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Blackmore End market report AL4 0, St Albans
The standing AL4 0 (Blackmore End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,372 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL4 0 (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: the typical home in AL4 0 (St Albans) sold for £631,500 in 2026, the median of 40 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £674,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,372 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL4 0 is one sector of AL4 (St Albans): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where AL4 0 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.
Today's AL4 0 prices, from the sold record
The AL4 0 median stands at £631,500 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £674,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in AL4 0
A square metre of AL4 0 home has cost about £6,550 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL4 0 122% above the country at large.
The price of a typical AL4 0 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £631,500 | £631,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £700,000 | £716,739 | 141 |
| 2024 | £677,000 | £719,790 | 101 |
| 2023 | £720,500 | £791,654 | 146 |
| 2022 | £680,000 | £797,378 | 203 |
| 2021 | £630,000 | £797,661 | 247 |
| 2020 | £600,000 | £778,512 | 171 |
| 2019 | £600,000 | £786,456 | 137 |
| 2018 | £562,800 | £750,223 | 88 |
| 2017 | £578,700 | £789,289 | 104 |
| 2016 | £534,500 | £747,771 | 130 |
| 2015 | £464,200 | £655,915 | 138 |
| 2014 | £446,000 | £632,729 | 139 |
| 2013 | £393,500 | £566,207 | 142 |
| 2012 | £407,500 | £599,789 | 120 |
| 2011 | £375,000 | £566,106 | 134 |
| 2010 | £355,000 | £556,731 | 141 |
| 2009 | £300,500 | £483,056 | 124 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 85 |
| 2007 | £335,000 | £568,253 | 213 |
| 2006 | £302,000 | £524,233 | 194 |
| 2005 | £273,000 | £485,830 | 209 |
| 2004 | £280,000 | £508,535 | 212 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 162 |
| 2002 | £237,200 | £446,290 | 268 |
| 2001 | £203,500 | £391,218 | 219 |
| 2000 | £225,000 | £441,563 | 337 |
| 1999 | £177,000 | £352,752 | 411 |
| 1998 | £159,000 | £320,953 | 252 |
| 1997 | £118,500 | £243,020 | 142 |
| 1996 | £100,000 | £210,896 | 132 |
| 1995 | £84,800 | £184,342 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical AL4 0 home went from £84,800 in 1995 to £631,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 243%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL4 0 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 1998 (+34.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL4 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.8% | −11.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in AL4 0
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.
AL4 0 recorded 40 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 227 sales a year before the financial crisis and 126 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.
How AL4 0 trades
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL4 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around AL4 0
The local authority for AL4 0 is St Albans, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,925 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £631,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,925 a month (£23,100 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
AL4 0 (Blackmore End): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in AL4 0 (Blackmore End)?
Are property prices falling in AL4 0 (Blackmore End)?
Is AL4 0 (Blackmore End) a good place to buy a house?
Will AL4 0 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 AL4 right now
The live side of the market holds 72 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL4 district, not just AL4 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- House Lane, St. Albans, AL4
- Roestock Gardens, Colney Heath, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
- Waddling Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4
"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 AL4 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.
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 AL4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL4 8 | £750,000 | 33 |
| AL4 9 | £523,800 | 50 |
Zoom out to the full AL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in AL4 0? 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 AL4 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL4 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL4 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working AL4 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL4 0.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL4 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual AL4 0 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.