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Bourne End market report HP1 2, Hemel Hempstead
The standing HP1 2 (Bourne End) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,095 registered sales in HP1 2 (Hemel Hempstead) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HP1 2 (Hemel Hempstead) came in at £420,000, out of 43 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £454,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,110 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,095 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
HP1 2 is one sector of HP1 (Hemel Hempstead): 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 HP1 2 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 HP1 2 prices, from the sold record
In the HP1 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £420,000, from 43 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £454,100, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in HP1 2
Per square metre, HP1 2 homes have averaged around £5,110 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HP1 2 runs 47% above it.
A typical HP1 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 123 |
| 2024 | £410,000 | £435,914 | 100 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 83 |
| 2022 | £450,000 | £527,676 | 148 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 182 |
| 2020 | £402,500 | £522,252 | 102 |
| 2019 | £343,000 | £449,591 | 111 |
| 2018 | £363,000 | £483,886 | 105 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 105 |
| 2016 | £325,000 | £454,678 | 119 |
| 2015 | £295,500 | £417,542 | 114 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 131 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 121 |
| 2012 | £204,000 | £300,263 | 99 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 99 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 91 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 79 |
| 2008 | £229,500 | £376,199 | 84 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 165 |
| 2006 | £187,200 | £324,955 | 158 |
| 2005 | £180,500 | £321,217 | 136 |
| 2004 | £166,500 | £302,397 | 146 |
| 2003 | £161,200 | £296,969 | 148 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 195 |
| 2001 | £116,000 | £223,004 | 171 |
| 2000 | £97,500 | £191,344 | 128 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 193 |
| 1998 | £80,800 | £163,101 | 154 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 174 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 129 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical HP1 2 home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 191%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HP1 2 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 2010 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
HP1 2 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 156 sales a year before the financial crisis and 99 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.
Rents around HP1 2
For renting purposes HP1 2 sits in Dacorum. The ONS average private rent there is £1,579 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,087 a month here against £2,270 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Reading the HP1 2 market
This is a thin market: 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Common questions on HP1 2 (Bourne End)
How much did a house sell for in HP1 2 (Bourne End)?
Are property prices falling in HP1 2 (Bourne End)?
Is HP1 2 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
Will HP1 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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
This is what you could actually buy today: 137 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP1 district, not just HP1 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Spring Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
- Flat 4, 31 High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Hemel Hempstead
- Waterhouse Street, Hemel Hempstead
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in HP: the cost
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 1 | £470,000 | 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.
Thinking of selling in HP1 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP1 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP1 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP1 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HP1 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to HP1 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual HP1 2 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.
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.