Postal town · East of England
House prices in St Albans
Royal Mail postal town · 4 postcode districts
- Sales completed to 31 Jul 2026, registered by 28 Sep 2026
- Figures use sales to Mar 2026; later months are still registering
- Updated 12 Oct 2026
- 4 postcode districts
Half of the existing homes sold in St Albans in the 12 months to March 2026 went for £580,000 or less.
Against the same months a year earlier (May to December), the median terraced house moved from £571,500 to £558,750, semi-detached from £700,000 to £693,500, detached from £915,000 to £895,000 and flat from £327,500 to £300,000.
New builds reach HM Land Registry months or years after completion, so recent months hold few of them.
Where prices sit
Existing homes · standard sales · Apr 2025-Mar 2026 · 1,357 sales. Share of sales in each £25,000 band.
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| Price band | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| £100,001-£125,000 | 1 | under 1% |
| £125,001-£150,000 | 4 | under 1% |
| £150,001-£175,000 | 9 | 1% |
| £175,001-£200,000 | 21 | 2% |
| £200,001-£225,000 | 17 | 1% |
| £225,001-£250,000 | 30 | 2% |
| £250,001-£275,000 | 44 | 3% |
| £275,001-£300,000 | 56 | 4% |
| £300,001-£325,000 | 25 | 2% |
| £325,001-£350,000 | 45 | 3% |
| £350,001-£375,000 | 41 | 3% |
| £375,001-£400,000 | 42 | 3% |
| £400,001-£425,000 | 58 | 4% |
| £425,001-£450,000 | 44 | 3% |
| £450,001-£475,000 | 43 | 3% |
| £475,001-£500,000 | 53 | 4% |
| £500,001-£525,000 | 45 | 3% |
| £525,001-£550,000 | 38 | 3% |
| £550,001-£575,000 | 51 | 4% |
| £575,001-£600,000 | 69 | 5% |
| £600,001-£625,000 | 48 | 4% |
| £625,001-£650,000 | 46 | 3% |
| £650,001-£675,000 | 20 | 1% |
| £675,001-£700,000 | 38 | 3% |
| £700,001-£725,000 | 39 | 3% |
| £725,001-£750,000 | 32 | 2% |
| £750,001-£775,000 | 34 | 3% |
| £775,001-£800,000 | 26 | 2% |
| £800,001-£825,000 | 22 | 2% |
| £825,001-£850,000 | 35 | 3% |
| £850,001-£875,000 | 23 | 2% |
| £875,001-£900,000 | 25 | 2% |
| £900,001-£925,000 | 22 | 2% |
| £925,001-£950,000 | 22 | 2% |
| £950,001-£975,000 | 16 | 1% |
| £975,001-£1,000,000 | 9 | 1% |
| £1,000,001-£1,500,000 | 118 | 9% |
| £1,500,001-£2,000,000 | 30 | 2% |
| over £1,050,000 | 16 | 1% |
What sells here
- Detached 20% 269
- Semi-detached 26% 353
- Terraced 30% 413
- Flat 24% 322
Existing homes · standard sales · Apr 2025-Mar 2026 · 1,357 sales
- 27%leasehold, of all 4,035 sales held
- 5%new builds, of all sales held (every month; new builds register late, so recent months hold few)
- 9%additional-price transfers, of all sales held
St Albans's districts on a map
Median of existing homes, standard sales, Apr 2025-Mar 2026, all types. The colour bands split St Albans's districts into fifths.
Like-for-like change, existing homes, standard sales, all types, May-Dec 2025 vs May-Dec 2024.
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- Up to £535,000
- £535,001 to £550,000
- £550,001 to £612,000
- Over £612,000
- Too few sales for a median
- -6.0% or less
- -5.9% to -2.0%
- -1.9% to +1.9%
- +2.0% to +5.9%
- +6.0% or more
- Not enough sales to compare
Each hexagon is one postcode district, all the same size and placed close to where the district's centre is, so neighbours sit next to each other but distances are not to scale. A dashed outline marks a district whose sales are mostly elsewhere.
