Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden house prices are built from 137 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £214,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +70.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.5%.
Median price paid
£214,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+70.4%
Change in real terms
+23.5%
Median per m²
£3,576
HM Land Registry137 sales42 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden prices moved
The chart tracks the median Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 4 | £82,000 | £182,079 |
| 2000s | 5 | £199,975 | £364,296 |
| 2010s | 2 | £272,500 | £384,225 |
| 2020s | 2 | £350,000 | £357,609 |
The highest yearly median on record for Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden is £490,000 in 2025; the lowest is £64,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £64,000 to £490,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £142,110, so the real change over the whole record is +252.3% — about +4.29% 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: +70.4% in cash against +23.5% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 | 20 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £261,000 | £266,674 |
| 68 | 30 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £305,000 | £311,630 |
| 33 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £836,000 | £854,174 |
| 41 | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £770,000 | £786,739 |
| 35 | 31 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £505,761 |
| 37 | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £495,543 |
| 17 | 28 Jun 2024 | Detached | £650,000 | £683,955 |
| 39 | 28 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £440,000 | £462,985 |
| 77 | 28 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £442,500 | £478,103 |
| 57 | 27 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £475,000 | £513,218 |
| 62 | 9 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 84 | 19 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 37 | 24 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £521,364 |
| 56 | 20 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £286,500 | £361,976 |
| 41 | 29 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £635,000 | £802,285 |
| 76 | 25 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £265,000 | £334,812 |
| 23 | 2 Jun 2021 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £442,204 |
| 49 | 4 Feb 2021 | Detached | £680,000 | £859,140 |
| 53 | 25 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £487,000 | £636,985 |
| 69 | 8 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £453,000 | £592,514 |
| 61 | 20 Jun 2019 | Terraced | £480,000 | £627,829 |
| 39 | 13 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £320,000 | £418,553 |
| 67 | 8 Nov 2018 | Terraced | £400,000 | £533,081 |
| 65 | 19 Jul 2018 | Terraced | £380,000 | £506,427 |
| 64 | 29 Jun 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £283,000 | £377,155 |
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 Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 82 Coldharbour Lane | £78,000 (1999) | £261,000 (2025) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 68 Coldharbour Lane | £63,000 (1997) | £305,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 33 Coldharbour Lane | £250,000 (2003) | £836,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 41 Coldharbour Lane | £152,500 (1999) | £770,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 35 Coldharbour Lane | £209,950 (2004) | £495,000 (2025) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| 37 Coldharbour Lane | £210,000 (2009) | £485,000 (2025) | +5.4% | +2.3% |
| 39 Coldharbour Lane | £320,000 (2019) | £440,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +2.0% |
| 77 Coldharbour Lane | £98,500 (1998) | £442,500 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 57 Coldharbour Lane | £182,000 (2002) | £475,000 (2023) | +4.7% | +1.8% |
| 62 Coldharbour Lane | £142,950 (2002) | £320,000 (2022) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| 56 Coldharbour Lane | £119,950 (2001) | £286,500 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.2% |
| 76 Coldharbour Lane | £106,500 (2001) | £265,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden 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 | 49 | 35.8% | £215,000 | £60,000 – £836,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 40 | 29.2% | £175,000 | £52,000 – £320,000 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 28.5% | £265,000 | £77,500 – £770,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 6.6% | £305,000 | £106,500 – £680,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden
43 of the sales on record are leasehold and 94 freehold — 31.4% 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 £175,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +42.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 43 | 31.4% | £175,000 |
| Freehold | 94 | 68.6% | £250,000 |
A further 15 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 Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Central Bedfordshire, 54.5% of 139,601 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,405 | 1.0% |
| B | 28,531 | 20.4% |
| C | 46,180 | 33.1% |
| D | 45,015 | 32.2% |
| E | 14,404 | 10.3% |
| F | 3,286 | 2.4% |
| G | 780 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Central Bedfordshire at £1,250 a month as of Jun 2026 — £864 for a one-bedroom home and £1,374 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £214,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.99% 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 AL5, 109 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 19 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 32 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.37 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 Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden
The 2021 census counted 294,252 residents in Central Bedfordshire across 120,754 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a AL5 postcode: 13 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roundwood Park School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,421 |
| Sir John Lawes School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,373 |
| St George's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,351 |
| Katherine Warington School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,113 |
| Wood End School | Primary | Community school | 457 |
| High Beeches Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| The Grove Junior School | Primary | Community school | 350 |
| Roundwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| Crabtree Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 256 |
| The Grove Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 243 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Harpenden Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Luton Airport DART Station | Metro or underground | 7.1 km |
| St Albans City Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden sits above that national figure — +36.2%.
Within Harpenden the street ranks 346 of 387 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £375,000 (-42.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,576 per square metre, across 42 of the 137 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 £52,000 to £836,000. 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.
Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden sits in Central Bedfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Central Bedfordshire at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,704 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
- Station Road£240,000 median
- Luton Road£325,000 median
- Milton Road£235,000 median
- Roundwood Lane£147,750 median
- Cravells Road£268,000 median
- Southdown Road£250,000 median
- Crabtree Lane£525,000 median
- Cowper Road£409,375 median
- Overstone Road£420,000 median
- Lower Luton Road£247,500 median
- Tuffnells Way£500,000 median
- Grove Road£250,000 median
- Park Mount£395,000 median
- Sun Lane£325,000 median
- Chesterton Avenue£358,750 median
- Piggottshill Lane£450,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 82 Coldharbour Lane6 sales
- 71 Coldharbour Lane6 sales
- 64 Coldharbour Lane5 sales
- 75 Coldharbour Lane5 sales
- 68 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 57 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 53 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 65 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 15A Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 45 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 55 Coldharbour Lane4 sales
- 33 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 35 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 41 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 37 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 77 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 62 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 56 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 67 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 7 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 58 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 79 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 50 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
- 19 Coldharbour Lane3 sales
Back to Harpenden house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden?
The median price paid in Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden across every sale on the register is £214,500. 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 Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden?
137 sales are on record for Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden, the most recent completing on 20 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +70.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £490,000, set in 2025. 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 Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden?
£3,576 per square metre, from the 42 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 20 Aug 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, “Coldharbour Lane, Harpenden 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.