1 district median, AL1 5 sits 15% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about AL1 5 (St Albans)
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What happens to AL1 5 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in AL1 right now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
What another bedroom costs in AL
Real sold prices by size across the AL area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL1 1 | £495,000 | 39 |
| AL1 2 | £596,200 | 26 |
| AL1 3 | £391,500 | 46 |
| AL1 4 | £760,000 | 51 |
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 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL1 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim AL1 5.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL1 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual AL1 5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.