Riverside Road, St Albans house prices are built from 222 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £244,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +30.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -5.8%.
Median price paid
£244,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+30.0%
Change in real terms
-5.8%
Median per m²
£3,341
HM Land Registry222 sales50 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How Riverside Road, St Albans prices moved
The chart tracks the median Riverside Road, St Albans house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | 5 | £111,500 | £247,583 |
| 2000s | 9 | £205,000 | £373,450 |
| 2010s | 8 | £374,000 | £527,340 |
| 2020s | 3 | £559,000 | £571,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for Riverside Road, St Albans is £605,000 in 2021; the lowest is £67,500 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £72,000 to £559,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,874, so the real change over the whole record is +257.3% — about +4.34% 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: +30.0% in cash against -5.8% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 | 1 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £635,000 | £635,000 |
| 236 | 1 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 224 | 24 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 8 Riverside Court | 30 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 7 Riverside Court | 15 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 133 | 28 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £568,000 | £580,348 |
| 5 | 11 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £625,000 | £638,587 |
| 192 | 25 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £718,000 | £733,609 |
| 176 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £625,000 | £638,587 |
| 198 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 88 | 24 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £321,848 |
| 52 | 28 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 70 | 7 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £275,000 | £289,366 |
| 170 | 14 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £649,500 | £683,429 |
| 58 | 9 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 224 | 10 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 9 | 8 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £1,100,000 | £1,274,445 |
| 5 Riverside Court | 9 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £335,000 | £388,127 |
| 40 | 28 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £364,955 |
| 186 | 25 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £630,000 | £729,910 |
| 80 | 21 Jan 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 194 | 20 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £630,000 | £795,968 |
| 112 | 17 Dec 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 161 | 10 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £595,000 | £751,747 |
| 230 | 26 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £485,000 | £612,769 |
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 Riverside Road, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 123 Riverside Road | £230,000 (2003) | £635,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 236 Riverside Road | £137,000 (2000) | £400,000 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.5% |
| 224 Riverside Road | £67,000 (1996) | £450,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 8 RIVERSIDE COURT Riverside Road | £105,000 (2001) | £300,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 7 RIVERSIDE COURT Riverside Road | £125,000 (2000) | £440,000 (2025) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 133 Riverside Road | £85,000 (1997) | £568,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 192 Riverside Road | £575,000 (2016) | £718,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -1.0% |
| 176 Riverside Road | £333,000 (2011) | £625,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.6% |
| 88 Riverside Road | £55,500 (1996) | £315,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 58 Riverside Road | £110,000 (2000) | £300,000 (2024) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 9 Riverside Road | £220,000 (2002) | £1,100,000 (2022) | +8.4% | +5.7% |
| 40 Riverside Road | £141,000 (2010) | £315,000 (2022) | +6.9% | +4.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Riverside Road, 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 | 129 | 58.1% | £270,000 | £67,000 – £790,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 65 | 29.3% | £174,000 | £54,500 – £360,000 |
| Semi-detached | 25 | 11.3% | £350,000 | £134,000 – £1,100,000 |
| Detached | 3 | 1.4% | £333,000 | £59,000 – £430,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Riverside Road, St Albans
67 of the sales on record are leasehold and 155 freehold — 30.2% 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 £173,000 and the median freehold sale £280,000 — a gap of +61.8%. 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 | 67 | 30.2% | £173,000 |
| Freehold | 155 | 69.8% | £280,000 |
A further 2 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 Riverside Road, 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 band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 209 | 0.3% |
| B | 6,886 | 10.2% |
| C | 24,235 | 35.9% |
| D | 25,223 | 37.3% |
| E | 9,132 | 13.5% |
| F | 1,606 | 2.4% |
| G | 303 | 0.4% |
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 £244,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.48% 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 Riverside Road, 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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samuel Ryder Academy | All-through | Academy sponsor led | 1,577 |
| The Marlborough Science Academy | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,337 |
| Verulam School | Secondary | Academy converter | 987 |
| Loreto College | Secondary | Academy converter | 952 |
| St Alban & St Stephen Catholic Primary School & Nursery | Primary | Academy converter | 410 |
| St Peter's School | Primary | Community school | 392 |
| Alban City School | Primary | Free schools | 381 |
| Fleetville Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 358 |
| Mandeville Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 340 |
| Fleetville Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Academy converter | 304 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Albans City Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| St Albans Abbey Rail Station | Rail | 1.4 km |
| Park Street Rail Station | Rail | 2.8 km |
| How Wood (Herts) Rail Station | Rail | 3.8 km |
Section 09
How Riverside Road, St Albans compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Riverside Road, St Albans sits above that national figure — +55.2%.
Within St Albans the street ranks 905 of 1229 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £285,000 (-14.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,341 per square metre, across 50 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 £54,500 to £1,100,000. 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.
Riverside Road, 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
- Hatfield Road£220,000 median
- London Road£312,500 median
- Camp Road£255,000 median
- Charrington Place£289,875 median
- Watford Road£425,000 median
- Newsom Place£310,000 median
- Dexter Close£174,975 median
- Sandridge Road£330,000 median
- Park View Close£158,000 median
- Culver Road£285,000 median
- Old London Road£249,250 median
- Lemsford Road£207,000 median
- Cavendish Road£268,500 median
- Tavistock Avenue£215,500 median
- Sandpit Lane£526,250 median
- Avenue Road£273,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 48 Riverside Road6 sales
- 176 Riverside Road5 sales
- 196 Riverside Road5 sales
- 159 Riverside Road5 sales
- 123 Riverside Road4 sales
- 224 Riverside Road4 sales
- 58 Riverside Road4 sales
- 230 Riverside Road4 sales
- 127 Riverside Road4 sales
- 11 Riverside Road4 sales
- 182 Riverside Road4 sales
- 210 Riverside Road4 sales
- 157 Riverside Road4 sales
- 149 Riverside Road4 sales
- 60 Riverside Road4 sales
- 94 Riverside Road4 sales
- 42 Riverside Road4 sales
- 147 Riverside Road4 sales
- 74 Riverside Road4 sales
- 7, RIVERSIDE COURT Riverside Road3 sales
- 192 Riverside Road3 sales
- 88 Riverside Road3 sales
- 9 Riverside Road3 sales
- 40 Riverside Road3 sales
Back to St Albans house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Riverside Road, St Albans?
The median price paid in Riverside Road, St Albans across every sale on the register is £244,500. 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 Riverside Road, St Albans?
222 sales are on record for Riverside Road, St Albans, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Riverside Road, St Albans house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +30.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -5.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Riverside Road, St Albans house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £605,000, set in 2021. 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 Riverside Road, St Albans?
£3,341 per square metre, from the 50 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 1 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, “Riverside Road, 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.