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Bricket Wood market report AL2, St Albans
The AL2 (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: 12,595 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL2 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in AL2 (St Albans) came in at £545,000, out of 132 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £557,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,700 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,595 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
AL2 is the postcode district covering St Albans (south), Bricket Wood, Colney Street in St Albans. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where AL2 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 a home in AL2 sells for
The 2026 median for AL2 is £545,000, taken from 132 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £557,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
AL2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of AL2 sales average about £5,700 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, AL2 runs 91% above it.
A typical AL2 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 | £545,000 | £545,000 | 132 |
| 2025 | £543,500 | £556,497 | 332 |
| 2024 | £550,000 | £584,763 | 288 |
| 2023 | £572,500 | £629,038 | 240 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 417 |
| 2021 | £520,000 | £658,387 | 473 |
| 2020 | £497,000 | £644,868 | 311 |
| 2019 | £465,000 | £609,504 | 307 |
| 2018 | £473,800 | £631,584 | 308 |
| 2017 | £480,000 | £654,672 | 289 |
| 2016 | £438,800 | £613,886 | 358 |
| 2015 | £400,000 | £565,200 | 426 |
| 2014 | £342,000 | £485,187 | 475 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 370 |
| 2012 | £299,500 | £440,827 | 320 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 263 |
| 2010 | £317,500 | £497,922 | 335 |
| 2009 | £281,200 | £452,031 | 304 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 235 |
| 2007 | £275,000 | £466,477 | 524 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 606 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 516 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 494 |
| 2003 | £235,000 | £432,927 | 499 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 516 |
| 2001 | £165,000 | £317,204 | 507 |
| 2000 | £142,500 | £279,656 | 434 |
| 1999 | £125,000 | £249,118 | 575 |
| 1998 | £110,000 | £222,043 | 475 |
| 1997 | £94,200 | £193,185 | 468 |
| 1996 | £86,000 | £181,370 | 421 |
| 1995 | £82,800 | £179,994 | 377 |
In cash terms the typical AL2 home went from £82,800 in 1995 to £545,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 203%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL2 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 2003 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 27% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £765,000 against £275,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, AL2
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 | £765,000 | 39 | 3,403 |
| Semi-detached | £590,000 | 27 | 3,313 |
| Terraced | £440,000 | 39 | 3,073 |
| Flats | £275,000 | 27 | 2,806 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.3% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
AL2 recorded 252 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 512 sales a year before the financial crisis and 282 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 AL2
For renting purposes AL2 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.
£1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, which against the £545,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.2%. 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.
Common questions on AL2 (Bricket Wood)
How much did a house sell for in AL2 (Bricket Wood)?
Are property prices falling in AL2 (Bricket Wood)?
Is AL2 (Bricket Wood) a good place to buy a house?
Will AL2 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in AL2 now
Everything above is what homes in AL2 sold for. The live side of the market holds 60 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% above the AL2 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in AL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the AL area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
AL2 ranks 6 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.
Five-year change in the median, AL area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside AL2, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL2 1 | £407,000 | 59 |
| AL2 2 | £600,000 | 33 |
| AL2 3 | £695,000 | 40 |
How AL2 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 | £550,000 | +4% |
| AL2 (this report) | £545,000 | +5% |
| AL9 | £540,000 | -7% |
| AL7 | £403,000 | +9% |
| AL10 | £365,000 | +8% |
Thinking of selling in AL2? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
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See every individual AL2 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.
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.