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Elstree market report WD6 2, Borehamwood
The standing WD6 2 (Elstree) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,891 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD6 2 (Borehamwood) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical WD6 2 (Borehamwood) home changed hands for £477,500 in 2026 (median of 27 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £522,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,630 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,891 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like WD6 2 is a single group of streets within WD6 (Borehamwood), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD6 2 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 WD6 2 homes really sell for
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) WD6 2 home went for £477,500. The mean is £522,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in WD6 2
Per square metre, WD6 2 homes have averaged around £5,630 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WD6 2 68% above the country at large.
A typical WD6 2 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 | £477,500 | £477,500 | 27 |
| 2025 | £485,000 | £496,598 | 87 |
| 2024 | £467,000 | £496,517 | 69 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 63 |
| 2022 | £520,000 | £609,759 | 81 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 111 |
| 2020 | £466,200 | £604,904 | 90 |
| 2019 | £455,000 | £596,396 | 88 |
| 2018 | £412,500 | £549,870 | 83 |
| 2017 | £435,000 | £593,296 | 104 |
| 2016 | £415,000 | £580,589 | 113 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 117 |
| 2014 | £325,000 | £461,069 | 151 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 116 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 134 |
| 2011 | £249,500 | £376,649 | 90 |
| 2010 | £248,000 | £388,928 | 93 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 69 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 125 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 198 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 187 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 161 |
| 2004 | £221,000 | £401,379 | 272 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 172 |
| 2002 | £154,000 | £289,750 | 173 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 163 |
| 2000 | £119,500 | £234,519 | 126 |
| 1999 | £88,400 | £176,177 | 144 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 134 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 125 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 123 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 102 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 2 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £477,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 249%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD6 2 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 (+35.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−6.6%). 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) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in WD6 2
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.
WD6 2 recorded 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 182 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
The shape of the WD6 2 market
This is a thin market: 27 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. Against the WD6 district median, WD6 2 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around WD6 2
The local authority for WD6 2 is Hertsmere, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,238 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,761, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £477,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
Asked and answered: WD6 2 (Elstree)
Is WD6 2 (Elstree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD6 2 (Elstree)?
Are property prices falling in WD6 2 (Elstree)?
What happens to WD6 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in WD6 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 36 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD6 district, not just WD6 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Deacons Hill Road, Elstree, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
- Barnet Lane, Elstree, Hertfordshire
- Links Drive, Elstree, 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 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the WD area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 1 | £370,000 | 41 |
| 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.
Before you sell in WD6 2: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at WD6 2'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 WD6 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD6 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD6 2 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.