Gladstone Road, Watford house prices are built from 366 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £130,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +28.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.2%.
Median price paid
£130,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+28.1%
Change in real terms
-7.2%
Median per m²
£1,866
HM Land Registry366 sales85 with floor areaLatest sale 21 May 2026
Section 01
How Gladstone Road, Watford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gladstone Road, Watford 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 | £44,875 | £99,644 |
| 2000s | 9 | £122,475 | £223,113 |
| 2010s | 8 | £162,500 | £229,125 |
| 2020s | 4 | £228,000 | £232,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gladstone Road, Watford is £425,000 in 2024; the lowest is £37,000 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £37,000 to £228,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £82,157, so the real change over the whole record is +183.5% — about +3.54% 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: +28.1% in cash against -7.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5c | 21 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £211,500 | £211,500 |
| 93c | 28 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £228,000 | £232,957 |
| 84b | 26 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £323,000 | £330,022 |
| 93b | 26 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 109b | 17 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £229,891 |
| 143 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 117 | 5 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £425,000 | £447,201 |
| Flat 1 137 | 28 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £258,000 | £271,478 |
| 50 | 12 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £467,000 | £491,396 |
| 91 | 1 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £211,000 | £222,022 |
| 55 | 31 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £590,000 | £620,821 |
| Flat 3 80 | 16 Oct 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 58 | 27 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 133a – 133b | 20 Jun 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £261,999 | £283,079 |
| 35 | 30 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £362,000 | £391,126 |
| 32 | 14 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £519,500 | £561,299 |
| 76b | 17 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| 48 | 25 Jan 2023 | Terraced | £184,000 | £198,805 |
| 109c | 3 Jan 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 93c | 9 Sep 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £225,000 | £260,682 |
| 131 | 23 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £475,000 | £550,329 |
| 121 | 21 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £270,000 | £312,818 |
| 69 | 20 Jan 2022 | Terraced | £530,000 | £614,051 |
| 39a | 16 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £227,000 | £286,801 |
| 41a | 6 Aug 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £275,430 |
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 Gladstone Road, Watford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5C Gladstone Road | £137,000 (2010) | £211,500 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| 93C Gladstone Road | £39,000 (1995) | £228,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 84B Gladstone Road | £76,000 (1999) | £323,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 93B Gladstone Road | £56,500 (2002) | £225,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.3% |
| 109B Gladstone Road | £28,500 (1995) | £225,000 (2025) | +7.1% | +4.4% |
| 143 Gladstone Road | £307,000 (2017) | £325,000 (2025) | +0.7% | -2.8% |
| FLAT 1 137 Gladstone Road | £56,000 (1999) | £258,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 50 Gladstone Road | £209,950 (2003) | £467,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 91 Gladstone Road | £44,500 (1997) | £211,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 58 Gladstone Road | £57,000 (2000) | £315,000 (2023) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 133A – 133B Gladstone Road | £60,000 (1999) | £261,999 (2023) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 32 Gladstone Road | £197,000 (2005) | £519,500 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gladstone Road, Watford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 241 | 65.8% | £113,000 | £24,000 – £362,000 |
| Terraced | 90 | 24.6% | £165,000 | £30,500 – £560,000 |
| Semi-detached | 28 | 7.7% | £211,000 | £46,500 – £590,000 |
| Detached | 7 | 1.9% | £174,000 | £115,000 – £500,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gladstone Road, Watford
256 of the sales on record are leasehold and 110 freehold — 69.9% 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 £113,000 and the median freehold sale £198,500 — a gap of +75.7%. 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 | 256 | 69.9% | £113,000 |
| Freehold | 110 | 30.1% | £198,500 |
| New build | 1 | 0.3% | £125,000 |
| Existing home | 365 | 99.7% | £130,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -3.8%. 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 30 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 09
How Gladstone Road, Watford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gladstone Road, Watford sits below that national figure — -17.5%.
Within Watford the street ranks 873 of 939 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £204,950 (-36.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,866 per square metre, across 85 of the 366 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 £24,000 to £590,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Hempstead Road£284,950 median
- Langley Road£212,000 median
- Queens Road£160,000 median
- Grandfield Avenue£182,250 median
- Cassiobury Drive£622,500 median
- Courtlands Drive£182,000 median
- Estcourt Road£187,000 median
- Sutton Road£166,000 median
- Sotheron Road£171,200 median
- Lockhart Road£237,500 median
- Woodland Drive£488,000 median
- Loates Lane£250,000 median
- Clarendon Road£285,000 median
- Shaftesbury Road£182,500 median
- Ebury Road£125,500 median
- Greenbank Road£247,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 133A – 133B Gladstone Road6 sales
- 91 Gladstone Road5 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 70 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 58A Gladstone Road5 sales
- 34 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 135 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 41 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 75B Gladstone Road5 sales
- 36 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 89A Gladstone Road5 sales
- 39 Gladstone Road5 sales
- 93C Gladstone Road4 sales
- 84B Gladstone Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, 137 Gladstone Road4 sales
- 58 Gladstone Road4 sales
- FLAT 2, 137 Gladstone Road4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 66 Gladstone Road4 sales
- 38 Gladstone Road4 sales
- 57C Gladstone Road4 sales
- 65 Gladstone Road4 sales
- 63C Gladstone Road4 sales
- 111B Gladstone Road4 sales
- 101C Gladstone Road4 sales
- GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 66 Gladstone Road4 sales
Back to Watford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gladstone Road, Watford?
The median price paid in Gladstone Road, Watford across every sale on the register is £130,000. 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 Gladstone Road, Watford?
366 sales are on record for Gladstone Road, Watford, the most recent completing on 21 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gladstone Road, Watford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +28.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gladstone Road, Watford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £425,000, set in 2024. 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 Gladstone Road, Watford?
£1,866 per square metre, from the 85 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 21 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, “Gladstone Road, Watford 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.