High Street, Hemel Hempstead house prices are built from 354 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £189,475. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +54.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.1%.
Median price paid
£189,475
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+54.2%
Change in real terms
+13.1%
Median per m²
£3,333
HM Land Registry354 sales47 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Mar 2026
Section 01
How High Street, Hemel Hempstead prices moved
The chart tracks the median High Street, Hemel Hempstead house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 | £89,000 | £197,622 |
| 2000s | 9 | £172,000 | £313,333 |
| 2010s | 9 | £250,000 | £352,500 |
| 2020s | 5 | £366,500 | £374,467 |
The highest yearly median on record for High Street, Hemel Hempstead is £423,750 in 2020; the lowest is £68,000 in 1999. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £85,000 to £345,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £188,740, so the real change over the whole record is +92.3% — about +2.28% 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: +54.2% in cash against +13.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | 24 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| Flat 5 Heritage Gate Rear of 45-47 | 23 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £267,500 | £267,500 |
| 105 – 107 | 4 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £655,000 | £669,239 |
| 1 Newhall Mews | 15 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £525,000 | £536,413 |
| 70 | 25 Apr 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 5 | 6 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £370,000 | £389,328 |
| 1 Village Mews, 46 | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| Apartment 1 Chiltern Mews | 11 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £345,000 | £363,022 |
| 72 | 23 May 2024 | Terraced | £483,500 | £508,757 |
| 6 Mulberry Court | 2 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 56 | 6 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 63 | 5 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £594,253 |
| 20 | 23 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £378,000 | £408,414 |
| Flat 4 Warwick House, 108 | 26 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £355,000 | £383,563 |
| 3 Tower View | 21 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| Flat 5 69 | 28 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £115,000 | £124,253 |
| 6 Mulberry Court | 1 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 108 | 31 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| Flat 4 57a | 7 Oct 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £171,471 |
| 74 | 30 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 7 | 29 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £381,400 | £441,885 |
| 60 | 23 Sep 2022 | Detached | £820,000 | £950,041 |
| Apartment 4 Chiltern Mews | 16 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £330,000 | £382,334 |
| 18 | 12 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £760,000 | £880,526 |
| 4 Newhall Mews | 5 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £585,000 | £677,773 |
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 High Street, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 High Street | £182,000 (1998) | £600,000 (2026) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 5 HERITAGE GATE REAR of 45-47 High Street | £285,000 (2016) | £267,500 (2026) | -0.6% | -3.9% |
| 1 NEWHALL MEWS High Street | £240,000 (2009) | £525,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +1.9% |
| 70 High Street | £110,000 (2001) | £350,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 5 High Street | £249,950 (2010) | £370,000 (2024) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 1 VILLAGE MEWS, 46 High Street | £89,000 (1997) | £295,000 (2024) | +4.5% | +1.9% |
| APARTMENT 1 CHILTERN MEWS High Street | £347,000 (2021) | £345,000 (2024) | -0.2% | -6.1% |
| 72 High Street | £110,000 (1996) | £483,500 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 6 MULBERRY COURT High Street | £120,000 (2001) | £300,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 56 High Street | £245,000 (2010) | £425,000 (2023) | +4.3% | +1.2% |
| 63 High Street | £92,500 (1996) | £550,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| 20 High Street | £205,000 (2012) | £378,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. High Street, 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 | 163 | 46.0% | £148,000 | £35,000 – £475,000 |
| Terraced | 134 | 37.9% | £235,000 | £31,000 – £760,000 |
| Semi-detached | 41 | 11.6% | £240,000 | £92,500 – £615,000 |
| Detached | 16 | 4.5% | £328,000 | £120,000 – £820,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in High Street, Hemel Hempstead
157 of the sales on record are leasehold and 197 freehold — 44.4% 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 £147,000 and the median freehold sale £240,000 — a gap of +63.3%. 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 | 157 | 44.4% | £147,000 |
| Freehold | 197 | 55.6% | £240,000 |
| New build | 35 | 9.9% | £137,150 |
| Existing home | 319 | 90.1% | £200,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -31.4%. 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 56 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 High Street, 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 £189,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.00% 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 HP1, 389 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 120 violent, 9 burglary, 15 vehicle-related and 133 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.
Against the 155,081 residents the 2021 census counted in Dacorum, that is 2.51 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 High Street, 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.
14 state and independent schools have a HP1 postcode: 10 primary, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hemel Hempstead School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,287 |
| John F Kennedy Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,073 |
| Laureate Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 703 |
| Galley Hill Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Community school | 426 |
| South Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 417 |
| St Cuthbert Mayne Voluntary Catholic Junior Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 247 |
| Gade Valley Primary School | Primary | Community school | 236 |
| Boxmoor Primary School | Primary | Community school | 234 |
| Micklem Primary School | Primary | Community school | 223 |
| Pixies Hill Primary School | Primary | Community school | 209 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hemel Hempstead Rail Station | Rail | 1.6 km |
| Apsley Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Berkhamsted Rail Station | Rail | 5.1 km |
| Kings Langley Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
Section 09
How High Street, Hemel Hempstead compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. High Street, Hemel Hempstead sits above that national figure — +20.3%.
Within Hemel Hempstead the street ranks 693 of 1057 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £205,000 (-7.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,333 per square metre, across 47 of the 354 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 £31,000 to £820,000. 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.
High Street, 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
- Cotterells£195,000 median
- Long Chaulden£195,000 median
- The Pastures£128,500 median
- Northridge Way£238,975 median
- The Lawns£140,000 median
- Dacorum Way£318,000 median
- Horsecroft Road£245,000 median
- Sunnyhill Road£213,750 median
- Kingsland Road£255,000 median
- Queensway£175,000 median
- Fennycroft Road£166,000 median
- Cowper Road£250,000 median
- Beechfield Road£247,000 median
- Spring Lane£215,498 median
- St Johns Road£210,500 median
- Gadebridge Road£186,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 72 High Street9 sales
- 3 High Street9 sales
- 84 High Street7 sales
- FLAT 4, 57A High Street6 sales
- 86 High Street6 sales
- 26A High Street6 sales
- 74 High Street5 sales
- 70 High Street5 sales
- 6, MULBERRY COURT High Street5 sales
- 66 High Street5 sales
- 57A High Street5 sales
- 1, NEWHALL MEWS High Street4 sales
- 1, VILLAGE MEWS, 46 High Street4 sales
- 3, TOWER VIEW High Street4 sales
- 18 High Street4 sales
- FLAT 5, 31 High Street4 sales
- 1, TOWER VIEW High Street4 sales
- 73A High Street4 sales
- 105B High Street4 sales
- 63D High Street4 sales
- 82 High Street4 sales
- 7, VILLAGE MEWS, 46 High Street4 sales
- 5 High Street3 sales
- 63 High Street3 sales
Back to Hemel Hempstead house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in High Street, Hemel Hempstead?
The median price paid in High Street, Hemel Hempstead across every sale on the register is £189,475. 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 High Street, Hemel Hempstead?
354 sales are on record for High Street, Hemel Hempstead, the most recent completing on 24 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have High Street, Hemel Hempstead house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +54.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were High Street, Hemel Hempstead house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £423,750, set in 2020. 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 High Street, Hemel Hempstead?
£3,333 per square metre, from the 47 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 24 Mar 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, “High Street, 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.