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Great Ashby market report SG1, Stevenage
The SG1 (Great Ashby) 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: 27,187 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG1 (Stevenage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 228 registered 2026 sales put the SG1 (Stevenage) median at £350,000, up 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £361,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,090 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 27,187 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG1 is the postcode district covering Great Ashby in Stevenage. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SG1 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 sells for
The SG1 median stands at £350,000 for 2026, built from 228 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £361,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in SG1
The last five years of sales put SG1 at roughly £4,090 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG1 sits 23% above the national market.
The price of a typical SG1 home, 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 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 228 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 615 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 620 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 525 |
| 2022 | £334,100 | £391,770 | 741 |
| 2021 | £308,000 | £389,968 | 856 |
| 2020 | £285,000 | £369,793 | 558 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 708 |
| 2018 | £274,000 | £365,247 | 723 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 855 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 1,028 |
| 2015 | £232,500 | £328,523 | 891 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 850 |
| 2013 | £178,000 | £256,124 | 661 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 613 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 666 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 703 |
| 2009 | £172,000 | £276,491 | 590 |
| 2008 | £176,000 | £288,501 | 685 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 1,427 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 1,175 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 983 |
| 2004 | £157,000 | £285,143 | 1,127 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 1,179 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 1,441 |
| 2001 | £101,000 | £194,167 | 1,408 |
| 2000 | £91,000 | £178,588 | 1,155 |
| 1999 | £78,500 | £156,446 | 1,278 |
| 1998 | £64,000 | £129,189 | 765 |
| 1997 | £56,500 | £115,870 | 797 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 636 |
| 1995 | £49,800 | £108,258 | 700 |
In cash terms the typical SG1 home went from £49,800 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 223%: 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 SG1 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 2002 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−3.3%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.6% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
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, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £577,500 against £200,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SG1
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 | £577,500 | 28 | 3,554 |
| Semi-detached | £423,500 | 48 | 4,883 |
| Terraced | £335,000 | 109 | 12,582 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 43 | 6,168 |
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SG1 recorded 470 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,237 sales a year before the financial crisis and 546 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 SG1
The local authority for SG1 is Stevenage, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,426 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £350,000 median sold price, £1,426 a month is £17,112 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
How SG1 trades
Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, SG1 ranks 17 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: SG1 (Great Ashby)
How much did a house sell for in SG1 (Great Ashby)?
Are property prices falling in SG1 (Great Ashby)?
Is SG1 (Great Ashby) a good place to buy a house?
Are SG1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in SG1 today
Everything above is what homes in SG1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 228 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% below the SG1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 14% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 SG1 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.
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SG1 ranks 3 of 19 in the SG 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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SG1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| SG1 6 | £400,000 | 49 |
How SG1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SG10 | £685,000 | +1% |
| SG4 | £480,000 | +9% |
| SG14 | £471,000 | +13% |
| SG3 | £451,000 | -4% |
| SG9 | £445,000 | +0% |
| SG12 | £435,000 | +12% |
| SG5 | £425,000 | +2% |
| SG13 | £420,800 | -2% |
| SG11 | £417,500 | -23% |
| SG17 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SG6 | £395,000 | +19% |
| SG8 | £395,000 | -1% |
| SG16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| SG18 | £366,800 | +7% |
| SG7 | £365,000 | -9% |
| SG15 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 (this report) | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Before you sell in SG1: 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'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.
Estate agents working SG1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG1.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual SG1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.