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Shenley market report WD7 7, Radlett
The standing WD7 7 (Shenley) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,899 sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD7 7 (Radlett) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in WD7 7 (Radlett) sold for £689,500 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, down 38% on five years earlier. The mean was £1,060,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,830 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,899 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 WD7 7 is a single group of streets within WD7 (Radlett), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where WD7 7 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 WD7 7
In the WD7 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £689,500, from 16 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £1,060,600, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in WD7 7
Per square metre, WD7 7 homes have averaged around £6,830 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, WD7 7 sits 142% above the national market.
A typical WD7 7 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £689,500 | £689,500 | 16 |
| 2025 | £1,075,000 | £1,100,707 | 54 |
| 2024 | £1,125,000 | £1,196,106 | 50 |
| 2023 | £855,000 | £939,436 | 34 |
| 2022 | £1,175,000 | £1,377,822 | 63 |
| 2021 | £1,120,000 | £1,418,065 | 69 |
| 2020 | £970,000 | £1,258,595 | 49 |
| 2019 | £870,000 | £1,140,362 | 36 |
| 2018 | £672,500 | £896,455 | 50 |
| 2017 | £875,000 | £1,193,412 | 60 |
| 2016 | £995,000 | £1,392,015 | 51 |
| 2015 | £775,000 | £1,095,075 | 61 |
| 2014 | £750,000 | £1,064,006 | 66 |
| 2013 | £677,500 | £974,855 | 62 |
| 2012 | £507,500 | £746,977 | 42 |
| 2011 | £530,000 | £800,096 | 49 |
| 2010 | £709,800 | £1,113,149 | 54 |
| 2009 | £605,000 | £972,543 | 49 |
| 2008 | £400,000 | £655,684 | 29 |
| 2007 | £495,000 | £839,658 | 102 |
| 2006 | £575,000 | £998,127 | 79 |
| 2005 | £425,000 | £756,329 | 61 |
| 2004 | £435,800 | £791,498 | 72 |
| 2003 | £485,000 | £893,488 | 65 |
| 2002 | £350,000 | £658,522 | 99 |
| 2001 | £372,500 | £716,112 | 62 |
| 2000 | £250,000 | £490,625 | 53 |
| 1999 | £275,000 | £548,061 | 75 |
| 1998 | £156,000 | £314,897 | 80 |
| 1997 | £185,000 | £379,398 | 85 |
| 1996 | £167,500 | £353,250 | 56 |
| 1995 | £173,800 | £377,814 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical WD7 7 home went from £173,800 in 1995 to £689,500 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 82%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 51% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the WD7 7 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 1999 (+76.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−35.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD7 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −35.9% | −37.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −9.2% | −13.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −3.6% | −6.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.8% |
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 WD7 7
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.
WD7 7 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 74 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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 WD7 7 trades
This is a thin market: 16 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. 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.
What tenants pay around WD7 7
The local authority for WD7 7 is Hertsmere, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £689,500 median sold price, £1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on WD7 7 (Shenley)
Are property prices falling in WD7 7 (Shenley)?
Is WD7 7 (Shenley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD7 7 (Shenley)?
Will WD7 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 38% over five years in cash but down 51% 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 is for sale in WD7 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 19 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD7 district, not just WD7 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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 WD7 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, WD area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in WD7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of WD7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 8 | £775,000 | 22 |
| WD7 9 | £588,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full WD7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how WD7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in WD7 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD7 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD7 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD7 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working WD7 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD7 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with WD7 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual WD7 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.