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Great Ashby market report SG1 5, Stevenage
The SG1 5 (Great Ashby) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,979 HM Land Registry entries for SG1 5 (Stevenage), 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 typical home in SG1 5 (Stevenage) sold for £335,000 in 2026, the median of 41 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier. The mean was £317,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,820 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,979 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SG1 5 is one sector of SG1 (Stevenage): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SG1 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 SG1 5 prices, from the sold record
41 sales were registered in SG1 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £335,000. The mean works out at £317,100, beneath it, usually the sign of a batch of very cheap recorded transfers pulling the average lower.
What a square metre costs in SG1 5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG1 5 sales average about £3,820 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG1 5 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
A typical SG1 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 41 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 125 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 99 |
| 2023 | £302,500 | £332,374 | 100 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 162 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 171 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 95 |
| 2019 | £264,000 | £346,041 | 115 |
| 2018 | £271,000 | £361,248 | 128 |
| 2017 | £265,500 | £362,115 | 130 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 150 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 164 |
| 2014 | £181,000 | £256,780 | 143 |
| 2013 | £169,500 | £243,894 | 136 |
| 2012 | £163,000 | £239,916 | 100 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 98 |
| 2010 | £160,500 | £251,705 | 84 |
| 2009 | £158,500 | £254,790 | 87 |
| 2008 | £164,800 | £270,142 | 106 |
| 2007 | £172,000 | £291,760 | 233 |
| 2006 | £156,500 | £271,664 | 213 |
| 2005 | £151,200 | £269,075 | 184 |
| 2004 | £147,500 | £267,889 | 266 |
| 2003 | £130,200 | £239,860 | 208 |
| 2002 | £110,500 | £207,905 | 220 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 246 |
| 2000 | £84,000 | £164,850 | 200 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 188 |
| 1998 | £66,000 | £133,226 | 203 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 217 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 181 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 186 |
In cash terms the typical SG1 5 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 180%: 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 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG1 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 2015 (+27.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−11.0%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG1 5
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 41 sales completed in SG1 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 221 sales a year before the financial crisis and 105 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 SG1 5
For renting purposes SG1 5 sits in Stevenage. The ONS average private rent there is £1,426 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,018 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,110 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Stevenage
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £335,000 median sold price, £1,426 a month is £17,112 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
The shape of the SG1 5 market
Only 41 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG1 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Common questions on SG1 5 (Great Ashby)
How much did a house sell for in SG1 5 (Great Ashby)?
Are property prices falling in SG1 5 (Great Ashby)?
Is SG1 5 (Great Ashby) a good place to buy a house?
Are SG1 5 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in SG1 today
The live side of the market holds 228 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG1 district, not just SG1 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
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"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 SG1 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 SG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SG1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG1 1 | £305,000 | 17 |
| SG1 2 | £347,500 | 35 |
| SG1 3 | £368,000 | 43 |
| SG1 4 | £317,000 | 43 |
| SG1 6 | £400,000 | 49 |
Zoom out to the full SG1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SG1 5? 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 SG1 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG1 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG1 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual SG1 5 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.
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.