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Bricket Wood market report AL2 2, St Albans
The standing AL2 2 (Bricket Wood) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,038 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL2 2 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in AL2 2 (St Albans) sold for £600,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £637,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,850 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,038 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL2 2 is one sector of AL2 (St Albans): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where AL2 2 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.
AL2 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the AL2 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £600,000, from 33 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £637,500, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in AL2 2
The last five years of sales put AL2 2 at roughly £5,850 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, AL2 2 runs 111% above it.
A typical AL2 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £600,000 | £600,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £556,100 | £569,398 | 76 |
| 2024 | £565,500 | £601,243 | 70 |
| 2023 | £575,000 | £631,785 | 54 |
| 2022 | £567,500 | £665,459 | 102 |
| 2021 | £553,000 | £700,169 | 115 |
| 2020 | £508,000 | £659,140 | 65 |
| 2019 | £445,000 | £583,288 | 77 |
| 2018 | £490,800 | £654,246 | 68 |
| 2017 | £504,200 | £687,678 | 84 |
| 2016 | £495,000 | £692,510 | 85 |
| 2015 | £437,500 | £618,188 | 92 |
| 2014 | £387,500 | £549,736 | 114 |
| 2013 | £314,500 | £452,534 | 89 |
| 2012 | £328,900 | £484,100 | 75 |
| 2011 | £332,200 | £501,494 | 70 |
| 2010 | £321,000 | £503,411 | 105 |
| 2009 | £305,000 | £490,290 | 121 |
| 2008 | £275,000 | £450,783 | 56 |
| 2007 | £317,200 | £538,060 | 124 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 124 |
| 2005 | £278,800 | £496,152 | 112 |
| 2004 | £248,500 | £451,325 | 94 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 109 |
| 2002 | £211,000 | £396,995 | 141 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 119 |
| 2000 | £154,000 | £302,225 | 108 |
| 1999 | £132,200 | £263,468 | 144 |
| 1998 | £122,000 | £246,266 | 123 |
| 1997 | £101,000 | £207,131 | 101 |
| 1996 | £89,300 | £188,330 | 110 |
| 1995 | £86,200 | £187,386 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical AL2 2 home went from £86,200 in 1995 to £600,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 220%: 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 14% 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 AL2 2 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 2007 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−13.3%). 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) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.6% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
AL2 2 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 116 sales a year before the financial crisis and 67 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 AL2 2 market
This is a thin market: 33 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 AL2, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around AL2 2
AL2 2 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.
Against the £600,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,925 a month (£23,100 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
AL2 2 (Bricket Wood): the questions that come up
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What happens to AL2 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 2: 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" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in AL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the AL area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 AL2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL2 1 | £407,000 | 59 |
| 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 a home in AL2 2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL2 2'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 AL2 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL2 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every AL2 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.