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Bushey Heath market report WD23, Bushey
The standing WD23 (Bushey Heath) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 14,491 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD23 (Bushey) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in WD23 (Bushey) sold for £543,500 in 2026, the median of 144 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £563,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,800 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 14,491 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WD23 is the postcode district covering Bushey, Bushey Heath in Bushey. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where WD23 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.
Today's WD23 prices, from the sold record
The WD23 median stands at £543,500 for 2026, built from 144 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £563,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WD23
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD23 costs about £5,800 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WD23 trades 91% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WD23 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £543,500 | £543,500 | 144 |
| 2025 | £552,500 | £565,712 | 395 |
| 2024 | £525,000 | £558,183 | 373 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 294 |
| 2022 | £540,000 | £633,212 | 429 |
| 2021 | £550,000 | £696,371 | 531 |
| 2020 | £465,000 | £603,347 | 373 |
| 2019 | £445,000 | £583,288 | 405 |
| 2018 | £480,000 | £639,849 | 385 |
| 2017 | £500,000 | £681,950 | 453 |
| 2016 | £490,000 | £685,515 | 450 |
| 2015 | £441,500 | £623,840 | 508 |
| 2014 | £385,000 | £546,190 | 554 |
| 2013 | £325,000 | £467,643 | 468 |
| 2012 | £312,000 | £459,225 | 341 |
| 2011 | £280,000 | £422,692 | 374 |
| 2010 | £295,000 | £462,636 | 353 |
| 2009 | £260,000 | £417,952 | 331 |
| 2008 | £300,000 | £491,763 | 317 |
| 2007 | £283,000 | £480,047 | 567 |
| 2006 | £248,000 | £430,496 | 575 |
| 2005 | £248,800 | £442,764 | 440 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 468 |
| 2003 | £221,000 | £407,136 | 536 |
| 2002 | £193,200 | £363,504 | 624 |
| 2001 | £170,500 | £327,778 | 594 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 517 |
| 1999 | £135,000 | £269,048 | 605 |
| 1998 | £118,000 | £238,191 | 615 |
| 1997 | £100,000 | £205,080 | 541 |
| 1996 | £87,500 | £184,534 | 479 |
| 1995 | £84,000 | £182,603 | 452 |
In cash terms the typical WD23 home went from £84,000 in 1995 to £543,500 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. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD23 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 2001 (+21.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.3%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £792,500 against £315,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, WD23
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 | £792,500 | 24 | 2,775 |
| Semi-detached | £670,000 | 44 | 3,665 |
| Terraced | £490,000 | 31 | 3,334 |
| Flats | £315,000 | 45 | 4,717 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 304 WD23 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 540 sales a year before the financial crisis and 327 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 homes rent for around WD23
For renting purposes WD23 sits in Hertsmere. The ONS average private rent there is £1,802 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,238 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,761, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, which against the £543,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
WD23 (Bushey Heath): the questions that come up
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Where do WD23 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in WD23 now
Everything above is what homes in WD23 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 66 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 81% above the WD23 median sold price.
11% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in WD: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the WD area, straight 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WD23 ranks 8 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WD23, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD23 1 | £508,000 | 43 |
| WD23 2 | £491,500 | 50 |
| WD23 3 | £552,500 | 26 |
| WD23 4 | £680,000 | 25 |
How WD23 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 (this report) | £543,500 | -1% |
| WD25 | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Selling a home in WD23? 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD23's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD23 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WD23: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD23.
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The live map plots every individual WD23 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.