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9 Old Rectory Close

AL5 2UDFlatFreehold

Last sold

£620,000

March 2025

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Typical asking rent

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Previous sales

Every sale of this address since 1995, newest first.

March 2025 Freehold £620,000

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What it might rent for

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The home

Size, energy rating, walls and flood risk.

Energy rating

Ways to make it more efficient

Solid wall insulation £4,000 - £14,000 saves about £121 a year
Floor insulation (solid floor) £4,000 - £6,000 saves about £114 a year
Low energy lighting £25 saves about £55 a year
Hot water cylinder thermostat £200 - £400 saves about £201 a year
Heating controls £350 - £450 saves about £100 a year
Replacement condensing boiler £2,200 - £3,000 saves about £487 a year
Solar water heating £4,000 - £6,000 saves about £80 a year
Double glazing £3,300 - £6,500 saves about £128 a year
Solar panels £3,500 - £5,500 saves about £570 a year

Floor area

112 sq m · 1,206 sq ft

Walls

Cavity wall, filled cavity

Heating

Boiler and radiators, mains gas

Windows

Some secondary glazing

Roof

Pitched, 100 mm loft insulation

Energy bills

About £2,652 a year (2024 prices)

Flood risk

Outside Flood Zones 2 and 3 - rivers and sea

The rules on the land

Designations that decide what can be built or changed here.

Conservation area

Harpenden

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Crime nearby

Crimes recorded within about 500 metres, last twelve months.

106 crimes recorded within about 500 metres, September 2025 to August 2026.

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Last 12 months vs the 12 months before: 106 vs 143 (-26%)

The 500-metre square round this property: roughly twice the St Albans average (106 against an average of 44).

Most on or near: Petrol Station (81), Arcadian Court (9), The Bourne (5), Moreton Place (4), Kirkdale Road (3).

The St Albans average is its recorded crimes over the same twelve months, shared across every 500-metre square of it where any crime was recorded.

A dot is the nearest point on or near a street, never a house. Map OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Broadband

Gigabit

Every home in this postcode can get gigabit broadband (full fibre or cable): 1,000 Mb or more.

As of July 2025, for the whole postcode. What you can actually get depends on the provider.

Schools nearby

The nearest primary and secondary schools, as the crow flies, with their latest Ofsted inspection.

Primary schools

Secondary schools

Distance is a straight line, not the walk. Being close is not a promise of a place: each school has its own admissions rules.

What’s nearby

Shops, places to eat, things to do and getting about.

Supermarkets

Tesco0.3 mi · 8 min walk
M&S Food0.3 mi · 9 min walk
Morrisons0.3 mi · 9 min walk
Sainsbury’s0.4 mi · 9 min walk
Waitrose0.4 mi · 10 min walk
Co-op0.9 mi · 24 min walk

Within a 15-minute walk

24

Restaurants

Tabure, Bangkok Lounge, Zaza, Nonno's Pizza…

14

Cafés

Brew and Cru, Nonna Cafe, Brad & Dills, Okka Cafe…

8

Pubs and bars

Old Cock Inn, Cross Keys, The Oddfellows Arms, The George…

2

Takeaways

Papa John's, Domino's

Everyday

GPElms Medical Practice 0.4 mi · 10 min walk
ChemistBoots 0.4 mi · 11 min walk
DentistWayside Dental Practice 0.1 mi · 3 min walk
GymMarchon Athletic 0.4 mi · 11 min walk
ParkLydekker Park 0.1 mi · 3 min walk

Things to do

Nature Wigmore Park 4.4 mi
Family Woodside Animal Farm & Leisure PArk 4.2 mi
Football St Albans City Football Club 4.8 mi
Cinema Cineworld ↗ 4.9 mi

Getting about

StationHarpenden 0.5 mi · 14 min walk
StationLuton DART Parkway 3.9 mi · 102 min walk

Distances are as the crow flies; walking times are rough, by the streets.

Recently sold nearby

Sold prices, from the area on the map, last two years.

27 Aplins Close

August 2026

£425,000

11 Moreton Place

August 2026

£1,760,000

3 Redclyffe Place

July 2026 LeaseholdNew build

£550,000

12 Chepstow, Douglas Road

July 2026 Leasehold

£370,000

Map OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Flipometer

Places on the map that were bought, done up and sold on.

44 Townsend Lane, Harpenden
Bought October 2021£1,300,000
Sold November 2023£1,700,000
+£400,000 24 months Flipped

A gap between two sale prices does not prove work was done, and a planning application near a sale does not prove the two are connected. Map OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

For sale near here

The nearest homes on the market now, from adverts on Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket.

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How this area has changed

Typical prices for flats, now and in years gone by. The twelve months to September 2026 against the same twelve months back then.

Area Now 5 years ago10 years ago15 years ago20 years ago
Old Rectory Close – Not enough sales Not enough sales Not enough sales Not enough sales
Postcode sector AL5 2 – Not enough sales £850,000 Not enough sales £302,500
St Albans £320,000 £325,000 -2% since £310,000 +3% since £210,000 +52% since £188,000 +70% since

The typical price is the middle sale of the twelve months, not the average, so one very dear or very cheap sale cannot pull it about. Standard sales only. A figure needs at least 15 sales behind it; with fewer, it says so.

£0k £200k £400k £600k £800k £1000k 2010 2015 2020 2025 2006 · £190,000 2007 · £200,000 2008 · £199,975 2009 · £175,000 2010 · £200,000 2011 · £212,500 2012 · £208,250 2013 · £221,500 2014 · £239,475 2015 · £268,000 2016 · £310,000 2017 · £315,000 2018 · £315,000 2019 · £306,500 2020 · £320,000 2021 · £325,000 2022 · £329,950 2023 · £325,000 2024 · £335,000 2025 · £335,000 2026 · £318,750 2006 · £302,500 2007 · £268,500 2012 · £650,000 2014 · £299,000 2015 · £538,750 2016 · £967,500 2018 · £675,000 2019 · £896,400 2022 · £835,000 2023 · £750,000 2024 · £725,000 2025 · £520,000
Sector AL5 2 St Albans Typical price each year, flats. A gap is a year with too few sales.

Crime within about 500 metres. Last 12 months vs the 12 months before: 106 vs 143 (-26%)

How homes change hands in AL5 2, over the last five years (437 sales):

  • What sells: 54% detached, 26% flats, 8% terraced, 8% semi-detached, 5% other.
  • 26% sold leasehold, and 7% were new builds.
  • 54 sales in the last twelve months, against 107 in the same twelve months five years ago.

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Buying it

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