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Bushey Heath market report WD23 3, Bushey
The standing WD23 3 (Bushey Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,871 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD23 3 (Bushey) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 3 (Bushey) home changed hands for £552,500 in 2026 (median of 26 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £548,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,670 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,871 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 3 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 3 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 WD23 3
Take the 26 registered 2026 sales in WD23 3 and the middle price, the median, is £552,500. The mean lands at £548,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in WD23 3
By floor space, homes in WD23 3 have sold for about £5,670 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 3 trades 94% above the country as a whole.
WD23 3's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £552,500 | £552,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 83 |
| 2024 | £525,000 | £558,183 | 90 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 71 |
| 2022 | £536,000 | £628,521 | 80 |
| 2021 | £505,000 | £639,395 | 95 |
| 2020 | £457,500 | £593,616 | 74 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 74 |
| 2018 | £472,500 | £629,851 | 66 |
| 2017 | £593,400 | £809,338 | 116 |
| 2016 | £478,800 | £669,846 | 114 |
| 2015 | £447,500 | £632,318 | 87 |
| 2014 | £375,000 | £532,003 | 99 |
| 2013 | £306,500 | £441,023 | 74 |
| 2012 | £328,500 | £483,511 | 90 |
| 2011 | £301,800 | £455,602 | 72 |
| 2010 | £330,000 | £517,525 | 69 |
| 2009 | £295,000 | £474,215 | 81 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 45 |
| 2007 | £283,000 | £480,047 | 122 |
| 2006 | £242,800 | £421,470 | 122 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 81 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 93 |
| 2003 | £219,000 | £403,451 | 109 |
| 2002 | £186,000 | £349,957 | 134 |
| 2001 | £155,800 | £299,518 | 106 |
| 2000 | £129,000 | £253,163 | 96 |
| 1999 | £130,300 | £259,681 | 114 |
| 1998 | £98,000 | £197,820 | 104 |
| 1997 | £104,000 | £213,283 | 102 |
| 1996 | £81,000 | £170,825 | 97 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical WD23 3 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £552,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 248%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD23 3 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 1999 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−20.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +10.5% | +7.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WD23 3 recorded 26 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 70 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.
What kind of market WD23 3 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD23 3 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.
What tenants pay around WD23 3
WD23 3 falls under Hertsmere, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,238 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,761 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £552,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
What people ask about WD23 3 (Bushey Heath)
Are property prices falling in WD23 3 (Bushey Heath)?
Is WD23 3 (Bushey Heath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD23 3 (Bushey Heath)?
What happens to WD23 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
On the market in WD23 today
Turning to what is actually available: 66 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD23 district, not just WD23 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WD23 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in WD23
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD23, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD23 1 | £508,000 | 43 |
| WD23 2 | £491,500 | 50 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WD23 3: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD23 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD23 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD23 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WD23 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD23 3.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual WD23 3 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.
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.