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Garston market report WD25 7, Watford
The WD25 7 (Garston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,059 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD25 7 (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: the middle 2026 sale in WD25 7 (Watford) came in at £517,500, out of 24 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £516,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,300 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,059 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WD25 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD25 (Watford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where WD25 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.
WD25 7 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 24 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD25 7 home went for £517,500. The mean is £516,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
WD25 7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD25 7 costs about £5,300 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD25 7 82% above the national figure.
WD25 7's median sold price, 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 | £517,500 | £517,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £497,000 | £508,885 | 79 |
| 2024 | £477,500 | £507,681 | 80 |
| 2023 | £495,000 | £543,884 | 73 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 85 |
| 2021 | £427,500 | £541,270 | 140 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 86 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 76 |
| 2018 | £389,000 | £518,544 | 101 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 103 |
| 2016 | £415,000 | £580,589 | 127 |
| 2015 | £362,800 | £512,636 | 202 |
| 2014 | £340,000 | £482,349 | 236 |
| 2013 | £268,000 | £385,625 | 108 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 96 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 91 |
| 2010 | £248,000 | £388,928 | 89 |
| 2009 | £206,200 | £331,468 | 74 |
| 2008 | £231,000 | £378,658 | 62 |
| 2007 | £235,000 | £398,625 | 173 |
| 2006 | £204,000 | £354,118 | 172 |
| 2005 | £189,000 | £336,344 | 147 |
| 2004 | £181,000 | £328,731 | 183 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 189 |
| 2002 | £153,500 | £288,809 | 208 |
| 2001 | £156,500 | £300,863 | 305 |
| 2000 | £106,000 | £208,025 | 126 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 149 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 107 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 163 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 117 |
| 1995 | £59,400 | £129,126 | 88 |
In cash terms the typical WD25 7 home went from £59,400 in 1995 to £517,500 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 301%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2016, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2016 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD25 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 2001 (+47.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.1% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WD25 7
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in WD25 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 68 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.
What homes rent for around WD25 7
For renting purposes WD25 7 sits in Watford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,814 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £517,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,814 a month (£21,768 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
The shape of the WD25 7 market
This is a thin market: 24 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.
Asked and answered: WD25 7 (Garston)
Is WD25 7 (Garston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD25 7 (Garston)?
Are property prices falling in WD25 7 (Garston)?
Will WD25 7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in WD25 today
The live side of the market holds 42 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD25 district, not just WD25 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Edward Amey Close, Watford, WD25
- Stables End, Aldenham, Watford, Hertfordshire
- Hilfield Lane, Aldenham, Hertfordshire
"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 WD25 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.
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. 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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 0 | £500,000 | 29 |
| 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 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD25 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD25 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD25 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WD25 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD25 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD25 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD25 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.