Puddingstone Drive, St Albans house prices are built from 235 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 18 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £260,000. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +78.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +47.1%.
Median price paid
£260,000
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+78.4%
Change in real terms
+47.1%
Median per m²
£3,265
HM Land Registry235 sales52 with floor areaLatest sale 18 May 2026
Section 01
How Puddingstone Drive, St Albans prices moved
The chart tracks the median Puddingstone Drive, St Albans house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £167,450 | £371,818 |
| 2000s | 8 | £250,000 | £455,426 |
| 2010s | 4 | £341,000 | £480,810 |
| 2020s | 1 | £495,000 | £505,761 |
The highest yearly median on record for Puddingstone Drive, St Albans is £547,000 in 2016; the lowest is £167,450 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £167,450 to £495,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £341,191, so the real change over the whole record is +83.3% — about +2.79% 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: +78.4% in cash against +47.1% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 18 May 2026 | Detached | £615,000 | £615,000 |
| 23 | 27 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 4 | 20 Nov 2025 | Detached | £790,000 | £807,174 |
| 41 | 17 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £530,000 | £557,687 |
| 122 | 18 Oct 2024 | Detached | £1,192,000 | £1,254,269 |
| 43 | 30 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £665,000 | £699,739 |
| 70 | 11 Jan 2024 | Terraced | £675,000 | £710,261 |
| 62 | 13 Sep 2023 | Semi-detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 58 | 30 Jun 2023 | Semi-detached | £530,000 | £572,644 |
| 40 | 27 Jan 2023 | Detached | £1,167,500 | £1,261,437 |
| 35 | 14 Nov 2022 | Semi-detached | £727,000 | £842,293 |
| 102 | 22 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £548,000 | £634,906 |
| 51 | 16 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £825,000 | £955,834 |
| 7 | 27 Apr 2022 | Detached | £760,000 | £880,526 |
| 57 | 17 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £850,000 | £1,073,925 |
| 15 | 9 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £510,000 | £644,355 |
| 94 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £530,000 | £669,624 |
| 106 | 10 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £495,000 | £625,403 |
| 98 | 21 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £410,000 | £518,011 |
| 29 | 28 May 2021 | Terraced | £475,000 | £600,134 |
| 41 | 10 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £465,000 | £587,500 |
| 35 | 14 Sep 2020 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £517,906 |
| 86 | 27 May 2020 | Terraced | £400,000 | £517,906 |
| 92 | 8 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £625,000 | £809,229 |
| 116 | 10 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £450,000 | £588,590 |
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 Puddingstone Drive, St Albans values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Puddingstone Drive | £141,000 (2000) | £615,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.0% |
| 23 Puddingstone Drive | £164,000 (2000) | £600,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| 4 Puddingstone Drive | £273,000 (2000) | £790,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.6% |
| 41 Puddingstone Drive | £159,950 (1999) | £530,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 122 Puddingstone Drive | £284,950 (2000) | £1,192,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 43 Puddingstone Drive | £175,950 (1999) | £665,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 70 Puddingstone Drive | £197,950 (2000) | £675,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.5% |
| 62 Puddingstone Drive | £134,950 (1999) | £650,000 (2023) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 58 Puddingstone Drive | £139,950 (1999) | £530,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 40 Puddingstone Drive | £241,950 (2000) | £1,167,500 (2023) | +7.1% | +4.3% |
| 35 Puddingstone Drive | £174,950 (1999) | £727,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 102 Puddingstone Drive | £174,950 (2000) | £548,000 (2022) | +5.3% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Puddingstone Drive, St Albans 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 | 87 | 37.0% | £239,000 | £139,950 – £825,000 |
| Detached | 82 | 34.9% | £294,000 | £141,000 – £1,192,000 |
| Semi-detached | 66 | 28.1% | £248,000 | £134,950 – £850,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Puddingstone Drive, St Albans
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 235 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 235 | 100.0% | £260,000 |
| New build | 88 | 37.4% | £189,995 |
| Existing home | 147 | 62.6% | £325,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -41.5%. 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 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 Puddingstone Drive, St Albans
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 61 | 0.1% |
| B | 5,559 | 12.2% |
| C | 16,477 | 36.2% |
| D | 16,509 | 36.3% |
| E | 5,632 | 12.4% |
| F | 1,040 | 2.3% |
| G | 260 | 0.6% |
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 £260,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.34% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Puddingstone Drive, St Albans
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,777 |
| Beaumont School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,722 |
| Nicholas Breakspear Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,134 |
| Wheatfields Junior Mixed School | Primary | Academy converter | 358 |
| Oakwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 317 |
| Wheatfields Infants' and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 243 |
| Skyswood Primary & Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 230 |
| St Helen's Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 184 |
| Beech Hyde Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 171 |
| St John Fisher Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 134 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Albans City Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| St Albans Abbey Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
| Hatfield (Herts) Rail Station | Rail | 5.6 km |
| Harpenden Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
Section 09
How Puddingstone Drive, St Albans compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Puddingstone Drive, St Albans sits above that national figure — +65.1%.
Within St Albans the street ranks 814 of 1229 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-8.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,265 per square metre, across 52 of the 235 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 £134,950 to £1,192,000. 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.
Puddingstone Drive, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- The Ridgeway£250,000 median
- Hughenden Road£155,000 median
- Lower Luton Road£350,000 median
- Milford Close£119,950 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
- 23 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 4 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 62 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 94 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 98 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 29 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 66 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 88 Puddingstone Drive5 sales
- 21 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 41 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 43 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 35 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 106 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 86 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 116 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 3 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 80 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 11 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 96 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 60 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 74 Puddingstone Drive4 sales
- 70 Puddingstone Drive3 sales
- 58 Puddingstone Drive3 sales
- 102 Puddingstone Drive3 sales
Back to St Albans house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Puddingstone Drive, St Albans?
The median price paid in Puddingstone Drive, St Albans across every sale on the register is £260,000. 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 Puddingstone Drive, St Albans?
235 sales are on record for Puddingstone Drive, St Albans, the most recent completing on 18 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Puddingstone Drive, St Albans house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +78.4% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +47.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Puddingstone Drive, St Albans house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £547,000, set in 2016. 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 Puddingstone Drive, St Albans?
£3,265 per square metre, from the 52 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 18 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, “Puddingstone Drive, 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.