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Watton-at-Stone market report SG14 1, Hertford
The SG14 1 (Watton-at-Stone) 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: 3,238 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG14 1 (Hertford) 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 2026 median for SG14 1 (Hertford) is £410,000, from 27 registered sales, up 34% on five years earlier; the mean is £425,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,420 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,238 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG14 1 is one sector of SG14 (Hertford): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SG14 1 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 SG14 1
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG14 1 home went for £410,000. The mean is £425,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in SG14 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG14 1 sales average about £5,420 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG14 1 sits 44% above the national market.
SG14 1'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £338,000 | £346,083 | 81 |
| 2024 | £349,800 | £371,909 | 92 |
| 2023 | £379,000 | £416,428 | 95 |
| 2022 | £345,000 | £404,552 | 77 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 105 |
| 2020 | £389,000 | £504,736 | 91 |
| 2019 | £360,000 | £471,874 | 77 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 100 |
| 2017 | £349,000 | £476,001 | 75 |
| 2016 | £307,500 | £430,196 | 147 |
| 2015 | £286,000 | £404,118 | 104 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 109 |
| 2013 | £232,500 | £334,544 | 86 |
| 2012 | £242,500 | £356,930 | 92 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 90 |
| 2010 | £222,000 | £348,153 | 93 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 81 |
| 2008 | £246,200 | £403,574 | 82 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 153 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 169 |
| 2005 | £213,200 | £379,410 | 86 |
| 2004 | £194,000 | £352,342 | 141 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 121 |
| 2002 | £141,200 | £265,667 | 143 |
| 2001 | £137,000 | £263,376 | 103 |
| 2000 | £122,000 | £239,425 | 113 |
| 1999 | £94,000 | £187,337 | 125 |
| 1998 | £82,500 | £166,532 | 109 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 113 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 101 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 57 |
In cash terms the typical SG14 1 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 225%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG14 1 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 2003 (+34.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−21.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +21.3% | +18.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.1% | +1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG14 1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 27 SG14 1 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 129 sales a year before the financial crisis and 74 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.
Rents around SG14 1
For renting purposes SG14 1 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,064 a month here against £2,406 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £410,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.4%: 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 kind of market SG14 1 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the SG14 district median, SG14 1 sits 13% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
SG14 1 (Watton-at-Stone): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SG14 1 (Watton-at-Stone)?
Is SG14 1 (Watton-at-Stone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG14 1 (Watton-at-Stone)?
Are SG14 1 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 34% over five years in cash and up 6% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in SG14 today
The live side of the market holds 70 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG14 district, not just SG14 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Hockerill, Watton At Stone, Hertford
- Gatekeepers Way, Watton At Stone, Hertford
- Barley Croft, Hertford
"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 SG14 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.
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%) | — | — |
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 SG14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SG14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG14 2 | £436,500 | 38 |
| SG14 3 | £537,500 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full SG14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SG14 1? 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 SG14 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG14 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG14 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG14 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG14 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG14 1 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.