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Dagnall market report HP4, Berkhamsted
The HP4 (Dagnall) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 15,822 HM Land Registry entries for HP4 (Berkhamsted), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 129 registered 2026 sales put the HP4 (Berkhamsted) median at £720,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £770,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,550 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 15,822 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
HP4 is the postcode district covering Berkhamsted, Dagnall, Dudswell in Berkhamsted. 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 HP4 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 HP4
In the HP4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £720,000, from 129 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £770,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in HP4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of HP4 sales average about £6,550 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so HP4 trades 153% above the country as a whole.
HP4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £720,000 | £720,000 | 129 |
| 2025 | £641,100 | £656,431 | 378 |
| 2024 | £632,000 | £671,946 | 413 |
| 2023 | £655,000 | £719,685 | 338 |
| 2022 | £650,000 | £762,199 | 419 |
| 2021 | £631,000 | £798,927 | 568 |
| 2020 | £625,000 | £810,950 | 347 |
| 2019 | £580,000 | £760,241 | 334 |
| 2018 | £581,000 | £774,484 | 392 |
| 2017 | £585,000 | £797,881 | 473 |
| 2016 | £517,500 | £723,988 | 394 |
| 2015 | £499,200 | £705,370 | 546 |
| 2014 | £436,000 | £618,542 | 520 |
| 2013 | £365,000 | £525,199 | 480 |
| 2012 | £383,800 | £564,906 | 441 |
| 2011 | £363,500 | £548,745 | 432 |
| 2010 | £335,000 | £525,366 | 466 |
| 2009 | £320,000 | £514,403 | 439 |
| 2008 | £345,000 | £565,528 | 360 |
| 2007 | £340,000 | £576,735 | 669 |
| 2006 | £297,000 | £515,554 | 683 |
| 2005 | £295,000 | £524,981 | 529 |
| 2004 | £275,000 | £499,454 | 585 |
| 2003 | £250,000 | £460,561 | 612 |
| 2002 | £220,000 | £413,928 | 747 |
| 2001 | £191,800 | £368,726 | 638 |
| 2000 | £182,500 | £358,156 | 622 |
| 1999 | £145,000 | £288,977 | 644 |
| 1998 | £134,800 | £272,103 | 558 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 619 |
| 1996 | £97,800 | £206,256 | 608 |
| 1995 | £94,000 | £204,342 | 439 |
In cash terms the typical HP4 home went from £94,000 in 1995 to £720,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 252%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the HP4 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 (+25.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.2%). 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) | +12.3% | +9.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 29% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £963,000 against £356,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, HP4
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 | £963,000 | 41 | 4,588 |
| Semi-detached | £667,500 | 31 | 3,642 |
| Terraced | £625,000 | 39 | 4,246 |
| Flats | £356,500 | 18 | 3,346 |
Sales activity in HP4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
HP4 recorded 304 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 636 sales a year before the financial crisis and 335 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 kind of market HP4 is
Among the 24 measurable districts of its area, HP4 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around HP4
The local authority for HP4 is Dacorum, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,579 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £720,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,579 a month (£18,948 a year) works out at a 2.6% 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.
What people ask about HP4 (Dagnall)
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What happens to HP4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
HP4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in HP4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 34 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the HP4 median sold price.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Chiltern Park Avenue, Berkhamsted
- London Road, Berkhamsted
- Main Road North, Dagnall, Berkhamsted, Berkhamsted
"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 HP4 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
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
HP4 ranks 6 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 HP4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HP4 1 | £660,000 | 29 |
| HP4 2 | £571,500 | 46 |
| HP4 3 | £810,000 | 54 |
How HP4 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 (this report) | £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 | £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% |
Before you sell in HP4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in HP4, open the average prices map and zoom from the HP4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded HP4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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See every individual HP4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.