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Elstree market report WD6 4, Borehamwood
The WD6 4 (Elstree) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,195 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in WD6 4 (Borehamwood) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WD6 4 (Borehamwood) home changed hands for £445,000 in 2026 (median of 23 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier), with the mean at £423,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,360 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,195 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WD6 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD6 (Borehamwood). 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 WD6 4 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 4
The 2026 median for WD6 4 is £445,000, taken from 23 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £423,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in WD6 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of WD6 4 sales average about £5,360 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts WD6 4 56% above the country at large.
A typical WD6 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £426,500 | £436,699 | 48 |
| 2024 | £452,500 | £481,100 | 50 |
| 2023 | £440,000 | £483,453 | 49 |
| 2022 | £443,000 | £519,468 | 80 |
| 2021 | £446,000 | £564,694 | 115 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 39 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 79 |
| 2018 | £375,000 | £499,882 | 69 |
| 2017 | £395,000 | £538,740 | 81 |
| 2016 | £385,900 | £539,878 | 98 |
| 2015 | £317,000 | £447,921 | 117 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 93 |
| 2013 | £248,000 | £356,847 | 96 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 77 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 74 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 95 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 71 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 79 |
| 2007 | £228,000 | £386,752 | 161 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 192 |
| 2005 | £185,100 | £329,403 | 132 |
| 2004 | £188,800 | £342,898 | 145 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 141 |
| 2002 | £147,500 | £277,520 | 152 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 140 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 149 |
| 1999 | £96,000 | £191,323 | 137 |
| 1998 | £83,500 | £168,551 | 118 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 110 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 114 |
| 1995 | £63,000 | £136,952 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 4 home went from £63,000 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 225%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 21% 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 WD6 4 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 2016 (+21.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.9%). 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) | +4.3% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.7% |
| 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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 23 WD6 4 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 152 sales a year before the financial crisis and 50 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.
The rental side of WD6 4
WD6 4 falls under Hertsmere, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,802 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £445,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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.
What kind of market WD6 4 is
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD6 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
WD6 4 (Elstree): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WD6 4 (Elstree)?
Is WD6 4 (Elstree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD6 4 (Elstree)?
Where do WD6 4 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in WD6 today
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% 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.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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
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 2 | £477,500 | 27 |
| WD6 3 | £595,000 | 16 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in WD6 4? 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 WD6 4'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 WD6 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD6 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about WD6 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual WD6 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.