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Bricket Wood market report AL2 3, St Albans
The AL2 3 (Bricket Wood) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,173 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL2 3 (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 middle 2026 sale in AL2 3 (St Albans) came in at £695,000, out of 40 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £662,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,080 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,173 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like AL2 3 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 3 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 3 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 40 registered 2026 sales in AL2 3 and the middle price, the median, is £695,000. The mean lands at £662,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
AL2 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, AL2 3 homes have averaged around £6,080 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL2 3 144% above the country at large.
The price of a typical AL2 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £695,000 | £695,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £644,000 | £659,400 | 106 |
| 2024 | £640,000 | £680,451 | 96 |
| 2023 | £745,000 | £818,573 | 95 |
| 2022 | £670,000 | £785,651 | 161 |
| 2021 | £650,000 | £822,984 | 180 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 125 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 117 |
| 2018 | £569,500 | £759,154 | 106 |
| 2017 | £595,000 | £811,520 | 93 |
| 2016 | £585,000 | £818,421 | 109 |
| 2015 | £503,800 | £711,869 | 148 |
| 2014 | £452,500 | £641,950 | 146 |
| 2013 | £424,500 | £610,813 | 133 |
| 2012 | £395,000 | £581,391 | 105 |
| 2011 | £370,000 | £558,558 | 83 |
| 2010 | £402,500 | £631,224 | 114 |
| 2009 | £360,000 | £578,703 | 95 |
| 2008 | £316,000 | £517,991 | 92 |
| 2007 | £360,000 | £610,660 | 161 |
| 2006 | £330,000 | £572,838 | 165 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 111 |
| 2004 | £298,500 | £542,134 | 170 |
| 2003 | £275,000 | £506,617 | 150 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 160 |
| 2001 | £223,500 | £429,667 | 178 |
| 2000 | £195,000 | £382,688 | 141 |
| 1999 | £163,200 | £325,249 | 178 |
| 1998 | £160,000 | £322,971 | 141 |
| 1997 | £137,000 | £280,959 | 175 |
| 1996 | £108,000 | £227,767 | 140 |
| 1995 | £105,000 | £228,254 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical AL2 3 home went from £105,000 in 1995 to £695,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 204%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL2 3 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 1997 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL2 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 40 AL2 3 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 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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 tenants pay around AL2 3
For renting purposes AL2 3 sits in St Albans. The ONS average private rent there is £1,925 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,266 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,897, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, St Albans
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £695,000 median sold price, £1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
The shape of the AL2 3 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL2 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within AL2, this sector trades 28% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: AL2 3 (Bricket Wood)
Is AL2 3 (Bricket Wood) a good place to buy a house?
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Where do AL2 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What is for sale in AL2 right now
The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL2 district, not just AL2 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% 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.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
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
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of AL2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL2 1 | £407,000 | 59 |
| AL2 2 | £600,000 | 33 |
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 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL2 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL2 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL2 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working AL2 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL2 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL2 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual AL2 3 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.