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Great Ashby market report SG1 6, Stevenage
The standing SG1 6 (Great Ashby) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,836 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG1 6 (Stevenage) since 1998, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SG1 6 (Stevenage) is £400,000, from 49 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £404,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,510 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,836 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1998, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG1 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SG1 (Stevenage). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SG1 6 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 SG1 6 sells for
Take the 49 registered 2026 sales in SG1 6 and the middle price, the median, is £400,000. The mean lands at £404,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in SG1 6
By floor space, homes in SG1 6 have sold for about £4,510 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG1 6 40% above the country at large.
SG1 6's median sold price, 1998 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 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £370,000 | £378,848 | 106 |
| 2024 | £372,000 | £395,512 | 97 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 83 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 127 |
| 2021 | £340,000 | £430,484 | 152 |
| 2020 | £326,500 | £423,640 | 118 |
| 2019 | £317,000 | £415,511 | 109 |
| 2018 | £310,000 | £413,236 | 126 |
| 2017 | £314,000 | £428,264 | 147 |
| 2016 | £290,000 | £405,713 | 170 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 159 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 183 |
| 2013 | £202,500 | £291,377 | 132 |
| 2012 | £206,000 | £303,206 | 117 |
| 2011 | £211,000 | £318,529 | 130 |
| 2010 | £198,500 | £311,299 | 156 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 209 |
| 2008 | £205,300 | £336,530 | 207 |
| 2007 | £232,600 | £394,554 | 410 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 385 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 287 |
| 2004 | £187,500 | £340,537 | 242 |
| 2003 | £193,000 | £355,553 | 349 |
| 2002 | £159,000 | £299,157 | 480 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 403 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 334 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 359 |
| 1998 | £96,400 | £194,590 | 10 |
In cash terms the typical SG1 6 home went from £96,400 in 1998 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 106%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 7% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG1 6 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.7%). 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) | +8.1% | +5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.3% | −1.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG1 6
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 49 sales completed in SG1 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 361 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 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.
The shape of the SG1 6 market
Only 49 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG1 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within SG1, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around SG1 6
SG1 6 falls under North Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,013 a month here against £2,218 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £400,000 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
SG1 6 (Great Ashby): the questions that come up
Is SG1 6 (Great Ashby) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG1 6 (Great Ashby)?
Are property prices falling in SG1 6 (Great Ashby)?
What happens to SG1 6 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SG1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 228 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG1 district, not just SG1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in SG: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SG area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG1, each linking to 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 5 | £335,000 | 41 |
Zoom out to the full SG1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SG1 6: 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 SG1 6'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 6.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG1 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG1 6 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.