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Elstree market report WD6, Borehamwood
The standing WD6 (Elstree) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 18,171 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD6 (Borehamwood) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical WD6 (Borehamwood) home changed hands for £432,500 in 2026 (median of 140 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £477,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,720 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 18,171 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
WD6 is a postcode district covering Borehamwood, Elstree, Well End in Borehamwood. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where WD6 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 buyers actually paid in WD6
Take the 140 registered 2026 sales in WD6 and the middle price, the median, is £432,500. The mean lands at £477,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WD6
By floor space, homes in WD6 have sold for about £5,720 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WD6 runs 52% above it.
The price of a typical WD6 home, 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 | £432,500 | £432,500 | 140 |
| 2025 | £451,200 | £461,990 | 354 |
| 2024 | £458,000 | £486,948 | 335 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 341 |
| 2022 | £500,000 | £586,307 | 410 |
| 2021 | £470,000 | £595,081 | 589 |
| 2020 | £441,000 | £572,207 | 464 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 566 |
| 2018 | £382,800 | £510,280 | 478 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 604 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 531 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 605 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 559 |
| 2013 | £267,000 | £384,186 | 541 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 482 |
| 2011 | £244,000 | £368,346 | 427 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 429 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 399 |
| 2008 | £237,000 | £388,493 | 431 |
| 2007 | £243,000 | £412,196 | 901 |
| 2006 | £218,000 | £378,420 | 828 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 609 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 845 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 733 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 814 |
| 2001 | £131,000 | £251,841 | 775 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 740 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 867 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 628 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 630 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 605 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 511 |
In cash terms the typical WD6 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £432,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 193%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the WD6 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 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,100,000 against £305,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, WD6
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £1,100,000 | 5 | 1,619 |
| Semi-detached | £565,000 | 38 | 4,588 |
| Terraced | £455,000 | 52 | 6,834 |
| Flats | £305,000 | 45 | 5,130 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.1% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.6% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.8% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 291 sales completed in WD6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 781 sales a year before the financial crisis and 316 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
WD6 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 £432,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,802 a month (£21,624 a year) works out at a 5.0% 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 people ask about WD6 (Elstree)
Is WD6 (Elstree) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD6 (Elstree)?
Are property prices falling in WD6 (Elstree)?
Will WD6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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
Everything above is what homes in WD6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 36 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the WD6 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 42% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: WD prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the WD area, 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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
WD6 ranks 10 of 11 in the WD area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
WD area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside WD6, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| WD6 5 | £420,000 | 33 |
How WD6 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 | £670,000 | -21% |
| WD3 | £600,000 | +5% |
| WD4 | £564,500 | +3% |
| WD23 | £543,500 | -1% |
| WD25 | £497,500 | +16% |
| WD5 | £461,500 | +3% |
| WD19 | £440,000 | +5% |
| WD6 (this report) | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Thinking of selling in WD6? 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'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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD6.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to WD6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual WD6 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.
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.