Town in St Albans
Harpenden
From July 2023 to June 2026, homes in Harpenden typically sold for £785,000. Half of the 1,318 sales were between £525k and £1.22m, against a typical £620,000 across St Albans.
Postcode AL5
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.
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Detached £1,327,500 typicalHalf between £975k and £1.75m · 448 sales · St Albans £975k
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Semi-detached £827,000 typicalHalf between £665k and £1.1m · 353 sales · St Albans £721k
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Terraced £602,500 typicalHalf between £519k and £725k · 215 sales · St Albans £575k
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Flat £337,500 typicalHalf between £275k and £459k · 302 sales · St Albans £335k
Since 1995
Each year in Harpenden
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
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Detached34% · St Albans 22%
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Semi-detached27% · St Albans 26%
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Flat23% · St Albans 25%
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Terraced16% · St Albans 26%
New builds and leaseholds
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.
Neighbourhoods
Where in Harpenden
The 4 neighbourhoods mostly in Harpenden and what homes sold for in each from July 2023 to June 2026. The range is the middle half of sales.
| Neighbourhood | Typical price Typical priceThe middle sale. Half sold for more and half for less. | Middle half Middle halfHalf the homes sold within this range. A quarter sold for less and a quarter for more. | Sales SalesHomes sold from July 2023 to June 2026. | Over 5 years Over 5 yearsThe change in the typical price against the same three years five years before. |
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| Harpenden Common | £795,000 | £600k to £1.33m | 297 | +19.5% |
| Harpenden East | £725,000 | £529k to £999k | 285 | +21.8% |
| Harpenden North | £750,000 | £494k to £1.1m | 308 | +9.6% |
| Harpenden Town | £820,000 | £454k to £1.3m | 395 | −2.7% |
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.