Blanche Lane, Potters Bar house prices are built from 104 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 4 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £292,475. Across the 14 years from 2006 to 2020 the median moved +103.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +48.1%.
Median price paid
£292,475
Change in cash, 2006–2020
+103.6%
Change in real terms
+48.1%
HM Land Registry104 salesLatest sale 4 Dec 2025
Section 01
How Blanche Lane, Potters Bar prices moved
The chart tracks the median Blanche Lane, Potters Bar house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2020. 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 | £103,500 | £229,819 |
| 2000s | 2 | £167,975 | £306,001 |
| 2010s | 2 | £422,500 | £595,725 |
| 2020s | 1 | £560,000 | £572,174 |
The highest yearly median on record for Blanche Lane, Potters Bar is £560,000 in 2020; the lowest is £92,500 in 1997. Across the full 25-year record the cash median has moved from £103,500 to £560,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £224,515, so the real change over the whole record is +222.9% — about +5.01% 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: +103.6% in cash against +48.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £795,000 | £812,283 |
| 83 | 20 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £585,000 | £597,717 |
| 52 | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 2 | 20 Feb 2025 | Detached | £1,400,000 | £1,430,435 |
| 40 | 19 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £326,194 |
| 87 | 5 Oct 2023 | Detached | £750,000 | £810,345 |
| 6 | 1 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £625,000 | £724,117 |
| 79 | 16 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £573,500 |
| 14 | 12 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,055,000 | £1,332,930 |
| 8 | 14 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £455,000 | £574,866 |
| 45 | 5 Mar 2021 | Detached | £890,000 | £1,124,462 |
| Cottage 2 | 19 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £621,488 |
| 71 | 17 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £1,075,000 | £1,391,873 |
| Cedar House | 17 Aug 2020 | Detached | £1,075,000 | £1,391,873 |
| Cottage 1 | 19 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £480,000 | £621,488 |
| 67a | 15 May 2020 | Detached | £730,000 | £945,179 |
| 7 | 6 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £560,000 | £725,069 |
| 8 | 26 Mar 2020 | Terraced | £350,000 | £453,168 |
| 47 | 12 Dec 2019 | Detached | £875,000 | £1,144,481 |
| 56 | 9 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £483,000 | £631,753 |
| 92 | 29 Jul 2019 | Semi-detached | £550,000 | £719,388 |
| 39 | 26 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £601,500 | £786,749 |
| 46 | 18 Apr 2019 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £542,811 |
| 30 | 18 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £410,000 | £546,408 |
| 5 | 28 Mar 2018 | Semi-detached | £535,000 | £712,996 |
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 Blanche Lane, Potters Bar values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 Blanche Lane | £280,000 (2008) | £585,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| 2 Blanche Lane | £680,000 (2015) | £1,400,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.1% |
| 6 Blanche Lane | £103,500 (1996) | £625,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.6% |
| 79 Blanche Lane | £289,950 (2006) | £495,000 (2022) | +3.4% | +0.7% |
| 14 Blanche Lane | £375,000 (2009) | £1,055,000 (2021) | +9.0% | +6.6% |
| 8 Blanche Lane | £92,500 (1997) | £455,000 (2021) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 67A Blanche Lane | £535,000 (2013) | £730,000 (2020) | +4.5% | +2.8% |
| 7 Blanche Lane | £295,950 (2010) | £560,000 (2020) | +6.6% | +4.4% |
| 56 Blanche Lane | £122,750 (1997) | £483,000 (2019) | +6.4% | +4.1% |
| 92 Blanche Lane | £240,000 (2012) | £550,000 (2019) | +12.6% | +10.5% |
| 46 Blanche Lane | £87,000 (1996) | £415,000 (2019) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 30 Blanche Lane | £89,500 (1998) | £410,000 (2018) | +7.9% | +5.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Blanche Lane, Potters Bar 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 47 | 45.2% | £284,000 | £44,350 – £1,075,000 |
| Detached | 31 | 29.8% | £450,000 | £105,000 – £1,400,000 |
| Terraced | 26 | 25.0% | £235,000 | £72,000 – £625,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Blanche Lane, Potters Bar
2 of the sales on record are leasehold and 102 freehold — 1.9% 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 £432,500 and the median freehold sale £292,475 — a gap of -32.4%. 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 | 2 | 1.9% | £432,500 |
| Freehold | 102 | 98.1% | £292,475 |
| New build | 1 | 1.0% | £480,000 |
| Existing home | 103 | 99.0% | £289,950 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +65.5%. 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 8 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 Blanche Lane, Potters Bar
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Broxbourne, 50.0% of 42,807 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 | 112 | 0.3% |
