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Cheshunt market report EN8, Waltham Cross
The EN8 (Cheshunt) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 20,478 registered sales in EN8 (Waltham Cross) 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.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in EN8 (Waltham Cross) sold for £425,000 in 2026, the median of 167 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £407,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,000 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 20,478 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district EN8 covering Waltham Cross, Cheshunt, Bullsmoor sits in Waltham Cross. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where EN8 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 EN8 homes really sell for
The EN8 median stands at £425,000 for 2026, built from 167 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £407,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in EN8
A square metre of EN8 home has cost about £5,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so EN8 trades 49% above the country as a whole.
EN8's median sold price, 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 167 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 469 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 413 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 413 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 507 |
| 2021 | £373,000 | £472,266 | 633 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 423 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 474 |
| 2018 | £348,000 | £463,891 | 575 |
| 2017 | £322,500 | £439,858 | 659 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 599 |
| 2015 | £267,000 | £377,271 | 585 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 646 |
| 2013 | £229,000 | £329,508 | 508 |
| 2012 | £225,000 | £331,172 | 446 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 440 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 469 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 394 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 405 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 918 |
| 2006 | £188,000 | £326,344 | 910 |
| 2005 | £180,500 | £321,217 | 668 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 962 |
| 2003 | £167,500 | £308,576 | 769 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 942 |
| 2001 | £118,000 | £226,849 | 863 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 838 |
| 1999 | £88,000 | £175,379 | 1,025 |
| 1998 | £80,300 | £162,091 | 930 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 1,067 |
| 1996 | £66,000 | £139,191 | 765 |
| 1995 | £65,800 | £143,039 | 596 |
In cash terms the typical EN8 home went from £65,800 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 197%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the EN8 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 2001 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.5%). 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, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £668,800 against £229,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, EN8
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 | £668,800 | 8 | 1,558 |
| Semi-detached | £497,500 | 45 | 4,396 |
| Terraced | £420,000 | 74 | 7,769 |
| Flats | £229,000 | 40 | 6,755 |
What EN8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +3.7% | +1.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.0% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
EN8 recorded 317 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 859 sales a year before the financial crisis and 394 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around EN8
EN8 falls under Broxbourne, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £425,000 median sold price, £1,665 a month is £19,980 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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.
EN8 (Cheshunt): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in EN8 (Cheshunt)?
Is EN8 (Cheshunt) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in EN8 (Cheshunt)?
Are EN8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
EN8's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in EN8 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 171 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% below the EN8 median sold price.
Set against 317 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 171 homes on the market here are roughly 6 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
11% 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.
- Greenwich Court, Parkside, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, EN8 7TJ, Waltham Cross
- High Street, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
- High Street, Waltham Cross
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every EN8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What is for sale against what sells in EN8
The mix on the market in EN8 matches the mix that changes hands, within 6 points for every type.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 0% | 6% |
| Semi-detached | 31% | 28% |
| Terraced | 41% | 36% |
| Flats | 28% | 30% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares.
When homes in EN8 change hands
Across the 2,435 sales completed in EN8 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.7% of the total) and April the quietest (5.9%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 157 | 6.4% |
| February | 206 | 8.5% |
| March | 285 | 11.7% |
| April | 144 | 5.9% |
| May | 220 | 9.0% |
| June | 282 | 11.6% |
| July | 182 | 7.5% |
| August | 194 | 8.0% |
| September | 197 | 8.1% |
| October | 206 | 8.5% |
| November | 197 | 8.1% |
| December | 165 | 6.8% |
Moving up a bedroom in EN: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the EN area. 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 | £492,497 | £557,500 (+13%) | £635,000 (+14%) | £770,000 (+21%) | £1,050,000 (+36%) |
| Semi-detached | £390,000 | £450,000 (+15%) | £525,000 (+17%) | £635,000 (+21%) | £735,000 (+16%) |
| Terraced | £324,000 | £390,000 (+20%) | £445,000 (+14%) | £540,000 (+21%) | £640,000 (+19%) |
| Flat | £227,500 | £300,000 (+32%) | £400,000 (+33%) | £465,000 (+16%) | £690,000 (+48%) |
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
EN8 ranks 1 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside EN8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How EN8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the EN area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| EN4 | £611,000 | -4% |
| EN6 | £592,500 | +3% |
| EN5 | £575,000 | -6% |
| EN2 | £560,000 | +12% |
| EN7 | £483,700 | +5% |
| EN1 | £467,500 | +4% |
| EN10 | £447,500 | +3% |
| EN8 (this report) | £425,000 | +14% |
| EN9 | £400,000 | +5% |
| EN11 | £395,000 | +7% |
| EN3 | £391,000 | +4% |
Selling a home in EN8? 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 EN8'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.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with EN8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every EN8 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.