Feb 07, 2023 by HM

House prices in St Albans (AL1 4)

This article reveals price per square metre data and various charts to help you understand current housing market in St Albans (AL1 4).

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in St Albans is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

E.g. 49, Boundary Road, St Albans, sold for £850,000 on Sep-2023. Given the internal area of 125 square metres, the price per sqm is £6,800.

England & Wales have been officially metric for many decades. However house price per square foot is sometimes prefered by those of sufficiently advanced age. They may want to convert metres on this page to square feet.

The chart below is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of this house price per sqm data. To make this chart we put the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £7,950-£8,500, £8,500-£9,050, £9,050-£9,600 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The chart is based on 255 sales in St Albans (AL1 4) that took place in the last two years.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

That said, the spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in St Albans (AL1 4). Of the 255 transactions, half were sold for between £6,610 and £8,730 per square metre. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £8,730m². For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of homes.

For the average, we calculate the 'median' or middle price. The median price per square metre in 'AL1 4' is £7,770. The table below shows how 'AL1 4' compares to neighbouring postcode sectors.

Postcode sector	Lower quartile	Middle quartile	Upper quartile
AL1 1 St Albans	£5,760m2	£6,920m2	£8,310m2
AL1 4 St Albans	£6,610m2	£7,770m2	£8,730m2
AL1 5 St Albans	£5,550m2	£6,630m2	£7,480m2
AL1 2 St Albans	£5,560m2	£6,450m2	£7,390m2
AL1 3 St Albans	£5,320m2	£6,210m2	£7,340m2

Will St Albans house prices drop in 2024?

I cannot tell the future and don't believe anyone who says they can. I can however plot price trends - I have done this in the scatter plot below for AL1 4 (St Albans). From this one could infer a range of reasonable possible future price falls or rises. In the chart below, the red dashed line is the house price trend for AL1 4 and the blue dots are the individual property sales that inform this trend.

Disclaimer: The data provided throughout this website about St Albans and any other area, is not financial advice. Any information provided does not and cannot ever take in to account the particular financial situation, objectives or property needs of either you or anyone reading this information. Furthermore, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of any data shown. This information is based on sold prices and internal area data provided by Land Registry and other third parties - I do not verify the accuracy of the St Albans data or any other data I am given.

Price map for St Albans

I've just finished coding the map I link to below. I find it useful and I am sure it will help you in exploring St Albans. You can zoom in all the way to individual properties and then all the way back out to see the whole country. The colours show the current estimated property values. I will explain more about the methodology and create a key next week.

House price heatmap for St Albans

Street level data

Street	Avg size	Avg £/m2	Recent sales
Sandridge Road, St Albans, AL1 4A	103m2	£7,134	42
Culver Road, St Albans, AL1 4E	75m2	£7,547	27
Upper Culver Road, St Albans, AL1 4E	73m2	£7,684	26
Boundary Road, St Albans, AL1 4D	74m2	£7,806	18
Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL1 4J	62m2	£6,150	18
Upper Heath Road, St Albans, AL1 4D	77m2	£7,719	17
Arthur Road, St Albans, AL1 4S	69m2	£7,262	17
Woodstock Road South, St Albans, AL1 4Q	98m2	£7,386	15

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Raw data

Our analysis of St Albans is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

Address	Paid	m2	£/m2
76, Culver Rd, St Albans	£617,500 Sep-2023	65	9,500
49, Boundary Rd, St Albans	£850,000 Sep-2023	125	6,800
136, Sandridge Rd, St Albans	£655,000 Sep-2023	97	6,752

See the entire list of all sales in St Albans (AL1 4) here.