That is the middle of 182 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
182 homes sold in three years: 41 detached houses, 75 semi-detached houses, 39 terraced houses and 27 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£830K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£720K–£1.1M
Last 12 months
£910K13 sold
Semi-detached houses£560K
median sale · 75 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£480K–£685K
Last 12 months
£500K23 sold
Terraced houses£460K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£400K–£500K
Last 12 months
£468K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes£275K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£203K–£335K
Last 12 months
£322K7 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 41% of sales
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses41%
Terraced houses21%
Flats and maisonettes15%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Bovingdon’s homes sold for between £425K and £705K
One sale in ten was under £300K and one in ten over £860K. 7% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £541,250, sits in the £500–750K band
182 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £80,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in the last 12 months (£420,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
51 sales in the last 12 months, against 136 in 1997, the busiest year, and 46 in 2013. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 32% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bovingdon costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bovingdon, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£170K
£299K
£425K
£632K
£652K
£623K
£910K
Semi-detached houses
£91K
£163K
£250K
£303K
£375K
£448K
£500K
Terraced houses
£79K
£140K
£235K
£249K
£332K
£410K
£468K
Flats and maisonettes
£45K
£77K
£134K
£156K
£190K
£220K
£322K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
119 new homes have been sold in Bovingdon since 1995; the share peaked at 25% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.3% sold leasehold in Bovingdon. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Old Dean is Bovingdon’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
13 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Old Dean
HP3
13
£310,000
Mostly flats
2
Green Lane
HP3
11
£756,000
Mixed
3
Chesham Road
HP3
11
£600,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Hempstead Road
HP3
9
£457,500
Mixed
5
Austins Mead
HP3
7
£450,000
Mixed
6
High Street
HP3
7
£370,000
Mixed
7
Windsor Close
HP3
7
£185,000
Mostly flats
8
Long Lane
HP3
6
£1,140,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Chipperfield Road
HP3
6
£900,000
Mixed
10
Hawkins Way
HP3
6
£457,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Howard Agne Close
HP3
6
£442,500
Mostly terraced houses
12
Pembridge Road
HP3
5
£690,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Ryder Close
HP3
5
£470,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Dearest streets
Long Lane: £1,140,000
Bovingdon median£541K
Long Lane£1.1M
Chipperfield Road£900K
Green Lane£756K
Pembridge Road£690K
Chesham Road£600K
Cheapest streets
Windsor Close: £185,000
Bovingdon median£541K
Windsor Close£185K
Old Dean£310K
High Street£370K
Howard Agne Close£443K
Austins Mead£450K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 6.2 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Hertfordshire
Bovingdon is the 20th most expensive of 50 towns in Hertfordshire
Bovingdon is in the middle of Hertfordshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Bovingdon
What is the average house price in Bovingdon?
The median home in Bovingdon sold for £541,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 182 standard sales (£500,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £830,000, semi-detached houses £560,000, terraced houses £460,000 and flats and maisonettes £275,000.
Are house prices going up in Bovingdon?
The median was £550,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£555,000), and £500,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Bovingdon each year?
51 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 73 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bovingdon?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Long Lane (HP3, £1,140,000), Chipperfield Road (HP3, £900,000) and Green Lane (HP3, £756,000).
Is Bovingdon expensive for Hertfordshire?
Bovingdon is the 20th most expensive of 50 towns of 2,500 or more in Hertfordshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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