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EN6 5 local market report Potters Bar

Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,553 sales registered with HM Land Registry in EN6 5 (Potters Bar) 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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

EN6 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside EN6 (Potters Bar). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

Where EN6 5 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.

£610,500median sold price, 2026
+21%five-year change (cash)
20sales in the last 12 months
3.5%gross rental yield (est.)

What a home in EN6 5 sells for

The 2026 median in EN6 5 is £610,500, from 20 registered sales; the mean, £611,800, sits almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

For scale: the England and Wales median is £273,500, so EN6 5 trades 123% above the country as a whole.

The price of a typical EN6 5 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)
£250k£500k£750k£1.00M1995200020052010201520202026 1995: £81,500 at the time · £173,031 in today's money · 70 sales1996: £78,000 at the time · £160,657 in today's money · 95 sales1997: £87,200 at the time · £174,653 in today's money · 73 sales1998: £100,000 at the time · £197,143 in today's money · 91 sales1999: £113,800 at the time · £221,501 in today's money · 100 sales2000: £140,000 at the time · £268,333 in today's money · 93 sales2001: £161,000 at the time · £302,286 in today's money · 94 sales2002: £196,300 at the time · £360,711 in today's money · 102 sales2003: £227,000 at the time · £408,422 in today's money · 93 sales2004: £232,500 at the time · £412,404 in today's money · 109 sales2005: £200,000 at the time · £347,607 in today's money · 75 sales2006: £246,200 at the time · £417,391 in today's money · 94 sales2007: £265,500 at the time · £439,844 in today's money · 140 sales2008: £242,200 at the time · £387,745 in today's money · 44 sales2009: £221,000 at the time · £346,962 in today's money · 47 sales2010: £286,000 at the time · £438,047 in today's money · 70 sales2011: £250,000 at the time · £368,590 in today's money · 41 sales2012: £275,000 at the time · £395,313 in today's money · 64 sales2013: £308,500 at the time · £433,534 in today's money · 66 sales2014: £345,000 at the time · £478,012 in today's money · 99 sales2015: £370,000 at the time · £510,600 in today's money · 123 sales2016: £365,000 at the time · £498,713 in today's money · 87 sales2017: £452,500 at the time · £602,751 in today's money · 74 sales2018: £453,000 at the time · £589,755 in today's money · 73 sales2019: £437,500 at the time · £560,065 in today's money · 54 sales2020: £468,000 at the time · £593,058 in today's money · 65 sales2021: £505,000 at the time · £624,462 in today's money · 114 sales2022: £587,500 at the time · £672,822 in today's money · 82 sales2023: £490,000 at the time · £525,816 in today's money · 57 sales2024: £465,000 at the time · £482,844 in today's money · 49 sales2025: £500,000 at the time · £500,000 in today's money · 95 sales2026: £610,500 at the time · £610,500 in today's money · 20 sales
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YearMedian (cash)Median (today's £)Sales
2026£610,500£610,50020
2025£500,000£500,00095
2024£465,000£482,84449
2023£490,000£525,81657
2022£587,500£672,82282
2021£505,000£624,462114
2020£468,000£593,05865
2019£437,500£560,06554
2018£453,000£589,75573
2017£452,500£602,75174
2016£365,000£498,71387
2015£370,000£510,600123
2014£345,000£478,01299
2013£308,500£433,53466
2012£275,000£395,31364
2011£250,000£368,59041
2010£286,000£438,04770
2009£221,000£346,96247
2008£242,200£387,74544
2007£265,500£439,844140
2006£246,200£417,39194
2005£200,000£347,60775
2004£232,500£412,404109
2003£227,000£408,42293
2002£196,300£360,711102
2001£161,000£302,28694
2000£140,000£268,33393
1999£113,800£221,501100
1998£100,000£197,14391
1997£87,200£174,65373
1996£78,000£160,65795
1995£81,500£173,03170

In cash terms the typical EN6 5 home went from £81,500 in 1995 to £610,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 253%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

Year-on-year change in the EN6 5 median

Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.

+50% -50% 0% 1996 · −4.3% on the year before1997 · +11.8% on the year before1998 · +14.7% on the year before1999 · +13.8% on the year before2000 · +23.0% on the year before2001 · +15.0% on the year before2002 · +21.9% on the year before2003 · +15.6% on the year before2004 · +2.4% on the year before2005 · −14.0% on the year before2006 · +23.1% on the year before2007 · +7.8% on the year before2008 · −8.8% on the year before2009 · −8.8% on the year before2010 · +29.4% on the year before2011 · −12.6% on the year before2012 · +10.0% on the year before2013 · +12.2% on the year before2014 · +11.8% on the year before2015 · +7.2% on the year before2016 · −1.4% on the year before2017 · +24.0% on the year before2018 · +0.1% on the year before2019 · −3.4% on the year before2020 · +7.0% on the year before2021 · +7.9% on the year before2022 · +16.3% on the year before2023 · −16.6% on the year before2024 · −5.1% on the year before2025 · +7.5% on the year before2026 · +22.1% on the year before200020052010201520202026

The strongest year on record here is 2010 (+29.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−16.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

PeriodCash, per yearReal terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)+22.1%+22.1%
5 years (since 2021)+3.9%−0.5%
10 years (since 2016)+5.3%+2.0%
20 years (since 2006)+4.6%+1.9%

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.

100200 1995: 70 sales1996: 95 sales1997: 73 sales1998: 91 sales1999: 100 sales2000: 93 sales2001: 94 sales2002: 102 sales2003: 93 sales2004: 109 sales2005: 75 sales2006: 94 sales2007: 140 sales2008: 44 sales2009: 47 sales2010: 70 sales2011: 41 sales2012: 64 sales2013: 66 sales2014: 99 sales2015: 123 sales2016: 87 sales2017: 74 sales2018: 73 sales2019: 54 sales2020: 65 sales2021: 114 sales2022: 82 sales2023: 57 sales2024: 49 sales2025: 95 sales2026: 20 sales1995200020052010201520202026

EN6 5 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 100 sales a year before the financial crisis and 61 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 EN6 5

EN6 5 falls under Hertsmere, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,238 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,761, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere

ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.

1 bed: £1,238 a month£1,2381 bed2 bed: £1,580 a month£1,5802 bed3 bed: £1,911 a month£1,9113 bed4+ bed: £2,761 a month£2,7614+ bed

Set against the £610,500 median sold price, £1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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 EN6 5 prices rise from here?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 21% over five years in cash and flat 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.

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the EN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other street groups in EN6

Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EN6, each linking to its own report:

SectorMedian (latest)Sales that year
EN6 1£670,00025
EN6 2£506,00031
EN6 3£597,50012
EN6 4£462,50012

Zoom out to the full EN6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EN6 compares with its neighbours.

Dig further

Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about EN6 5. Free, with a one click sign in.

See every individual EN6 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference EN6 5 price page. 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.

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.

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