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Dagnall market report HP4 2, Berkhamsted
The standing HP4 2 (Dagnall) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,693 registered sales in HP4 2 (Berkhamsted) 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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in HP4 2 (Berkhamsted) came in at £571,500, out of 46 registered, up 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £680,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,740 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,693 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
HP4 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside HP4 (Berkhamsted). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where HP4 2 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.
HP4 2 sold prices: where the market stands
In the HP4 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £571,500, from 46 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £680,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in HP4 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HP4 2 sales average about £6,740 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, HP4 2 runs 101% above it.
The price of a typical HP4 2 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £571,500 | £571,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £558,000 | £571,343 | 133 |
| 2024 | £627,500 | £667,161 | 142 |
| 2023 | £612,500 | £672,988 | 130 |
| 2022 | £600,000 | £703,568 | 150 |
| 2021 | £566,200 | £716,882 | 175 |
| 2020 | £561,500 | £728,558 | 132 |
| 2019 | £525,000 | £688,149 | 109 |
| 2018 | £545,000 | £726,495 | 135 |
| 2017 | £544,000 | £741,961 | 162 |
| 2016 | £495,000 | £692,510 | 137 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 215 |
| 2014 | £416,200 | £590,452 | 188 |
| 2013 | £350,800 | £504,766 | 160 |
| 2012 | £313,000 | £460,697 | 153 |
| 2011 | £281,800 | £425,410 | 168 |
| 2010 | £315,000 | £494,001 | 171 |
| 2009 | £296,000 | £475,823 | 136 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 111 |
| 2007 | £318,800 | £540,774 | 224 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 247 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 192 |
| 2004 | £246,500 | £447,692 | 230 |
| 2003 | £243,800 | £449,139 | 254 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 316 |
| 2001 | £173,200 | £332,968 | 282 |
| 2000 | £170,000 | £333,625 | 236 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 203 |
| 1998 | £118,200 | £238,595 | 180 |
| 1997 | £112,000 | £229,689 | 213 |
| 1996 | £84,600 | £178,418 | 218 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 145 |
In cash terms the typical HP4 2 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £571,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 229%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HP4 2 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 1997 (+32.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−11.1%). 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) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
Sales activity in HP4 2
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 HP4 2 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 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of HP4 2
For renting purposes HP4 2 sits in Dacorum. The ONS average private rent there is £1,579 a month (May 2026). 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 £571,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,579 a month (£18,948 a year) works out at a 3.3% 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.
How HP4 2 trades
This is a thin market: 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the HP4 district median, HP4 2 sits 21% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on HP4 2 (Dagnall)
Are property prices falling in HP4 2 (Dagnall)?
Is HP4 2 (Dagnall) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in HP4 2 (Dagnall)?
Are HP4 2 prices heading up or down?
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.
HP4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 34 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole HP4 district, not just HP4 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Chiltern Park Avenue, Berkhamsted
- London Road, Berkhamsted
- Main Road North, Dagnall, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every HP4 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.
What another bedroom costs in HP
What homes of each size actually sold for across the HP area, 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the HP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in HP4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of HP4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| HP4 1 | £660,000 | 29 |
| HP4 3 | £810,000 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full HP4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how HP4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in HP4 2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in HP4 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from HP4 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded HP4 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim HP4 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with HP4 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every HP4 2 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.