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Apsley market report HP3 9, Hemel Hempstead
The HP3 9 (Apsley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,094 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in HP3 9 (Hemel Hempstead) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HP3 9 (Hemel Hempstead) came in at £396,000, out of 86 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £393,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,790 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,094 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like HP3 9 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 9 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 HP3 9
The HP3 9 median stands at £396,000 for 2026, built from 86 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £393,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
HP3 9 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in HP3 9 have sold for about £4,790 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, HP3 9 runs 39% above it.
The price of a typical HP3 9 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £396,000 | £396,000 | 86 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 212 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 219 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 186 |
| 2022 | £380,000 | £445,593 | 263 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 364 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 246 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 189 |
| 2018 | £346,000 | £461,225 | 246 |
| 2017 | £336,000 | £458,270 | 306 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 369 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 419 |
| 2014 | £248,000 | £351,831 | 347 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 281 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 259 |
| 2011 | £226,000 | £341,173 | 204 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 208 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 199 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 195 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 390 |
| 2006 | £209,000 | £362,797 | 449 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 313 |
| 2004 | £193,200 | £350,889 | 354 |
| 2003 | £177,000 | £326,077 | 389 |
| 2002 | £171,500 | £322,676 | 668 |
| 2001 | £133,000 | £255,686 | 306 |
| 2000 | £118,200 | £231,968 | 208 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 282 |
| 1998 | £84,500 | £170,569 | 215 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 335 |
| 1996 | £68,700 | £144,885 | 228 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 159 |
In cash terms the typical HP3 9 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £396,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HP3 9 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 2002 (+28.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.8%). 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) | +5.6% | +3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 86 sales completed in HP3 9. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 385 sales a year before the financial crisis and 193 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Rents around HP3 9
For renting purposes HP3 9 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 £396,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
What people ask about HP3 9 (Apsley)
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What happens to HP3 9 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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
The live side of the market holds 283 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP3 district, not just HP3 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% 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.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in HP: the cost
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 | — | £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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, HP area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HP3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of HP3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP3 0 | £500,000 | 37 |
| HP3 8 | £500,000 | 33 |
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 9: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HP3 9, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HP3 9's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HP3 9 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim HP3 9.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every HP3 9 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.
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.