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Elstree market report WD6 5, Borehamwood
The standing WD6 5 (Elstree) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,934 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD6 5 (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: the typical home in WD6 5 (Borehamwood) sold for £420,000 in 2026, the median of 33 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £461,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,840 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,934 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like WD6 5 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 5 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 a home in WD6 5 sells for
The WD6 5 median stands at £420,000 for 2026, built from 33 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £461,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in WD6 5
Per square metre, WD6 5 homes have averaged around £5,840 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving WD6 5 47% above the national figure.
The price of a typical WD6 5 home, 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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £455,000 | £465,880 | 70 |
| 2024 | £446,000 | £474,190 | 73 |
| 2023 | £462,000 | £507,625 | 85 |
| 2022 | £510,000 | £598,033 | 82 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 113 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 89 |
| 2019 | £387,500 | £507,920 | 88 |
| 2018 | £387,500 | £516,545 | 108 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 192 |
| 2016 | £433,800 | £606,890 | 118 |
| 2015 | £320,200 | £452,443 | 90 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 103 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 94 |
| 2012 | £248,500 | £365,761 | 85 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 79 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 83 |
| 2009 | £223,800 | £359,760 | 64 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 78 |
| 2007 | £227,000 | £385,055 | 162 |
| 2006 | £204,500 | £354,986 | 167 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 129 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 179 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 171 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 196 |
| 2001 | £131,000 | £251,841 | 177 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 154 |
| 1999 | £101,200 | £201,686 | 222 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 140 |
| 1997 | £78,500 | £160,988 | 166 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 187 |
| 1995 | £73,100 | £158,908 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 5 home went from £73,100 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 164%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2016; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2016 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the WD6 5 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 (+35.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−13.6%). 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) | −7.7% | −9.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.3% | −3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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.
Sales activity in WD6 5
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 5 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 167 sales a year before the financial crisis and 69 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.
How WD6 5 trades
This is a thin market: 33 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.
Rents around WD6 5
WD6 5 falls under Hertsmere, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, which against the £420,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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.
WD6 5 (Elstree): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in WD6 5 (Elstree)?
Is WD6 5 (Elstree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD6 5 (Elstree)?
Are WD6 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in WD6 now
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
42% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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. 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%) | — |
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.
WD area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in WD6
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD6, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD6 1 | £370,000 | 41 |
| WD6 2 | £477,500 | 27 |
| WD6 3 | £595,000 | 16 |
| WD6 4 | £445,000 | 23 |
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 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD6 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD6 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD6 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim WD6 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD6 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WD6 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.