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| District | Area | Median | Sales | Like-for-like change | On the map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL1 | St Albans | £550,000 | 439 | +0.2% | Yes |
| AL2 | London Colney, Bricket Wood | £535,000 | 272 | +4.3% | Yes |
| AL3 | St Albans | £626,513 | 322 | -3.2% | Yes |
| AL4 | St Albans | £611,750 | 324 | -2.3% | Yes |
Inside St Albans
Median and middle half of existing homes, standard sales, all types, Apr 2025-Mar 2026. Whole-district figures, so they match each district's own page.
The districts are St Albans's own; compared places are not listed here.
How prices moved
Monthly median of existing homes, all types, any tenure, standard sales; England and Wales dashed, for the same type and tenure; grey bars are all registrations each month. Months after Mar 2026 are still registering.
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| Month | St Albans median | All registrations | England and Wales median |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2024 | Too few (19) | 24 | £260,000 |
| Apr 2024 | £550,000 | 139 | £273,000 |
| May 2024 | £542,500 | 152 | £280,000 |
| Jun 2024 | £492,000 | 121 | £280,000 |
| Jul 2024 | £565,000 | 168 | £290,000 |
| Aug 2024 | £640,000 | 153 | £295,000 |
| Sep 2024 | £616,250 | 182 | £292,500 |
| Oct 2024 | £635,000 | 182 | £295,000 |
| Nov 2024 | £590,000 | 165 | £287,000 |
| Dec 2024 | £600,000 | 173 | £287,000 |
| Jan 2025 | £592,500 | 163 | £292,105 |
| Feb 2025 | £614,975 | 182 | £292,000 |
| Mar 2025 | £575,000 | 369 | £323,000 |
| Apr 2025 | £562,500 | 50 | £245,000 |
| May 2025 | £570,000 | 97 | £265,000 |
| Jun 2025 | £555,000 | 159 | £280,000 |
| Jul 2025 | £575,000 | 141 | £290,000 |
| Aug 2025 | £630,000 | 155 | £297,000 |
| Sep 2025 | £605,000 | 180 | £292,500 |
| Oct 2025 | £600,000 | 185 | £293,000 |
| Nov 2025 | £550,000 | 117 | £295,000 |
| Dec 2025 | £552,500 | 120 | £290,000 |
| Jan 2026 | £625,000 | 116 | £294,000 |
| Feb 2026 | £516,000 | 101 | £287,000 |
| Mar 2026 | £585,000 | 121 | £285,000 |
| Apr 2026 (still registering) | £585,000 | 84 | £285,000 |
| May 2026 (still registering) | £520,000 | 85 | £285,000 |
| Jun 2026 (still registering) | £575,000 | 102 | £285,000 |
| Jul 2026 (still registering) | £650,000 | 49 | £295,000 |
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Against the same months a year earlier
| Type | May-Dec 2024 | May-Dec 2025 | Sales | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £915,000 | £895,000 | 215 / 197 | -2.2% |
| Semi-detached | £700,000 | £693,500 | 292 / 268 | -0.9% |
| Terraced | £571,500 | £558,750 | 320 / 294 | -2.2% |
| Flat | £327,500 | £300,000 | 280 / 246 | -8.4% |
All types: -3.5% - each type compared with the same months a year earlier, combined by how many of each type sold.
The long run, since 1995
UK House Price Index for the council area of St Albans, which holds 95% of St Albans's sales, January 2015 = 100, monthly from January 1995 to July 2026; England dashed. The latest months are provisional and are revised as late registrations arrive.
From January 1995 to July 2026 the index for St Albans went from 15.6 to 103.9, 6.7 times its level then. England's went from 17.6 to 102.7, 5.8 times its level then.
