What is the median house price in AL1?

Homes in AL1 sold for a median £629,778 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 370 sales. Per square metre that is £7,051/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in AL1?

Homes to let in AL1 asked a median £1,826 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 551 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in AL1?

4.2% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 1,189 lets. +4.2% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in AL1?

2.6% of the homes in AL1 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 469 sales.

Postcode district

AL1 property market

Sold £7,051/m² · Median sold £629,778 (370 sales) · Index -1.1% y/y · Turnover 2.6% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is AL1?

Buildings: 11,994
Mixed-use buildings: 1.9%
HMO-shaped units: 31%

What does AL1 cost?

AL1: sold price per m² £7,051/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 370 sales). -1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£7,051/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

370 sales

-1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£629,778 12 months to Apr 2026

370 sales

-1.1% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£478,607 12 months to Aug 2026

1,561 listings

-2.5% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £6,115/m² in Jul 2016 to £7,012/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £513,587 in Jul 2016 to £612,402 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £530,000 in Jan 2022 to £425,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £6,623/m² in Aug 2025 to £7,585/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 106% in Jan 2022 to 91% in Sep 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.

ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices

Asking price index: 100.3 in Jan 2022 to 96.9 in Aug 2026.

What does AL1 earn?

AL1: asking rent £1,826 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 551 lets).

Asking rent

£1,826 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

551 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.2% 12 months to Aug 2026

1,189 lets

+4.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,684 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,766 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 3.1% in Jan 2022 to 4.9% in Aug 2026.

How does AL1 vary by home size?

Asking price in AL1 runs from £283,518 for 1 bedroom to £1,630,347 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in AL1, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£283,518	12 months to Aug 2026	-6.5% on the previous 12 months	371
2 bedrooms	£422,421	12 months to Aug 2026	-3% on the previous 12 months	535
3 bedrooms	£673,906	12 months to Aug 2026	-0.6% on the previous 12 months	323
4 bedrooms	£974,864	12 months to Aug 2026	-5.8% on the previous 12 months	221
5+ bedrooms	£1,630,347	12 months to Aug 2026	-6.4% on the previous 12 months	101

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is AL1?

AL1: turnover 2.6% (12 months to Jan 2026, 469 sales). -12.2% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.6% 12 months to Jan 2026

469 sales

-12.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

615 12 months to Jan 2026

615 sales

-4.4% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

679 12 months to Jul 2026

679 listings

Who is active in AL1?

28 agents listed homes for sale in AL1; the three largest took 35% of the listings.

Agents active: 28
Top three agents’ share: 35%
New homes among listings: 11%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns AL1?

Corporate landlords hold 64% of the 462 units in AL1 whose freeholder is classified; 98% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords64% of classified · 295 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)22% of classified · 101 units
Housing associations9.3% of classified · 43 units
RMC4.8% of classified · 22 units
Offshore companies0.2% of classified · 1 units

Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.

Where does AL1 rank?

AL1 ranks 2nd of 4 postcode districts in St. Albans for sold price per m², at £7,051/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in St. Albans