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Welwyn Garden City market report AL7 2
The standing AL7 2 (Welwyn Garden City) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,437 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in AL7 2 (Welwyn Garden City) 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: the middle 2026 sale in AL7 2 (Welwyn Garden City) came in at £382,500, out of 38 registered, down 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £412,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,000 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,437 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
AL7 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside AL7 (Welwyn Garden City). 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 AL7 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.
Today's AL7 2 prices, from the sold record
Across 38 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) AL7 2 home went for £382,500. The mean is £412,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
AL7 2 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of AL7 2 sales average about £5,000 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, AL7 2 runs 34% above it.
The price of a typical AL7 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 83 |
| 2024 | £398,000 | £423,156 | 81 |
| 2023 | £384,200 | £422,142 | 74 |
| 2022 | £372,000 | £436,212 | 94 |
| 2021 | £392,000 | £496,323 | 151 |
| 2020 | £356,000 | £461,917 | 99 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 97 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 109 |
| 2017 | £343,000 | £467,818 | 111 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 121 |
| 2015 | £301,500 | £426,020 | 156 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 133 |
| 2013 | £200,000 | £287,780 | 109 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 99 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 101 |
| 2010 | £195,500 | £306,594 | 94 |
| 2009 | £186,000 | £298,997 | 93 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 97 |
| 2007 | £196,500 | £333,319 | 164 |
| 2006 | £181,000 | £314,193 | 185 |
| 2005 | £178,200 | £317,124 | 146 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 192 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 196 |
| 2002 | £122,800 | £231,047 | 202 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 220 |
| 2000 | £89,100 | £174,859 | 198 |
| 1999 | £82,900 | £165,215 | 236 |
| 1998 | £71,000 | £143,319 | 215 |
| 1997 | £69,600 | £142,736 | 212 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 184 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical AL7 2 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 193%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL7 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 2015 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.0%). 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) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in AL7 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
How AL7 2 trades
Only 38 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL7 2 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 AL7 2
For renting purposes AL7 2 sits in Welwyn Hatfield. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £382,500 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
What people ask about AL7 2 (Welwyn Garden City)
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What happens to AL7 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
AL7's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 199 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL7 district, not just AL7 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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" 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 AL7 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.
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%) | — | — |
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.
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
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL7 1 | £402,500 | 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 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL7 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL7 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL7 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim AL7 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL7 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every AL7 2 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.