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Bourne End market report HP1 3, Hemel Hempstead
The HP1 3 (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: 3,932 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HP1 3 (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 3 (Hemel Hempstead) is £400,000, from 45 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £438,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,040 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,932 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
HP1 3 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 3 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 HP1 3 homes really sell for
Across 45 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) HP1 3 home went for £400,000. The mean is £438,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in HP1 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HP1 3 costs about £5,040 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts HP1 3 40% above the country at large.
HP1 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 105 |
| 2024 | £405,000 | £430,598 | 81 |
| 2023 | £409,000 | £449,391 | 76 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 130 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 129 |
| 2020 | £339,000 | £439,860 | 100 |
| 2019 | £327,800 | £429,667 | 90 |
| 2018 | £335,000 | £446,561 | 111 |
| 2017 | £335,000 | £456,906 | 99 |
| 2016 | £320,000 | £447,683 | 115 |
| 2015 | £281,000 | £397,053 | 118 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 137 |
| 2013 | £222,500 | £320,155 | 118 |
| 2012 | £208,000 | £306,150 | 87 |
| 2011 | £208,900 | £315,359 | 95 |
| 2010 | £209,100 | £327,923 | 84 |
| 2009 | £185,500 | £298,193 | 90 |
| 2008 | £217,000 | £355,709 | 72 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 164 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 193 |
| 2005 | £177,800 | £316,412 | 146 |
| 2004 | £174,000 | £316,018 | 164 |
| 2003 | £169,800 | £312,813 | 116 |
| 2002 | £147,000 | £276,579 | 169 |
| 2001 | £124,500 | £239,345 | 144 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 155 |
| 1999 | £91,200 | £181,757 | 178 |
| 1998 | £115,000 | £232,136 | 217 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 159 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 132 |
| 1995 | £69,100 | £150,213 | 113 |
In cash terms the typical HP1 3 home went from £69,100 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 166%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% 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 HP1 3 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 1998 (+43.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−20.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HP1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +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.
How many homes change hands in HP1 3
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 45 sales completed in HP1 3. 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 87 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.
What kind of market HP1 3 is
Only 45 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HP1 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around HP1 3
The local authority for HP1 3 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.
Against the £400,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,579 a month (£18,948 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: HP1 3 (Bourne End)
Is HP1 3 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in HP1 3 (Bourne End)?
What happens to HP1 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
HP1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 137 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP1 district, not just HP1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" 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 HP1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in HP: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the HP area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HP1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HP1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP1 1 | £470,000 | 43 |
| HP1 2 | £420,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full HP1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HP1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in HP1 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP1 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP1 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP1 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim HP1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HP1 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.