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Where the LHA reaches · October 2026

Welwyn Hatfield

Of 906 homes advertised to rent in Welwyn Hatfield in the six months to 31 October 2026, 22 (2.4%) could be let within the Local Housing Allowance for their size.

Of 1,035 homes for sale at the end of October 2026, 21 would return 7% gross or more a year if let at the LHA.

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By size · the six months to 31 October 2026

Each size against its own LHA rate.

Size Homes to rent Within the LHA Gap at the 30th percentile For sale Work at 7%
1 bed and studios27613 (4.7%)£2651354
2 bed3712 (0.5%)£4003318
3 bed1620 (0%)£3803208
4 bed977 (7.2%)£3002491
All sizes90622 (2.4%)£3501,03521

A dash means too few homes to give a figure (a share needs 10 judged homes, a gap 20); the count is still shown. Studios are read as one bedroom; homes of five bedrooms or more are not read, as the LHA has no rate for them. 5 homes were counted but not judged because their rental market area or rate was not known.

The trend · June 2024 to October 2026

Month by month, as published.

Each point is one completed month, read over the six months before it. A month's figures are published once and never changed.

Share of homes advertised to rent within the LHA, all sizes
0%10%Jun 24: 2.8%Jul 24: 3.1%Aug 24: 2.3%Sep 24: 2.4%Oct 24: 2.2%Nov 24: 2.7%Dec 24: 2.9%Jan 25: 2.8%Feb 25: 2.7%Mar 25: 2.1%Apr 25: 2.4%May 25: 2.3%Jun 25: 2.3%Jul 25: 2.7%Aug 25: 2.6%Sep 25: 3.1%Oct 25: 3%Nov 25: 2.5%Dec 25: 2.6%Jan 26: 3.5%Feb 26: 3.4%Mar 26: 4%Apr 26: 4%May 26: 4.3%Jun 26: 4%Jul 26: 3%Aug 26: 3.4%Sep 26: 2.4%Oct 26: 2.4%Jun 24Aug 25Oct 26
Homes for sale that would work at 7% at the LHA, all sizes
021Jun 24: 9Jul 24: 10Aug 24: 10Sep 24: 10Oct 24: 11Nov 24: 7Dec 24: 5Jan 25: 7Feb 25: 10Mar 25: 14Apr 25: 15May 25: 14Jun 25: 14Jul 25: 13Aug 25: 11Sep 25: 12Oct 25: 12Nov 25: 13Dec 25: 12Jan 26: 18Feb 26: 17Mar 26: 16Apr 26: 19May 26: 20Jun 26: 17Jul 26: 16Aug 26: 17Sep 26: 21Oct 26: 21Jun 24Aug 25Oct 26
Month Homes to rent Within the LHA 2-bed gap 3-bed gap For sale Work at 7%
October 20269062.4%£400£3801,03521
September 20268842.4%£400£3801,00821
August 20268283.4%£350£33086717
July 20268113%£350£33091116
June 20268654%£350£33093317
May 20268004.3%£350£33089520
April 20267834%£350£33087219
March 20267584%£350£33085216
February 20267393.4%£350£33077617
January 20267373.5%£350£33070018
December 20256602.6%£325£33054512
November 20256692.5%£325£33055013
October 20256963%£325£33060212
September 20256783.1%£300£33060712
August 20256662.6%£300£33059611
July 20256412.7%£300£37065513
June 20256472.3%£300£33063714
May 20256022.3%£300£33062614
April 20256202.4%£300£33057215
March 20256182.1%£300£33056514
February 20256292.7%£300£33040510
January 20256542.8%£300£3304097
December 20246852.9%£300£3304355
November 20247082.7%£300£3305277
October 20246842.2%£300£33087411
September 20246952.4%£300£33083910
August 20246822.3%£300£32678910
July 20246683.1%£300£32579410
June 20246392.8%£300£2857489
Reading the figures

What these numbers are, and are not.

  • Advertised, not agreed. Asking rents and asking prices as the portals showed them. Rents finally agreed usually sit below advertised rents, so the true gap is likely to be smaller; prices paid sit below asking, so slightly more homes may work.
  • Each home against its own rate. The LHA for the home's size in its own broad rental market area, in force at the month's end. Where Welwyn Hatfield spans more than one area, each home is read against the right one.
  • A screen, not a return. "Work at 7%" is twelve months at the LHA divided by the asking price, before service charges, voids, repairs or purchase costs. It says which homes are worth looking at, not what they would earn.
  • Counted, never modelled. No figure on this page is estimated or produced by AI. The full method, the floors below which a figure is withheld, and the sources are on the index page.

Cite as: Viiyoo, Where the LHA reaches: Welwyn Hatfield, October 2026, www.viiyoo.com/lha/welwyn-hatfield. If Welwyn Hatfield holds achieved rents and would like them shown beside these figures, labelled as the council's, write to us.

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Welwyn Hatfield's figures, once a month

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Behind the counts

The 21 homes themselves

The index counts the homes for sale in Welwyn Hatfield that would work at LHA rents. A Viiyoo buying plan names them, costs each one after grant, checks its lease, flood risk and licensing, and comes back as a pack a cabinet can follow. The first brief is free, for up to 25 homes.

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