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Welwyn Garden City market report AL7 1
The AL7 1 (Welwyn Garden City) 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: 3,207 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL7 1 (Welwyn Garden City) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for AL7 1 (Welwyn Garden City) is £402,500, from 38 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £361,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,480 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,207 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
AL7 1 is one sector of AL7 (Welwyn Garden City): 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 AL7 1 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 AL7 1 sells for
The AL7 1 median stands at £402,500 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £361,300, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
Price per square metre in AL7 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in AL7 1 costs about £4,480 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, AL7 1 sits 41% above the national market.
AL7 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £402,500 | £402,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £350,500 | £358,882 | 96 |
| 2024 | £383,400 | £407,633 | 91 |
| 2023 | £345,800 | £379,950 | 78 |
| 2022 | £291,000 | £341,231 | 200 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 113 |
| 2020 | £331,200 | £429,739 | 96 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 71 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 76 |
| 2017 | £316,200 | £431,265 | 178 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 69 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 71 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 128 |
| 2013 | £230,100 | £331,091 | 93 |
| 2012 | £208,000 | £306,150 | 61 |
| 2011 | £229,200 | £346,004 | 56 |
| 2010 | £219,000 | £343,448 | 65 |
| 2009 | £182,600 | £293,531 | 69 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 53 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 164 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 158 |
| 2005 | £182,500 | £324,776 | 153 |
| 2004 | £187,000 | £339,629 | 131 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 116 |
| 2002 | £134,000 | £252,120 | 106 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 109 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 95 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 100 |
| 1998 | £92,200 | £186,112 | 124 |
| 1997 | £74,000 | £151,759 | 97 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 78 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 74 |
In cash terms the typical AL7 1 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £402,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 189%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL7 1 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 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−22.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.8% | +12.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
AL7 1 recorded 38 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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 AL7 1
AL7 1 falls under Welwyn Hatfield, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,482 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,041 a month here against £2,294 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Welwyn Hatfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £402,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,482 a month (£17,784 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 AL7 1 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL7 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
AL7 1 (Welwyn Garden City): the questions that come up
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Searches that land here, answered
People often arrive here having searched an exact postcode, such as AL7 1SF. No public median exists at that scale (a full postcode is only a dozen-odd homes), but every registered sale at those addresses is plotted on the live map, with this page as the wider context.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What happens to AL7 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 AL7 right now
The live side of the market holds 199 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL7 district, not just AL7 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% 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.
- Howlands, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, Welwyn Garden City
- Aldock, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
- Panshanger, Welwyn Garden City
"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 AL7 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.
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
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 AL7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are AL7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL7 2 | £382,500 | 38 |
| AL7 3 | £395,000 | 45 |
| AL7 4 | £430,000 | 51 |
Zoom out to the full AL7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL7 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in AL7 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at AL7 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim AL7 1.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual AL7 1 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.
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.