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Do the numbers work? Rents and yields, the HMO planning rules, growth and what owners made, and the council's letting picture.
| Typical private rent in Dacorum | A month | A year |
|---|---|---|
| All homes | £1,594 | £19,128 |
| 1 bedroom | £1,098 | £13,176 |
| 2 bedrooms | £1,378 | £16,536 |
| 3 bedrooms | £1,655 | £19,860 |
| 4+ bedrooms | £2,288 | £27,456 |
The council's typical rent against the typical home here (£681k): a gross yield of about 2.8%.
| Berkhamsted Town | Dacorum | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing allowance yield (%) | 2.2 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Rented privately | 19% | 14% | 20% |
| Homes ever let | 16% | 15% | 18% |
| Residents per home | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Homes owned by companies | 2% | 3% | 4% |
| Homes bought by companies since 2021 | 32 | 24 | 34 |
ONS private rents (council, 2026-08); Local Housing Allowance (VOA). Gross yields are before costs, voids and tax.
HMO planning rules: unknown here. Dacorum has not published HMO Article 4 areas to the national planning data platform, so we cannot tell whether HMOs need planning permission here. Ask the council's planning team.
| Berkhamsted Town | Dacorum | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Postcodes under an Article 4 direction | 0% | 0% | 16% |
planning.data.gov.uk (Article 4 directions). Whether one address is inside an HMO area is on its postcode's Investing page. HMO Article 4 map · About HMOs
| Berkhamsted Town | Dacorum | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population change, 2021–2024 | -1% | +4% | +4% |
| Homes added, 2021–2024 | +0% | +3% | +3% |
| People added per new home, 2021–2024 | -4.7 | 9.2 | 5.1 |
| Housing pressure vs region | 1.3 | 0.1 | -0.3 |
Like-for-like (repeat-sales) index, HM Land Registry. What owners made when they sold, by area and how long they held.
MHCLG council tax base (England), Ministry of Justice repossessions, ONS short-term lets.
Yields, prices, growth, renting and Article 4 cover, side by side.
| Highfield | 4.1 | £347k | +46% | 13% | 0% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hemel Hempstead Town | 4.1 | £331k | +28% | 23% | 0% |
| Grovehill | 4.0 | £368k | +45% | 14% | 0% |
| Warners End | 3.8 | £418k | +43% | 11% | 0% |
| Nash Mills & Bennetts End | 3.7 | £421k | +28% | 13% | 0% |
| Gadebridge & Old Town | 3.7 | £406k | +37% | 17% | 0% |
| Woodhall Farm | 3.7 | £398k | +40% | 23% | 0% |
| Chaulden | 3.5 | £438k | +45% | 11% | 0% |
| Maylands & Adeyfield | 3.2 | £446k | +48% | 12% | 0% |
| Boxmoor & Apsley | 3.2 | £454k | +31% | 20% | 0% |
| Markyate, Flamstead & Gaddesden | 3.2 | £452k | +38% | 11% | 0% |
| Corner Hall | 3.2 | £444k | +46% | 13% | 0% |
| Leverstock Green | 2.7 | £530k | +41% | 9% | 0% |
| Tring North | 2.6 | £463k | +47% | 13% | 0% |
| Bovingdon & Chipperfield | 2.4 | £657k | +38% | 11% | 0% |
| Kings Langley | 2.4 | £605k | +35% | 12% | 0% |
| Northchurch & Potten End | 2.2 | £694k | +51% | 10% | 0% |
| Berkhamsted Town (this one) | 2.2 | £681k | +41% | 19% | 0% |
| Berkhamsted South | 2.1 | £719k | +37% | 15% | 0% |
| Tring West & Long Marston | 2.0 | £603k | +36% | 15% | 0% |
| Berkhamsted West | 1.8 | £788k | +38% | 8% | 0% |
| Tring East, Wigginton & Aldbury | 1.6 | £713k | +40% | 12% | 2% |
Local Housing Allowance, South West Herts rental area, 2026-27, a month: Shared room £501 · 1 bed £950 · 2 beds £1,250 · 3 beds £1,500 · 4 beds £2,000. The most a tenant on Universal Credit or Housing Benefit gets towards rent here, set at the cheapest 30% of local rents in 2023 and frozen since April 2024.
Gross LHA yields at this neighbourhood's 2025 prices: 1-bed rate vs flats 2.62% · 2-bed vs terraced houses 2.61% · 3-bed vs semis 2.54%.
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