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St Albans market report AL1
The standing AL1 (St Albans) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 24,247 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL1 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical AL1 (St Albans) home changed hands for £550,000 in 2026 (median of 215 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £625,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,890 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 24,247 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
AL1 is a postcode district covering St Albans (centre) in St Albans. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where AL1 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 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for AL1 is £550,000, taken from 215 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £625,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in AL1
Per square metre, AL1 homes have averaged around £6,890 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so AL1 trades 93% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical AL1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 215 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 623 |
| 2024 | £550,000 | £584,763 | 622 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 566 |
| 2022 | £552,000 | £647,283 | 701 |
| 2021 | £527,200 | £667,503 | 798 |
| 2020 | £493,800 | £640,716 | 582 |
| 2019 | £475,000 | £622,611 | 591 |
| 2018 | £480,000 | £639,849 | 669 |
| 2017 | £480,000 | £654,672 | 641 |
| 2016 | £460,000 | £643,545 | 717 |
| 2015 | £390,000 | £551,070 | 765 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 797 |
| 2013 | £305,000 | £438,865 | 911 |
| 2012 | £318,500 | £468,792 | 696 |
| 2011 | £287,000 | £433,260 | 782 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 715 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 555 |
| 2008 | £280,000 | £458,979 | 527 |
| 2007 | £283,500 | £480,895 | 972 |
| 2006 | £265,000 | £460,006 | 1,011 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 767 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 938 |
| 2003 | £230,000 | £423,716 | 780 |
| 2002 | £197,000 | £370,654 | 1,063 |
| 2001 | £173,000 | £332,584 | 933 |
| 2000 | £151,500 | £297,319 | 830 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 1,069 |
| 1998 | £109,800 | £221,639 | 922 |
| 1997 | £99,700 | £204,465 | 939 |
| 1996 | £83,500 | £176,098 | 868 |
| 1995 | £79,400 | £172,603 | 682 |
In cash terms the typical AL1 home went from £79,400 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 219%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL1 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 2014 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.4%). 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) | +5.8% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £950,000 against £333,100 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, AL1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £950,000 | 19 | 2,830 |
| Semi-detached | £841,100 | 44 | 4,672 |
| Terraced | £614,500 | 74 | 7,826 |
| Flats | £333,100 | 78 | 8,919 |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 461 AL1 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 912 sales a year before the financial crisis and 545 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.
What homes rent for around AL1
For renting purposes AL1 sits in St Albans. The ONS average private rent there is £1,925 a month (May 2026). 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 £550,000 median sold price, £1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Common questions on AL1 (St Albans)
Are property prices falling in AL1 (St Albans)?
Is AL1 (St Albans) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL1 (St Albans)?
What happens to AL1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in AL1 today
Everything above is what homes in AL1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 162 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the AL1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: AL prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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
AL1 ranks 7 of 10 in the AL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
AL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside AL1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 |
| AL1 5 | £467,500 | 53 |
How AL1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the AL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| AL5 | £725,000 | +2% |
| AL6 | £705,000 | -3% |
| AL4 | £638,000 | +9% |
| AL3 | £623,800 | +5% |
| AL8 | £560,000 | +27% |
| AL1 (this report) | £550,000 | +4% |
| AL2 | £545,000 | +5% |
| AL9 | £540,000 | -7% |
| AL7 | £403,000 | +9% |
| AL10 | £365,000 | +8% |
Before you sell in AL1: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL1, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual AL1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.