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Cheshunt market report EN8 0, Waltham Cross
The EN8 0 (Cheshunt) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,290 HM Land Registry entries for EN8 0 (Waltham Cross), 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.
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 EN8 0 (Waltham Cross) came in at £420,000, out of 45 registered, up 14% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £421,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,270 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,290 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like EN8 0 is a single group of streets within EN8 (Waltham Cross), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where EN8 0 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 buyers actually paid in EN8 0
Take the 45 registered 2026 sales in EN8 0 and the middle price, the median, is £420,000. The mean lands at £421,200, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in EN8 0
Measured by floor area, the last five years of EN8 0 sales average about £5,270 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, EN8 0 sits 47% above the national market.
EN8 0's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 45 |
| 2025 | £433,000 | £443,354 | 137 |
| 2024 | £398,000 | £423,156 | 117 |
| 2023 | £410,000 | £450,490 | 111 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 155 |
| 2021 | £370,000 | £468,468 | 200 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 137 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 131 |
| 2018 | £335,000 | £446,561 | 153 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 156 |
| 2016 | £330,500 | £462,373 | 162 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 189 |
| 2014 | £267,500 | £379,495 | 223 |
| 2013 | £239,500 | £344,617 | 188 |
| 2012 | £243,800 | £358,843 | 164 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 137 |
| 2010 | £223,000 | £349,721 | 150 |
| 2009 | £206,000 | £331,147 | 109 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 116 |
| 2007 | £217,500 | £368,941 | 247 |
| 2006 | £196,000 | £340,231 | 274 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 194 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 306 |
| 2003 | £176,000 | £324,235 | 219 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 271 |
| 2001 | £127,000 | £244,151 | 247 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 223 |
| 1999 | £93,000 | £185,344 | 369 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 301 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 387 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 262 |
| 1995 | £72,000 | £156,517 | 210 |
In cash terms the typical EN8 0 home went from £72,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 168%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the EN8 0 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 2016 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What EN8 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 45 EN8 0 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 248 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
What homes rent for around EN8 0
For renting purposes EN8 0 sits in Broxbourne. The ONS average private rent there is £1,665 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,118 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,470, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Broxbourne
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £420,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,665 a month (£19,980 a year) works out at a 4.8% 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.
Reading the EN8 0 market
This is a thin market: 45 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.
EN8 0 (Cheshunt): the questions that come up
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What happens to EN8 0 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
EN8's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 223 homes on the market right now, from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole EN8 district, not just EN8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 21% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Edwards Court, Turners Hill, Hertfordshire, EN8 8SA, Hertfordshire
- Sandon Road, Cheshunt,Hertfordshire, EN8 9RB, Hertfordshire
- College Road, Cheshunt, 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 EN8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in EN: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the EN area, 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the EN area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
EN area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in EN8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of EN8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| EN8 7 | £430,000 | 26 |
| EN8 8 | £415,000 | 33 |
| EN8 9 | £425,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full EN8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how EN8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in EN8 0? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at EN8 0'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 EN8 0.
Take it further
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See every individual EN8 0 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.