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Elstree market report WD6 3, Borehamwood
The WD6 3 (Elstree) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,544 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD6 3 (Borehamwood) 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 typical home in WD6 3 (Borehamwood) sold for £595,000 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, down 29% on five years earlier. The mean was £649,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,130 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,544 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
WD6 3 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 3 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 3
16 sales were registered in WD6 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £595,000. The mean works out at £649,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in WD6 3
A square metre of WD6 3 home has cost about £6,130 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so WD6 3 trades 109% above the country as a whole.
WD6 3'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 | £595,000 | £595,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £596,200 | £610,457 | 50 |
| 2024 | £885,000 | £940,937 | 52 |
| 2023 | £730,500 | £802,641 | 64 |
| 2022 | £930,000 | £1,090,531 | 67 |
| 2021 | £837,500 | £1,060,383 | 100 |
| 2020 | £727,500 | £943,946 | 62 |
| 2019 | £583,500 | £764,829 | 46 |
| 2018 | £440,000 | £586,528 | 41 |
| 2017 | £465,000 | £634,213 | 64 |
| 2016 | £590,000 | £825,416 | 47 |
| 2015 | £407,500 | £575,798 | 66 |
| 2014 | £350,000 | £496,536 | 86 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 121 |
| 2012 | £390,000 | £574,031 | 55 |
| 2011 | £545,000 | £822,740 | 66 |
| 2010 | £426,000 | £668,078 | 63 |
| 2009 | £405,000 | £651,041 | 59 |
| 2008 | £340,000 | £557,332 | 52 |
| 2007 | £455,000 | £771,807 | 120 |
| 2006 | £335,000 | £581,517 | 111 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 73 |
| 2004 | £280,000 | £508,535 | 97 |
| 2003 | £228,500 | £420,952 | 104 |
| 2002 | £265,000 | £498,595 | 119 |
| 2001 | £244,500 | £470,039 | 108 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 103 |
| 1999 | £160,000 | £318,872 | 123 |
| 1998 | £168,000 | £339,120 | 120 |
| 1997 | £95,500 | £195,851 | 106 |
| 1996 | £178,500 | £376,449 | 94 |
| 1995 | £120,000 | £260,862 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 3 home went from £120,000 in 1995 to £595,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 128%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 45% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD6 3 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 1998 (+75.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1997 (−46.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.2% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.1% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
WD6 3 recorded 16 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 104 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
The rental side of WD6 3
For renting purposes WD6 3 sits in Hertsmere. The ONS average private rent there is £1,802 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,238 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,761 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Hertsmere
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, which against the £595,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the WD6 3 market
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD6 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the WD6 district median, WD6 3 sits 38% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: WD6 3 (Elstree)
How much did a house sell for in WD6 3 (Elstree)?
Are property prices falling in WD6 3 (Elstree)?
Is WD6 3 (Elstree) a good place to buy a house?
Where do WD6 3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% 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.
What is for sale in WD6 right now
The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD6 district, not just WD6 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
"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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WD
Real sold prices by size across the WD area, straight 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD6 1 | £370,000 | 41 |
| WD6 2 | £477,500 | 27 |
| 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 3? 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 WD6 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD6 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD6 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WD6 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD6 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD6 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every WD6 3 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.