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Postcode sector

Sector AL8 6 house prices

Welwyn Garden City Central & Handside · Welwyn Hatfield · district AL8 · 213 postcodes

Median £5,820 per m² over 150 sales in the 24 months to Aug 2026, up 7.2% in a year after inflation.

Median £/m²£5,820/m²Sales in the 24 months to Aug 2026
Last year, after inflation+7.2%
Sales, 24 months150with a floor area

£/m² of sales, 24 months to Aug 2026

£3,150/m² to £3,420/m²: 4 sales£3,420/m² to £3,680/m²: 5 sales£3,680/m² to £3,940/m²: 3 sales£3,940/m² to £4,210/m²: 2 sales£4,210/m² to £4,470/m²: 4 sales£4,470/m² to £4,730/m²: 8 sales£4,730/m² to £4,990/m²: 8 sales£4,990/m² to £5,260/m²: 17 sales£5,260/m² to £5,520/m²: 16 sales£5,520/m² to £5,780/m²: 7 sales£5,780/m² to £6,050/m²: 9 sales£6,050/m² to £6,310/m²: 19 sales£6,310/m² to £6,570/m²: 8 sales£6,570/m² to £6,840/m²: 17 sales£6,840/m² to £7,100/m²: 7 sales£7,100/m² to £7,360/m²: 5 sales£7,360/m² to £7,620/m²: 3 sales£7,620/m² to £7,890/m²: 3 sales£7,890/m² to £8,150/m²: 1 sale£8,150/m² to £8,410/m²: 4 salesAL8 6AL8£2k£4k£6k£8k£10k
AL8 6
£5,820/m² middle · £5,000–£6,590/m² middle half · 150 sales
District AL8
£5,660/m² middle · £4,940–£6,420/m² middle half · 300 sales

Bars: sales in each £/m² band. Strips: the box is the middle half, the line the middle, the whiskers the 9th to 91st percentile.

Median £/m² since 2004 (2004 = 100)

5010015020025020052010201520202025AL8 6, 2026: 120AL8, 2026: 120Welwyn Hatfield houses, 2026: 121
  • AL8 6
  • AL8
  • Welwyn Hatfield houses
  • After inflation (CPIH)
  • In pounds of the day

Growth a year

Compound growth in median £/m² a year, after inflation (CPIH) and in pounds of the day
OverAL8 6District AL8
RealNominalRealNominal
1 year+7.2%+10.7%+1.2%+4.6%
5 years−2.6%+2.3%−3.4%+1.5%
10 years−0.8%+2.6%−1.2%+2.2%
20 years+1.1%+3.9%+0.9%+3.7%

Real is after inflation (ONS CPIH). A horizon with too few sales at either end is left out.

Nearby sectors, middle half of £/m²

£3,000–£7,000/m²
  1. EN6 5Chase & Crews Hill£5,180–£6,370/m²
  2. AL8 6Welwyn Garden City Central & Handside£5,000–£6,590/m²
  3. AL8 7Knightsfield£4,870–£6,290/m²
  4. AL7 3Peartree£4,490–£5,680/m²
  5. AL7 4Hollybush£4,320–£5,530/m²
  6. AL7 1Haldens£4,090–£5,150/m²
  7. AL9 5Hatfield East£3,820–£5,000/m²
  8. AL7 9PeartreeToo few sales

Streets, last five years

Streets with five or more sales in five years: sales, median floor area and median £ per m²
StreetSalesMedian sizeMedian £/m²
Stonehills3561 m²£4,920/m²
College Way3360 m²£5,520/m²
Handside Lane3394 m²£6,590/m²
Parkway2484 m²£5,700/m²
Guessens Road1898 m²£5,460/m²
Barnside Court1650 m²£5,360/m²
Attimore Road14130 m²£6,110/m²
Lemsford Lane1493 m²£5,420/m²
Longcroft Lane1086 m²£6,760/m²
Springfields1082 m²£5,760/m²
Fordwich Road9125 m²£6,170/m²
Elmwood8159 m²£6,240/m²
Sources

Sold prices: HM Land Registry Price Paid (category A sales). Floor areas: energy performance certificates (EPC). Inflation: ONS CPIH (series L522). Postcodes: ONS Postcode Directory. All under the Open Government Licence.

£/m² uses EPC floor area; sector names are informal. Middles of many sales, never one home's value.