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Bushey Heath market report WD23 1, Bushey
The WD23 1 (Bushey Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,946 HM Land Registry entries for WD23 1 (Bushey), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical WD23 1 (Bushey) home changed hands for £508,000 in 2026 (median of 43 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £510,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,960 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,946 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WD23 1 is a single group of streets within WD23 (Bushey), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD23 1 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 a home in WD23 1 sells for
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in WD23 1 and the middle price, the median, is £508,000. The mean lands at £510,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WD23 1
By floor space, homes in WD23 1 have sold for about £5,960 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WD23 1 trades 78% above the country as a whole.
A typical WD23 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £508,000 | £508,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £595,000 | £609,228 | 97 |
| 2024 | £515,000 | £547,551 | 96 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 64 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 104 |
| 2021 | £522,500 | £661,552 | 142 |
| 2020 | £457,500 | £593,616 | 96 |
| 2019 | £469,500 | £615,402 | 106 |
| 2018 | £565,000 | £753,156 | 122 |
| 2017 | £572,000 | £780,151 | 96 |
| 2016 | £598,500 | £837,307 | 134 |
| 2015 | £481,200 | £679,936 | 146 |
| 2014 | £432,500 | £613,577 | 132 |
| 2013 | £367,500 | £528,796 | 116 |
| 2012 | £355,000 | £522,516 | 85 |
| 2011 | £310,000 | £467,981 | 100 |
| 2010 | £355,000 | £556,731 | 97 |
| 2009 | £247,000 | £397,055 | 89 |
| 2008 | £363,800 | £596,345 | 82 |
| 2007 | £282,400 | £479,029 | 150 |
| 2006 | £265,000 | £460,006 | 176 |
| 2005 | £246,200 | £438,137 | 106 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 142 |
| 2003 | £234,000 | £431,085 | 151 |
| 2002 | £218,000 | £410,165 | 155 |
| 2001 | £210,000 | £403,714 | 177 |
| 2000 | £154,000 | £302,225 | 136 |
| 1999 | £143,000 | £284,992 | 195 |
| 1998 | £139,400 | £281,389 | 185 |
| 1997 | £104,500 | £214,308 | 157 |
| 1996 | £97,200 | £204,990 | 153 |
| 1995 | £91,000 | £197,820 | 116 |
In cash terms the typical WD23 1 home went from £91,000 in 1995 to £508,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 157%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 39% 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 WD23 1 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 (+43.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−32.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD23 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.6% | −16.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.6% | −4.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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
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.
WD23 1 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 149 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around WD23 1
For renting purposes WD23 1 sits in Hertsmere. The ONS average private rent there is £1,802 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,238 a month here against £2,761 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £508,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
How WD23 1 trades
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD23 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
WD23 1 (Bushey Heath): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in WD23 1 (Bushey Heath)?
Are property prices falling in WD23 1 (Bushey Heath)?
Is WD23 1 (Bushey Heath) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to WD23 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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 WD23 today
The live side of the market holds 66 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD23 district, not just WD23 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 11% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every WD23 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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD23
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD23, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD23 2 | £491,500 | 50 |
| WD23 3 | £552,500 | 26 |
| WD23 4 | £680,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full WD23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD23 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in WD23 1? 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 WD23 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD23 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD23 1 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 WD23 1.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD23 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD23 1 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.