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Hemel Hempstead market report HP
The HP (Hemel Hempstead) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 282,598 HM Land Registry entries for the HP postcode area (Hemel Hempstead), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the HP postcode area (Hemel Hempstead) came in at £439,000, out of 2,474 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £510,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,050 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 282,598 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for HP centred on Hemel Hempstead run across 24 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where HP 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.
What HP homes really sell for
Across 2,474 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HP home went for £439,000. The mean is £510,700, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
HP prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HP costs about £5,050 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HP trades 54% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical HP home, 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 | £439,000 | £439,000 | 2,474 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 7,472 |
| 2024 | £433,200 | £460,581 | 6,910 |
| 2023 | £431,000 | £473,564 | 6,313 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 8,703 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 11,158 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 7,127 |
| 2019 | £365,000 | £478,428 | 7,577 |
| 2018 | £367,500 | £489,884 | 7,929 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 8,225 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 9,071 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 9,480 |
| 2014 | £278,000 | £394,392 | 9,607 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 8,287 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 7,128 |
| 2011 | £247,000 | £372,875 | 6,672 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 6,782 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 6,227 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 5,625 |
| 2007 | £236,500 | £401,170 | 11,725 |
| 2006 | £221,000 | £383,628 | 12,309 |
| 2005 | £206,400 | £367,309 | 9,169 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 10,695 |
| 2003 | £183,000 | £337,130 | 10,539 |
| 2002 | £164,500 | £309,505 | 12,673 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 11,222 |
| 2000 | £129,000 | £253,163 | 10,149 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 12,137 |
| 1998 | £97,000 | £195,801 | 10,408 |
| 1997 | £87,000 | £178,419 | 11,096 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 9,902 |
| 1995 | £77,500 | £168,473 | 7,807 |
In cash terms the typical HP home went from £77,500 in 1995 to £439,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 161%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% 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 HP 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 (+17.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 28% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £710,000 against £225,200 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, HP
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 | £710,000 | 638 | 74,702 |
| Semi-detached | £465,000 | 744 | 79,548 |
| Terraced | £385,000 | 645 | 72,848 |
| Flats | £225,200 | 447 | 55,500 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 5,558 HP 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 11,060 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6,374 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.
The rental side of HP
The local authority for HP is Buckinghamshire, the local authority covering most of the HP area (parts fall under Dacorum, where rents differ), and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,477 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,036 a month here against £2,364 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Buckinghamshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £439,000 median sold price, £1,477 a month is £17,724 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
What people ask about HP (Hemel Hempstead)
Is HP (Hemel Hempstead) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HP (Hemel Hempstead)?
Are property prices falling in HP (Hemel Hempstead)?
What happens to HP prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
HP's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HP sold for. The live side of the market holds 2,868 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the HP median sold price.
26% 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.
- Chiltern Park Avenue, Berkhamsted
- Lakes Lane, Beaconsfield, HP9, Beaconsfield
- Wynnswick Road, Seer Green, HP9, Beaconsfield
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every HP 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.
What another bedroom costs in HP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HP area, 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 | — | £470,500 | £632,250 (+34%) | £930,000 (+47%) | £1,395,000 (+50%) |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | £396,000 (+26%) | £480,000 (+21%) | £636,250 (+33%) | £842,500 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £296,000 | £370,000 (+25%) | £425,000 (+15%) | £540,000 (+27%) | £780,000 (+44%) |
| Flat | £210,000 | £280,000 (+33%) | £474,500 (+69%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the HP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, HP area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside HP matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| HP9 Beaconsfield, Forty Green | £790,000 | -10% | 68 |
| HP8 Chalfont St Giles, Little Chalfont (south) | £721,800 | -9% | 34 |
| HP4 Berkhamsted, Dagnall | £720,000 | +14% | 129 |
| HP6 Amersham (north), Chesham Bois | £700,000 | +4% | 43 |
| HP7 Amersham (south), Coleshill | £680,000 | +8% | 46 |
| HP16 Great Missenden, Ballinger | £587,500 | +0% | 50 |
| HP10 High Wycombe, Flackwell Heath | £552,500 | +9% | 100 |
| HP17 Aston Sandford, Bishopstone | £552,500 | +15% | 62 |
| HP15 Cryers Hill, Great Kingshill | £530,000 | +10% | 95 |
| HP27 Askett, Bledlow | £515,000 | +3% | 76 |
| HP22 Aston Abbotts, Aston Clinton | £493,000 | +13% | 181 |
| HP5 Chesham, Ashley Green | £483,500 | +15% | 124 |
| HP23 Aldbury, Buckland Common | £471,200 | -10% | 104 |
| HP14 Beacon's Bottom, Bledlow Ridge | £467,500 | +4% | 95 |
| HP3 Apsley, Bovingdon | £422,500 | +4% | 156 |
| HP1 Bourne End, Boxmoor | £415,000 | +11% | 131 |
| HP18 Ashendon, Berryfields | £408,000 | +6% | 111 |
| HP12 High Wycombe, Booker | £405,000 | +25% | 71 |
| HP13 High Wycombe, Downley | £390,000 | +16% | 203 |
| HP2 Gaddesden Row, Piccotts End | £375,000 | +7% | 175 |
| HP11 Wycombe Marsh | £360,000 | +6% | 71 |
| HP20 Aylesbury, Aylesbury Town Centre | £315,000 | +19% | 59 |
| HP21 Aylesbury, Bedgrove | £315,000 | +8% | 165 |
| HP19 Aylesbury, Berryfields | £312,500 | +14% | 125 |
Selling in HP? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HP, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HP's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HP sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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The live map plots every individual HP 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.
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.