That is the middle of 201 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 6.6 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.
A third of Redbourn’s sales are semi-detached houses
201 homes sold in three years: 56 detached houses, 63 semi-detached houses, 58 terraced houses and 24 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£875K
median sale · 56 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£635K–£1.1M
Last 12 months
£909K16 sold
Semi-detached houses£616K
median sale · 63 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£533K–£688K
Last 12 months
£613K24 sold
Terraced houses£453K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£398K–£595K
Last 12 months
£460K18 sold
Flats and maisonettes£290K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£238K–£365K
Last 12 months
£350K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 31% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses31%
Terraced houses29%
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 Redbourn’s homes sold for between £430K and £755K
One sale in ten was under £338K and one in ten over £960K. 3% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £585,000, sits in the £500–750K band
201 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £91,750 in 1995 to £605,000 in the last 12 months (£485,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
63 sales in the last 12 months, against 148 in 1999, the busiest year, and 49 in 2023. Sales fell by 25% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 67% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Redbourn costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Redbourn, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£162K
£290K
£430K
£449K
£590K
£670K
£909K
Semi-detached houses
£93K
£186K
£300K
£365K
£500K
£530K
£613K
Terraced houses
£71K
£120K
£217K
£233K
£340K
£425K
£460K
Flats and maisonettes
£56K
£90K
£138K
£164K
£222K
£238K
£350K
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
218 new homes have been sold in Redbourn since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Redbourn. 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
The Park is Redbourn’s busiest street, with 15 sales in three years
13 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
The Park
AL3
15
£430,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Lybury Lane
AL3
14
£596,250
Mixed
3
Ben Austins
AL3
9
£577,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Tassell Hall
AL3
8
£486,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
High Street
AL3
8
£466,250
Mostly terraced houses
6
Hemel Hempstead Road
AL3
7
£580,000
Mixed
7
Silk Mill Road
AL3
5
£890,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Crouch Hall Lane
AL3
5
£825,000
Mixed
9
Crouch Hall Gardens
AL3
5
£820,000
Mixed
10
Church End
AL3
5
£625,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Harpenden Lane
AL3
5
£580,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Down Edge
AL3
5
£447,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
New Forge Place
AL3
5
£197,000
Mostly flats
Dearest streets
Silk Mill Road: £890,000
Redbourn median£585K
Silk Mill Road£890K
Crouch Hall Lane£825K
Crouch Hall Gardens£820K
Church End£625K
Lybury Lane£596K
Cheapest streets
New Forge Place: £197,000
Redbourn median£585K
New Forge Place£197K
The Park£430K
Down Edge£448K
High Street£466K
Tassell Hall£486K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.5 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
Redbourn is the 15th most expensive of 50 towns in Hertfordshire
Redbourn 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 Redbourn
What is the average house price in Redbourn?
The median home in Redbourn sold for £585,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 201 standard sales (£605,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £875,000, semi-detached houses £616,000, terraced houses £453,000 and flats and maisonettes £290,000.
Are house prices going up in Redbourn?
The median was £585,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£550,000), and £605,000 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 Redbourn each year?
63 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 81 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Redbourn?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Silk Mill Road (AL3, £890,000), Crouch Hall Lane (AL3, £825,000) and Crouch Hall Gardens (AL3, £820,000).
Is Redbourn expensive for Hertfordshire?
Redbourn is the 15th 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.