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Bishop's Stortford market report CM23 1, Bishop'S Stortford
The CM23 1 (Bishop's Stortford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,021 HM Land Registry entries for CM23 1 (Bishop'S Stortford), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CM23 1 (Bishop'S Stortford) is £504,000, from 12 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £519,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,620 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,021 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like CM23 1 is a single group of streets within CM23 (Bishop'S Stortford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CM23 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in CM23 1 sells for
The 2026 median for CM23 1 is £504,000, taken from 12 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £519,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CM23 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM23 1 costs about £4,620 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CM23 1 trades 77% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM23 1 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £504,000 | £504,000 | 12 |
| 2025 | £580,000 | £593,870 | 53 |
| 2024 | £550,000 | £584,763 | 46 |
| 2023 | £612,500 | £672,988 | 28 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 67 |
| 2021 | £463,000 | £586,218 | 78 |
| 2020 | £420,000 | £544,959 | 57 |
| 2019 | £495,000 | £648,827 | 63 |
| 2018 | £500,000 | £666,509 | 51 |
| 2017 | £595,000 | £811,520 | 7 |
| 2016 | £437,000 | £611,367 | 23 |
| 2015 | £502,500 | £710,033 | 34 |
| 2014 | £452,500 | £641,950 | 26 |
| 2013 | £405,000 | £582,755 | 33 |
| 2012 | £527,000 | £775,678 | 18 |
| 2011 | £438,800 | £662,419 | 20 |
| 2010 | £435,000 | £682,192 | 25 |
| 2009 | £425,000 | £683,191 | 15 |
| 2008 | £362,500 | £594,214 | 10 |
| 2007 | £333,500 | £565,709 | 27 |
| 2006 | £277,500 | £481,705 | 24 |
| 2005 | £312,500 | £556,124 | 18 |
| 2004 | £305,000 | £553,940 | 23 |
| 2003 | £276,800 | £509,933 | 24 |
| 2002 | £247,500 | £465,669 | 40 |
| 2001 | £186,000 | £357,576 | 33 |
| 2000 | £225,000 | £441,563 | 30 |
| 1999 | £188,500 | £375,671 | 37 |
| 1998 | £139,000 | £280,581 | 26 |
| 1997 | £165,000 | £338,382 | 29 |
| 1996 | £109,500 | £230,931 | 24 |
| 1995 | £99,500 | £216,298 | 20 |
In cash terms the typical CM23 1 home went from £99,500 in 1995 to £504,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 38% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM23 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1997 (+50.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−23.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CM23 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −13.1% | −15.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in CM23 1
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 12 sales completed in CM23 1. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 41 sales a year over the last five years against 27 before the financial crisis. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of CM23 1
The local authority for CM23 1 is Uttlesford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,283 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £900 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,028 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Uttlesford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £504,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,283 a month (£15,396 a year) works out at a 3.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market CM23 1 is
Only 12 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM23 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the CM23 district median, CM23 1 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about CM23 1 (Bishop's Stortford)
How much did a house sell for in CM23 1 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Are property prices falling in CM23 1 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Is CM23 1 (Bishop's Stortford) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CM23 1 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in CM23 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 90 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM23 district, not just CM23 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Havers Lane, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford
- Goldings, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CM23 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CM prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CM area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £417,500 | £550,000 (+32%) | £785,000 (+43%) | £1,137,500 (+45%) |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | £370,000 (+14%) | £447,500 (+21%) | £575,000 (+28%) | £780,000 (+36%) |
| Terraced | £292,000 | £335,000 (+15%) | £380,000 (+13%) | £492,500 (+30%) | £700,000 (+42%) |
| Flat | £202,000 | £280,000 (+39%) | £385,000 (+38%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CM area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CM23
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CM23, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM23 2 | £422,000 | 57 |
| CM23 3 | £355,000 | 59 |
| CM23 4 | £465,000 | 67 |
| CM23 5 | £450,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full CM23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM23 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CM23 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CM23 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CM23 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CM23 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CM23 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM23 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM23 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM23 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.