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Bushey Heath market report WD23 4, Bushey
The WD23 4 (Bushey Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,354 registered sales in WD23 4 (Bushey) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WD23 4 (Bushey) came in at £680,000, out of 25 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £636,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,354 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WD23 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD23 (Bushey). 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 WD23 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.
What WD23 4 homes really sell for
The WD23 4 median stands at £680,000 for 2026, built from 25 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £636,100, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in WD23 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD23 4 costs about £5,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD23 4 139% above the national figure.
WD23 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 | £680,000 | £680,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £610,000 | £624,587 | 93 |
| 2024 | £582,500 | £619,317 | 80 |
| 2023 | £695,000 | £763,635 | 61 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 99 |
| 2021 | £575,000 | £728,024 | 113 |
| 2020 | £531,500 | £689,632 | 82 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 70 |
| 2018 | £525,000 | £699,835 | 73 |
| 2017 | £520,000 | £709,228 | 83 |
| 2016 | £500,000 | £699,505 | 92 |
| 2015 | £450,000 | £635,850 | 111 |
| 2014 | £445,000 | £631,310 | 120 |
| 2013 | £296,000 | £425,914 | 89 |
| 2012 | £329,000 | £484,247 | 76 |
| 2011 | £317,000 | £478,548 | 88 |
| 2010 | £327,000 | £512,820 | 84 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 79 |
| 2008 | £327,500 | £536,842 | 72 |
| 2007 | £310,000 | £525,846 | 141 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 147 |
| 2005 | £252,500 | £449,348 | 103 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 112 |
| 2003 | £236,000 | £434,769 | 126 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 143 |
| 2001 | £175,000 | £336,429 | 151 |
| 2000 | £145,000 | £284,563 | 168 |
| 1999 | £171,000 | £340,794 | 153 |
| 1998 | £100,500 | £202,866 | 130 |
| 1997 | £129,500 | £265,578 | 151 |
| 1996 | £98,000 | £206,678 | 121 |
| 1995 | £104,000 | £226,080 | 118 |
In cash terms the typical WD23 4 home went from £104,000 in 1995 to £680,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 201%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD23 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 1999 (+70.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−23.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +11.5% | +8.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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, 25 sales completed in WD23 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 72 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.
The rental side of WD23 4
WD23 4 falls under Hertsmere, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £680,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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 4 trades
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD23 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within WD23, this sector trades 25% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: WD23 4 (Bushey Heath)
Are property prices falling in WD23 4 (Bushey Heath)?
Is WD23 4 (Bushey Heath) a good place to buy a house?
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Where do WD23 4 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
WD23's current homes for sale
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 4: 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.
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in WD
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 WD23
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD23, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD23 1 | £508,000 | 43 |
| WD23 2 | £491,500 | 50 |
| WD23 3 | £552,500 | 26 |
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 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD23 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD23 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD23 4 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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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual WD23 4 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.