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Great Amwell market report SG12 7, Ware
The SG12 7 (Great Amwell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,236 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG12 7 (Ware) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG12 7 (Ware) came in at £430,000, out of 54 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £454,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,230 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,236 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SG12 7 is a single group of streets within SG12 (Ware), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SG12 7 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.
The going rate for a home in SG12 7
In the SG12 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £430,000, from 54 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £454,000, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SG12 7
Per square metre, SG12 7 homes have averaged around £5,230 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG12 7 51% above the country at large.
SG12 7's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £430,000 | £430,000 | 54 |
| 2025 | £453,500 | £464,345 | 156 |
| 2024 | £435,000 | £462,494 | 118 |
| 2023 | £422,500 | £464,224 | 99 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 138 |
| 2021 | £387,500 | £490,625 | 217 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 115 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 124 |
| 2018 | £372,500 | £496,550 | 149 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 157 |
| 2016 | £345,000 | £482,658 | 177 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 191 |
| 2014 | £293,000 | £415,672 | 210 |
| 2013 | £268,000 | £385,625 | 199 |
| 2012 | £240,900 | £354,575 | 132 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 111 |
| 2010 | £232,200 | £364,149 | 116 |
| 2009 | £213,500 | £343,203 | 111 |
| 2008 | £226,000 | £370,462 | 100 |
| 2007 | £232,500 | £394,385 | 289 |
| 2006 | £212,200 | £368,352 | 246 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 149 |
| 2004 | £196,800 | £357,427 | 174 |
| 2003 | £180,500 | £332,525 | 184 |
| 2002 | £166,500 | £313,268 | 230 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 219 |
| 2000 | £113,200 | £222,155 | 162 |
| 1999 | £95,500 | £190,327 | 231 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 166 |
| 1997 | £79,500 | £163,038 | 201 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 176 |
| 1995 | £63,500 | £138,039 | 135 |
In cash terms the typical SG12 7 home went from £63,500 in 1995 to £430,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 212%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. 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 SG12 7 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 (+23.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.5%). 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) | −5.2% | −7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 54 SG12 7 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 113 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.
The shape of the SG12 7 market
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG12 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What homes rent for around SG12 7
SG12 7 falls under East Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,503 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,064 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,406, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £430,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: SG12 7 (Great Amwell)
How much did a house sell for in SG12 7 (Great Amwell)?
Are property prices falling in SG12 7 (Great Amwell)?
Is SG12 7 (Great Amwell) a good place to buy a house?
Will SG12 7 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 is for sale in SG12 right now
The live side of the market holds 83 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG12 district, not just SG12 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
18% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
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
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SG12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG12 0 | £450,000 | 60 |
| 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 a home in SG12 7? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG12 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG12 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG12 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SG12 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG12 7.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG12 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG12 7 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.
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.