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Watford town centre market report WD17 4, Watford
The WD17 4 (Watford town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,981 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD17 4 (Watford) 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 middle 2026 sale in WD17 4 (Watford) came in at £524,500, out of 44 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £575,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,420 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,981 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 WD17 4 is a single group of streets within WD17 (Watford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD17 4 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 WD17 4
Across 44 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD17 4 home went for £524,500. The mean is £575,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WD17 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD17 4 costs about £5,420 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD17 4 84% above the national figure.
The price of a typical WD17 4 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 | £524,500 | £524,500 | 44 |
| 2025 | £448,900 | £459,635 | 115 |
| 2024 | £403,000 | £428,472 | 99 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 83 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 114 |
| 2021 | £515,000 | £652,056 | 155 |
| 2020 | £530,000 | £687,686 | 79 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 134 |
| 2018 | £508,800 | £678,240 | 132 |
| 2017 | £390,000 | £531,921 | 117 |
| 2016 | £435,000 | £608,569 | 135 |
| 2015 | £390,000 | £551,070 | 163 |
| 2014 | £281,500 | £399,357 | 166 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 213 |
| 2012 | £297,500 | £437,883 | 204 |
| 2011 | £260,000 | £392,500 | 143 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 163 |
| 2009 | £232,200 | £373,263 | 162 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 91 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 203 |
| 2006 | £262,500 | £455,666 | 256 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 167 |
| 2004 | £229,000 | £415,909 | 160 |
| 2003 | £240,000 | £442,138 | 159 |
| 2002 | £185,000 | £348,076 | 185 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 215 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 170 |
| 1999 | £157,500 | £313,889 | 251 |
| 1998 | £112,500 | £227,089 | 209 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 183 |
| 1996 | £76,800 | £161,968 | 188 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical WD17 4 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £524,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 215%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD17 4 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 1998 (+40.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−22.3%). 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) | +16.8% | +14.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
WD17 4 recorded 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 189 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.
Reading the WD17 4 market
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD17 4 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. Against the WD17 district median, WD17 4 sits 31% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of WD17 4
For renting purposes WD17 4 sits in Watford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,814 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,256 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,634 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £524,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,814 a month (£21,768 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
WD17 4 (Watford town centre): the questions that come up
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Will WD17 4 prices rise from here?
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.
WD17's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 115 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD17 district, not just WD17 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 WD17 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WD
Real sold prices by size across the WD 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 | — | £570,000 | £809,500 (+42%) | £1,120,000 (+38%) | £1,514,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £412,500 | £497,250 (+21%) | £585,000 (+18%) | £760,000 (+30%) | £975,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £380,000 | £425,000 (+12%) | £507,750 (+19%) | £624,750 (+23%) | £845,000 (+35%) |
| Flat | £250,000 | £355,000 (+42%) | £572,500 (+61%) | £1,000,000 (+75%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WD17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD17 1 | £287,200 | 5 |
| WD17 2 | £275,000 | 19 |
| WD17 3 | £960,000 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full WD17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD17 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WD17 4: 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 WD17 4'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.
Estate agents working WD17 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD17 4.
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The live map plots every individual WD17 4 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.
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.