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North Watford market report WD24 7, Watford
The standing WD24 7 (North Watford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,939 HM Land Registry entries for WD24 7 (Watford), 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: the 2026 median for WD24 7 (Watford) is £535,000, from 28 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £514,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,680 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,939 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like WD24 7 is a single group of streets within WD24 (Watford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD24 7 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.
The going rate for a home in WD24 7
In the WD24 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £535,000, from 28 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £514,700, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in WD24 7
A square metre of WD24 7 home has cost about £5,680 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 7 88% above the national figure.
A typical WD24 7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £535,000 | £535,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £562,500 | £575,951 | 63 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 51 |
| 2023 | £530,000 | £582,341 | 39 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 69 |
| 2021 | £468,000 | £592,548 | 79 |
| 2020 | £449,000 | £582,587 | 52 |
| 2019 | £418,000 | £547,898 | 62 |
| 2018 | £413,100 | £550,670 | 54 |
| 2017 | £478,800 | £653,035 | 68 |
| 2016 | £420,000 | £587,584 | 65 |
| 2015 | £343,500 | £485,366 | 84 |
| 2014 | £329,000 | £466,744 | 97 |
| 2013 | £260,000 | £374,114 | 71 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 71 |
| 2011 | £255,500 | £385,707 | 68 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 61 |
| 2009 | £217,000 | £348,829 | 67 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 65 |
| 2007 | £247,000 | £418,981 | 114 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 135 |
| 2005 | £204,000 | £363,038 | 125 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 134 |
| 2003 | £187,000 | £344,499 | 124 |
| 2002 | £159,200 | £299,533 | 160 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 137 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 137 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 169 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 141 |
| 1997 | £73,200 | £150,118 | 132 |
| 1996 | £67,800 | £142,987 | 128 |
| 1995 | £64,500 | £140,213 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical WD24 7 home went from £64,500 in 1995 to £535,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 282%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD24 7 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 2002 (+27.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−13.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.9% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.7% | +1.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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, 28 sales completed in WD24 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 133 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
How WD24 7 trades
Only 28 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD24 7 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 WD24, this sector trades 30% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of WD24 7
WD24 7 falls under Watford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,814 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,256 a month here against £2,634 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £535,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,814 a month (£21,768 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
To the person who searched property valuation in wd24
: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £535,000 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
What people ask about WD24 7 (North Watford)
How much did a house sell for in WD24 7 (North Watford)?
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Are WD24 7 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 WD24 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 65 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD24 district, not just WD24 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
17% 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.
- Southwold Road, Watford
- Courtlands Close, Watford, Hertfordshire
- Norbury Avenue, Watford, WD24, Watford
"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 WD24 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
WD area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WD24
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD24, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD24 4 | £415,000 | 23 |
| WD24 5 | £395,000 | 44 |
| WD24 6 | £360,000 | 13 |
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 7: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WD24 7's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD24 7.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD24 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD24 7 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.