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Bricket Wood market report AL2 1, St Albans
The AL2 1 (Bricket Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,384 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL2 1 (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 AL2 1 (St Albans) sold for £407,000 in 2026, the median of 59 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £441,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,280 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,384 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like AL2 1 is a single group of streets within AL2 (St Albans), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where AL2 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 AL2 1
Take the 59 registered 2026 sales in AL2 1 and the middle price, the median, is £407,000. The mean lands at £441,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in AL2 1
A square metre of AL2 1 home has cost about £5,280 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 AL2 1 43% above the national figure.
The price of a typical AL2 1 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £407,000 | £407,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £458,000 | £468,952 | 150 |
| 2024 | £419,000 | £445,483 | 122 |
| 2023 | £470,000 | £516,415 | 91 |
| 2022 | £435,000 | £510,087 | 154 |
| 2021 | £407,500 | £515,948 | 178 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 121 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 113 |
| 2018 | £402,000 | £535,874 | 134 |
| 2017 | £397,500 | £542,150 | 112 |
| 2016 | £353,000 | £493,850 | 164 |
| 2015 | £326,800 | £461,768 | 186 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 215 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 148 |
| 2012 | £240,200 | £353,544 | 140 |
| 2011 | £240,500 | £363,063 | 110 |
| 2010 | £245,000 | £384,223 | 116 |
| 2009 | £218,000 | £350,437 | 88 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 87 |
| 2007 | £236,000 | £400,322 | 239 |
| 2006 | £243,000 | £421,817 | 317 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 293 |
| 2004 | £206,500 | £375,044 | 230 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 240 |
| 2002 | £163,000 | £306,683 | 215 |
| 2001 | £133,000 | £255,686 | 210 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 185 |
| 1999 | £98,500 | £196,305 | 253 |
| 1998 | £86,000 | £173,597 | 211 |
| 1997 | £70,700 | £144,991 | 192 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 171 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical AL2 1 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £407,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 175%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL2 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 2002 (+22.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.1% | −13.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in AL2 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.
AL2 1 recorded 59 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 241 sales a year before the financial crisis and 115 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around AL2 1
AL2 1 falls under St Albans, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, which against the £407,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the AL2 1 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL2 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the AL2 district median, AL2 1 sits 25% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: AL2 1 (Bricket Wood)
Is AL2 1 (Bricket Wood) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL2 1 (Bricket Wood)?
Are property prices falling in AL2 1 (Bricket Wood)?
Where do AL2 1 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in AL2 today
Turning to what is actually available: 60 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL2 district, not just AL2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Branch Road, ST. ALBANS, AL2
- Grovelands, St Albans, AL2, St Albans
- Building Plot, Orchard Drive, Park Street, 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 AL2 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
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 AL2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are AL2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL2 2 | £600,000 | 33 |
| AL2 3 | £695,000 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full AL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in AL2 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL2 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL2 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL2 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working AL2 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL2 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL2 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual AL2 1 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.
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.