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Bishop's Stortford market report CM23 4, Bishop'S Stortford
The CM23 4 (Bishop's Stortford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 9,609 registered sales in CM23 4 (Bishop'S Stortford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CM23 4 (Bishop'S Stortford) home changed hands for £465,000 in 2026 (median of 67 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £484,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 9,609 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CM23 4 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 4 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.
Today's CM23 4 prices, from the sold record
Across 67 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CM23 4 home went for £465,000. The mean is £484,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CM23 4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CM23 4 homes have averaged around £5,140 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CM23 4 runs 63% above it.
A typical CM23 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £502,500 | £514,516 | 218 |
| 2024 | £485,000 | £515,655 | 209 |
| 2023 | £477,500 | £524,656 | 185 |
| 2022 | £501,200 | £587,714 | 214 |
| 2021 | £454,500 | £575,456 | 242 |
| 2020 | £461,200 | £598,417 | 177 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 164 |
| 2018 | £413,800 | £551,603 | 188 |
| 2017 | £390,000 | £531,921 | 181 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 143 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 215 |
| 2014 | £311,000 | £441,208 | 229 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 186 |
| 2012 | £289,000 | £425,372 | 192 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 201 |
| 2010 | £271,000 | £424,998 | 216 |
| 2009 | £247,800 | £398,341 | 166 |
| 2008 | £266,200 | £436,358 | 162 |
| 2007 | £274,000 | £464,780 | 321 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 382 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 344 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 367 |
| 2003 | £213,000 | £392,398 | 403 |
| 2002 | £188,500 | £354,661 | 420 |
| 2001 | £167,500 | £322,010 | 470 |
| 2000 | £157,000 | £308,113 | 413 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 580 |
| 1998 | £119,000 | £240,210 | 510 |
| 1997 | £111,000 | £227,639 | 807 |
| 1996 | £98,000 | £206,678 | 628 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 409 |
In cash terms the typical CM23 4 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 152%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM23 4 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 2000 (+20.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−7.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.5% | −9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CM23 4
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CM23 4 recorded 67 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 390 sales a year before the financial crisis and 179 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the CM23 4 market
Within CM23, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around CM23 4
For renting purposes CM23 4 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £465,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,503 a month (£18,036 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
Common questions on CM23 4 (Bishop's Stortford)
Are property prices falling in CM23 4 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Is CM23 4 (Bishop's Stortford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CM23 4 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Will CM23 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CM23 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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Havers Lane, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford
- Goldings, Bishop's Stortford, Bishop's Stortford
- Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CM23 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in CM
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. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CM23
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CM23, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CM23 1 | £504,000 | 12 |
| CM23 2 | £422,000 | 57 |
| CM23 3 | £355,000 | 59 |
| 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 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CM23 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CM23 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CM23 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CM23 4.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CM23 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM23 4 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.