Hempstead Road, Watford house prices are built from 519 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 11 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £284,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -37.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -54.5%.
Median price paid
£284,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-37.1%
Change in real terms
-54.5%
Median per m²
£3,282
HM Land Registry519 sales146 with floor areaLatest sale 11 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Hempstead Road, Watford prices moved
The chart tracks the median Hempstead 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 | £182,000 | £404,126 |
| 2000s | 10 | £274,500 | £500,058 |
| 2010s | 10 | £350,000 | £493,500 |
| 2020s | 6 | £400,000 | £408,696 |
The highest yearly median on record for Hempstead Road, Watford is £618,875 in 2015; the lowest is £123,500 in 1998. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £192,000 to £389,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £426,331, so the real change over the whole record is -6.8% — about -0.23% 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: -37.1% in cash against -54.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| 30 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 13 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £100,000 | £100,000 |
| Flat 5 Trinity Court, 130 | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| 125 | 21 Oct 2025 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,226,087 |
| 17 Kenilworth Court | 16 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 22 Elizabeth Court, 170 | 19 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 11 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 1 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £168,587 |
| 26 Elizabeth Court, 170 | 30 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £360,000 | £367,826 |
| 9 Oaklands Court | 11 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £418,000 | £427,087 |
| 23 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 16 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £255,000 | £260,543 |
| South Lodge | 28 Mar 2025 | Detached | £755,000 | £771,413 |
| 238 | 7 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £850,000 | £868,478 |
| 18 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £152,500 | £155,815 |
| 12 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 7 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £158,370 |
| 223 | 10 Jan 2025 | Detached | £1,600,000 | £1,634,783 |
| Flat 1 Trinity Court, 130 | 6 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £467,999 | £478,173 |
| 215 | 18 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £1,250,000 | £1,315,299 |
| Flat 12 Trinity Court, 130 | 18 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £432,000 | £454,567 |
| 4 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 18 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 2 Nanterre Court, 63 – 67 | 18 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £147,313 |
| 299 | 12 Dec 2024 | Detached | £450,000 | £473,507 |
| 254 | 25 Oct 2024 | Detached | £1,100,000 | £1,157,463 |
| Flat 5 Beach Court, 114a | 30 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £465,000 | £489,291 |
| 28 Elizabeth Court, 170 | 9 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £350,000 | £368,284 |
| 356 | 25 Jul 2024 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,262,687 |
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 Hempstead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £197,651 (2013) | £100,000 (2026) | -5.1% | -7.8% |
| 30 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £165,000 (2016) | £100,000 (2026) | -4.9% | -8.0% |
| FLAT 5 TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road | £279,500 (2003) | £435,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 11 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £195,000 (2012) | £165,000 (2025) | -1.3% | -4.1% |
| 26 ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road | £212,500 (2004) | £360,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 9 OAKLANDS COURT Hempstead Road | £160,000 (2001) | £418,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.3% |
| 23 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £310,950 (2011) | £255,000 (2025) | -1.4% | -4.2% |
| 238 Hempstead Road | £156,500 (1998) | £850,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 18 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £180,000 (2011) | £152,500 (2025) | -1.2% | -4.0% |
| 12 NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road | £226,950 (2010) | £155,000 (2025) | -2.5% | -5.4% |
| FLAT 1 TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road | £279,500 (2003) | £467,999 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| FLAT 12 TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road | £279,500 (2004) | £432,000 (2024) | +2.2% | -0.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Hempstead 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 | 289 | 55.7% | £219,000 | £24,000 – £580,000 |
| Detached | 202 | 38.9% | £560,000 | £75,000 – £1,810,000 |
| Semi-detached | 27 | 5.2% | £525,000 | £143,000 – £1,380,000 |
| Terraced | 1 | 0.2% | £488,000 | £488,000 – £488,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Hempstead Road, Watford
291 of the sales on record are leasehold and 228 freehold — 56.1% 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 £219,000 and the median freehold sale £560,000 — a gap of +155.7%. 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 | 291 | 56.1% | £219,000 |
| Freehold | 228 | 43.9% | £560,000 |
| New build | 40 | 7.7% | £264,500 |
| Existing home | 479 | 92.3% | £295,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.3%. 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 20 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 Hempstead Road, Watford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Hempstead Road, Watford sits above that national figure — +80.9%.
Within Watford the street ranks 264 of 939 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £204,950 (+39.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,282 per square metre, across 146 of the 519 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 £1,810,000. 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
- Langley Road£212,000 median
- Gladstone Road£130,000 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
- FLAT 5, TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 11, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 12, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road4 sales
- FLAT 1, TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 4, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road4 sales
- FLAT 12, TRINITY COURT, 130 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 21, KENILWORTH COURT Hempstead Road4 sales
- 30, ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 4, ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 312 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 137 Hempstead Road4 sales
- 26, ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 9, OAKLANDS COURT Hempstead Road3 sales
- 238 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 2, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 28, ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 9, KENILWORTH COURT Hempstead Road3 sales
- 1, ELIZABETH COURT, 170 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 16, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 135 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 46, NANTERRE COURT, 63 – 67 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 155 Hempstead Road3 sales
- 14, OAKLANDS COURT Hempstead Road3 sales
- 229 Hempstead Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Hempstead Road, Watford?
The median price paid in Hempstead Road, Watford across every sale on the register is £284,950. 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 Hempstead Road, Watford?
519 sales are on record for Hempstead Road, Watford, the most recent completing on 11 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Hempstead Road, Watford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -37.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -54.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Hempstead Road, Watford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £618,875, 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 Hempstead Road, Watford?
£3,282 per square metre, from the 146 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 11 Jun 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, “Hempstead 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.