AL2 3EQ
Last sold £482,500 in July 2006
17, Forge End, St. Albans
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Elevation
- About 86m — higher than about 30% of homes in St. Albans
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Price history in context
- Jul 2006 — £482,500 · +24.5% · 12 pts behind the UK market
- Jan 2003 — £387,500
What this home might be worth today
£830,000
Estimate range £788,000–£871,000
+71.9% since July 2006 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid above the local norm at the time
vs 53 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- How Wood Primary and Nursery School 22-min walk
- Killigrew Primary and Nursery School 14-min walk
- How Wood station 27-min walk
- Park Wood 1.1km
- The coast (coastline) 26.9km
- Lake 1.8km
- Pond 499m
- Canal 5.8km
- River Ver 1.5km
- Greenwood Park 889m
- Playing Field 441m
- Co-Op Food 306m
- Driftwood Avenue (Opp) 122m
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From How Wood, 1.4km away
- 40 min London
- 105 min Cambridge
- 111 min Oxford
- 119 min Brighton
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
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3 Park Street Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School · Primary · Church of England 0.9 miles State
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,620 hours a year — sunnier than 70% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: on level ground; surrounding hills hide about 2% of the year's sun. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Below average for England & Wales — 49 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 6, Forge End, St. Albans £177,000 · 1995
- 11, Forge End, St. Albans £161,000 · 1996
- 43, Forge End, St. Albans £227,000 · 1997
- 35, Forge End, St. Albans £211,950 · 1997
- 33, Forge End, St. Albans £211,950 · 1997
- 46, Forge End, St. Albans £235,000 · 1997
Planning activity nearby
- Conditions Loft conversion including formation of a rear dormer extension and installation of… Apr 2026 source
- Rejected Dropped kerb Mar 2026 source
- Undecided Single storey rear extension following demolition of existing single storey rear extension Feb 2026 source
- Undecided Two storey side extension, with loft conversion and flat roof dormer. Full length dropped… Feb 2026 source
- Undecided Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) - Conversion of existing attached garage into… Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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