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Lemsford market report AL8 7, Welwyn Garden City
The AL8 7 (Lemsford) 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: 3,300 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL8 7 (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 AL8 7 (Welwyn Garden City) sold for £616,200 in 2026, the median of 36 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier. The mean was £686,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,660 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,300 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
AL8 7 is one sector of AL8 (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 AL8 7 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 AL8 7 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for AL8 7 is £616,200, taken from 36 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £686,600, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in AL8 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of AL8 7 sales average about £5,660 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts AL8 7 116% above the country at large.
A typical AL8 7 home, priced year by year (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 | £616,200 | £616,200 | 36 |
| 2025 | £501,500 | £513,492 | 86 |
| 2024 | £475,000 | £505,023 | 77 |
| 2023 | £625,000 | £686,722 | 65 |
| 2022 | £560,000 | £656,664 | 104 |
| 2021 | £480,500 | £608,375 | 100 |
| 2020 | £550,000 | £713,636 | 91 |
| 2019 | £444,200 | £582,240 | 90 |
| 2018 | £467,500 | £623,186 | 88 |
| 2017 | £465,000 | £634,213 | 79 |
| 2016 | £472,500 | £661,032 | 100 |
| 2015 | £430,500 | £608,297 | 90 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 110 |
| 2013 | £360,000 | £518,004 | 127 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 77 |
| 2011 | £329,500 | £497,418 | 74 |
| 2010 | £345,000 | £541,049 | 67 |
| 2009 | £262,500 | £421,971 | 87 |
| 2008 | £335,000 | £549,136 | 66 |
| 2007 | £264,000 | £447,818 | 118 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 117 |
| 2005 | £236,200 | £420,341 | 116 |
| 2004 | £230,000 | £417,725 | 125 |
| 2003 | £224,000 | £412,662 | 112 |
| 2002 | £225,000 | £423,336 | 143 |
| 2001 | £166,200 | £319,511 | 144 |
| 2000 | £142,200 | £279,068 | 132 |
| 1999 | £134,900 | £268,849 | 150 |
| 1998 | £108,000 | £218,006 | 152 |
| 1997 | £95,000 | £194,826 | 150 |
| 1996 | £100,000 | £210,896 | 135 |
| 1995 | £95,000 | £206,515 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical AL8 7 home went from £95,000 in 1995 to £616,200 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 198%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the AL8 7 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 2002 (+35.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−24.0%). 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) | +22.9% | +20.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.1% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in AL8 7
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.
AL8 7 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 126 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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 AL8 7
For renting purposes AL8 7 sits in Welwyn Hatfield. The ONS average private rent there is £1,482 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £616,200 median purchase price, a rent of £1,482 a month (£17,784 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.
Reading the AL8 7 market
Only 36 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes AL8 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the AL8 district median, AL8 7 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about AL8 7 (Lemsford)
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Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat 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 AL8 now
The live side of the market holds 181 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole AL8 district, not just AL8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% 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.
- Great North Road, Welwyn Garden City
- Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
- Stanborough Mews, Welwyn Garden City, 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 AL8 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the AL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, AL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in AL8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of AL8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| AL8 6 | £505,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full AL8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how AL8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in AL8 7? 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 AL8 7'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.
Estate agents working AL8 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim AL8 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with AL8 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual AL8 7 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.