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Stevenage market report SG
The SG (Stevenage) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 239,247 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the SG postcode area (Stevenage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for the SG postcode area (Stevenage) is £390,000, from 2,193 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £438,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,610 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 239,247 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The SG postcode area centred on Stevenage covers 19 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where SG 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.
SG sold prices: where the market stands
Across 2,193 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG home went for £390,000. The mean is £438,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SG
A square metre of SG home has cost about £4,610 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG runs 37% above it.
SG'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 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 2,193 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 6,573 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 6,163 |
| 2023 | £390,100 | £428,625 | 5,427 |
| 2022 | £400,000 | £469,046 | 7,353 |
| 2021 | £370,400 | £468,974 | 9,512 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 6,058 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 6,443 |
| 2018 | £332,500 | £443,229 | 6,605 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 7,287 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 7,721 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 8,068 |
| 2014 | £245,000 | £347,575 | 8,070 |
| 2013 | £227,000 | £326,630 | 6,940 |
| 2012 | £222,500 | £327,492 | 5,722 |
| 2011 | £216,200 | £326,379 | 5,618 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 5,725 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 5,325 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 4,734 |
| 2007 | £214,000 | £363,004 | 9,892 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 10,194 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 7,965 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 9,122 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 8,981 |
| 2002 | £141,200 | £265,667 | 10,563 |
| 2001 | £119,000 | £228,771 | 10,008 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 8,604 |
| 1999 | £87,000 | £173,386 | 9,892 |
| 1998 | £79,500 | £160,476 | 8,282 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 9,604 |
| 1996 | £65,500 | £138,137 | 8,222 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 6,381 |
In cash terms the typical SG home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £390,000 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 2020. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG 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 (+20.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.1%). 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) | −1.3% | −3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £598,800 against £225,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, SG
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 | £598,800 | 490 | 56,214 |
| Semi-detached | £435,000 | 554 | 57,949 |
| Terraced | £357,000 | 755 | 81,978 |
| Flats | £225,000 | 394 | 43,106 |
How many homes change hands in SG
How many homes change hands
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 4,836 sales completed in SG. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 9,416 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,542 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.
Rents around SG
For renting purposes SG sits in East Hertfordshire, the local authority covering most of the SG area (parts fall under North Hertfordshire and Central Bedfordshire, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £390,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,503 a month (£18,036 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
SG (Stevenage): the questions that come up
Is SG (Stevenage) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG (Stevenage)?
Are property prices falling in SG (Stevenage)?
Where do SG prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
What you could buy in SG now
Everything above is what homes in SG sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 2,177 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the SG median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Keller Close, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- St Ippolyts, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
"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 SG 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 SG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SG 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 | — | £425,000 | £562,950 (+32%) | £790,000 (+40%) | £1,107,500 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | £375,000 (+19%) | £450,000 (+20%) | £582,500 (+29%) | £785,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £290,000 | £342,000 (+18%) | £375,000 (+10%) | £510,000 (+36%) | £715,000 (+40%) |
| Flat | £205,000 | £270,000 (+32%) | £410,000 (+52%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SG area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable SG district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| SG10 Much Hadham, Perry Green | £685,000 | +1% | 6 |
| SG4 Hitchin (east), Codicote | £480,000 | +9% | 176 |
| SG14 Hertford (north, west and town centre) | £471,000 | +13% | 118 |
| SG3 Knebworth, Datchworth | £451,000 | -4% | 44 |
| SG9 Buntingford, Cottered | £445,000 | +0% | 55 |
| SG12 Ware, Great Amwell | £435,000 | +12% | 179 |
| SG5 Hitchin (west), Stotfold | £425,000 | +2% | 169 |
| SG13 Hertford (south and east), Newgate Street Village | £420,800 | -2% | 100 |
| SG11 Albury, Braughing | £417,500 | -23% | 32 |
| SG17 Shefford, Clifton | £415,000 | +6% | 89 |
| SG6 non-geographic | £395,000 | +19% | 153 |
| SG8 Royston, Abington Pigotts | £395,000 | -1% | 196 |
| SG16 Henlow, Henlow Camp | £371,200 | +0% | 46 |
| SG18 Biggleswade, Langford | £366,800 | +7% | 170 |
| SG7 Baldock, Ashwell | £365,000 | -9% | 61 |
| SG15 Arlesey | £356,500 | +14% | 40 |
| SG1 Great Ashby | £350,000 | +14% | 228 |
| SG2 South Stevenage, Bragbury End | £350,000 | +10% | 202 |
| SG19 Sandy, Potton | £342,500 | +3% | 129 |
Before you sell in SG: 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 SG'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG.
Keep digging
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See every individual SG 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.