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Watton-at-Stone market report SG14, Hertford
The SG14 (Watton-at-Stone) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 12,969 registered sales in SG14 (Hertford) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG14 (Hertford) came in at £471,000, out of 118 registered, up 13% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £517,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,540 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 12,969 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district SG14 covering Hertford (north, west and town centre), Watton-at-Stone sits in Hertford. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SG14 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 a home in SG14 sells for
Across 118 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG14 home went for £471,000. The mean is £517,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SG14
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG14 costs about £5,540 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 65% above the national figure.
A typical SG14 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 | £471,000 | £471,000 | 118 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 339 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 340 |
| 2023 | £426,500 | £468,619 | 344 |
| 2022 | £495,000 | £580,444 | 416 |
| 2021 | £417,000 | £527,976 | 458 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 354 |
| 2019 | £395,000 | £517,750 | 306 |
| 2018 | £386,400 | £515,078 | 388 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 301 |
| 2016 | £352,000 | £492,451 | 426 |
| 2015 | £340,000 | £480,420 | 379 |
| 2014 | £290,000 | £411,416 | 424 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 369 |
| 2012 | £285,000 | £419,484 | 384 |
| 2011 | £265,000 | £400,048 | 329 |
| 2010 | £243,000 | £381,087 | 311 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 293 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 261 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 512 |
| 2006 | £241,800 | £419,734 | 574 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 445 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 537 |
| 2003 | £192,500 | £354,632 | 441 |
| 2002 | £167,500 | £315,150 | 531 |
| 2001 | £146,500 | £281,639 | 500 |
| 2000 | £135,000 | £264,938 | 532 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 591 |
| 1998 | £95,000 | £191,764 | 446 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 473 |
| 1996 | £72,400 | £152,688 | 456 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 391 |
In cash terms the typical SG14 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £471,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 228%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG14 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 (+22.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £847,500 against £250,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SG14
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £847,500 | 14 | 1,708 |
| Semi-detached | £625,000 | 25 | 2,845 |
| Terraced | £457,500 | 56 | 4,991 |
| Flats | £250,000 | 23 | 3,425 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.7% | +2.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Sales activity in SG14
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SG14 recorded 265 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 509 sales a year before the financial crisis and 311 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
How SG14 trades
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. Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, SG14 ranks 3 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of SG14
For renting purposes SG14 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.
Against the £471,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,503 a month (£18,036 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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.
Common questions on SG14 (Watton-at-Stone)
How much did a house sell for in SG14 (Watton-at-Stone)?
Are property prices falling in SG14 (Watton-at-Stone)?
Is SG14 (Watton-at-Stone) a good place to buy a house?
Are SG14 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
SG14's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SG14 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 70 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the SG14 median sold price.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG14 ranks 4 of 19 in the SG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside SG14, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG14 1 | £410,000 | 27 |
| SG14 2 | £436,500 | 38 |
| SG14 3 | £537,500 | 53 |
How SG14 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SG10 | £685,000 | +1% |
| SG4 | £480,000 | +9% |
| SG14 (this report) | £471,000 | +13% |
| SG3 | £451,000 | -4% |
| SG9 | £445,000 | +0% |
| SG12 | £435,000 | +12% |
| SG5 | £425,000 | +2% |
| SG13 | £420,800 | -2% |
| SG11 | £417,500 | -23% |
| SG17 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SG6 | £395,000 | +19% |
| SG8 | £395,000 | -1% |
| SG16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| SG18 | £366,800 | +7% |
| SG7 | £365,000 | -9% |
| SG15 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Thinking of selling in SG14? 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'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.
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The live map plots every individual SG14 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.