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Blackmore End market report AL4 8, St Albans
The standing AL4 8 (Blackmore End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,299 registered sales in AL4 8 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical AL4 8 (St Albans) home changed hands for £750,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier), with the mean at £769,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,250 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,299 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
AL4 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside AL4 (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 AL4 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 AL4 8 homes really sell for
33 sales were registered in AL4 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £750,000. The mean works out at £769,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
AL4 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of AL4 8 sales average about £6,250 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, AL4 8 sits 163% above the national market.
The price of a typical AL4 8 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £750,000 | £750,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £715,000 | £732,098 | 99 |
| 2024 | £647,500 | £688,426 | 75 |
| 2023 | £737,500 | £810,332 | 68 |
| 2022 | £785,000 | £920,502 | 97 |
| 2021 | £586,200 | £742,205 | 122 |
| 2020 | £585,000 | £759,050 | 77 |
| 2019 | £505,000 | £661,934 | 77 |
| 2018 | £640,000 | £853,132 | 87 |
| 2017 | £516,500 | £704,454 | 86 |
| 2016 | £525,000 | £734,480 | 85 |
| 2015 | £475,000 | £671,175 | 103 |
| 2014 | £476,800 | £676,424 | 100 |
| 2013 | £369,200 | £531,242 | 102 |
| 2012 | £355,000 | £522,516 | 88 |
| 2011 | £406,000 | £612,904 | 110 |
| 2010 | £435,000 | £682,192 | 115 |
| 2009 | £356,200 | £572,595 | 86 |
| 2008 | £364,500 | £597,492 | 59 |
| 2007 | £338,800 | £574,699 | 156 |
| 2006 | £301,000 | £522,498 | 141 |
| 2005 | £310,000 | £551,675 | 123 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 119 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 97 |
| 2002 | £276,200 | £519,668 | 156 |
| 2001 | £225,000 | £432,551 | 155 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 109 |
| 1999 | £152,500 | £303,925 | 122 |
| 1998 | £135,000 | £272,507 | 118 |
| 1997 | £117,000 | £239,943 | 119 |
| 1996 | £120,000 | £253,075 | 121 |
| 1995 | £112,200 | £243,906 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical AL4 8 home went from £112,200 in 1995 to £750,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 207%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 19% 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 AL4 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 2022 (+33.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−21.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
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.
Sales activity in AL4 8
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 33 sales completed in AL4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around AL4 8
The local authority for AL4 8 is St Albans, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,925 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £750,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.1%. 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.
Reading the AL4 8 market
This is a thin market: 33 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within AL4, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on AL4 8 (Blackmore End)
How much did a house sell for in AL4 8 (Blackmore End)?
Are property prices falling in AL4 8 (Blackmore End)?
Is AL4 8 (Blackmore End) a good place to buy a house?
Will AL4 8 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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.
On the market in AL4 today
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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in AL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the AL area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
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 AL4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of AL4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL4 0 | £631,500 | 40 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in AL4 8? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL4 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL4 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL4 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working AL4 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL4 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL4 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every AL4 8 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.