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West Watford market report WD18 0, Watford
The WD18 0 (West Watford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,647 HM Land Registry entries for WD18 0 (Watford), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 38 registered 2026 sales put the WD18 0 (Watford) median at £387,500, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £383,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,647 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WD18 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD18 (Watford). 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 WD18 0 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.
Today's WD18 0 prices, from the sold record
In the WD18 0 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £387,500, from 38 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £383,300, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in WD18 0
By floor space, homes in WD18 0 have sold for about £5,190 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD18 0 36% above the national figure.
The price of a typical WD18 0 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £387,500 | £387,500 | 38 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 117 |
| 2024 | £418,500 | £444,951 | 132 |
| 2023 | £386,500 | £424,669 | 140 |
| 2022 | £387,000 | £453,802 | 224 |
| 2021 | £346,500 | £438,714 | 134 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 84 |
| 2019 | £349,500 | £458,111 | 148 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 113 |
| 2017 | £346,000 | £471,909 | 98 |
| 2016 | £319,500 | £446,984 | 109 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 157 |
| 2014 | £238,000 | £337,645 | 125 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 136 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 124 |
| 2011 | £200,000 | £301,923 | 124 |
| 2010 | £204,000 | £319,925 | 184 |
| 2009 | £177,500 | £285,333 | 110 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 104 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 269 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 239 |
| 2005 | £176,000 | £313,209 | 189 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 221 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 230 |
| 2002 | £137,500 | £258,705 | 321 |
| 2001 | £114,400 | £219,928 | 276 |
| 2000 | £104,000 | £204,100 | 240 |
| 1999 | £81,000 | £161,429 | 301 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 259 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 270 |
| 1996 | £56,700 | £119,578 | 251 |
| 1995 | £55,200 | £119,996 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical WD18 0 home went from £55,200 in 1995 to £387,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 223%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD18 0 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 (+28.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.5%). 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) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 38 WD18 0 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 130 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 WD18 0
For renting purposes WD18 0 sits in Watford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,814 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,256 a month here against £2,634 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £387,500 median sold price, £1,814 a month is £21,768 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: 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.
What kind of market WD18 0 is
This is a thin market: 38 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.
Asked and answered: WD18 0 (West Watford)
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What happens to WD18 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 you could buy in WD18 now
The live side of the market holds 66 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD18 district, not just WD18 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WD18 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in WD: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WD area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WD18
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD18, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD18 6 | £208,800 | 6 |
| WD18 7 | £355,000 | 37 |
| WD18 8 | £370,000 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full WD18 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD18 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WD18 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WD18 0'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD18 0.
Keep digging
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See every individual WD18 0 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.