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Childwickbury market report AL3 4, St Albans
The AL3 4 (Childwickbury) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,488 registered sales in AL3 4 (St Albans) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in AL3 4 (St Albans) sold for £687,500 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £778,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,488 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL3 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside AL3 (St Albans). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where AL3 4 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 AL3 4
The AL3 4 median stands at £687,500 for 2026, built from 27 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £778,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in AL3 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of AL3 4 sales average about £7,530 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving AL3 4 141% above the national figure.
A typical AL3 4 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £687,500 | £687,500 | 27 |
| 2025 | £765,000 | £783,293 | 95 |
| 2024 | £727,500 | £773,482 | 88 |
| 2023 | £740,000 | £813,079 | 80 |
| 2022 | £715,800 | £839,357 | 86 |
| 2021 | £723,000 | £915,411 | 139 |
| 2020 | £618,200 | £802,127 | 81 |
| 2019 | £627,500 | £822,502 | 88 |
| 2018 | £605,000 | £806,476 | 93 |
| 2017 | £671,500 | £915,859 | 82 |
| 2016 | £665,000 | £930,342 | 97 |
| 2015 | £550,000 | £777,150 | 107 |
| 2014 | £547,500 | £776,724 | 165 |
| 2013 | £550,000 | £791,395 | 176 |
| 2012 | £499,000 | £734,466 | 119 |
| 2011 | £435,000 | £656,683 | 101 |
| 2010 | £475,000 | £744,922 | 82 |
| 2009 | £350,000 | £562,628 | 83 |
| 2008 | £370,000 | £606,508 | 68 |
| 2007 | £401,500 | £681,056 | 136 |
| 2006 | £335,000 | £581,517 | 127 |
| 2005 | £332,100 | £591,004 | 108 |
| 2004 | £312,000 | £566,653 | 133 |
| 2003 | £318,200 | £586,202 | 104 |
| 2002 | £273,700 | £514,964 | 142 |
| 2001 | £249,200 | £479,074 | 130 |
| 2000 | £225,000 | £441,563 | 105 |
| 1999 | £200,000 | £398,590 | 155 |
| 1998 | £161,000 | £324,990 | 121 |
| 1997 | £152,500 | £312,747 | 143 |
| 1996 | £129,000 | £272,055 | 123 |
| 1995 | £120,500 | £261,948 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical AL3 4 home went from £120,500 in 1995 to £687,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 162%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL3 4 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 2010 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL3 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.1% | −12.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.3% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
AL3 4 recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 123 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 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 rental side of AL3 4
For renting purposes AL3 4 sits in St Albans. The ONS average private rent there is £1,925 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £687,500 median sold price, £1,925 a month is £23,100 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
How AL3 4 trades
This is a thin market: 27 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. Against the AL3 district median, AL3 4 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: AL3 4 (Childwickbury)
Are property prices falling in AL3 4 (Childwickbury)?
Is AL3 4 (Childwickbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL3 4 (Childwickbury)?
What happens to AL3 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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 AL3 now
The live side of the market holds 76 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL3 district, not just AL3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% 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.
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 AL3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in AL
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%) | — | — |
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.
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.
Other sectors in AL3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL3 5 | £650,000 | 47 |
| AL3 6 | £727,000 | 16 |
| AL3 7 | £600,000 | 31 |
| AL3 8 | £460,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full AL3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in AL3 4? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL3 4'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 AL3 4.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL3 4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every AL3 4 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.
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.