Local market reports › WD area › WD25 › WD25 0
Garston market report WD25 0, Watford
The WD25 0 (Garston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,237 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD25 0 (Watford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WD25 0 (Watford) home changed hands for £500,000 in 2026 (median of 29 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £496,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,520 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,237 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WD25 0 is one sector of WD25 (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 WD25 0 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 buyers actually paid in WD25 0
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD25 0 home went for £500,000. The mean is £496,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
WD25 0 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put WD25 0 at roughly £5,520 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD25 0 75% above the national figure.
WD25 0's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £495,000 | £506,837 | 89 |
| 2024 | £460,000 | £489,074 | 86 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 62 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 101 |
| 2021 | £420,000 | £531,774 | 134 |
| 2020 | £415,000 | £538,471 | 101 |
| 2019 | £389,800 | £510,935 | 96 |
| 2018 | £450,000 | £599,858 | 124 |
| 2017 | £405,000 | £552,379 | 119 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 108 |
| 2015 | £308,500 | £435,911 | 116 |
| 2014 | £283,500 | £402,194 | 153 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 132 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 85 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 91 |
| 2010 | £237,000 | £371,677 | 106 |
| 2009 | £218,900 | £351,884 | 100 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 104 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 185 |
| 2006 | £212,000 | £368,005 | 185 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 135 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 209 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 208 |
| 2002 | £163,500 | £307,624 | 183 |
| 2001 | £141,000 | £271,065 | 218 |
| 2000 | £129,000 | £253,163 | 164 |
| 1999 | £95,500 | £190,327 | 180 |
| 1998 | £87,500 | £176,625 | 156 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 171 |
| 1996 | £73,500 | £155,008 | 171 |
| 1995 | £73,800 | £160,430 | 136 |
In cash terms the typical WD25 0 home went from £73,800 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD25 0 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 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−13.4%). 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) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
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
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 29 WD25 0 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 186 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WD25 0
WD25 0 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 £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,814 a month (£21,768 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the WD25 0 market
This is a thin market: 29 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.
Common questions on WD25 0 (Garston)
Are property prices falling in WD25 0 (Garston)?
Is WD25 0 (Garston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD25 0 (Garston)?
Are WD25 0 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WD25 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 42 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD25 district, not just WD25 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% 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.
- Edward Amey Close, Watford, WD25
- Stables End, Aldenham, Watford, Hertfordshire
- Hilfield Lane, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
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 WD25 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
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%) | — |
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD25
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD25, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD25 7 | £517,500 | 24 |
| WD25 8 | £900,500 | 8 |
| WD25 9 | £400,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full WD25 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD25 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WD25 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WD25 0'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 WD25 0.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD25 0. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD25 0 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.