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Cheshunt market report EN7, Waltham Cross
The standing EN7 (Cheshunt) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 11,860 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in EN7 (Waltham Cross) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for EN7 (Waltham Cross) is £500,000, from 108 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £548,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,360 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 11,860 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
EN7 is a postcode district covering Cheshunt, Goffs Oak, Capel Manor College in Waltham Cross. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where EN7 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 EN7 sells for
The EN7 median stands at £500,000 for 2026, built from 108 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £548,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in EN7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in EN7 costs about £5,360 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, EN7 runs 75% above it.
EN7's median sold price, 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 108 |
| 2025 | £512,500 | £524,755 | 332 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 339 |
| 2023 | £535,000 | £587,834 | 285 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 332 |
| 2021 | £460,000 | £582,419 | 442 |
| 2020 | £445,000 | £577,397 | 311 |
| 2019 | £405,000 | £530,858 | 254 |
| 2018 | £420,000 | £559,868 | 272 |
| 2017 | £425,000 | £579,657 | 280 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 314 |
| 2015 | £356,200 | £503,311 | 346 |
| 2014 | £328,200 | £465,609 | 330 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 293 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 246 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 243 |
| 2010 | £262,000 | £410,883 | 252 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 242 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 227 |
| 2007 | £249,500 | £423,221 | 446 |
| 2006 | £232,800 | £404,111 | 496 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 355 |
| 2004 | £221,000 | £401,379 | 473 |
| 2003 | £215,000 | £396,082 | 455 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 507 |
| 2001 | £157,000 | £301,824 | 599 |
| 2000 | £168,000 | £329,700 | 613 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 662 |
| 1998 | £129,500 | £261,405 | 596 |
| 1997 | £93,700 | £192,160 | 504 |
| 1996 | £79,000 | £166,607 | 411 |
| 1995 | £82,000 | £178,255 | 295 |
In cash terms the typical EN7 home went from £82,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 180%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. 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 EN7 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 1998 (+38.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−6.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £685,000 against £205,500 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, EN7
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £685,000 | 33 | 3,512 |
| Semi-detached | £535,000 | 33 | 2,972 |
| Terraced | £415,000 | 34 | 4,418 |
| Flats | £205,500 | 8 | 958 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in EN7
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 238 EN7 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 493 sales a year before the financial crisis and 279 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.
Rents around EN7
The local authority for EN7 is Broxbourne, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,665 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,118 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,470 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Broxbourne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £500,000 median sold price, £1,665 a month is £19,980 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.
Common questions on EN7 (Cheshunt)
Are property prices falling in EN7 (Cheshunt)?
Is EN7 (Cheshunt) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EN7 (Cheshunt)?
Are EN7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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 EN7 right now
Everything above is what homes in EN7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 138 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 10% above the EN7 median sold price.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Barrow Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, EN7 5LN, Hertfordshire
- Broadgreen Road, West Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
- Barrow Lane, Cheshunt ,Hertfordshire, EN7 5LT, 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 EN7 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 EN
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EN area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £525,000 | £690,000 (+31%) | £975,000 (+41%) | £1,359,000 (+39%) |
| Semi-detached | £402,625 | £470,000 (+17%) | £555,000 (+18%) | £720,000 (+30%) | £971,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £361,750 | £424,000 (+17%) | £480,000 (+13%) | £610,000 (+27%) | £830,000 (+36%) |
| Flat | £250,000 | £335,000 (+34%) | £469,000 (+40%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
EN7 ranks 3 of 11 in the EN area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
EN area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside EN7, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EN7 5 | £553,800 | 36 |
| EN7 6 | £471,000 | 72 |
How EN7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EN4 | £600,000 | -6% |
| EN6 | £587,500 | +2% |
| EN2 | £585,000 | +17% |
| EN5 | £550,000 | -10% |
| EN7 (this report) | £500,000 | +9% |
| EN1 | £460,000 | +2% |
| EN10 | £447,500 | +3% |
| EN8 | £425,000 | +14% |
| EN9 | £400,000 | +5% |
| EN3 | £396,000 | +6% |
| EN11 | £395,000 | +7% |
Selling in EN7? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in EN7, open the average prices map and zoom from the EN7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded EN7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to EN7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EN7 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.