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Neighbourhood in St Albans

Cottonmill & Sopwell

From July 2023 to June 2026, homes in Cottonmill & Sopwell typically sold for £550,000. Half of the 266 sales were between £420k and £750k, against a typical £620,000 across St Albans.

Postcode AL1

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Typical price Typical priceThe middle sale. Half sold for more and half for less. £550k half sold for £420k to £750k
Homes sold Homes soldHomes sold from July 2023 to June 2026. 266 July 2023 to June 2026
Over 5 years Over 5 yearsThe change in the typical price against the same three years five years before. +6.8% typical price, against 5 years before
New builds 12% of sales · 27% leasehold

By type of home

What homes sold for

The band is the middle half of sales, a quarter sold for less and a quarter for more, with the typical price marked. The dashed line is the typical price for the same type across St Albans.

  • Detached
    Not enough sales (9 in 3 years)
  • Semi-detached £635,000 typical
    Half between £550k and £865k · 81 sales · St Albans £721k
  • Terraced £596,500 typical
    Half between £473k and £808k · 107 sales · St Albans £575k
  • Flat £335,000 typical
    Half between £276k and £420k · 69 sales · St Albans £335k

Since 1995

Each year in Cottonmill & Sopwell

This neighbourhood St Albans Homes sold
£0£500k£1m 1995: £78,9501996: £73,5001997: £100,0001998: £102,0001999: £122,0002000: £140,0002001: £157,5002002: £184,5002003: £200,0002004: £219,9752005: £227,5002006: £249,9952007: £249,9742008: £249,9502009: £250,0002010: £281,0002011: £280,0002012: £308,7502013: £277,5002014: £359,9752015: £385,0002016: £447,5002017: £457,5002018: £487,5002019: £472,5802020: £575,0002021: £523,7502022: £562,5002023: £542,5002024: £550,0002025: £550,000 1995: 125 sold1996: 154 sold1997: 216 sold1998: 161 sold1999: 179 sold2000: 176 sold2001: 178 sold2002: 224 sold2003: 147 sold2004: 176 sold2005: 155 sold2006: 208 sold2007: 166 sold2008: 91 sold2009: 90 sold2010: 106 sold2011: 91 sold2012: 118 sold2013: 103 sold2014: 126 sold2015: 99 sold2016: 94 sold2017: 102 sold2018: 92 sold2019: 84 sold2020: 78 sold2021: 110 sold2022: 106 sold2023: 90 sold2024: 79 sold2025: 107 sold 1995200020052010201520202025
£0£500k£1m 1995: £78,9501996: £73,5001997: £100,0001998: £102,0001999: £122,0002000: £140,0002001: £157,5002002: £184,5002003: £200,0002004: £219,9752005: £227,5002006: £249,9952007: £249,9742008: £249,9502009: £250,0002010: £281,0002011: £280,0002012: £308,7502013: £277,5002014: £359,9752015: £385,0002016: £447,5002017: £457,5002018: £487,5002019: £472,5802020: £575,0002021: £523,7502022: £562,5002023: £542,5002024: £550,0002025: £550,000 1995: 125 sold1996: 154 sold1997: 216 sold1998: 161 sold1999: 179 sold2000: 176 sold2001: 178 sold2002: 224 sold2003: 147 sold2004: 176 sold2005: 155 sold2006: 208 sold2007: 166 sold2008: 91 sold2009: 90 sold2010: 106 sold2011: 91 sold2012: 118 sold2013: 103 sold2014: 126 sold2015: 99 sold2016: 94 sold2017: 102 sold2018: 92 sold2019: 84 sold2020: 78 sold2021: 110 sold2022: 106 sold2023: 90 sold2024: 79 sold2025: 107 sold 199520102025

The typical price is the middle sale of each full year, shown where at least 5 homes sold. It moves with which homes happened to sell, so a single year can jump.

The homes that sell here

  • Terraced40% · St Albans 26%
  • Semi-detached31% · St Albans 26%
  • Flat26% · St Albans 25%
  • Detached3% · St Albans 22%

New builds and leaseholds

New builds, share of sales12% · St Albans 4%
Leaseholds, share of sales27% · St Albans 26%

New builds can take up to a year to appear in Land Registry's figures, so the latest year may show fewer than were sold.

Next door

Neighbourhoods around Cottonmill & Sopwell

About these figures

Every standard home sale registered with HM Land Registry since 1995: homes sold at full market value to a person, so repossessions and sales to companies are left out. Recent months fill in as late sales are registered. Not financial advice.

Sources and licences

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Neighbourhood names: contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 (House of Commons Library). Neighbourhood boundaries and the postcode lookup: source, Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026.