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Welwyn Garden City market report AL7 3
The AL7 3 (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: 4,230 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL7 3 (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 typical home in AL7 3 (Welwyn Garden City) sold for £395,000 in 2026, the median of 45 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £387,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,030 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,230 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like AL7 3 is a single group of streets within AL7 (Welwyn Garden City), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where AL7 3 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 3 sells for
The AL7 3 median stands at £395,000 for 2026, built from 45 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £387,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in AL7 3
Per square metre, AL7 3 homes have averaged around £5,030 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL7 3 39% above the country at large.
The price of a typical AL7 3 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 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £382,500 | £391,647 | 127 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 85 |
| 2023 | £387,000 | £425,219 | 102 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 121 |
| 2021 | £347,500 | £439,980 | 153 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 135 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 143 |
| 2018 | £335,000 | £446,561 | 140 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 108 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 127 |
| 2015 | £283,800 | £401,009 | 138 |
| 2014 | £212,500 | £301,468 | 175 |
| 2013 | £213,500 | £307,205 | 157 |
| 2012 | £196,500 | £289,223 | 136 |
| 2011 | £201,800 | £304,640 | 90 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 94 |
| 2009 | £174,800 | £280,992 | 94 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 73 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 157 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 174 |
| 2005 | £173,200 | £308,226 | 144 |
| 2004 | £167,500 | £304,213 | 175 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 163 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 162 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 169 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 164 |
| 1999 | £85,500 | £170,397 | 165 |
| 1998 | £77,200 | £155,834 | 134 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 149 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 116 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 115 |
In cash terms the typical AL7 3 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 203%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL7 3 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 (+33.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.3% | +0.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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 3 recorded 45 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 164 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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.
Rents around AL7 3
The local authority for AL7 3 is Welwyn Hatfield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
£1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, which against the £395,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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 AL7 3 market
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL7 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on AL7 3 (Welwyn Garden City)
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What happens to AL7 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in AL7 today
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: AL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the AL area. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the AL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
AL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £402,500 | 38 |
| AL7 2 | £382,500 | 38 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in AL7 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL7 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL7 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL7 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim AL7 3.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to AL7 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual AL7 3 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.