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Ayot St Peter market report AL6 9, Welwyn
The AL6 9 (Ayot St Peter) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,788 registered sales in AL6 9 (Welwyn) 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical AL6 9 (Welwyn) home changed hands for £637,500 in 2026 (median of 24 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier), with the mean at £660,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,490 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,788 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
AL6 9 is one sector of AL6 (Welwyn): 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 AL6 9 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.
AL6 9 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 24 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) AL6 9 home went for £637,500. The mean is £660,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in AL6 9
The last five years of sales put AL6 9 at roughly £5,490 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL6 9 124% above the country at large.
The price of a typical AL6 9 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £637,500 | £637,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £625,000 | £639,946 | 61 |
| 2024 | £647,500 | £688,426 | 84 |
| 2023 | £663,000 | £728,475 | 65 |
| 2022 | £579,200 | £679,178 | 92 |
| 2021 | £570,000 | £721,694 | 114 |
| 2020 | £520,000 | £674,711 | 83 |
| 2019 | £633,800 | £830,760 | 94 |
| 2018 | £585,000 | £779,816 | 87 |
| 2017 | £620,000 | £845,618 | 119 |
| 2016 | £680,000 | £951,327 | 123 |
| 2015 | £389,000 | £549,657 | 120 |
| 2014 | £405,000 | £574,563 | 89 |
| 2013 | £385,000 | £553,977 | 78 |
| 2012 | £290,000 | £426,844 | 57 |
| 2011 | £317,500 | £479,303 | 86 |
| 2010 | £370,000 | £580,255 | 76 |
| 2009 | £317,500 | £510,384 | 65 |
| 2008 | £460,000 | £754,037 | 39 |
| 2007 | £370,000 | £627,623 | 93 |
| 2006 | £380,000 | £659,631 | 103 |
| 2005 | £335,500 | £597,055 | 76 |
| 2004 | £285,000 | £517,616 | 75 |
| 2003 | £240,000 | £442,138 | 137 |
| 2002 | £248,700 | £467,927 | 96 |
| 2001 | £254,500 | £489,263 | 82 |
| 2000 | £182,500 | £358,156 | 85 |
| 1999 | £180,000 | £358,731 | 107 |
| 1998 | £165,000 | £333,064 | 95 |
| 1997 | £165,000 | £338,382 | 115 |
| 1996 | £161,200 | £339,964 | 86 |
| 1995 | £122,500 | £266,296 | 82 |
In cash terms the typical AL6 9 home went from £122,500 in 1995 to £637,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 139%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 33% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL6 9 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 2016 (+74.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−31.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What AL6 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −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.
Sales activity in AL6 9
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in AL6 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 93 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
What homes rent for around AL6 9
For renting purposes AL6 9 sits in Welwyn Hatfield. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,041 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,294, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Welwyn Hatfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £637,500 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the AL6 9 market
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. Within AL6, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on AL6 9 (Ayot St Peter)
Is AL6 9 (Ayot St Peter) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in AL6 9 (Ayot St Peter)?
Are property prices falling in AL6 9 (Ayot St Peter)?
Will AL6 9 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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.
AL6's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 85 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL6 district, not just AL6 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 AL6 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: AL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the AL area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in AL6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL6 0 | £783,200 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full AL6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in AL6 9? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL6 9'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 AL6 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL6 9.
Take it further
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Two maps carry on from here: every AL6 9 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.