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Welwyn Garden City market report AL7 4
The AL7 4 (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: 4,669 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL7 4 (Welwyn Garden City) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in AL7 4 (Welwyn Garden City) sold for £430,000 in 2026, the median of 51 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £407,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,870 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,669 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 4 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 4 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 AL7 4
The AL7 4 median stands at £430,000 for 2026, built from 51 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £407,500, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
Price per square metre in AL7 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in AL7 4 costs about £4,870 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL7 4 51% above the country at large.
A typical AL7 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 51 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 126 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 115 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 77 |
| 2022 | £408,000 | £478,427 | 136 |
| 2021 | £377,500 | £477,964 | 170 |
| 2020 | £375,000 | £486,570 | 133 |
| 2019 | £362,500 | £475,151 | 129 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 186 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 156 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 151 |
| 2015 | £292,800 | £413,726 | 148 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 182 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 127 |
| 2012 | £219,200 | £322,635 | 124 |
| 2011 | £210,100 | £317,170 | 126 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 108 |
| 2009 | £193,200 | £310,571 | 106 |
| 2008 | £198,000 | £324,564 | 133 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 266 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 360 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 197 |
| 2004 | £219,500 | £398,655 | 270 |
| 2003 | £173,500 | £319,629 | 226 |
| 2002 | £154,000 | £289,750 | 136 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 125 |
| 2000 | £116,200 | £228,043 | 104 |
| 1999 | £94,000 | £187,337 | 119 |
| 1998 | £91,000 | £183,690 | 93 |
| 1997 | £78,800 | £161,603 | 104 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 99 |
| 1995 | £67,800 | £147,387 | 86 |
In cash terms the typical AL7 4 home went from £67,800 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 192%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 14% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the AL7 4 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 2004 (+26.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−15.7%). 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) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in AL7 4
Sales per year, counted
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, 51 sales completed in AL7 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 211 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around AL7 4
The local authority for AL7 4 is Welwyn Hatfield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,482 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, which against the £430,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
How AL7 4 trades
This is a thin market: 51 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.
AL7 4 (Welwyn Garden City): the questions that come up
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What happens to AL7 4 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 you could buy in AL7 now
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
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 AL7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in AL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the AL area, 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 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 3 | £395,000 | 45 |
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 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in AL7 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from AL7 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded AL7 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim AL7 4.
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Two maps carry on from here: every AL7 4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.