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Bishop's Stortford market report CM23 2, Bishop'S Stortford
The CM23 2 (Bishop's Stortford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,341 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CM23 2 (Bishop'S Stortford) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CM23 2 (Bishop'S Stortford) home changed hands for £422,000 in 2026 (median of 57 registered sales, down 4% on five years earlier), with the mean at £509,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 6,341 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CM23 2 is one sector of CM23 (Bishop'S Stortford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CM23 2 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.
The going rate for a home in CM23 2
Across 57 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM23 2 home went for £422,000. The mean is £509,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
CM23 2 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CM23 2 costs about £5,120 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 2 trades 48% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CM23 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £422,000 | £422,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £425,000 | £435,163 | 178 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 168 |
| 2023 | £488,000 | £536,193 | 176 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 323 |
| 2021 | £439,000 | £555,831 | 331 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 289 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 290 |
| 2018 | £437,500 | £583,196 | 177 |
| 2017 | £358,800 | £489,367 | 156 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 156 |
| 2015 | £312,500 | £441,563 | 198 |
| 2014 | £330,000 | £468,163 | 178 |
| 2013 | £280,000 | £402,892 | 175 |
| 2012 | £247,200 | £363,848 | 124 |
| 2011 | £275,000 | £415,144 | 127 |
| 2010 | £231,000 | £362,267 | 159 |
| 2009 | £243,000 | £390,625 | 136 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 100 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 209 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 277 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 192 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 219 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 164 |
| 2002 | £163,000 | £306,683 | 219 |
| 2001 | £147,500 | £283,561 | 240 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 223 |
| 1999 | £109,000 | £217,231 | 276 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 230 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 231 |
| 1996 | £76,000 | £160,281 | 195 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical CM23 2 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £422,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 159%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM23 2 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 2003 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.7% | −3.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.8% | −5.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in CM23 2
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 57 CM23 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 180 sales a year recently, against 218 a year before 2008. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the CM23 2 market
This is a thin market: 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
What homes rent for around CM23 2
The local authority for CM23 2 is East Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,503 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,064 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,406, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £422,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Common questions on CM23 2 (Bishop's Stortford)
Is CM23 2 (Bishop's Stortford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM23 2 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Are property prices falling in CM23 2 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Where do CM23 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in CM23 right now
The live side of the market holds 90 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CM23 district, not just CM23 2: 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
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CM23 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in CM: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CM area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CM area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CM23
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CM23's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM23 1 | £504,000 | 12 |
| 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.
Selling a home in CM23 2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM23 2's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM23 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CM23 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CM23 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.