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Childwickbury market report AL3 5, St Albans
The AL3 5 (Childwickbury) 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: 5,302 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL3 5 (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: 47 registered 2026 sales put the AL3 5 (St Albans) median at £650,000, down 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £671,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,302 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like AL3 5 is a single group of streets within AL3 (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 AL3 5 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.
The going rate for a home in AL3 5
In the AL3 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £650,000, from 47 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £671,100, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in AL3 5
The last five years of sales put AL3 5 at roughly £7,410 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so AL3 5 trades 128% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical AL3 5 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £650,000 | £650,000 | 47 |
| 2025 | £700,000 | £716,739 | 112 |
| 2024 | £675,000 | £717,664 | 114 |
| 2023 | £646,200 | £710,016 | 116 |
| 2022 | £714,000 | £837,246 | 123 |
| 2021 | £660,000 | £835,645 | 177 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 150 |
| 2019 | £615,000 | £806,118 | 129 |
| 2018 | £610,000 | £813,142 | 113 |
| 2017 | £540,000 | £736,506 | 121 |
| 2016 | £529,900 | £741,335 | 142 |
| 2015 | £521,200 | £736,456 | 150 |
| 2014 | £440,000 | £624,217 | 163 |
| 2013 | £400,000 | £575,560 | 161 |
| 2012 | £367,500 | £540,914 | 144 |
| 2011 | £402,800 | £608,073 | 150 |
| 2010 | £365,000 | £572,414 | 163 |
| 2009 | £322,500 | £518,422 | 142 |
| 2008 | £325,000 | £532,744 | 109 |
| 2007 | £351,000 | £595,394 | 180 |
| 2006 | £306,000 | £531,177 | 266 |
| 2005 | £285,000 | £507,185 | 193 |
| 2004 | £265,000 | £481,292 | 231 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 193 |
| 2002 | £241,200 | £453,816 | 234 |
| 2001 | £205,000 | £394,102 | 289 |
| 2000 | £190,000 | £372,875 | 224 |
| 1999 | £150,000 | £298,942 | 239 |
| 1998 | £132,200 | £266,855 | 212 |
| 1997 | £119,000 | £244,045 | 189 |
| 1996 | £96,000 | £202,460 | 182 |
| 1995 | £90,000 | £195,646 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical AL3 5 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £650,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 232%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL3 5 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 2000 (+26.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−9.5%). 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) | −7.1% | −9.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Sales activity in AL3 5
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.
AL3 5 recorded 47 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 226 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
The shape of the AL3 5 market
Only 47 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL3 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around AL3 5
The local authority for AL3 5 is St Albans, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,925 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £650,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,925 a month (£23,100 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
Asked and answered: AL3 5 (Childwickbury)
Are property prices falling in AL3 5 (Childwickbury)?
Is AL3 5 (Childwickbury) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL3 5 (Childwickbury)?
Will AL3 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in AL3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 76 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL3 district, not just AL3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 AL3 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in AL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the AL area, 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. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in AL3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are AL3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL3 4 | £687,500 | 27 |
| 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.
Before you sell in AL3 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL3 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL3 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL3 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every AL3 5 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.
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.