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Kinsbourne Green market report AL5 2, Harpenden
The AL5 2 (Kinsbourne Green) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,619 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in AL5 2 (Harpenden) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 24 registered 2026 sales put the AL5 2 (Harpenden) median at £1,241,200, down 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £1,358,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £8,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,619 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
AL5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside AL5 (Harpenden). 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 AL5 2 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 AL5 2
In the AL5 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £1,241,200, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £1,358,800, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in AL5 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in AL5 2 costs about £8,250 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving AL5 2 336% above the national figure.
The price of a typical AL5 2 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £1,241,200 | £1,241,200 | 24 |
| 2025 | £1,615,000 | £1,653,620 | 81 |
| 2024 | £1,385,000 | £1,472,540 | 82 |
| 2023 | £1,325,000 | £1,455,851 | 82 |
| 2022 | £1,300,000 | £1,524,398 | 89 |
| 2021 | £1,600,000 | £2,025,806 | 93 |
| 2020 | £1,155,000 | £1,498,636 | 56 |
| 2019 | £1,120,000 | £1,468,052 | 76 |
| 2018 | £1,188,000 | £1,583,626 | 74 |
| 2017 | £1,295,000 | £1,766,250 | 73 |
| 2016 | £1,222,000 | £1,709,590 | 77 |
| 2015 | £1,097,500 | £1,550,768 | 102 |
| 2014 | £1,000,000 | £1,418,675 | 82 |
| 2013 | £1,107,500 | £1,593,582 | 80 |
| 2012 | £835,000 | £1,229,016 | 93 |
| 2011 | £857,500 | £1,294,495 | 68 |
| 2010 | £885,000 | £1,387,908 | 73 |
| 2009 | £780,000 | £1,253,857 | 67 |
| 2008 | £762,500 | £1,249,898 | 50 |
| 2007 | £795,000 | £1,348,541 | 95 |
| 2006 | £690,000 | £1,197,752 | 123 |
| 2005 | £670,000 | £1,192,330 | 92 |
| 2004 | £610,000 | £1,107,879 | 90 |
| 2003 | £572,500 | £1,054,684 | 82 |
| 2002 | £587,500 | £1,105,376 | 86 |
| 2001 | £500,000 | £961,224 | 98 |
| 2000 | £305,000 | £598,563 | 83 |
| 1999 | £375,000 | £747,355 | 87 |
| 1998 | £303,500 | £612,636 | 77 |
| 1997 | £212,500 | £435,795 | 82 |
| 1996 | £255,000 | £537,784 | 103 |
| 1995 | £212,000 | £460,855 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical AL5 2 home went from £212,000 in 1995 to £1,241,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 169%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL5 2 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 2001 (+63.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−23.1%). 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) | −23.1% | −24.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.0% | −9.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in AL5 2
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.
The register shows 24 AL5 2 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 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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.
What homes rent for around AL5 2
The local authority for AL5 2 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.
Against the £1,241,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,925 a month (£23,100 a year) works out at a 1.9% 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.
How AL5 2 trades
This is a thin market: 24 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 AL5, this sector trades 71% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on AL5 2 (Kinsbourne Green)
How much did a house sell for in AL5 2 (Kinsbourne Green)?
Are property prices falling in AL5 2 (Kinsbourne Green)?
Is AL5 2 (Kinsbourne Green) a good place to buy a house?
Are AL5 2 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 39% 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 you could buy in AL5 now
Turning to what is actually available: 128 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL5 district, not just AL5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 AL5 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
Real sold prices by size across the AL area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in AL5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are AL5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL5 1 | £740,000 | 33 |
| AL5 3 | £860,000 | 15 |
| AL5 4 | £682,500 | 34 |
| AL5 5 | £625,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full AL5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in AL5 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL5 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual AL5 2 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.
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.