| B | 4,925 | 11.5% |
| C | 16,376 | 38.3% |
| D | 14,782 | 34.5% |
| E | 5,411 | 12.6% |
| F | 973 | 2.3% |
| G | 228 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Broxbourne at £1,675 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,125 for a one-bedroom home and £1,769 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £292,475 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.87% 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 EN6, 160 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 62 violent, 1 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 35 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 99,009 residents the 2021 census counted in Broxbourne, that is 1.62 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 Blanche Lane, Potters Bar
The 2021 census counted 99,009 residents in Broxbourne across 39,850 households. 69.7% of those households own their home and 30.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a EN6 postcode: 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dame Alice Owen's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,467 |
| Cuffley School | Primary | Foundation school | 449 |
| Cranborne Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 448 |
| Gracewood Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 420 |
| Ladbrooke Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 226 |
| Oakmere Primary School | Primary | Community school | 226 |
| Little Heath Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 225 |
| The Wroxham School | Primary | Academy converter | 218 |
| Pope Paul Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 214 |
| Northaw Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 101 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Potters Bar Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Brookmans Park Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Hadley Wood Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Cuffley Rail Station | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Blanche Lane, Potters Bar compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Blanche Lane, Potters Bar sits above that national figure — +85.7%.
Within Potters Bar the street ranks 163 of 288 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £285,000 (+2.6%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £44,350 to £1,400,000. 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.
Blanche Lane, Potters Bar sits in Broxbourne, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Broxbourne at 10.8 times median local earnings of £39,583 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
- Darkes Lane£210,000 median
- Mutton Lane£250,000 median
- Sunnybank Road£330,000 median
- Billy Lows Lane£300,000 median
- Tolmers Road£601,500 median
- Bornedene£136,500 median
- Dugdale Hill Lane£278,000 median
- Auckland Road£283,000 median
- Mimms Hall Road£260,000 median
- The Walk£330,000 median
- Hill Rise£390,000 median
- Ashwood Road£189,950 median
- Lambs Close£140,000 median
- Hawkshead Road£250,000 median
- Brookside Crescent£447,500 median
- Aberdale Gardens£235,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 30 Blanche Lane7 sales
- 56 Blanche Lane4 sales
- 5 Blanche Lane4 sales
- 10 Blanche Lane4 sales
- 8 Blanche Lane3 sales
- 46 Blanche Lane3 sales
- 28 Blanche Lane3 sales
- 85 Blanche Lane3 sales
- 77 Blanche Lane3 sales
- 83 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 2 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 6 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 79 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 14 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 67A Blanche Lane2 sales
- 7 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 92 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 48 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 78 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 37 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 42 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 22 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 49 Blanche Lane2 sales
- 91 Blanche Lane2 sales
Back to Potters Bar house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Blanche Lane, Potters Bar?
The median price paid in Blanche Lane, Potters Bar across every sale on the register is £292,475. 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 Blanche Lane, Potters Bar?
104 sales are on record for Blanche Lane, Potters Bar, the most recent completing on 4 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Blanche Lane, Potters Bar house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +103.6% between 2006 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +48.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Blanche Lane, Potters Bar house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £560,000, 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 Blanche Lane, Potters Bar?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 4 Dec 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, “Blanche Lane, Potters Bar 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.