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Watton-at-Stone market report SG14 3, Hertford
The SG14 3 (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: 5,492 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG14 3 (Hertford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 SG14 3 (Hertford) is £537,500, from 53 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £544,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,880 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,492 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG14 3 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 3 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 SG14 3 homes really sell for
The SG14 3 median stands at £537,500 for 2026, built from 53 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £544,000, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in SG14 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG14 3 costs about £5,880 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SG14 3 89% above the national figure.
A typical SG14 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £537,500 | £537,500 | 53 |
| 2025 | £505,000 | £517,076 | 136 |
| 2024 | £515,000 | £547,551 | 125 |
| 2023 | £482,500 | £530,150 | 122 |
| 2022 | £535,000 | £627,349 | 179 |
| 2021 | £525,000 | £664,718 | 189 |
| 2020 | £471,500 | £611,781 | 146 |
| 2019 | £440,500 | £577,390 | 114 |
| 2018 | £435,000 | £579,863 | 162 |
| 2017 | £420,500 | £573,520 | 124 |
| 2016 | £405,000 | £566,599 | 150 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 159 |
| 2014 | £340,000 | £482,349 | 159 |
| 2013 | £315,000 | £453,254 | 173 |
| 2012 | £307,500 | £452,602 | 193 |
| 2011 | £280,800 | £423,900 | 146 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 117 |
| 2009 | £270,000 | £434,027 | 123 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 98 |
| 2007 | £273,000 | £463,084 | 191 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 222 |
| 2005 | £239,900 | £426,925 | 182 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 243 |
| 2003 | £209,500 | £385,950 | 192 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 218 |
| 2001 | £160,000 | £307,592 | 221 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 265 |
| 1999 | £115,300 | £229,787 | 292 |
| 1998 | £103,500 | £208,922 | 197 |
| 1997 | £92,500 | £189,699 | 191 |
| 1996 | £80,500 | £169,771 | 216 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 194 |
In cash terms the typical SG14 3 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £537,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 234%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG14 3 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 2000 (+21.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−9.8%). 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) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in SG14 3
How many homes change hands
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, 53 sales completed in SG14 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 217 sales a year before the financial crisis and 123 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market SG14 3 is
This is a thin market: 53 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. Within SG14, this sector trades 14% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around SG14 3
For renting purposes SG14 3 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, which against the £537,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on SG14 3 (Watton-at-Stone)
Are property prices falling in SG14 3 (Watton-at-Stone)?
Is SG14 3 (Watton-at-Stone) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG14 3 (Watton-at-Stone)?
What happens to SG14 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Hockerill, Watton At Stone, Hertford
- Gatekeepers Way, Watton At Stone, Hertford
- Barley Croft, Hertford
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 SG14 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SG
Real sold prices by size across the SG area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
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 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 1 | £410,000 | 27 |
| SG14 2 | £436,500 | 38 |
Zoom out to the full SG14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG14 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG14 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG14 3'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 SG14 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG14 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG14 3 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.