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| Year | St Albans | England |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15.6 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 16.8 | 18.4 |
| 1997 | 20.4 | 20.3 |
| 1998 | 21.9 | 21.7 |
| 1999 | 26.4 | 24.8 |
| 2000 | 29.8 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 34.2 | 31.7 |
| 2002 | 41.7 | 39.6 |
| 2003 | 41.9 | 45.9 |
| 2004 | 46.4 | 52.8 |
| 2005 | 48.0 | 55.2 |
| 2006 | 52.9 | 60.1 |
| 2007 | 57.8 | 64.2 |
| 2008 | 51.0 | 54.8 |
| 2009 | 53.3 | 57.5 |
| 2010 | 58.4 | 58.1 |
| 2011 | 58.5 | 57.7 |
| 2012 | 61.7 | 58.9 |
| 2013 | 64.1 | 62.3 |
| 2014 | 74.6 | 67.2 |
| 2015 | 80.9 | 72.5 |
| 2016 | 87.7 | 76.6 |
| 2017 | 91.5 | 80.1 |
| 2018 | 85.0 | 81.4 |
| 2019 | 87.9 | 82.0 |
| 2020 | 90.2 | 87.5 |
| 2021 | 94.1 | 93.7 |
| 2022 | 99.6 | 100.8 |
| 2023 | 96.8 | 97.5 |
| 2024 | 103.4 | 100.4 |
| 2025 | 99.4 | 101.4 |
| 2026 (to July) | 103.9 | 102.7 |
Source: UK House Price Index, HM Land Registry with the Office for National Statistics, Registers of Scotland and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Latest sales held
Sales appear once HM Land Registry registers them, often weeks or months after completion. Every category is shown; badges mark leasehold, new-build and additional-price sales.
| Completed | Address | Type | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul 2026 | 14 Shakespeare Close St Albans AL4 0FY | Terraced | £725,000 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 3 Church View St Albans AL4 8AP | Terraced | £468,334 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 71 Cell Barnes Lane St Albans AL1 5RB | Terraced | £440,000 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 38B Beaconsfield Road St Albans AL1 3RB | Flat or maisonette Leasehold | £272,200 |
| 24 Jul 2026 | 54 Milliners Court St Albans AL1 3XT | Flat or maisonette Leasehold | £390,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 9 Beechwood Avenue St Albans AL1 4XP | Semi-detached | £1,300,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 20 Roestock Gardens St Albans AL4 0QJ | Semi-detached | £638,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 18 Church Street St Albans AL3 5NQ | Terraced | £710,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 13 Oster Street St Albans AL3 5JN | Terraced | £482,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 52 Tippendell Lane St Albans AL2 3HL | Detached | £805,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 10 Meadow Close St Albans AL4 9TG | Semi-detached | £1,482,000 |
| 17 Jul 2026 | 30A Upper Culver Road St Albans AL1 4EE | Terraced | £826,500 |
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How these figures are made
- Figures describe the homes that sold, not what any one home is worth. The median is the middle price: half of the homes sold went for that or less. No average (mean) price is shown anywhere, because a handful of very large transfers would distort it.
- The headline counts existing homes and standard sales. New builds are shown separately because they reach HM Land Registry months or years after completion. Additional-price transfers (HM Land Registry's category B, such as repossessions, buy-to-let purchases identified by a mortgage and transfers to companies) are counted under "All registrations".
- Sales take weeks or months to be registered, so the four most recent months are still registering. They are hatched on the charts and left out of the headline, which covers the 12 settled months (Apr 2025 to Mar 2026), and out of every change figure.
- Like-for-like change compares May to December 2025 against the same months a year earlier, stepping round the rush before the 1 April 2025 stamp duty change. Each type is compared with the same months a year earlier, combined by how many of each type sold.
- The middle half runs from the lower to the upper quartile, each a price actually paid. A median needs 20 sales and the middle half 40; below that the page says so instead of showing a number.
- Sales are grouped by the town and postcode on the registration. A place is a Royal Mail postal town, so neighbouring towns such as Salford have their own pages. A postcode district is listed inside a place when at least 20% of its sales are there, and district figures always cover the whole district.
- Sales are placed by postcode, never on a particular house, and nobody is named. We hold sales completed from 28 Mar 2024 to 31 Jul 2026 that HM Land Registry had registered by 28 Sep 2026, refreshed monthly.
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.