Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead house prices are built from 236 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 13 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £90,500. Across the 16 years from 2007 to 2023 the median moved +130.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +43.1%.
Median price paid
£90,500
Change in cash, 2007–2023
+130.2%
Change in real terms
+43.1%
Median per m²
£1,733
HM Land Registry236 sales113 with floor areaLatest sale 13 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | 5 | £39,000 | £86,598 |
| 2000s | 8 | £99,500 | £181,260 |
| 2010s | 1 | £180,000 | £253,800 |
| 2020s | 3 | £207,000 | £211,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead is £276,250 in 2023; the lowest is £33,500 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £38,750 to £276,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £86,043, so the real change over the whole record is +246.9% — about +4.54% 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: +130.2% in cash against +43.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 13 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 81 | 9 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £188,500 | £198,347 |
| 95 | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £192,500 | £207,989 |
| 89 | 20 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £178,276 |
| 7 | 10 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £360,000 | £388,966 |
| 1 | 11 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £421,379 |
| 4 | 10 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £386,500 | £417,598 |
| 105 | 21 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £205,287 |
| 131 | 22 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £196,960 |
| 30 | 18 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £440,000 | £509,778 |
| 45 | 19 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £220,131 |
| 53 | 1 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £203,000 | £235,193 |
| 63 | 21 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £173,788 |
| 1 Brocks House | 15 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £257,000 | £324,704 |
| 31 | 15 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £185,450 | £234,305 |
| 117 | 19 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £192,043 |
| 109 | 3 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £192,043 |
| 69 | 4 Jun 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £207,000 | £261,532 |
| 2 Brocks House | 21 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 5 Brocks House | 31 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £315,860 |
| 3 Brocks House | 18 Dec 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 4 Brocks House | 13 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £252,500 | £326,928 |
| 6 Brocks House | 23 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 1 Brocks House | 16 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 71 | 6 Dec 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £235,436 |
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 Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Burns Drive | £46,250 (1998) | £188,500 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 95 Burns Drive | £87,500 (2004) | £192,500 (2023) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
| 89 Burns Drive | £27,950 (1997) | £165,000 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 4 Burns Drive | £85,000 (1998) | £386,500 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 105 Burns Drive | £77,950 (2002) | £190,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 131 Burns Drive | £49,000 (2000) | £170,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 30 Burns Drive | £115,000 (1999) | £440,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.4% |
| 45 Burns Drive | £40,500 (1997) | £190,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 53 Burns Drive | £119,950 (2006) | £203,000 (2022) | +3.3% | +0.6% |
| 63 Burns Drive | £42,000 (1997) | £150,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.7% |
| 31 Burns Drive | £48,000 (1999) | £185,450 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.1% |
| 1 BROCKS HOUSE Burns Drive | £250,000 (2020) | £257,000 (2021) | +2.8% | +0.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 204 | 86.4% | £86,000 | £15,000 – £257,000 |
| Terraced | 25 | 10.6% | £97,500 | £39,500 – £440,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 3.0% | £218,000 | £137,500 – £390,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead
204 of the sales on record are leasehold and 32 freehold — 86.4% 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 £86,250 and the median freehold sale £125,500 — a gap of +45.5%. 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 | 204 | 86.4% | £86,250 |
| Freehold | 32 | 13.6% | £125,500 |
| New build | 6 | 2.5% | £250,000 |
| Existing home | 230 | 97.5% | £87,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +187.4%. 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 14 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 Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Dacorum, 49.9% of 77,681 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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 256 | 0.3% |
| B | 8,166 | 10.5% |
| C | 30,377 | 39.1% |
| D | 27,618 | 35.6% |
| E | 9,093 | 11.7% |
| F | 1,771 | 2.3% |
| G | 400 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Dacorum at £1,579 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,087 for a one-bedroom home and £1,639 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £90,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 20.94% 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 HP2, 329 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 135 violent, 4 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 84 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.0 times busier.
Against the 155,081 residents the 2021 census counted in Dacorum, that is 2.12 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 Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead
The 2021 census counted 155,081 residents in Dacorum across 63,412 households. 64.5% of those households own their home and 35.3% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a HP2 postcode: 14 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Astley Cooper School | Secondary | Community school | 914 |
| The Adeyfield Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 858 |
| Broadfield Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 429 |
| Jupiter Primary School | Primary | Free schools | 397 |
| Aycliffe Drive Primary School | Primary | Community school | 327 |
| Yewtree Primary School | Primary | Community school | 321 |
| Hammond Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 308 |
| Brockswood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 247 |
| Hobletts Manor Junior School | Primary | Community school | 237 |
| Holtsmere End Junior School | Primary | Community school | 237 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Apsley Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Hemel Hempstead Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Kings Langley Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Berkhamsted Rail Station | Rail | 7.6 km |
Section 09
How Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead sits below that national figure — -42.5%.
Within Hemel Hempstead the street ranks 1047 of 1057 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £205,000 (-55.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,733 per square metre, across 113 of the 236 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 £15,000 to £440,000. 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.
Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead sits in Dacorum, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Dacorum at 11.9 times median local earnings of £37,773 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
- Selden Hill£185,000 median
- Valley Green£104,750 median
- Alexandra Road£135,000 median
- St Agnells Lane£175,998 median
- Hunters Oak£199,950 median
- Windmill Road£201,000 median
- Claymore£141,500 median
- Midland Road£205,000 median
- Bencroft Road£135,000 median
- Elstree Road£130,000 median
- Tattershall Drive£105,000 median
- Green Lane£422,500 median
- Cuffley Court£98,000 median
- Turners Hill£210,000 median
- Washington Avenue£145,000 median
- Livingstone Walk£97,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 45 Burns Drive8 sales
- 22A Burns Drive7 sales
- 81 Burns Drive6 sales
- 133 Burns Drive6 sales
- 35 Burns Drive6 sales
- 25 Burns Drive6 sales
- 51 Burns Drive6 sales
- 73 Burns Drive5 sales
- 123 Burns Drive5 sales
- 77 Burns Drive5 sales
- 41 Burns Drive5 sales
- 17 Burns Drive5 sales
- 89 Burns Drive4 sales
- 131 Burns Drive4 sales
- 31 Burns Drive4 sales
- 71 Burns Drive4 sales
- 139 Burns Drive4 sales
- 19 Burns Drive4 sales
- 15 Burns Drive4 sales
- 47 Burns Drive4 sales
- 59 Burns Drive4 sales
- 95 Burns Drive3 sales
- 30 Burns Drive3 sales
- 63 Burns Drive3 sales
Back to Hemel Hempstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead?
The median price paid in Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead across every sale on the register is £90,500. 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 Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead?
236 sales are on record for Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead, the most recent completing on 13 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +130.2% between 2007 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +43.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £276,250, set in 2023. 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 Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead?
£1,733 per square metre, from the 113 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 13 Nov 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, “Burns Drive, Hemel Hempstead 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.