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West Watford market report WD18 7, Watford
The standing WD18 7 (West Watford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,897 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD18 7 (Watford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for WD18 7 (Watford) is £355,000, from 37 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £418,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,980 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,897 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WD18 7 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 7 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 WD18 7
37 sales were registered in WD18 7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £355,000. The mean works out at £418,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
WD18 7 prices by floor area
Per square metre, WD18 7 homes have averaged around £4,980 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WD18 7 runs 25% above it.
WD18 7's median sold price, 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 | £355,000 | £355,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 107 |
| 2024 | £368,500 | £391,791 | 136 |
| 2023 | £366,000 | £402,145 | 186 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 197 |
| 2021 | £365,000 | £462,137 | 137 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 86 |
| 2019 | £370,000 | £484,981 | 93 |
| 2018 | £382,000 | £509,213 | 113 |
| 2017 | £360,000 | £491,004 | 131 |
| 2016 | £355,000 | £496,649 | 180 |
| 2015 | £288,500 | £407,651 | 205 |
| 2014 | £247,500 | £351,122 | 234 |
| 2013 | £237,500 | £341,739 | 161 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 130 |
| 2011 | £217,500 | £328,341 | 126 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 147 |
| 2009 | £216,000 | £347,222 | 136 |
| 2008 | £230,900 | £378,494 | 168 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 264 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 394 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 315 |
| 2004 | £223,500 | £405,920 | 388 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 267 |
| 2002 | £147,500 | £277,520 | 231 |
| 2001 | £114,500 | £220,120 | 211 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 200 |
| 1999 | £86,200 | £171,792 | 213 |
| 1998 | £79,000 | £159,467 | 221 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 188 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 159 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical WD18 7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD18 7 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 2002 (+28.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2006 (−8.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.4% | −3.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | 0.0% | −3.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WD18 7
Sales per year, counted
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 37 WD18 7 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 284 sales a year before the financial crisis and 133 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.
What homes rent for around WD18 7
WD18 7 falls under Watford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,814 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,256 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,634, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,814 a month is £21,768 a year, which against the £355,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the WD18 7 market
This is a thin market: 37 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.
What people ask about WD18 7 (West Watford)
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What happens to WD18 7 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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.
What you could buy in WD18 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 66 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD18 district, not just WD18 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% 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.
"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 WD18 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WD prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WD area. 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the WD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the WD area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD18
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD18, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD18 0 | £387,500 | 38 |
| WD18 6 | £208,800 | 6 |
| 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 a home in WD18 7? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD18 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD18 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD18 7 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 WD18 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD18 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD18 7 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.
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.