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Garston market report WD25, Watford
The WD25 (Garston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 13,837 registered sales in WD25 (Watford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WD25 (Watford) came in at £497,500, out of 92 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £517,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,320 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 13,837 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district WD25 covering Garston, Leavesden, Aldenham 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 WD25 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 WD25
Take the 92 registered 2026 sales in WD25 and the middle price, the median, is £497,500. The mean lands at £517,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in WD25
The last five years of sales put WD25 at roughly £5,320 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 75% above the national figure.
A typical WD25 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £497,500 | £497,500 | 92 |
| 2025 | £484,200 | £495,779 | 284 |
| 2024 | £467,500 | £497,049 | 292 |
| 2023 | £476,000 | £523,008 | 232 |
| 2022 | £455,000 | £533,539 | 321 |
| 2021 | £430,500 | £545,069 | 414 |
| 2020 | £412,500 | £535,227 | 346 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 342 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 354 |
| 2017 | £396,000 | £540,104 | 365 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 413 |
| 2015 | £326,000 | £460,638 | 499 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 590 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 377 |
| 2012 | £220,500 | £324,548 | 407 |
| 2011 | £225,500 | £340,418 | 341 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 367 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 319 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 319 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 593 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 613 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 506 |
| 2004 | £184,200 | £334,543 | 616 |
| 2003 | £183,800 | £338,604 | 624 |
| 2002 | £159,000 | £299,157 | 611 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 759 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 478 |
| 1999 | £94,000 | £187,337 | 527 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 429 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 565 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 473 |
| 1995 | £66,600 | £144,778 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical WD25 home went from £66,600 in 1995 to £497,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 244%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 9% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD25 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 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). 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) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £830,000 against £255,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, WD25
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 | £830,000 | 10 | 1,661 |
| Semi-detached | £550,000 | 40 | 4,631 |
| Terraced | £475,000 | 17 | 3,417 |
| Flats | £255,000 | 25 | 4,128 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 208 WD25 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 600 sales a year before the financial crisis and 244 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 WD25
The local authority for WD25 is Watford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £497,500 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.
Common questions on WD25 (Garston)
How much did a house sell for in WD25 (Garston)?
Are property prices falling in WD25 (Garston)?
Is WD25 (Garston) a good place to buy a house?
Will WD25 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 9% 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
Everything above is what homes in WD25 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 42 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% above the WD25 median sold price.
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.
What another bedroom costs in WD
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
WD25 ranks 1 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside WD25, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD25 0 | £500,000 | 29 |
| WD25 7 | £517,500 | 24 |
| WD25 8 | £900,500 | 8 |
| WD25 9 | £400,000 | 31 |
How WD25 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 (this report) | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Thinking of selling in WD25? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WD25'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.
Estate agents working WD25: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD25.
Dig further
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Two maps carry on from here: every WD25 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.