Sold Price History


Abbots Park, St Albans house prices

Abbots Park, St Albans house prices are built from 222 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £183,498. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved -3.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.1%.

Median price paid

£183,498

Change in cash, 2014–2024

-3.3%

Change in real terms

-29.1%

Median per m²

£2,156

HM Land Registry222 sales76 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026

Section 01

How Abbots Park, St Albans prices moved

The chart tracks the median Abbots Park, St Albans 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.

Abbots Park, St Albans house prices by year, median price paid 1995 to 2024
Solid line: the median price actually paid. Dashed line: the same medians restated in 2026 money using ONS CPIH.
DecadeYears with salesMedian paidIn today's money
1990s5£75,000£166,535
2000s10£175,000£318,798
2010s4£309,950£437,030
2020s2£290,000£296,304
Median of the yearly medians in each decade.

The highest yearly median on record for Abbots Park, St Albans is £425,000 in 2017; the lowest is £68,000 in 1995. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £68,000 to £290,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £150,992, so the real change over the whole record is +102.1% — about +2.46% 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: -3.3% in cash against -29.1% 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.

AddressSoldTypePrice paidIn today's money
729 May 2026Flat or maisonette£400,000£400,000
2813 Jun 2025Flat or maisonette£345,000£352,500
4112 Jun 2025Flat or maisonette£294,000£300,391
7731 Mar 2025Terraced£480,000£490,435
87a21 Oct 2024Terraced£485,000£510,336
44a29 Jul 2024Flat or maisonette£305,000£320,933
4021 Jun 2024Flat or maisonette£290,000£305,149
35a14 Jun 2024Flat or maisonette£247,500£260,429
1522 Jan 2024Flat or maisonette£287,000£301,993
41a15 Nov 2023Flat or maisonette£293,000£316,575
4320 Oct 2023Flat or maisonette£207,000£223,655
5130 Aug 2023Flat or maisonette£425,000£459,195
10013 Mar 2023Flat or maisonette£515,000£556,437
85a7 Oct 2022Flat or maisonette£520,000£602,465
8715 Sep 2022Terraced£470,000£544,536
3829 Jul 2022Flat or maisonette£305,000£353,369
1413 Jun 2022Flat or maisonette£260,000£301,233
4225 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£258,000£298,915
10a24 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£291,000£337,149
5218 Mar 2022Flat or maisonette£410,000£475,021
10313 Jan 2022Terraced£486,000£563,073
1322 Nov 2021Flat or maisonette£281,000£355,027
2018 Aug 2021Flat or maisonette£304,500£384,718
4613 Jul 2021Flat or maisonette£250,000£315,860
2914 Jun 2021Flat or maisonette£411,550£519,969
The 25 most recent sales on the record.

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

AddressFirst recorded saleMost recent saleCash a yearReal a year
7 Abbots Park£249,950 (2007)£400,000 (2026)+2.5%-0.4%
41 Abbots Park£59,999 (1999)£294,000 (2025)+6.3%+3.5%
77 Abbots Park£77,000 (1995)£480,000 (2025)+6.3%+3.6%
87A Abbots Park£220,000 (2007)£485,000 (2024)+4.8%+1.7%
44A Abbots Park£189,250 (2008)£305,000 (2024)+3.0%+0.1%
40 Abbots Park£138,000 (2011)£290,000 (2024)+5.9%+2.9%
35A Abbots Park£105,000 (2001)£247,500 (2024)+3.8%+1.0%
15 Abbots Park£152,500 (2004)£287,000 (2024)+3.2%+0.3%
41A Abbots Park£49,000 (1997)£293,000 (2023)+7.1%+4.4%
51 Abbots Park£199,500 (2004)£425,000 (2023)+4.1%+1.1%
100 Abbots Park£45,000 (1998)£515,000 (2023)+10.2%+7.4%
85A Abbots Park£98,000 (1997)£520,000 (2022)+6.9%+4.3%
Annualised change between the first and last recorded sale of the same address.

Section 04

What sells here

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

Property typeSalesShareMedian paidRange
Flat or maisonette14665.8%£172,500£41,500 – £520,000
Terraced7634.2%£228,000£70,000 – £486,000
Property types as recorded by HM Land Registry.

Section 06

Ownership and new build in Abbots Park, St Albans

222 of the sales on record are leasehold and 0 freehold — 100.0% 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.

CategorySalesShareMedian paid
Leasehold222100.0%£183,498
Freehold00.0%
Shares are of the sales used on this page.

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 Abbots Park, St Albans

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.

Energy bandCertificatesShare
A2090.3%
B6,88610.2%
C24,23535.9%
D25,22337.3%
E9,13213.5%
F1,6062.4%
G3030.4%
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates registered in St Albans.

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 £183,498 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.63% 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.

Section 08

The neighbourhood around Abbots Park, St Albans

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.

SchoolPhaseTypePupils
Samuel Ryder AcademyAll-throughAcademy sponsor led1,577
The Marlborough Science AcademySecondaryAcademy converter1,337
Verulam SchoolSecondaryAcademy converter987
Loreto CollegeSecondaryAcademy converter952
St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & NurseryPrimaryAcademy converter410
St Peter's SchoolPrimaryCommunity school392
Alban City SchoolPrimaryFree schools381
Fleetville Junior SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter358
Mandeville Primary SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter340
Fleetville Infant and Nursery SchoolPrimaryAcademy converter304
Open establishments recorded by the Department for Education, largest first.
StationModeDistance from the district centre
St Albans City Rail StationRail0.3 km
St Albans Abbey Rail StationRail1.4 km
Park Street Rail StationRail2.8 km
How Wood (Herts) Rail StationRail3.8 km
Straight-line distance from the centre of the postcode district, not walking distance.

Section 09

How Abbots Park, St Albans compares

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Abbots Park, St Albans sits above that national figure — +16.5%.

Within St Albans the street ranks 1087 of 1229 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-35.6%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,156 per square metre, across 76 of the 222 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 £41,500 to £520,000. 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.

Abbots Park, 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.

Section 10

Nearby on the record

Streets nearby

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

Back to St Albans house prices.

Quick answers

Common questions about this data

What is the average house price in Abbots Park, St Albans?

The median price paid in Abbots Park, St Albans across every sale on the register is £183,498. 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 Abbots Park, St Albans?

222 sales are on record for Abbots Park, St Albans, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Abbots Park, St Albans house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -3.3% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Abbots Park, St Albans house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £425,000, set in 2017. 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 Abbots Park, St Albans?

£2,156 per square metre, from the 76 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 29 May 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, “Abbots Park, 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.