Borehamwood house prices

Borehamwood house prices are built from 18,128 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £232,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +8.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.5%.

HM Land Registry18,128 sales3,429 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Borehamwood house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Borehamwood is £500,000 in 2022; the lowest is £68,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £68,000 to £432,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £150,992, so the real change over the whole record is +186.4% — about +3.45% 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: +8.1% in cash against -22.5% 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.

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.

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 Borehamwood values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Borehamwood is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 3,970 certificates cover Borehamwood, and their median floor area is 70 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

5,245 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,883 freehold — 28.9% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £185,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +35.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +17.6%. 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 1,139 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Barnet, 49.4% of 195,643 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Barnet at £1,939 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,491 for a one-bedroom home and £2,243 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £232,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.03% 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 WD6, 343 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 121 violent, 17 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 67 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times busier.

Against the 389,344 residents the 2021 census counted in Barnet, that is 0.88 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.

The 2021 census counted 389,344 residents in Barnet across 148,917 households. 53.7% of those households own their home and 46.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a WD6 postcode: 10 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Borehamwood sits above that national figure — +47.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,037 per square metre, across 3,429 of the 18,128 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 £3,500 to £4,125,000. 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.

Borehamwood sits in Barnet, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Barnet at 14.9 times median local earnings of £38,294 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.

Streets in Borehamwood

• Shenley Road358 sales
• Bullhead Road315 sales
• Coleridge Way313 sales
• Furzehill Road302 sales
• Station Road291 sales
• Danziger Way252 sales
• Theobald Street244 sales
• Gateshead Road234 sales
• Aycliffe Road201 sales
• Robeson Way201 sales
• Whitehouse Avenue201 sales
• Kensington Way198 sales
• Eldon Avenue197 sales
• Todd Close196 sales
• Brook Road195 sales
• Gemini Park192 sales
• The Campions190 sales
• Croxdale Road169 sales
• Elstree Way169 sales
• Holmesley Road165 sales
• Balmoral Drive163 sales
• Drayton Road156 sales
• Maxwell Road153 sales
• Deacons Hill Road152 sales
• Barnet Lane149 sales
• Manor Way148 sales
• Boreham Holt147 sales
• High Street143 sales
• Cardinal Avenue142 sales
• Arundel Drive141 sales
• Stanborough Avenue135 sales
• Wordsworth Gardens134 sales
• Studio Way124 sales
• Horizon Place123 sales
• Sullivan Way123 sales
• Hillside Avenue122 sales
• Rutherford Close121 sales
• Pinewood Close120 sales
• Chandos Road115 sales
• Stratfield Road115 sales
• Linton Avenue113 sales
• Ashdown Drive109 sales
• Armstrong Close103 sales
• Buckingham Road102 sales
• Featherstone Gardens100 sales
• Anthony Road99 sales
• Cowley Hill98 sales
• Farm Close98 sales
• Siskin Close97 sales
• Ashley Drive96 sales
• Rossington Avenue95 sales
• Allum Lane94 sales
• Dacre Gardens91 sales
• Stevenage Crescent91 sales
• Allerton Road90 sales
• Lion Court90 sales
• Masefield Avenue89 sales
• Thornbury Gardens89 sales
• Hartforde Road88 sales
• Kenilworth Drive87 sales

Postcode districts covering Borehamwood

• WD6£232,000 median

What is the average house price in Borehamwood?

The median price paid in Borehamwood across every sale on the register is £232,000. 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 Borehamwood?

18,128 sales are on record for Borehamwood, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Borehamwood house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +8.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Borehamwood house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £500,000, set in 2022. 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 Borehamwood?

£3,037 per square metre, from the 3,429 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 25 Jun 2026. 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, “Borehamwood 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.