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Shenley market report WD7 8, Radlett
The WD7 8 (Shenley) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,553 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD7 8 (Radlett) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in WD7 8 (Radlett) came in at £775,000, out of 22 registered, down 28% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £847,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £7,510 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,553 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
WD7 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside WD7 (Radlett). 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 WD7 8 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 WD7 8
The 2026 median for WD7 8 is £775,000, taken from 22 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £847,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in WD7 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD7 8 costs about £7,510 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, WD7 8 runs 172% above it.
A typical WD7 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £775,000 | £775,000 | 22 |
| 2025 | £1,112,500 | £1,139,103 | 66 |
| 2024 | £985,000 | £1,047,257 | 80 |
| 2023 | £1,071,600 | £1,177,427 | 73 |
| 2022 | £1,210,000 | £1,418,863 | 81 |
| 2021 | £1,077,500 | £1,364,254 | 94 |
| 2020 | £1,055,000 | £1,368,884 | 78 |
| 2019 | £870,000 | £1,140,362 | 56 |
| 2018 | £998,000 | £1,330,353 | 59 |
| 2017 | £940,000 | £1,282,066 | 47 |
| 2016 | £807,500 | £1,129,700 | 94 |
| 2015 | £750,000 | £1,059,750 | 77 |
| 2014 | £600,000 | £851,205 | 74 |
| 2013 | £600,000 | £863,340 | 66 |
| 2012 | £585,000 | £861,047 | 65 |
| 2011 | £552,500 | £834,063 | 62 |
| 2010 | £620,000 | £972,320 | 79 |
| 2009 | £497,500 | £799,735 | 48 |
| 2008 | £597,500 | £979,429 | 40 |
| 2007 | £500,000 | £848,139 | 107 |
| 2006 | £500,000 | £867,936 | 97 |
| 2005 | £442,500 | £787,472 | 112 |
| 2004 | £397,500 | £721,938 | 82 |
| 2003 | £420,000 | £773,742 | 89 |
| 2002 | £340,000 | £639,707 | 110 |
| 2001 | £300,000 | £576,735 | 119 |
| 2000 | £250,000 | £490,625 | 83 |
| 1999 | £235,000 | £468,343 | 113 |
| 1998 | £230,000 | £464,271 | 91 |
| 1997 | £176,200 | £361,351 | 94 |
| 1996 | £182,500 | £384,884 | 104 |
| 1995 | £166,000 | £360,858 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical WD7 8 home went from £166,000 in 1995 to £775,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. 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 WD7 8 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 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−30.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What WD7 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −30.3% | −32.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.4% | −10.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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 8
Sales per year, counted
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 22 WD7 8 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 100 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
What homes rent for around WD7 8
For renting purposes WD7 8 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.
Set against the £775,000 median sold price, £1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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.
The shape of the WD7 8 market
Only 22 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes WD7 8 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. Within WD7, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on WD7 8 (Shenley)
How much did a house sell for in WD7 8 (Shenley)?
Are property prices falling in WD7 8 (Shenley)?
Is WD7 8 (Shenley) a good place to buy a house?
Are WD7 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 28% over five years in cash but down 43% 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.
On the market in WD7 today
Turning to what is actually available: 19 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole WD7 district, not just WD7 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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.
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
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 WD7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of WD7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 7 | £689,500 | 16 |
| 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.
Selling a home in WD7 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in WD7 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from WD7 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded WD7 8 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 WD7 8.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual WD7 8 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.
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.