WD5 recorded house prices and local checks

WD5 has 279 recorded standard residential transactions in the 24-month window 2024-10-01 to 2026-09-30. The median recorded sale is £450,000. These are completed sale records, not asking prices or an estimate of a particular home.

Terraced account for the largest published group here: 100 sales, with a median of £425,000. The sample includes 0 new-build and 279 existing-home transactions. A change in that mix can change the median without the same home changing value.

Only groups with at least 10 records are shown. Quartiles use linear interpolation; the middle 50% is a distribution of recorded prices, not a prediction interval. The page requires at least 30 transactions and two publishable home types.

Detached have the highest published type median in WD5, £895,000, compared with £252,500 for flats / maisonettes. The difference is £642,500; it compares different homes, not the effect of changing a home's type.

No new-build transactions are recorded in this filtered sample.

Buying tax at the recorded median

Examples use £450,000 and completion on 6 November 2026, for an individual UK-resident buyer. Other costs, linked transactions, company purchases and special reliefs are excluded. First-time status must meet the official conditions.

• First-time buyer: SDLT £7,500 · official rates (2025-04-01)
• Buyer replacing / owning only this home: SDLT £12,500 · official rates (2025-04-01)
• Additional home: SDLT £35,000 · official rates (2025-04-01)

Calculated by the same calcTax function as the standalone tax calculator; check your own facts there.

Councils covering this outcode

Three Rivers (E07000102): Band D £2,422 for 2026–27. An outcode can cross council boundaries; use the council for the exact address.

St Albans (E07000240): Band D £2,419 for 2026–27. An outcode can cross council boundaries; use the council for the exact address.

Watford (E07000103): Band D £2,447 for 2026–27. An outcode can cross council boundaries; use the council for the exact address.

Source: MHCLG Council Tax tables, published 2026-03-25. Band D is a reference band, not the most common band in this outcode. A distribution of property bands has not been imported.

Official HPI: council context

Three Rivers (E07000102): index 101.20 in 2026-08, compared with 100.30 in 2025-08. Annual index change 0.90%. This is the council series, not an outcode trend.

St Albans (E07000240): index 105.40 in 2026-08, compared with 102.10 in 2025-08. Annual index change 3.23%. This is the council series, not an outcode trend.

Watford (E07000103): index 98.60 in 2026-08, compared with 98.90 in 2025-08. Annual index change -0.30%. This is the council series, not an outcode trend.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, August 2026 observation, published 21 October 2026. Provisional and subject to revision; the index is separate from the transaction median above.

Schools near the postcode centre

These are the nearest candidate schools to WD5 0HX in the imported Ofsted dataset, ordered by straight-line distance. This is not an admissions catchment check or a ranking; schools outside this dataset may be missing.

• Breakspeare School · Special · approximately 0.3 km from the postcode centre
• Tanners Wood Junior Mixed and Infant School · Primary · approximately 0.6 km from the postcode centre
• Abbots Langley School · Primary · approximately 0.7 km from the postcode centre
• Divine Saviour Roman Catholic Primary School · Primary · approximately 0.9 km from the postcode centre
• Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery · Primary · approximately 1.3 km from the postcode centre

Source: Ofsted management information, snapshot 2026-09-30. Names and official links only; no inspection grades are reproduced.

Coverage for WD5

Not yet available: outcode-specific HPI (the council series is shown above); Flood Zone 2/3 land-area share; recent warning counts; most common council-tax band; rent sample; crime count. Missing does not mean zero or low risk.

English flood records: Environment Agency. Flood polygons and warning history have not been aggregated to this outcode.

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A missing area page or figure means we do not have enough suitable data here. It does not establish that a place is safe, affordable or free of restrictions.

These pages do not yet provide verified flood-area percentages and warning history, typical property tax bands or crime counts for the exact area. Welsh school and council-tax coverage also remains incomplete. No local figure is inferred from an England-wide or neighbouring-area figure.

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