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Apsley market report HP3 8, Hemel Hempstead
The standing HP3 8 (Apsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,806 sales registered with HM Land Registry in HP3 8 (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 typical home in HP3 8 (Hemel Hempstead) sold for £500,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £476,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,806 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like HP3 8 is a single group of streets within HP3 (Hemel Hempstead), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where HP3 8 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.
The going rate for a home in HP3 8
Take the 33 registered 2026 sales in HP3 8 and the middle price, the median, is £500,000. The mean lands at £476,900, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
HP3 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, HP3 8 homes have averaged around £4,960 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, HP3 8 runs 75% above it.
The price of a typical HP3 8 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £584,000 | £597,965 | 99 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 79 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 85 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 99 |
| 2021 | £495,000 | £626,734 | 157 |
| 2020 | £495,000 | £642,273 | 70 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 117 |
| 2018 | £387,000 | £515,878 | 117 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 101 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 106 |
| 2015 | £388,000 | £548,244 | 93 |
| 2014 | £291,500 | £413,544 | 138 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 124 |
| 2012 | £271,000 | £398,878 | 117 |
| 2011 | £230,500 | £347,966 | 90 |
| 2010 | £290,000 | £454,795 | 83 |
| 2009 | £213,800 | £343,685 | 70 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 62 |
| 2007 | £238,500 | £404,562 | 191 |
| 2006 | £194,000 | £336,759 | 150 |
| 2005 | £214,000 | £380,834 | 134 |
| 2004 | £178,500 | £324,191 | 160 |
| 2003 | £168,000 | £309,497 | 139 |
| 2002 | £167,500 | £315,150 | 166 |
| 2001 | £147,000 | £282,600 | 161 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 131 |
| 1999 | £122,000 | £243,140 | 175 |
| 1998 | £89,600 | £180,864 | 134 |
| 1997 | £78,200 | £160,372 | 168 |
| 1996 | £88,500 | £186,643 | 158 |
| 1995 | £93,000 | £202,168 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical HP3 8 home went from £93,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 147%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HP3 8 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 1999 (+36.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What HP3 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.4% | −16.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
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
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.
HP3 8 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 154 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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 HP3 8 trades
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes HP3 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within HP3, this sector trades 18% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of HP3 8
For renting purposes HP3 8 sits in Dacorum. The ONS average private rent there is £1,579 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,087 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,270 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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: HP3 8 (Apsley)
Is HP3 8 (Apsley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HP3 8 (Apsley)?
Are property prices falling in HP3 8 (Apsley)?
Where do HP3 8 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in HP3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 283 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP3 district, not just HP3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Chipperfield Road, Hemel Hempstead
- Bennetts End Road, Hemel Hempstead
- King Edward 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 HP3 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: HP prices by size
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in HP3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are HP3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP3 0 | £500,000 | 37 |
| HP3 9 | £396,000 | 86 |
Zoom out to the full HP3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HP3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HP3 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at HP3 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HP3 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP3 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual HP3 8 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.