Gossoms End, Berkhamsted house prices are built from 92 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £276,500. Across the 14 years from 2008 to 2022 the median moved +10.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -24.1%.
Median price paid
£276,500
Change in cash, 2008–2022
+10.0%
Change in real terms
-24.1%
Median per m²
£3,955
HM Land Registry92 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 29 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Gossoms End, Berkhamsted prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gossoms End, Berkhamsted house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £59,950 | £133,117 |
| 2000s | 3 | £234,500 | £427,190 |
| 2010s | 1 | £485,000 | £683,850 |
| 2020s | 1 | £440,000 | £449,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gossoms End, Berkhamsted is £485,000 in 2014; the lowest is £50,000 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £59,950 to £440,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £133,117, so the real change over the whole record is +283.0% — about +5.10% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +10.0% in cash against -24.1% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 29 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £487,500 | £498,098 |
| 69 | 18 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £500,000 | £526,119 |
| 74 | 21 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £447,000 | £470,351 |
| Hill View | 31 May 2024 | Terraced | £795,000 | £836,530 |
| 48 | 26 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £792,500 | £833,899 |
| 75 | 26 May 2023 | Terraced | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 67 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 68 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £300,000 | £347,576 |
| 69 | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £440,000 | £509,778 |
| 45 | 18 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £650,500 | £753,661 |
| 65 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £577,000 | £668,505 |
| 48 | 18 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £700,000 | £884,409 |
| 57 | 30 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £577,500 | £729,637 |
| 63 | 12 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 55 | 3 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £613,000 | £793,691 |
| Hill View | 17 Jul 2020 | Terraced | £665,000 | £861,019 |
| 65 | 13 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £495,000 | £640,909 |
| Green Bank | 4 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £630,000 | £824,026 |
| 65 | 28 Jun 2018 | Terraced | £355,000 | £473,110 |
| 56 | 27 Oct 2017 | Terraced | £585,000 | £796,187 |
| 49 | 17 Jun 2016 | Terraced | £520,000 | £725,941 |
| 46 | 10 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £490,000 | £690,900 |
| Hill View | 9 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £542,500 | £764,925 |
| 48 | 21 Nov 2014 | Terraced | £500,000 | £717,192 |
| 87 | 29 Sep 2014 | Semi-detached | £500,000 | £717,192 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Gossoms End, Berkhamsted values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 Gossoms End | £124,000 (2000) | £487,500 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 69 Gossoms End | £255,000 (2012) | £500,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.7% |
| 74 Gossoms End | £179,500 (2009) | £447,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.2% |
| HILL VIEW Gossoms End | £30,000 (1997) | £795,000 (2024) | +12.9% | +10.0% |
| 48 Gossoms End | £399,995 (2008) | £792,500 (2024) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 75 Gossoms End | £46,000 (1995) | £335,000 (2023) | +7.3% | +4.6% |
| 45 Gossoms End | £312,000 (2009) | £650,500 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 65 Gossoms End | £155,950 (2001) | £577,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 55 Gossoms End | £265,000 (2013) | £613,000 (2020) | +12.7% | +10.8% |
| GREEN BANK Gossoms End | £112,000 (1999) | £630,000 (2019) | +9.0% | +6.6% |
| 56 Gossoms End | £59,950 (1995) | £585,000 (2017) | +10.9% | +8.5% |
| 49 Gossoms End | £379,995 (2008) | £520,000 (2016) | +4.0% | +1.6% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gossoms End, Berkhamsted is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 74 | 80.4% | £278,000 | £27,000 – £795,000 |
| Semi-detached | 17 | 18.5% | £175,000 | £50,000 – £500,000 |
| Detached | 1 | 1.1% | £360,000 | £360,000 – £360,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 92 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 92 | 100.0% | £276,500 |
| New build | 6 | 6.5% | £397,498 |
| Existing home | 86 | 93.5% | £264,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +50.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 2 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Buckinghamshire, 47.8% of 262,827 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,146 | 0.4% |
| B | 36,297 | 13.8% |
| C | 88,289 | 33.6% |
| D | 90,049 | 34.3% |
| E | 35,486 | 13.5% |
| F | 9,381 | 3.6% |
| G | 2,179 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Buckinghamshire at £1,476 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,035 for a one-bedroom home and £1,603 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £276,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.41% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of HP4, 97 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 25 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.7 times quieter.
Against the 553,078 residents the 2021 census counted in Buckinghamshire, that is 0.18 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Gossoms End, Berkhamsted
The 2021 census counted 553,078 residents in Buckinghamshire across 220,327 households. 71.3% of those households own their home and 28.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
12 state and independent schools have a HP4 postcode: 11 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashlyns School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,561 |
| Bridgewater Primary School | Primary | Community school | 459 |
| The Thomas Coram Church of England School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 336 |
| Greenway Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 229 |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School, Northchurch | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 226 |
| Potten End CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 205 |
| St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 144 |
| Swing Gate Infant School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 144 |
| Victoria Church of England Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 141 |
| Westfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 140 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Berkhamsted Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Tring Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Hemel Hempstead Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
| Chesham Underground Station | Tram | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Gossoms End, Berkhamsted compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gossoms End, Berkhamsted sits above that national figure — +75.6%.
Within Berkhamsted the street ranks 255 of 357 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £320,000 (-13.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,955 per square metre, across 31 of the 92 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £27,000 to £795,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Gossoms End, Berkhamsted sits in Buckinghamshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Buckinghamshire at 11.3 times median local earnings of £40,365 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£249,999 median
- George Street£250,000 median
- Chiltern Park Avenue£159,950 median
- Cross Oak Road£335,000 median
- Benningfield Gardens£311,250 median
- Shrublands Avenue£362,500 median
- Kitsbury Road£375,000 median
- Chesham Road£250,000 median
- Ellesmere Road£249,975 median
- Charles Street£370,000 median
- Bridgewater Road£400,000 median
- Kings Road£493,000 median
- Cowper Road£187,000 median
- Manor Street£399,950 median
- Greenway£355,500 median
- Ravens Lane£217,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- HILL VIEW Gossoms End9 sales
- 65 Gossoms End5 sales
- GREEN BANK Gossoms End5 sales
- 63 Gossoms End4 sales
- 48 Gossoms End4 sales
- 75 Gossoms End4 sales
- WELWYN Gossoms End4 sales
- 72 Gossoms End4 sales
- 69 Gossoms End3 sales
- 74 Gossoms End3 sales
- 45 Gossoms End3 sales
- 56 Gossoms End3 sales
- 87 Gossoms End3 sales
- 44 Gossoms End3 sales
- 76 Gossoms End3 sales
- MOSS HOUSE Gossoms End3 sales
- 71 Gossoms End3 sales
- 70 Gossoms End3 sales
- 55 Gossoms End2 sales
- 49 Gossoms End2 sales
- 46 Gossoms End2 sales
- 73 Gossoms End2 sales
- 62 Gossoms End2 sales
- MOUNT PLEASANT, 90 Gossoms End2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted?
The median price paid in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted across every sale on the register is £276,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted?
92 sales are on record for Gossoms End, Berkhamsted, the most recent completing on 29 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gossoms End, Berkhamsted house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +10.0% between 2008 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -24.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gossoms End, Berkhamsted house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £485,000, set in 2014. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Gossoms End, Berkhamsted?
£3,955 per square metre, from the 31 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Jul 2025. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Gossoms End, Berkhamsted house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.