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Bishop's Stortford market report CM23 5, Bishop'S Stortford
The CM23 5 (Bishop's Stortford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 4,781 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CM23 5 (Bishop'S Stortford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CM23 5 (Bishop'S Stortford) came in at £450,000, out of 44 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £505,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,960 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,781 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CM23 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CM23 (Bishop'S Stortford). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CM23 5 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 5 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CM23 5 is £450,000, taken from 44 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £505,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CM23 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CM23 5 sales average about £4,960 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CM23 5 runs 58% above it.
The price of a typical CM23 5 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £445,000 | £455,641 | 125 |
| 2024 | £427,500 | £454,520 | 105 |
| 2023 | £515,000 | £565,859 | 126 |
| 2022 | £512,500 | £600,965 | 164 |
| 2021 | £417,500 | £528,609 | 152 |
| 2020 | £420,000 | £544,959 | 96 |
| 2019 | £430,000 | £563,627 | 99 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 131 |
| 2017 | £395,000 | £538,740 | 123 |
| 2016 | £360,000 | £503,644 | 154 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 158 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 139 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 135 |
| 2012 | £263,200 | £387,398 | 98 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 91 |
| 2010 | £272,000 | £426,566 | 99 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 103 |
| 2008 | £242,000 | £396,689 | 95 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 186 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 304 |
| 2005 | £247,500 | £440,450 | 272 |
| 2004 | £220,000 | £399,563 | 201 |
| 2003 | £206,000 | £379,502 | 205 |
| 2002 | £157,500 | £296,335 | 187 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 181 |
| 2000 | £139,500 | £273,769 | 182 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 162 |
| 1998 | £90,500 | £182,681 | 164 |
| 1997 | £77,200 | £158,322 | 176 |
| 1996 | £82,000 | £172,934 | 201 |
| 1995 | £76,000 | £165,212 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical CM23 5 home went from £76,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 172%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CM23 5 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 (+46.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−17.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.1% | −1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in CM23 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 44 CM23 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 a year over the last five. 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 5 market
Only 44 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CM23 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
What homes rent for around CM23 5
The local authority for CM23 5 is East Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,503 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,064 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,406 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
CM23 5 (Bishop's Stortford): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CM23 5 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Are property prices falling in CM23 5 (Bishop's Stortford)?
Is CM23 5 (Bishop's Stortford) a good place to buy a house?
Are CM23 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 39% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CM
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CM area. 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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, CM area districts
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 2 | £422,000 | 57 |
| CM23 3 | £355,000 | 59 |
| CM23 4 | £465,000 | 67 |
Zoom out to the full CM23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CM23 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CM23 5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CM23 5'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.
Estate agents working CM23 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CM23 5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CM23 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CM23 5 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.