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North Watford market report WD24, Watford
The WD24 (North Watford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 13,485 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD24 (Watford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 108 registered 2026 sales put the WD24 (Watford) median at £412,500, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £425,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,390 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 13,485 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district WD24 covering North Watford sits in Watford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where WD24 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 WD24 homes really sell for
Across 108 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD24 home went for £412,500. The mean is £425,900, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in WD24
Per square metre, WD24 homes have averaged around £5,390 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WD24 runs 45% above it.
A typical WD24 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £412,500 | £412,500 | 108 |
| 2025 | £426,500 | £436,699 | 244 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 247 |
| 2023 | £397,200 | £436,426 | 230 |
| 2022 | £407,400 | £477,723 | 349 |
| 2021 | £377,400 | £477,837 | 440 |
| 2020 | £360,000 | £467,107 | 207 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 263 |
| 2018 | £355,000 | £473,222 | 279 |
| 2017 | £366,000 | £499,187 | 304 |
| 2016 | £337,500 | £472,166 | 325 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 395 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 432 |
| 2013 | £222,500 | £320,155 | 397 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 347 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 340 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 275 |
| 2009 | £195,600 | £314,429 | 283 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 288 |
| 2007 | £216,000 | £366,396 | 562 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 555 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 477 |
| 2004 | £178,000 | £323,283 | 623 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 613 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 660 |
| 2001 | £120,500 | £231,655 | 638 |
| 2000 | £107,000 | £209,988 | 598 |
| 1999 | £88,500 | £176,376 | 653 |
| 1998 | £78,000 | £157,449 | 602 |
| 1997 | £69,300 | £142,120 | 698 |
| 1996 | £64,000 | £134,973 | 594 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 459 |
In cash terms the typical WD24 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £412,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 216%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD24 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 2000 (+20.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.0%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £622,500 against £275,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WD24
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 | £622,500 (2024) | – | 263 |
| Semi-detached | £555,200 | 32 | 3,450 |
| Terraced | £407,500 | 45 | 5,443 |
| Flats | £250,000 | 27 | 4,311 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in WD24
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 191 sales completed in WD24. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 591 sales a year before the financial crisis and 236 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.
Rents around WD24
WD24 falls under Watford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,814 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,256 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,634, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Watford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £412,500 median sold price, £1,814 a month is £21,768 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
WD24 (North Watford): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WD24 (North Watford)?
Is WD24 (North Watford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD24 (North Watford)?
Will WD24 prices rise from here?
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 WD24 today
Everything above is what homes in WD24 sold for. The live side of the market holds 65 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the WD24 median sold price.
17% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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" 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in WD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the WD area. 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WD24 ranks 2 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.
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.
Inside WD24, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD24 4 | £415,000 | 23 |
| WD24 5 | £395,000 | 44 |
| WD24 6 | £360,000 | 13 |
| WD24 7 | £535,000 | 28 |
How WD24 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 | £543,500 | -1% |
| WD25 | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 (this report) | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Before you sell in WD24: 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, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD24's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD24 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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD24 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual WD24 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.