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Childwickbury market report AL3 8, St Albans
The AL3 8 (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: 2,890 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL3 8 (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: a typical AL3 8 (St Albans) home changed hands for £460,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £488,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,890 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
AL3 8 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 8 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 AL3 8 sells for
29 sales were registered in AL3 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £460,000. The mean works out at £488,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in AL3 8
By floor space, homes in AL3 8 have sold for about £4,960 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving AL3 8 61% above the national figure.
The price of a typical AL3 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £460,000 | £460,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £455,000 | £465,880 | 71 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 43 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 57 |
| 2022 | £402,500 | £471,977 | 92 |
| 2021 | £376,200 | £476,318 | 100 |
| 2020 | £412,500 | £535,227 | 76 |
| 2019 | £348,800 | £457,193 | 69 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 71 |
| 2017 | £392,500 | £535,331 | 75 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 90 |
| 2015 | £355,000 | £501,615 | 143 |
| 2014 | £308,000 | £436,952 | 119 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 74 |
| 2012 | £239,200 | £352,073 | 72 |
| 2011 | £249,000 | £375,894 | 57 |
| 2010 | £222,500 | £348,937 | 76 |
| 2009 | £227,500 | £365,708 | 58 |
| 2008 | £244,100 | £400,131 | 54 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 106 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 131 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 135 |
| 2004 | £216,800 | £393,751 | 128 |
| 2003 | £212,800 | £392,029 | 88 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 133 |
| 2001 | £148,600 | £285,676 | 116 |
| 2000 | £134,000 | £262,975 | 85 |
| 1999 | £103,500 | £206,270 | 124 |
| 1998 | £95,500 | £192,774 | 106 |
| 1997 | £85,500 | £175,343 | 123 |
| 1996 | £71,800 | £151,423 | 101 |
| 1995 | £72,400 | £157,386 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical AL3 8 home went from £72,400 in 1995 to £460,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 192%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL3 8 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 (+41.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−9.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.1% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in AL3 8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 29 AL3 8 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 115 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
Rents around AL3 8
AL3 8 falls under Dacorum, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,579 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,087 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,270, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dacorum
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £460,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,579 a month (£18,948 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
The shape of the AL3 8 market
This is a thin market: 29 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the AL3 district median, AL3 8 sits 26% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on AL3 8 (Childwickbury)
How much did a house sell for in AL3 8 (Childwickbury)?
Are property prices falling in AL3 8 (Childwickbury)?
Is AL3 8 (Childwickbury) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to AL3 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 3% 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 is for sale in AL3 right 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 →
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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in AL3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of AL3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL3 4 | £687,500 | 27 |
| AL3 5 | £650,000 | 47 |
| AL3 6 | £727,000 | 16 |
| AL3 7 | £600,000 | 31 |
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 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL3 8'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.
Estate agents working AL3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL3 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual AL3 8 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.