Milford Close, St Albans house prices

Milford Close, St Albans house prices are built from 181 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 2 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £119,950. Across the 11 years from 2004 to 2015 the median moved +46.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.1%.

HM Land Registry181 sales35 with floor areaLatest sale 2 Mar 2026

The chart tracks the median Milford Close, St Albans house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2015. 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 Milford Close, St Albans is £190,000 in 2015; the lowest is £48,000 in 1997. Across the full 21-year record the cash median has moved from £48,250 to £190,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £107,138, so the real change over the whole record is +150.1% — about +4.69% 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: +46.2% in cash against +11.1% 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.

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 Milford Close, 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. Milford Close, St Albans is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

149 of the sales on record are leasehold and 32 freehold — 82.3% 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 £110,500 and the median freehold sale £161,500 — a gap of +46.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -50.0%. 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 5 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 Hertsmere, 48.5% of 45,538 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% 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 Hertsmere at £1,806 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,242 for a one-bedroom home and £1,916 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £119,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 18.07% 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 AL4, 53 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 19 violent, 2 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 9 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.2 times quieter.

Against the 107,827 residents the 2021 census counted in Hertsmere, that is 0.49 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 107,827 residents in Hertsmere across 42,682 households. 65.3% of those households own their home and 34.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

13 state and independent schools have a AL4 postcode: 9 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. 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. Milford Close, St Albans sits below that national figure — -23.8%.

Within St Albans the street ranks 1215 of 1229 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-57.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,236 per square metre, across 35 of the 181 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 £35,000 to £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.

Milford Close, St Albans sits in Hertsmere, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Hertsmere at 11.9 times median local earnings of £45,103 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 nearby

• The Ridgeway£250,000 median
• Hughenden Road£155,000 median
• Puddingstone Drive£260,000 median
• Lower Luton Road£350,000 median
• Hazelwood Drive£288,500 median
• St Leonards Court£118,000 median
• Twyford Road£142,000 median
• Harness Way£183,500 median
• Wynches Farm Drive£295,000 median
• St Albans Road£385,000 median
• Longacres£297,500 median
• Newgate Close£185,000 median
• Windmill Avenue£328,000 median
• Necton Road£255,475 median
• Hill End Lane£225,000 median
• Princess Diana Drive£290,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 1 Milford Close8 sales
• 2 Milford Close7 sales
• FLAT 28, the LARCHES Milford Close7 sales
• FLAT 21, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 31, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• 14 Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 32, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 10, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 26, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• 12 Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 33, the LARCHES Milford Close5 sales
• FLAT 6, the LARCHES Milford Close4 sales
• 11 Milford Close4 sales
• 16 Milford Close4 sales
• FLAT 8, the LARCHES Milford Close4 sales
• 22 Milford Close4 sales
• 13 Milford Close4 sales
• 28 Milford Close4 sales
• 15 Milford Close3 sales
• FLAT 7, the LARCHES Milford Close3 sales
• FLAT 42, the LARCHES Milford Close3 sales
• FLAT 29, the LARCHES Milford Close3 sales
• FLAT 1, the LARCHES Milford Close3 sales
• 9 Milford Close3 sales

Back to St Albans house prices.

What is the average house price in Milford Close, St Albans?

The median price paid in Milford Close, St Albans across every sale on the register is £119,950. 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 Milford Close, St Albans?

181 sales are on record for Milford Close, St Albans, the most recent completing on 2 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Milford Close, St Albans house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +46.2% between 2004 and 2015. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Milford Close, St Albans house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £190,000, set in 2015. 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 Milford Close, St Albans?

£3,236 per square metre, from the 35 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 2 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, “Milford Close, 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.