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Oxhey market report WD19, Watford
The WD19 (Oxhey) 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: 13,410 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD19 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in WD19 (Watford) sold for £440,000 in 2026, the median of 133 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £483,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,640 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 13,410 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district WD19 covering Oxhey, South Oxhey, Carpenders Park sits in Watford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WD19 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 WD19 homes really sell for
Across 133 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD19 home went for £440,000. The mean is £483,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WD19
Per square metre, WD19 homes have averaged around £5,640 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, WD19 runs 54% above it.
A typical WD19 home, priced year by year (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 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 133 |
| 2025 | £466,500 | £477,655 | 338 |
| 2024 | £445,500 | £473,658 | 324 |
| 2023 | £440,000 | £483,453 | 304 |
| 2022 | £435,000 | £510,087 | 406 |
| 2021 | £420,000 | £531,774 | 501 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 338 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 297 |
| 2018 | £372,000 | £495,883 | 371 |
| 2017 | £393,500 | £536,694 | 353 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 327 |
| 2015 | £342,500 | £483,953 | 369 |
| 2014 | £296,000 | £419,928 | 457 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 395 |
| 2012 | £242,500 | £356,930 | 333 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 311 |
| 2010 | £235,000 | £368,541 | 333 |
| 2009 | £211,000 | £339,184 | 278 |
| 2008 | £232,000 | £380,297 | 275 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 559 |
| 2006 | £212,500 | £368,873 | 567 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 470 |
| 2004 | £192,800 | £350,162 | 637 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 546 |
| 2002 | £149,000 | £280,342 | 600 |
| 2001 | £127,500 | £245,112 | 591 |
| 2000 | £114,000 | £223,725 | 441 |
| 1999 | £103,000 | £205,274 | 561 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 621 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 566 |
| 1996 | £68,200 | £143,831 | 436 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 372 |
In cash terms the typical WD19 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 198%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 19% 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 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £748,000 against £274,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, WD19
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £748,000 | 13 | 1,536 |
| Semi-detached | £540,000 | 43 | 4,624 |
| Terraced | £425,000 | 49 | 4,892 |
| Flats | £274,000 | 28 | 2,358 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.7% | −7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
WD19 recorded 265 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 551 sales a year before the financial crisis and 301 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 tenants pay around WD19
For renting purposes WD19 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.
Against the £440,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,809 a month (£21,708 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
Common questions on WD19 (Oxhey)
Are property prices falling in WD19 (Oxhey)?
Is WD19 (Oxhey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD19 (Oxhey)?
Are WD19 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in WD19 right now
Everything above is what homes in WD19 sold for. The live side of the market holds 25 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the WD19 median sold price.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WD19 ranks 5 of 11 in the WD area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside WD19, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD19 4 | £497,500 | 46 |
| WD19 5 | £545,000 | 24 |
| WD19 6 | £455,000 | 25 |
| WD19 7 | £405,000 | 38 |
How WD19 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 | £670,000 | -21% |
| WD3 | £600,000 | +5% |
| WD4 | £564,500 | +3% |
| WD23 | £543,500 | -1% |
| WD25 | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 (this report) | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Selling in WD19? 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 WD19'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim WD19.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD19 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD19 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.