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Elstree market report WD6 1, Borehamwood
The WD6 1 (Elstree) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,607 registered sales in WD6 1 (Borehamwood) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 41 registered 2026 sales put the WD6 1 (Borehamwood) median at £370,000, down 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £424,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,660 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,607 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
WD6 1 is one sector of WD6 (Borehamwood): 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 WD6 1 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 WD6 1
The 2026 median for WD6 1 is £370,000, taken from 41 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £424,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WD6 1
Per square metre, WD6 1 homes have averaged around £5,660 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WD6 1 trades 30% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical WD6 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £370,000 | £370,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 99 |
| 2024 | £422,500 | £449,204 | 91 |
| 2023 | £445,500 | £489,496 | 80 |
| 2022 | £445,800 | £522,751 | 100 |
| 2021 | £469,000 | £593,815 | 150 |
| 2020 | £426,000 | £552,744 | 184 |
| 2019 | £366,300 | £480,132 | 265 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 177 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 163 |
| 2016 | £344,000 | £481,259 | 155 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 215 |
| 2014 | £269,200 | £381,907 | 126 |
| 2013 | £280,500 | £403,612 | 114 |
| 2012 | £223,000 | £328,228 | 131 |
| 2011 | £205,500 | £310,226 | 118 |
| 2010 | £249,800 | £391,751 | 95 |
| 2009 | £189,000 | £303,819 | 136 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 97 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 260 |
| 2006 | £220,600 | £382,933 | 171 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 114 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 152 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 145 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 174 |
| 2001 | £136,000 | £261,453 | 187 |
| 2000 | £122,500 | £240,406 | 208 |
| 1999 | £107,000 | £213,245 | 241 |
| 1998 | £92,800 | £187,323 | 116 |
| 1997 | £84,500 | £173,292 | 123 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 87 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 92 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 1 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £370,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 127%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 38% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD6 1 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 2010 (+32.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−17.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD6 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.6% | −10.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.6% | −9.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.7% | −2.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 WD6 1
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.
WD6 1 recorded 41 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 176 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Reading the WD6 1 market
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD6 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within WD6, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around WD6 1
The local authority for WD6 1 is Hertsmere, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,238 a month here against £2,761 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £370,000 median sold price, £1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, a gross yield of 5.8%: 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.
WD6 1 (Elstree): the questions that come up
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What happens to WD6 1 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 21% over five years in cash but down 38% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
WD6's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD6 district, not just WD6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% 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.
- Deacons Hill Road, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
- Barnet Lane, Elstree, Hertfordshire
- Links Drive, Elstree, Hertfordshire
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every WD6 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WD prices by size
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%) | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are WD6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD6 2 | £477,500 | 27 |
| WD6 3 | £595,000 | 16 |
| WD6 4 | £445,000 | 23 |
| WD6 5 | £420,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full WD6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in WD6 1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in WD6 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the WD6 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded WD6 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD6 1.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual WD6 1 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.