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Apsley market report HP3, Hemel Hempstead
The standing HP3 (Apsley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 17,383 registered sales in HP3 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 156 registered 2026 sales put the HP3 (Hemel Hempstead) median at £422,500, up 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £473,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,970 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,383 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
HP3 is the postcode district covering Apsley, Bovingdon, Felden in Hemel Hempstead. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where HP3 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
156 sales were registered in HP3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £422,500. The mean works out at £473,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
HP3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HP3 sales average about £4,970 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving HP3 48% above the national figure.
The price of a typical HP3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £422,500 | £422,500 | 156 |
| 2025 | £463,500 | £474,584 | 446 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 403 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 355 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 498 |
| 2021 | £407,400 | £515,821 | 715 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 458 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 471 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 486 |
| 2017 | £369,500 | £503,961 | 518 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 644 |
| 2015 | £310,000 | £438,030 | 701 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 643 |
| 2013 | £249,000 | £358,286 | 509 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 478 |
| 2011 | £248,000 | £374,385 | 389 |
| 2010 | £243,000 | £381,087 | 391 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 367 |
| 2008 | £227,000 | £372,101 | 328 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 759 |
| 2006 | £217,000 | £376,684 | 805 |
| 2005 | £203,800 | £362,682 | 573 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 692 |
| 2003 | £180,500 | £332,525 | 665 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 1,020 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 651 |
| 2000 | £133,200 | £261,405 | 490 |
| 1999 | £107,000 | £213,245 | 631 |
| 1998 | £96,500 | £194,792 | 521 |
| 1997 | £84,000 | £172,267 | 707 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 535 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 378 |
In cash terms the typical HP3 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £422,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the HP3 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 (+24.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.8% | −11.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £722,500 against £293,800 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, HP3
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 | £722,500 | 24 | 3,376 |
| Semi-detached | £500,000 | 42 | 4,347 |
| Terraced | £424,000 | 44 | 5,004 |
| Flats | £293,800 | 46 | 4,656 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 340 HP3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 707 sales a year before the financial crisis and 372 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.
What homes rent for around HP3
The local authority for HP3 is Dacorum, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,579 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £422,500 median sold price, £1,579 a month is £18,948 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on HP3 (Apsley)
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What happens to HP3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
HP3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HP3 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 283 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the HP3 median sold price.
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" 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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in HP: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the HP area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
HP3 ranks 18 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside HP3, 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.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP3 0 | £500,000 | 37 |
| HP3 8 | £500,000 | 33 |
| HP3 9 | £396,000 | 86 |
How HP3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the HP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| HP9 | £790,000 | -10% |
| HP8 | £721,800 | -9% |
| HP4 | £720,000 | +14% |
| HP6 | £700,000 | +4% |
| HP7 | £680,000 | +8% |
| HP16 | £587,500 | +0% |
| HP10 | £552,500 | +9% |
| HP17 | £552,500 | +15% |
| HP15 | £530,000 | +10% |
| HP27 | £515,000 | +3% |
| HP22 | £493,000 | +13% |
| HP5 | £483,500 | +15% |
| HP23 | £471,200 | -10% |
| HP14 | £467,500 | +4% |
| HP3 (this report) | £422,500 | +4% |
| HP1 | £415,000 | +11% |
| HP18 | £408,000 | +6% |
| HP12 | £405,000 | +25% |
| HP13 | £390,000 | +16% |
| HP2 | £375,000 | +7% |
| HP11 | £360,000 | +6% |
| HP20 | £315,000 | +19% |
| HP21 | £315,000 | +8% |
| HP19 | £312,500 | +14% |
Selling in HP3? 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 HP3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HP3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HP3 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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every HP3 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.