Laurel Fields, Potters Bar house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 31 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £185,000. Across the 10 years from 2004 to 2014 the median moved +46.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.6%.
Median price paid
£185,000
Change in cash, 2004–2014
+46.9%
Change in real terms
+13.6%
Median per m²
£3,823
HM Land Registry108 sales28 with floor areaLatest sale 31 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Laurel Fields, Potters Bar prices moved
The chart tracks the median Laurel Fields, Potters Bar house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2014. 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 | 2 | £90,500 | £200,953 |
| 2000s | 4 | £124,000 | £225,891 |
| 2010s | 1 | £285,000 | £401,850 |
The highest yearly median on record for Laurel Fields, Potters Bar is £285,000 in 2014; the lowest is £90,500 in 1999. Across the full 17-year record the cash median has moved from £96,500 to £285,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £200,096, so the real change over the whole record is +104.3% — about +4.57% 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: +46.9% in cash against +13.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 31 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 17 | 6 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £472,500 | £472,500 |
| 41 | 20 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £420,000 | £429,130 |
| 16 | 24 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £395,000 | £403,587 |
| 9 | 5 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £520,000 | £547,164 |
| 34 | 8 Apr 2024 | Semi-detached | £524,000 | £551,373 |
| 33 | 24 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £515,000 | £650,672 |
| 42 | 24 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £352,500 | £445,363 |
| 24 | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £410,000 | £518,011 |
| 41 | 26 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £380,000 | £480,108 |
| 6 | 30 Jun 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £233,058 |
| 25 | 25 Oct 2019 | Terraced | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 37 | 19 Oct 2018 | Terraced | £363,000 | £483,771 |
| 41 | 17 Aug 2018 | Terraced | £375,000 | £499,764 |
| 35 | 11 May 2018 | Terraced | £360,000 | £479,773 |
| 21 | 25 Jan 2018 | Detached | £450,000 | £599,716 |
| 11 | 30 Jun 2017 | Terraced | £360,000 | £489,961 |
| 31 | 31 May 2017 | Terraced | £372,500 | £506,974 |
| 22 | 6 Sep 2016 | Detached | £518,000 | £723,149 |
| 17 | 23 Feb 2016 | Terraced | £385,000 | £537,475 |
| 49 | 15 Feb 2016 | Detached | £550,000 | £767,822 |
| 31 | 21 Jan 2016 | Terraced | £327,500 | £457,203 |
| 2 | 25 Jun 2015 | Flat or maisonette | £154,500 | £217,845 |
| 32 | 9 Dec 2014 | Terraced | £323,000 | £463,306 |
| 47 | 28 Oct 2014 | Terraced | £285,000 | £408,800 |
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 Laurel Fields, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 Laurel Fields | £123,000 (2001) | £370,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 17 Laurel Fields | £385,000 (2016) | £472,500 (2026) | +2.1% | -1.3% |
| 41 Laurel Fields | £90,500 (1999) | £420,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 16 Laurel Fields | £92,000 (1997) | £395,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 9 Laurel Fields | £148,000 (1999) | £520,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 34 Laurel Fields | £99,950 (1996) | £524,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 33 Laurel Fields | £191,000 (2000) | £515,000 (2021) | +4.8% | +2.6% |
| 42 Laurel Fields | £97,500 (2000) | £352,500 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 24 Laurel Fields | £196,000 (2004) | £410,000 (2021) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
| 6 Laurel Fields | £37,000 (1996) | £180,000 (2020) | +6.8% | +4.5% |
| 25 Laurel Fields | £154,950 (2002) | £350,000 (2019) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 37 Laurel Fields | £96,500 (1999) | £363,000 (2018) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Laurel Fields, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 78 | 72.2% | £191,000 | £1,500 – £520,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 18 | 16.7% | £74,000 | £37,000 – £180,000 |
| Semi-detached | 7 | 6.5% | £220,000 | £83,500 – £524,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 4.6% | £450,000 | £185,000 – £550,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Laurel Fields, Potters Bar
18 of the sales on record are leasehold and 90 freehold — 16.7% 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 £79,500 and the median freehold sale £195,000 — a gap of +145.3%. 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 | 18 | 16.7% | £79,500 |
| Freehold | 90 | 83.3% | £195,000 |
| New build | 5 | 4.6% | £122,000 |
| Existing home | 103 | 95.4% | £185,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -34.2%. 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 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 Laurel Fields, 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 £185,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.86% 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 Laurel Fields, 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 Laurel Fields, Potters Bar compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Laurel Fields, Potters Bar sits above that national figure — +17.5%.
Within Potters Bar the street ranks 241 of 288 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-35.1%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,823 per square metre, across 28 of the 108 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 £1,500 to £550,000. 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.
Laurel Fields, 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
- 41 Laurel Fields7 sales
- 34 Laurel Fields5 sales
- 40 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 33 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 6 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 37 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 35 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 31 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 2 Laurel Fields4 sales
- 16 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 24 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 47 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 4 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 28 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 29 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 27 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 39 Laurel Fields3 sales
- 17 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 9 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 42 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 25 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 21 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 11 Laurel Fields2 sales
- 22 Laurel Fields2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Laurel Fields, Potters Bar?
The median price paid in Laurel Fields, Potters Bar across every sale on the register is £185,000. 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 Laurel Fields, Potters Bar?
108 sales are on record for Laurel Fields, Potters Bar, the most recent completing on 31 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Laurel Fields, Potters Bar house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.9% between 2004 and 2014. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Laurel Fields, Potters Bar house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £285,000, set in 2014. 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 Laurel Fields, Potters Bar?
£3,823 per square metre, from the 28 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 31 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, “Laurel Fields, 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.