What is the median house price in AL5?

Homes in AL5 sold for a median £914,187 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 294 sales. Per square metre that is £7,317/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in AL5?

Homes to let in AL5 asked a median £2,602 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 152 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in AL5?

3.0% 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, 332 lets. +9.2% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in AL5?

3.0% of the homes in AL5 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 390 sales.

Postcode district

AL5 property market

Sold £7,317/m² · Median sold £914,187 (294 sales) · Index -1.4% y/y · Turnover 3.0% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is AL5?

Buildings: 10,796
Mixed-use buildings: 93%
HMO-shaped units: 4.0%

What does AL5 cost?

AL5: sold price per m² £7,317/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 294 sales). -1.4% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£7,317/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

294 sales

-1.4% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£914,187 12 months to Apr 2026

294 sales

-1.4% 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

£779,229 12 months to Aug 2026

876 listings

-4.7% 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: £5,800/m² in Jul 2016 to £7,038/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £673,921 in Jul 2016 to £755,597 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £725,000 in Jan 2022 to £800,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £8,011/m² in Aug 2025 to £10,637/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 99% in Jan 2022 to 110% in Nov 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: 98.3 in Jan 2022 to 103.3 in Aug 2026.

What does AL5 earn?

AL5: asking rent £2,602 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 152 lets).

Asking rent

£2,602 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

152 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

3.0% 12 months to Aug 2026

332 lets

+9.2% on the previous 12 months.

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

Asking rent: £2,259 pcm in Aug 2025 to £2,200 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 2.1% in Jan 2022 to 3.4% in Aug 2026.

How does AL5 vary by home size?

Asking price in AL5 runs from £233,153 for 1 bedroom to £1,934,457 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in AL5, 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	£233,153	12 months to Aug 2026	—	76
2 bedrooms	£414,385	12 months to Aug 2026	-4.3% on the previous 12 months	213
3 bedrooms	£732,818	12 months to Aug 2026	+2.8% on the previous 12 months	248
4 bedrooms	£1,157,846	12 months to Aug 2026	+2.4% on the previous 12 months	253
5+ bedrooms	£1,934,457	12 months to Aug 2026	+8.4% on the previous 12 months	138

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 AL5?

AL5: turnover 3.0% (12 months to Jan 2026, 390 sales). -4.7% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

3.0% 12 months to Jan 2026

390 sales

-4.7% 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

486 12 months to Jan 2026

486 sales

+5.7% 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

510 12 months to Jul 2026

510 listings

Who is active in AL5?

11 agents listed homes for sale in AL5; the three largest took 67% of the listings.

Agents active: 11
Top three agents’ share: 67%
New homes among listings: 1.4%

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

Who owns AL5?

Corporate landlords hold 69% of the 265 units in AL5 whose freeholder is classified; 98% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords69% of classified · 182 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)23% of classified · 60 units
Housing associations4.5% of classified · 12 units
RMC4.2% of classified · 11 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 AL5 rank?

AL5 ranks 1st of 4 postcode districts in St. Albans for sold price per m², at £7,317/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in St. Albans