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Oxhey market report WD19 5, Watford
The WD19 5 (Oxhey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,852 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD19 5 (Watford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 24 registered 2026 sales put the WD19 5 (Watford) median at £545,000, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £548,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,830 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,852 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WD19 5 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 5 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 WD19 5
In the WD19 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £545,000, from 24 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £548,700, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in WD19 5
The last five years of sales put WD19 5 at roughly £5,830 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WD19 5 91% above the country at large.
A typical WD19 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £545,000 | £545,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £520,000 | £532,435 | 82 |
| 2024 | £530,000 | £563,499 | 59 |
| 2023 | £491,000 | £539,489 | 53 |
| 2022 | £504,000 | £590,998 | 94 |
| 2021 | £475,500 | £602,044 | 94 |
| 2020 | £433,000 | £561,826 | 71 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 59 |
| 2018 | £460,000 | £613,189 | 70 |
| 2017 | £410,000 | £559,199 | 101 |
| 2016 | £465,000 | £650,540 | 71 |
| 2015 | £363,000 | £512,919 | 80 |
| 2014 | £328,000 | £465,325 | 101 |
| 2013 | £290,200 | £417,569 | 88 |
| 2012 | £267,000 | £392,991 | 51 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 87 |
| 2010 | £271,200 | £425,311 | 70 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 59 |
| 2008 | £255,800 | £419,310 | 66 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 100 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 127 |
| 2005 | £237,000 | £421,764 | 71 |
| 2004 | £231,500 | £420,449 | 124 |
| 2003 | £210,000 | £386,871 | 102 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 124 |
| 2001 | £156,000 | £299,902 | 119 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 94 |
| 1999 | £117,500 | £234,171 | 139 |
| 1998 | £133,000 | £268,470 | 220 |
| 1997 | £94,200 | £193,185 | 92 |
| 1996 | £79,200 | £167,029 | 82 |
| 1995 | £77,400 | £168,256 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical WD19 5 home went from £77,400 in 1995 to £545,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 224%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD19 5 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 (+41.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−11.8%). 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) | +4.8% | +2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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 5
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in WD19 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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.
How WD19 5 trades
Only 24 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD19 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WD19, this sector trades 24% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around WD19 5
For renting purposes WD19 5 sits in Three Rivers. The ONS average private rent there is £1,809 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,263 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,756 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Three Rivers
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £545,000 median sold price, £1,809 a month is £21,708 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
Common questions on WD19 5 (Oxhey)
How much did a house sell for in WD19 5 (Oxhey)?
Are property prices falling in WD19 5 (Oxhey)?
Is WD19 5 (Oxhey) a good place to buy a house?
Will WD19 5 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
On the market in WD19 today
Turning to what is actually available: 25 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD19 district, not just WD19 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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" 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, 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. 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.
WD area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 4 | £497,500 | 46 |
| 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 5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD19 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD19 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD19 5 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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Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD19 5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD19 5 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.
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.