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Welwyn Garden City market report AL7
The AL7 (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: 16,543 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL7 (Welwyn Garden City) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for AL7 (Welwyn Garden City) is £403,000, from 172 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £393,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,840 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 16,543 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
AL7 is a postcode district covering Welwyn Garden City (east) in Welwyn Garden City. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where AL7 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 prices, from the sold record
Take the 172 registered 2026 sales in AL7 and the middle price, the median, is £403,000. The mean lands at £393,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
AL7 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in AL7 have sold for about £4,840 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so AL7 trades 41% above the country as a whole.
AL7's median sold price, 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 | £403,000 | £403,000 | 172 |
| 2025 | £385,000 | £394,207 | 432 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 372 |
| 2023 | £380,000 | £417,527 | 331 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 551 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 587 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 463 |
| 2019 | £330,000 | £432,551 | 440 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 511 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 553 |
| 2016 | £331,000 | £463,072 | 468 |
| 2015 | £287,500 | £406,238 | 513 |
| 2014 | £235,000 | £333,389 | 618 |
| 2013 | £218,000 | £313,680 | 486 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 420 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 373 |
| 2010 | £204,000 | £319,925 | 361 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 362 |
| 2008 | £201,800 | £330,793 | 356 |
| 2007 | £202,500 | £343,496 | 751 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 877 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 640 |
| 2004 | £181,500 | £329,639 | 768 |
| 2003 | £166,000 | £305,812 | 701 |
| 2002 | £136,000 | £255,883 | 606 |
| 2001 | £117,000 | £224,927 | 623 |
| 2000 | £101,000 | £198,213 | 561 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 620 |
| 1998 | £82,700 | £166,936 | 566 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 562 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 477 |
| 1995 | £62,500 | £135,865 | 422 |
In cash terms the typical AL7 home went from £62,500 in 1995 to £403,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 197%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL7 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 (+22.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). 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) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £620,000 against £242,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, AL7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £620,000 | 11 | 1,471 |
| Semi-detached | £465,000 | 32 | 2,890 |
| Terraced | £420,000 | 83 | 7,563 |
| Flats | £242,500 | 46 | 4,619 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 353 AL7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 691 sales a year before the financial crisis and 372 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 tenants pay around AL7
The local authority for AL7 is Welwyn Hatfield, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,482 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,041 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,294 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Welwyn Hatfield
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £403,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
Reading the AL7 market
In its area's price order AL7 comes 9 of 10, towards the cheaper end of the table.
AL7 (Welwyn Garden City): the questions that come up
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What happens to AL7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in AL7 now
Everything above is what homes in AL7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 199 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the AL7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 24% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
AL7 ranks 2 of 10 in the AL area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
AL area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside AL7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL7 1 | £402,500 | 38 |
| AL7 2 | £382,500 | 38 |
| AL7 3 | £395,000 | 45 |
| AL7 4 | £430,000 | 51 |
How AL7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the AL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| AL5 | £725,000 | +2% |
| AL6 | £705,000 | -3% |
| AL4 | £638,000 | +9% |
| AL3 | £623,800 | +5% |
| AL8 | £560,000 | +27% |
| AL1 | £550,000 | +4% |
| AL2 | £545,000 | +5% |
| AL9 | £540,000 | -7% |
| AL7 (this report) | £403,000 | +9% |
| AL10 | £365,000 | +8% |
Before you sell in AL7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in AL7, open the average prices map and zoom from the AL7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded AL7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual AL7 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.