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Newgate Street Village market report SG13 8, Hertford
The standing SG13 8 (Newgate Street Village) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,047 HM Land Registry entries for SG13 8 (Hertford), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SG13 8 (Hertford) is £500,000, from 27 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier; the mean is £685,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,840 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,047 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SG13 8 is a single group of streets within SG13 (Hertford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SG13 8 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 buyers actually paid in SG13 8
27 sales were registered in SG13 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £500,000. The mean works out at £685,900, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SG13 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG13 8 sales average about £5,840 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG13 8 75% above the country at large.
A typical SG13 8 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 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £483,000 | £494,550 | 87 |
| 2024 | £555,500 | £590,611 | 103 |
| 2023 | £785,000 | £862,523 | 101 |
| 2022 | £466,000 | £546,438 | 97 |
| 2021 | £507,500 | £642,560 | 120 |
| 2020 | £420,000 | £544,959 | 78 |
| 2019 | £501,000 | £656,691 | 85 |
| 2018 | £447,500 | £596,526 | 102 |
| 2017 | £475,000 | £647,852 | 92 |
| 2016 | £600,000 | £839,406 | 94 |
| 2015 | £375,200 | £530,158 | 124 |
| 2014 | £325,000 | £461,069 | 143 |
| 2013 | £313,500 | £451,095 | 117 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 77 |
| 2011 | £370,000 | £558,558 | 74 |
| 2010 | £305,000 | £478,319 | 82 |
| 2009 | £367,500 | £590,759 | 66 |
| 2008 | £334,000 | £547,497 | 40 |
| 2007 | £320,000 | £542,809 | 139 |
| 2006 | £275,000 | £477,365 | 124 |
| 2005 | £288,000 | £512,524 | 97 |
| 2004 | £220,800 | £401,016 | 118 |
| 2003 | £219,500 | £404,372 | 95 |
| 2002 | £287,000 | £539,988 | 108 |
| 2001 | £223,800 | £430,244 | 132 |
| 2000 | £150,000 | £294,375 | 89 |
| 1999 | £148,500 | £295,953 | 90 |
| 1998 | £134,500 | £271,498 | 104 |
| 1997 | £120,000 | £246,096 | 98 |
| 1996 | £93,000 | £196,133 | 73 |
| 1995 | £93,000 | £202,168 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical SG13 8 home went from £93,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 147%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 42% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG13 8 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 2023 (+68.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−29.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG13 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.5% | +1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −1.8% | −5.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 27 sales completed in SG13 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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 kind of market SG13 8 is
This is a thin market: 27 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the SG13 district median, SG13 8 sits 19% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around SG13 8
The local authority for SG13 8 is East Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £500,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,503 a month (£18,036 a year) works out at a 3.6% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: SG13 8 (Newgate Street Village)
Is SG13 8 (Newgate Street Village) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG13 8 (Newgate Street Village)?
Are property prices falling in SG13 8 (Newgate Street Village)?
Will SG13 8 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SG13's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 88 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG13 district, not just SG13 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
16% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 SG13 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.
What another bedroom costs in SG
Real sold prices by size across the SG area, straight 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SG13
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SG13's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG13 7 | £401,000 | 73 |
Zoom out to the full SG13 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG13 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SG13 8: 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 SG13 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG13 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG13 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual SG13 8 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.
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.