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Oxhey market report WD19 4, Watford
The standing WD19 4 (Oxhey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,030 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD19 4 (Watford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WD19 4 (Watford) came in at £497,500, out of 46 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £548,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,840 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,030 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WD19 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD19 (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 WD19 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.
The going rate for a home in WD19 4
Take the 46 registered 2026 sales in WD19 4 and the middle price, the median, is £497,500. The mean lands at £548,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WD19 4
The last five years of sales put WD19 4 at roughly £5,840 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WD19 4 sits 75% above the national market.
WD19 4'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 | £497,500 | £497,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £589,500 | £603,597 | 112 |
| 2024 | £570,000 | £606,027 | 129 |
| 2023 | £540,000 | £593,328 | 101 |
| 2022 | £518,800 | £608,352 | 120 |
| 2021 | £475,000 | £601,411 | 197 |
| 2020 | £505,000 | £655,248 | 107 |
| 2019 | £529,500 | £694,048 | 124 |
| 2018 | £495,000 | £659,844 | 119 |
| 2017 | £510,000 | £695,589 | 117 |
| 2016 | £475,000 | £664,530 | 131 |
| 2015 | £415,000 | £586,395 | 145 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 189 |
| 2013 | £276,200 | £397,424 | 164 |
| 2012 | £264,700 | £389,605 | 169 |
| 2011 | £310,000 | £467,981 | 109 |
| 2010 | £331,300 | £519,564 | 136 |
| 2009 | £249,500 | £401,073 | 100 |
| 2008 | £303,800 | £497,992 | 87 |
| 2007 | £255,000 | £432,551 | 231 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 240 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 182 |
| 2004 | £229,800 | £417,362 | 222 |
| 2003 | £197,000 | £362,922 | 185 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 226 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 227 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 140 |
| 1999 | £125,800 | £250,713 | 226 |
| 1998 | £112,500 | £227,089 | 185 |
| 1997 | £93,200 | £191,134 | 222 |
| 1996 | £89,500 | £188,751 | 170 |
| 1995 | £76,000 | £165,212 | 172 |
In cash terms the typical WD19 4 home went from £76,000 in 1995 to £497,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 201%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD19 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 2010 (+32.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−17.9%). 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) | −15.6% | −17.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WD19 4
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.
WD19 4 recorded 46 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
How WD19 4 trades
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD19 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the WD19 district median, WD19 4 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around WD19 4
For renting purposes WD19 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.
Set against the £497,500 median sold price, £1,814 a month is £21,768 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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.
WD19 4 (Oxhey): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WD19 4 (Oxhey)?
Is WD19 4 (Oxhey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD19 4 (Oxhey)?
What happens to WD19 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in WD19 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD19 district, not just WD19 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 WD19 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.
What another bedroom costs in WD
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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 WD19
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD19's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD19 5 | £545,000 | 24 |
| WD19 6 | £455,000 | 25 |
| WD19 7 | £405,000 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full WD19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD19 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in WD19 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD19 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD19 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD19 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD19 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WD19 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual WD19 4 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.