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Great Amwell market report SG12 0, Ware
The SG12 0 (Great Amwell) 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: 5,934 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG12 0 (Ware) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG12 0 (Ware) came in at £450,000, out of 60 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £467,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,220 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,934 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SG12 0 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SG12 (Ware). 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 SG12 0 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 SG12 0 prices, from the sold record
60 sales were registered in SG12 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £450,000. The mean works out at £467,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in SG12 0
By floor space, homes in SG12 0 have sold for about £5,220 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 SG12 0 58% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SG12 0 home, 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 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 60 |
| 2025 | £448,000 | £458,713 | 138 |
| 2024 | £417,500 | £443,888 | 134 |
| 2023 | £415,200 | £456,203 | 106 |
| 2022 | £445,000 | £521,813 | 169 |
| 2021 | £408,900 | £517,720 | 198 |
| 2020 | £395,000 | £512,521 | 127 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 135 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 157 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 129 |
| 2016 | £343,000 | £479,860 | 169 |
| 2015 | £297,000 | £419,661 | 179 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 162 |
| 2013 | £270,500 | £389,223 | 160 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 135 |
| 2011 | £243,000 | £366,837 | 113 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 137 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 123 |
| 2008 | £237,000 | £388,493 | 123 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 263 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 271 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 187 |
| 2004 | £189,000 | £343,261 | 211 |
| 2003 | £182,500 | £336,209 | 223 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 281 |
| 2001 | £129,500 | £248,957 | 286 |
| 2000 | £105,500 | £207,044 | 227 |
| 1999 | £90,000 | £179,365 | 291 |
| 1998 | £85,200 | £171,982 | 270 |
| 1997 | £76,500 | £156,886 | 307 |
| 1996 | £71,800 | £151,423 | 284 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 179 |
In cash terms the typical SG12 0 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 165%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG12 0 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 (+23.6% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−7.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG12 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.4% | −1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in SG12 0
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 60 sales completed in SG12 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 244 sales a year before the financial crisis and 121 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around SG12 0
SG12 0 falls under East Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,503 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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.
What people ask about SG12 0 (Great Amwell)
How much did a house sell for in SG12 0 (Great Amwell)?
Are property prices falling in SG12 0 (Great Amwell)?
Is SG12 0 (Great Amwell) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SG12 0 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 SG12 today
Turning to what is actually available: 83 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG12 district, not just SG12 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 SG12 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%) | — | — |
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
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SG12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG12 7 | £430,000 | 54 |
| SG12 8 | £470,000 | 28 |
| SG12 9 | £352,500 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full SG12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SG12 0? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SG12 0, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG12 0's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG12 0 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG12 0. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SG12 0 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.