Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,590 sales registered with HM Land Registry in AL8 (Welwyn Garden City) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
AL8 is the postcode district covering Welwyn Garden City (west), Lemsford in Welwyn Garden City. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where AL8 sits
Click the map to open AL8 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£560,000median sold price, 2026
+32%five-year change (cash)
149sales in the last 12 months
3.2%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in AL8 sells for
The 2026 median in AL8 is £560,000, from 43 registered sales; the mean, £586,700, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so AL8 trades 104% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical AL8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£560,000
£560,000
43
2025
£492,000
£492,000
168
2024
£465,000
£482,844
169
2023
£517,000
£554,790
153
2022
£500,000
£572,614
225
2021
£423,000
£523,065
237
2020
£517,500
£655,785
192
2019
£414,000
£529,981
196
2018
£432,500
£563,066
171
2017
£417,500
£556,129
194
2016
£410,500
£560,881
215
2015
£360,000
£496,800
200
2014
£375,000
£519,578
234
2013
£360,000
£505,906
196
2012
£300,000
£431,250
139
2011
£331,200
£488,308
144
2010
£307,500
£470,977
146
2009
£262,500
£412,116
181
2008
£282,000
£451,462
112
2007
£267,500
£443,157
230
2006
£267,400
£453,332
230
2005
£235,000
£408,438
253
2004
£245,800
£435,995
242
2003
£220,000
£395,828
195
2002
£200,000
£367,510
267
2001
£170,000
£319,184
268
2000
£150,000
£287,500
229
1999
£130,000
£253,032
265
1998
£111,000
£218,829
286
1997
£97,000
£194,282
277
1996
£95,000
£195,672
303
1995
£89,500
£190,015
230
In cash terms the typical AL8 home went from £89,500 in 1995 to £560,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 195%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the AL8 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 2020 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−18.3%). 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)
+13.8%
+13.8%
5 years (since 2021)
+5.8%
+1.4%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.2%
0.0%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.8%
+1.1%
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
AL8 recorded 149 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 239 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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 homes rent for around AL8
AL8 falls under Welwyn Hatfield, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £560,000 median sold price, £1,482 a month is £17,784 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
Will AL8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 7% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
AL8 ranks 1 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.
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.
Inside AL8, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.