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Bourne End market report HP1 1, Hemel Hempstead
The HP1 1 (Bourne End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,899 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HP1 1 (Hemel Hempstead) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for HP1 1 (Hemel Hempstead) is £470,000, from 43 registered sales, up 30% on five years earlier; the mean is £455,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,899 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
HP1 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HP1 (Hemel Hempstead). 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 HP1 1 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 buyers actually paid in HP1 1
The HP1 1 median stands at £470,000 for 2026, built from 43 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £455,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in HP1 1
By floor space, homes in HP1 1 have sold for about £5,140 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HP1 1 runs 65% above it.
The price of a typical HP1 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £470,000 | £470,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 148 |
| 2024 | £442,500 | £470,468 | 111 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 150 |
| 2022 | £330,600 | £387,666 | 313 |
| 2021 | £362,500 | £458,972 | 267 |
| 2020 | £407,500 | £528,740 | 137 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 141 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 147 |
| 2017 | £372,200 | £507,643 | 164 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 196 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 187 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 262 |
| 2013 | £236,000 | £339,580 | 216 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 187 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 271 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 190 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 108 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 109 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 218 |
| 2006 | £224,500 | £389,703 | 214 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 235 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 196 |
| 2003 | £189,500 | £349,105 | 172 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 201 |
| 2001 | £147,000 | £282,600 | 177 |
| 2000 | £127,000 | £249,238 | 169 |
| 1999 | £114,100 | £227,395 | 252 |
| 1998 | £103,200 | £208,317 | 156 |
| 1997 | £90,700 | £186,007 | 220 |
| 1996 | £78,500 | £165,553 | 176 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 166 |
In cash terms the typical HP1 1 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £470,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 11% 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 HP1 1 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 2023 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.0%). 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) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.3% | +0.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
HP1 1 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 198 sales a year before the financial crisis and 153 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.
How HP1 1 trades
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HP1 1 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. Within HP1, this sector trades 13% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around HP1 1
The local authority for HP1 1 is Dacorum, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,579 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,087 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,270, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dacorum
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,579 a month is £18,948 a year, which against the £470,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: HP1 1 (Bourne End)
How much did a house sell for in HP1 1 (Bourne End)?
Are property prices falling in HP1 1 (Bourne End)?
Is HP1 1 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
Will HP1 1 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 30% 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.
On the market in HP1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 137 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP1 district, not just HP1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Spring Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
- Flat 4, 31 High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Hemel Hempstead
- Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead
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 HP1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: HP prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HP 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 | — | £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.
HP area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HP1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HP1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP1 2 | £420,000 | 43 |
| HP1 3 | £400,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full HP1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HP1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HP1 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working HP1 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim HP1 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP1 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HP1 1 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.
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.