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Bourne End market report HP1, Hemel Hempstead
The HP1 (Bourne End) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 13,950 registered sales in HP1 (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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 151 registered 2026 sales put the HP1 (Hemel Hempstead) median at £420,000, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £451,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,060 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 13,950 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district HP1 covering Bourne End, Boxmoor, Chaulden sits in Hemel Hempstead. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where HP1 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 a home in HP1 sells for
The 2026 median for HP1 is £420,000, taken from 151 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £451,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in HP1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in HP1 costs about £5,060 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 47% above the country at large.
The price of a typical HP1 home, 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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 151 |
| 2025 | £420,000 | £430,043 | 378 |
| 2024 | £413,800 | £439,954 | 292 |
| 2023 | £420,000 | £461,477 | 309 |
| 2022 | £392,500 | £460,251 | 591 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 578 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 339 |
| 2019 | £344,000 | £450,902 | 342 |
| 2018 | £345,000 | £459,892 | 363 |
| 2017 | £355,100 | £484,321 | 368 |
| 2016 | £310,500 | £434,393 | 430 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 419 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 530 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 455 |
| 2012 | £212,500 | £312,773 | 373 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 465 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 365 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 277 |
| 2008 | £234,000 | £383,575 | 265 |
| 2007 | £233,000 | £395,233 | 547 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 565 |
| 2005 | £194,000 | £345,242 | 517 |
| 2004 | £184,000 | £334,180 | 506 |
| 2003 | £174,500 | £321,471 | 436 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 565 |
| 2001 | £126,000 | £242,229 | 493 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 452 |
| 1999 | £98,000 | £195,309 | 623 |
| 1998 | £95,500 | £192,774 | 528 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 553 |
| 1996 | £71,000 | £149,736 | 437 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 438 |
In cash terms the typical HP1 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 172%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 15% 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 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 2000 (+20.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.5%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £695,000 against £258,800 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, HP1
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 | £695,000 | 20 | 2,238 |
| Semi-detached | £535,000 | 30 | 2,638 |
| Terraced | £399,000 | 75 | 5,765 |
| Flats | £258,800 | 26 | 3,309 |
What HP1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.7% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
HP1 recorded 283 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 510 sales a year before the financial crisis and 344 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 tenants pay around HP1
For renting purposes HP1 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.
Against the £420,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,579 a month (£18,948 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Common questions on HP1 (Bourne End)
How much did a house sell for in HP1 (Bourne End)?
Are property prices falling in HP1 (Bourne End)?
Is HP1 (Bourne End) a good place to buy a house?
Where do HP1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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
Everything above is what homes in HP1 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 106 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the HP1 median sold price.
HP1 registered 283 sales in the last twelve months; the 106 homes listed now would take about 4 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Cotterells, Hemel Hempstead
- Bridge Street, Hemel Hempstead
- Spring Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
"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 →
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.
What is for sale against what sells in HP1
Sellers of flats in HP1 have company: 50% of current listings against 19% of recent sales. When a type is offered faster than it sells, the buyer usually holds the better hand.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 0% | 15% |
| Semi-detached | 20% | 19% |
| Terraced | 30% | 47% |
| Flats | 50% | 19% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side.
Month by month: when HP1 sells
Across the 2,148 sales completed in HP1 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (12.2% of the total) and April the quietest (6.0%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 132 | 6.1% |
| February | 181 | 8.4% |
| March | 235 | 10.9% |
| April | 128 | 6.0% |
| May | 152 | 7.1% |
| June | 263 | 12.2% |
| July | 167 | 7.8% |
| August | 192 | 8.9% |
| September | 220 | 10.2% |
| October | 159 | 7.4% |
| November | 166 | 7.7% |
| December | 153 | 7.1% |
The price of an extra bedroom in HP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the HP area. 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 | £428,000 | £476,000 (+11%) | £560,000 (+18%) | £718,250 (+28%) | £985,000 (+37%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £389,500 (+20%) | £450,000 (+16%) | £555,000 (+23%) | £730,000 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £250,000 | £335,000 (+34%) | £400,000 (+19%) | £515,000 (+29%) | £675,000 (+31%) |
| Flat | £195,000 | £257,750 (+32%) | £350,000 (+36%) | £505,000 (+44%) | £575,000 (+14%) |
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
HP1 ranks 7 of 24 in the HP area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the HP area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside HP1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How HP1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HP9 | £805,000 | -8% |
| HP8 | £730,000 | -8% |
| HP6 | £725,000 | +7% |
| HP4 | £677,500 | +7% |
| HP7 | £670,000 | +6% |
| HP16 | £592,500 | +0% |
| HP10 | £555,000 | +10% |
| HP17 | £548,800 | +14% |
| HP15 | £535,000 | +11% |
| HP27 | £520,000 | +4% |
| HP5 | £490,000 | +17% |
| HP22 | £485,000 | +11% |
| HP23 | £471,000 | -10% |
| HP14 | £460,000 | +3% |
| HP3 | £430,000 | +6% |
| HP1 (this report) | £420,000 | +12% |
| HP18 | £403,800 | +5% |
| HP12 | £390,000 | +20% |
| HP13 | £385,000 | +14% |
| HP2 | £377,500 | +8% |
| HP11 | £345,000 | +1% |
| HP21 | £318,000 | +9% |
| HP19 | £315,000 | +15% |
| HP20 | £310,000 | +17% |
Selling in HP1? 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 HP1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HP1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HP1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every HP1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.