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Arlesey market report SG15 6
The standing SG15 6 (Arlesey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,999 HM Land Registry entries for SG15 6 (Arlesey), 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 SG15 6 (Arlesey) is £356,500, from 40 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £386,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,090 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,999 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG15 6 is one sector of SG15 (Arlesey): 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 SG15 6 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.
Today's SG15 6 prices, from the sold record
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG15 6 home went for £356,500. The mean is £386,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SG15 6 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG15 6 costs about £4,090 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG15 6 25% above the country at large.
A typical SG15 6 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £356,500 | £356,500 | 40 |
| 2025 | £322,500 | £330,212 | 98 |
| 2024 | £318,000 | £338,099 | 93 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 65 |
| 2022 | £312,500 | £366,442 | 114 |
| 2021 | £312,500 | £395,665 | 189 |
| 2020 | £282,500 | £366,550 | 128 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 100 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 107 |
| 2017 | £271,200 | £369,890 | 138 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 93 |
| 2015 | £207,000 | £292,491 | 127 |
| 2014 | £184,500 | £261,745 | 116 |
| 2013 | £176,500 | £253,966 | 104 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 66 |
| 2011 | £157,500 | £237,764 | 94 |
| 2010 | £170,000 | £266,604 | 99 |
| 2009 | £159,000 | £255,594 | 85 |
| 2008 | £169,500 | £277,846 | 92 |
| 2007 | £170,200 | £288,707 | 194 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 186 |
| 2005 | £148,000 | £263,380 | 116 |
| 2004 | £148,500 | £269,705 | 206 |
| 2003 | £144,000 | £265,283 | 195 |
| 2002 | £115,500 | £217,312 | 182 |
| 2001 | £97,200 | £186,862 | 194 |
| 2000 | £76,000 | £149,150 | 159 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 157 |
| 1998 | £57,200 | £115,462 | 147 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 127 |
| 1996 | £48,500 | £102,284 | 115 |
| 1995 | £49,000 | £106,518 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical SG15 6 home went from £49,000 in 1995 to £356,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 235%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 10% 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 SG15 6 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 2001 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.4%). 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) | +10.5% | +8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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 SG15 6
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.
The register shows 40 SG15 6 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 179 sales a year before the financial crisis and 82 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.
Reading the SG15 6 market
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG15 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
The rental side of SG15 6
The local authority for SG15 6 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £862 a month here against £2,039 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £356,500 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 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.
SG15 6 (Arlesey): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SG15 6 (Arlesey)?
Is SG15 6 (Arlesey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG15 6 (Arlesey)?
What happens to SG15 6 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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 SG15 today
Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG15 district, not just SG15 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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.
- