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Shenley market report WD7, Radlett
The WD7 (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: 7,233 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in WD7 (Radlett) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for WD7 (Radlett) is £670,000, from 59 registered sales, down 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £848,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,970 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,233 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
WD7 is a postcode district covering Radlett, Shenley in Radlett. 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 WD7 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
The 2026 median for WD7 is £670,000, taken from 59 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £848,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in WD7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in WD7 costs about £6,970 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 runs 135% above it.
WD7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £670,000 | £670,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £855,000 | £875,446 | 171 |
| 2024 | £830,000 | £882,460 | 175 |
| 2023 | £822,500 | £903,727 | 168 |
| 2022 | £920,000 | £1,078,805 | 242 |
| 2021 | £845,000 | £1,069,879 | 283 |
| 2020 | £700,000 | £908,264 | 209 |
| 2019 | £780,000 | £1,022,393 | 141 |
| 2018 | £687,500 | £916,450 | 158 |
| 2017 | £690,000 | £941,091 | 146 |
| 2016 | £682,500 | £954,824 | 202 |
| 2015 | £600,000 | £847,800 | 215 |
| 2014 | £580,000 | £822,831 | 212 |
| 2013 | £545,000 | £784,201 | 203 |
| 2012 | £438,500 | £645,417 | 186 |
| 2011 | £465,000 | £701,971 | 171 |
| 2010 | £494,600 | £775,660 | 205 |
| 2009 | £425,000 | £683,191 | 145 |
| 2008 | £420,000 | £688,469 | 105 |
| 2007 | £408,500 | £692,930 | 328 |
| 2006 | £420,000 | £729,066 | 316 |
| 2005 | £345,000 | £613,961 | 258 |
| 2004 | £339,800 | £617,143 | 240 |
| 2003 | £320,000 | £589,518 | 247 |
| 2002 | £283,800 | £533,967 | 334 |
| 2001 | £250,000 | £480,612 | 301 |
| 2000 | £210,000 | £412,125 | 224 |
| 1999 | £180,000 | £358,731 | 390 |
| 1998 | £169,500 | £342,148 | 406 |
| 1997 | £135,000 | £276,858 | 321 |
| 1996 | £164,100 | £346,080 | 222 |
| 1995 | £150,000 | £326,077 | 250 |
In cash terms the typical WD7 home went from £150,000 in 1995 to £670,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 105%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 38% 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 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 (+25.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.6%). 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) | −21.6% | −23.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.5% | −8.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,225,000 against £360,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, WD7
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 | £1,225,000 | 21 | 3,231 |
| Semi-detached | £700,000 | 12 | 1,467 |
| Terraced | £500,000 | 11 | 1,309 |
| Flats | £360,000 | 15 | 1,226 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 140 WD7 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 281 sales a year before the financial crisis and 163 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around WD7
WD7 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.
Set against the £670,000 median sold price, £1,802 a month is £21,624 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: 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.
Reading the WD7 market
This is a thin market: 140 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. By median price, WD7 presently tops its postcode area.
Asked and answered: WD7 (Shenley)
Are property prices falling in WD7 (Shenley)?
Is WD7 (Shenley) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in WD7 (Shenley)?
What happens to WD7 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 21% over five years in cash but down 37% 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
Everything above is what homes in WD7 sold for. The live side of the market holds 19 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 64% above the WD7 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 16% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 WD7 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in WD
Real sold prices by size across the WD area, straight 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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
WD7 ranks 11 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.
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.
Inside WD7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 7 | £689,500 | 16 |
| WD7 8 | £775,000 | 22 |
| WD7 9 | £588,000 | 21 |
How WD7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the WD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| WD7 (this report) | £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 | £432,500 | -8% |
| WD24 | £412,500 | +9% |
| WD17 | £400,000 | -2% |
| WD18 | £372,500 | +6% |
Thinking of selling in WD7? 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 WD7'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 WD7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim WD7.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual WD7 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.