St Albans house prices

St Albans house prices are built from 68,271 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £285,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +24.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -10.7%.

HM Land Registry68,271 sales11,396 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median St Albans house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for St Albans is £595,000 in 2023; the lowest is £83,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £83,500 to £580,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £185,409, so the real change over the whole record is +212.8% — about +3.75% 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: +24.7% in cash against -10.7% 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.

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.

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 St Albans values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. St Albans is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 13,039 certificates cover St Albans, and their median floor area is 82 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +7.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

17,377 of the sales on record are leasehold and 50,894 freehold — 25.5% 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 £190,000 and the median freehold sale £335,000 — a gap of +76.3%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +4.2%. 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 2,467 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across St Albans, 46.4% of 67,594 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.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in St Albans at £1,931 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,270 for a one-bedroom home and £2,018 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £285,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.13% 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 AL1, 343 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 110 violent, 17 burglary, 21 vehicle-related and 68 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.1 times busier.

Against the 148,167 residents the 2021 census counted in St Albans, that is 2.31 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.

The 2021 census counted 148,167 residents in St Albans across 58,990 households. 71.5% of those households own their home and 28.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

18 state and independent schools have a AL1 postcode: 14 primary, 3 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. St Albans sits above that national figure — +81.0%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,844 per square metre, across 11,396 of the 68,271 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 £4,250 to £5,000,000. 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.

St Albans sits in St Albans, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in St Albans at 15.0 times median local earnings of £41,967 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.

Streets in St Albans

• High Street1,194 sales
• Hatfield Road849 sales
• London Road846 sales
• The Ridgeway562 sales
• Camp Road529 sales
• Charrington Place482 sales
• Watford Road437 sales
• Newsom Place401 sales
• Beningfield Drive390 sales
• Dexter Close378 sales
• Sandridge Road363 sales
• Park View Close347 sales
• Hughenden Road329 sales
• Goldsmith Way314 sales
• Kings Road288 sales
• Culver Road266 sales
• Beech Road256 sales
• Old London Road254 sales
• Lemsford Road253 sales
• Cavendish Road250 sales
• The Park248 sales
• Tavistock Avenue240 sales
• Bernard Street238 sales
• Puddingstone Drive235 sales
• Sandpit Lane234 sales
• Grange Street228 sales
• Avenue Road225 sales
• Dalton Street225 sales
• Prospect Road224 sales
• Abbots Park222 sales
• Riverside Road222 sales
• Fishpool Street220 sales
• Marshalswick Lane213 sales
• Carlisle Avenue211 sales
• Granville Road209 sales
• Folly Lane203 sales
• Brampton Road197 sales
• Park Street Lane197 sales
• Batchwood Drive196 sales
• Lower Luton Road194 sales
• Castle Road192 sales
• Wyedale192 sales
• Lattimore Road191 sales
• St Annes Road191 sales
• Verulam Road191 sales
• Holywell Hill190 sales
• Grosvenor Road189 sales
• Hardwicke Place189 sales
• New House Park189 sales
• Mount Pleasant Lane188 sales
• Sopwell Lane186 sales
• Upper Culver Road184 sales
• Pageant Road183 sales
• Alma Road182 sales
• Milford Close181 sales
• Albert Street180 sales
• Boundary Road180 sales
• Hazelwood Drive180 sales
• Oster Street179 sales
• Alexandra Road178 sales

Postcode districts covering St Albans

• AL1£280,000 median
• AL3£311,061 median
• AL4£280,000 median
• AL2£267,000 median

What is the average house price in St Albans?

The median price paid in St Albans across every sale on the register is £285,000. 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 St Albans?

68,271 sales are on record for St Albans, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have St Albans house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +24.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -10.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were St Albans house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £595,000, 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 St Albans?

£3,844 per square metre, from the 11,396 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 26 Jun 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, “St Albans 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.