That is the middle of 138 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 6.2 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.
138 homes sold in three years: 19 detached houses, 40 semi-detached houses, 62 terraced houses and 17 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£470K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£385K–£590K
Last 12 months
£514K7 sold
Semi-detached houses£439K
median sale · 40 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£384K–£490K
Last 12 months
£450K11 sold
Terraced houses£403K
median sale · 62 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£335K–£458K
Last 12 months
£430K29 sold
Flats and maisonettes£200K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£180K–£220K
Last 12 months
£200K8 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 45% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses14%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses45%
Flats and maisonettes12%
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 Markyate’s homes sold for between £330K and £470K
One sale in ten was under £220K and one in ten over £571K. 13% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £405,000, sits in the £400–500K band
138 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £68,100 in 1995 to £425,000 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
55 sales in the last 12 months, against 113 in 2015, the busiest year, and 33 in 2024. Sales fell by 52% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 39% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Markyate costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Markyate, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£288K
£240K
£303K
£465K
£450K
£514K
Semi-detached houses
£71K
£125K
£210K
£216K
£362K
£415K
£450K
Terraced houses
£67K
£128K
£220K
£212K
£350K
£380K
£430K
Flats and maisonettes
£46K
£69K
£123K
£127K
£210K
£218K
£200K
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
149 new homes have been sold in Markyate since 1995; the share peaked at 39% in 2014.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.7% sold leasehold in Markyate. 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
High Street is Markyate’s busiest street, with 21 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
High Street
AL3
21
£376,000
Mixed
2
Pickford Road
AL3
11
£490,000
Mixed
3
Becks Close
AL3
9
£325,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Buckwood Road
AL3
8
£402,500
Mixed
5
Ver Brook Avenue
AL3
6
£461,250
Mostly terraced houses
6
George Street
AL3
6
£370,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Farrer Top
AL3
5
£405,000
Mostly terraced houses
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
Markyate is the 41st most expensive of 50 towns in Hertfordshire
Markyate is one of Hertfordshire’s cheapest 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 Markyate
What is the average house price in Markyate?
The median home in Markyate sold for £405,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 138 standard sales (£425,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £470,000, semi-detached houses £438,750, terraced houses £402,500 and flats and maisonettes £200,000.
Are house prices going up in Markyate?
The median was £405,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£385,000), and £425,000 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 Markyate each year?
55 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 63 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Markyate expensive for Hertfordshire?
Markyate is the 41st 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.