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North Watford market report WD24 5, Watford
The WD24 5 (North Watford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,532 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD24 5 (Watford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 44 registered 2026 sales put the WD24 5 (Watford) median at £395,000, up 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £381,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,280 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,532 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WD24 5 is one sector of WD24 (Watford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where WD24 5 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 WD24 5 sells for
44 sales were registered in WD24 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £395,000. The mean works out at £381,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
WD24 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of WD24 5 home has cost about £5,280 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD24 5 39% above the national figure.
A typical WD24 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £375,000 | £383,967 | 98 |
| 2024 | £380,000 | £404,018 | 97 |
| 2023 | £353,000 | £387,861 | 91 |
| 2022 | £392,800 | £460,603 | 176 |
| 2021 | £353,000 | £446,944 | 223 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 86 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 113 |
| 2018 | £334,400 | £445,762 | 126 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 123 |
| 2016 | £332,000 | £464,471 | 155 |
| 2015 | £290,500 | £410,477 | 177 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 197 |
| 2013 | £210,500 | £302,888 | 216 |
| 2012 | £212,000 | £312,038 | 161 |
| 2011 | £197,000 | £297,394 | 160 |
| 2010 | £197,000 | £308,947 | 115 |
| 2009 | £186,000 | £298,997 | 108 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 120 |
| 2007 | £205,800 | £349,094 | 236 |
| 2006 | £184,700 | £320,616 | 224 |
| 2005 | £172,200 | £306,447 | 190 |
| 2004 | £172,000 | £312,386 | 225 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 231 |
| 2002 | £136,800 | £257,388 | 252 |
| 2001 | £117,000 | £224,927 | 244 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 233 |
| 1999 | £84,500 | £168,404 | 257 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 227 |
| 1997 | £65,500 | £134,327 | 276 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 207 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical WD24 5 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 213%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD24 5 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 2014 (+18.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.4%). 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) | +5.3% | +2.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
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
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 register shows 44 WD24 5 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 229 sales a year before the financial crisis and 101 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.
Reading the WD24 5 market
This is a thin market: 44 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Rents around WD24 5
WD24 5 falls under Watford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,814 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,256 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,634 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £395,000 median sold price, £1,814 a month is £21,768 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about WD24 5 (North Watford)
Are property prices falling in WD24 5 (North Watford)?
Is WD24 5 (North Watford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD24 5 (North Watford)?
Are WD24 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in WD24 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 65 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD24 district, not just WD24 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 17% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Southwold Road, Watford
- Courtlands Close, Watford, Hertfordshire
- Norbury Avenue, Watford, WD24, Watford
"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 WD24 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WD
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit 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.
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.
Other sectors in WD24
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD24's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD24 4 | £415,000 | 23 |
| WD24 6 | £360,000 | 13 |
| WD24 7 | £535,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full WD24 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD24 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WD24 5: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD24 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD24 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD24 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD24 5.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual WD24 5 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.