About AL8
Lemsford · East of England
Also covers Welwyn Garden City, Handside, Sherrardspark, Digswell Park and Stanborough.
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Matched sales136 of 140 sales
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House prices per square metre in AL8
£5,810median per m²High confidence
95% CI £5,460–£6,050 per m² · n = 136 matched sales
The median sold price in AL8 (Lemsford, Welwyn Garden City) is £5,810 per square metre (£540 per ft²), based on 136 matched sales in the 12 months to July 2026, at a median sale price of £502,500. Over the 9 years to Q1 2025, the mix-adjusted median price per square metre changed by +2.9% a year in cash terms, or −0.2% a year after inflation.
Map of 140 sales in AL8 in the last 12 months; median £5,810 per square metre. Full details are in the sold-prices table below.
Postcode district
Prices in AL8
Tenure
Median price per m²
£5,810
n = 136 matched sales
Median sale price
£502,500
n = 140 sales
How prices are spread in AL8
Distribution of £/m² for the matched resale sales in AL8 over the last 12 months. The median is £5,810/m² with a 95% CI of £5,460 to £6,050 and a middle 60% running £4,890 to £6,830. Every one of these sales is listed in the table below.
- p20 £4,890
- p80 £6,830
- 95% CI £5,460–£6,050
The individual sales appear here once AL8's sold-price file loads. The markers are the published statistics.
By property type
| Property type | Median £/m² | Matched sales |
|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | £6,150/m² | n = 31 |
| Terraced | £6,010/m² | n = 52 |
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Tenure
£500,000
Middle 60% (p20–p80): £421,000–£587,000
86 m² at the median £/m² across all tenures · n = 136 matched sales (last 12 months)
Sold prices (last 12 months)
30 sales
Property type
| Address | Details | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24/07/26 | 8 Marsden Close, Welwyn Garden City | £465,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £6,040 | |
| 24/07/26 | 6 Picketts, Welwyn Garden City | £425,000 | Semi | Freehold | £5,900 | |
| 16/07/26 | 4 Brockett Close, Welwyn Garden City | £556,500 | Terraced | Leasehold | £6,050 | |
| 15/07/26 | 42 Ingles, Welwyn Garden City | £387,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £5,530 | |
| 03/07/26 | 8 Maidensfield, Welwyn Garden City | £250,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,310 | |
| 02/07/26 | 5 Willow Grove, Welwyn Garden City | £740,000 | Detached | Leasehold | £5,970 | |
| 01/07/26 | 12 Mandeville Rise, Welwyn Garden City | £1,397,500 | Detached | Freehold | £7,090 | |
| 01/07/26 | 27 Fordwich Road, Welwyn Garden City | £780,000 | Semi | Freehold | £6,140 | |
| 30/06/26 | 33 Barleycroft Road, Welwyn Garden City | £720,000 | Detached | Freehold | £7,270 | |
| 22/06/26 | 38 Sherrardspark Road, Welwyn Garden City | £1,900,000 | Detached | Leasehold | £6,010 | |
| 22/06/26 | 8 the Valley Green, Welwyn Garden City | £1,125,000 | Detached | Leasehold | £7,310 | |
| 22/06/26 | 11 Cherry Croft, Welwyn Garden City | £595,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £5,360 | |
| 11/06/26 | 14 Peel Court College Way, Welwyn Garden City | £345,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £5,390 | |
| 10/06/26 | 218 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City | £510,000 | Terraced | Freehold | £5,930 | |
| 05/06/26 | 9 Digswell Court Digswell Rise, Welwyn Garden City | £292,500 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,370 | |
| 02/06/26 | Flat 8 Asquith House Guessens Road, Welwyn Garden City | £340,000 | Flat | Leasehold | £4,930 | |
| 27/05/26 | 195 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City | £710,000 | Semi | Leasehold | £7,030 | |
| 27/05/26 | 5 Sherrards Mansions, Welwyn Garden City | £562,500 | Semi | Leasehold | £8,040 | |
| 26/05/26 | 20 Mandeville Rise, Welwyn Garden City | £930,000 | Detached | Leasehold | £7,050 | |
| 22/05/26 | 84 Longcroft Lane, Welwyn Garden City | £710,000 | Semi | Freehold | £7,030 |
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Compare AL8 with a neighbouring district · league tables
Ranked here: 15th of 194 in most expensive postcode districts in East of England
Nearby districts
Median price per square metre in the nearest districts.
- AL7 · Welwyn Garden City£4,900/m² median
- AL6 · Tewin£5,340/m² median
- AL10 · Hatfield£4,570/m² median
- SG3 · Woolmer Green£5,190/m² median
- AL9 · Brookmans Park£4,930/m² median
- AL4 · Wheathampstead£6,760/m² median
- SG14 · Watton At Stone£5,930/m² median
Each trend line is that district’s own quarterly median price per square metre, scaled to its own range: compare directions, not heights. Gaps are quarters with too few matched sales to publish a median.
Further reading
- Freehold and leasehold are different markets62% of matched sales here are freehold
- Cash terms, real terms, and which to trustPrices here rose 2.9% a year in cash and fell 0.2% after inflation
- Thirty years of house prices, measured the hard wayRepeat sales here grew 1.7% a year over the decade against 2.9% for the mix-adjusted median
- What is a good price per square metre?How to read a price per square metre against its area
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HM Land Registry sold prices to July 2026 (registrations lag sales by 2–8 weeks) · updated July 2026 · how these figures are made
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