A typical house in Markyate costs about £425,000. Terraces sell at about that price, semis and detached houses for a little more, and flats go for around half. Hardly anyone sells. The cheapest way into the village is a flat, and flats almost never come up.
The Land Registry recorded 49 sales in the year to May 2026, at a typical price of £425,000. Twenty of them were terraced houses, which also went for about £425,000. The 14 semis averaged about £450,000 and the nine detached houses about £470,000. Six flats sold, at around £200,000. That leaves £45,000 between a terrace and a detached house in the middle of a commuter belt, and a buyer reading the price ladder could fairly wonder whether the detached houses are short of something the terraces have.
The house-price index for the area was unchanged over the year to May 2026, at an average of about £455,000, while flats in the same index fell by about 2%. A year of no change at all is a market that has stopped moving, and the flat figure is small enough that it mostly tells a seller of one not to get ambitious.
Band D is the most common council-tax band, and only about 9% of homes are in bands A and B. Dacorum's band D bill is about £2,410 a year, which is the number to set against whatever the current one is. Most buyers here will pay that or more, because the valuation list has very few homes cheap enough to escape it.
Dacorum as a whole has a typical private rent of about £1,580 a month as of April 2026. Broken down across the borough, that is around £1,090 for one bedroom, £1,360 for two, £1,640 for three and £2,270 for four or more. These are means from the Office for National Statistics' rent index, which covers everything from Hemel Hempstead flats to Chilterns farmhouses. Nobody publishes a studio or room figure for the borough, so anyone after a cheap room is on their own.
The Office for National Statistics models household income here at around £69,000 a year, gross and before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Against a typical price of £425,000, that is a stretch for a first-time buyer on one salary and a manageable one for a couple with equity from somewhere dearer. The village prices itself for the second kind of buyer, and the 49 sales a year suggest the second kind is in no rush to leave.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 88% of them, the typical price was about £4,550 per square metre over a typical floor area of 89 square metres. That is a family house of ordinary size at a price that assumes the family has done well. One check worth making: the certificate for any house being viewed gives its floor area, and the price per square metre shows quickly whether the asking figure is paying for space or for the High Street.
The 2021 census counts about 11% of homes with one bedroom, 26% with two, 40% with three and 23% with four or more. Three bedrooms is what the village is mostly built of, which suits the floor-area figure above and leaves buyers looking for a starter flat with a very short list.
Markyate's prices are middling and lean slightly against the buyer: no bargains, a flat market and a fairly narrow entry point, though nothing a two-income household with a deposit would call outrageous. The village charges a commuter-belt price, and the buyer still has to supply the commute.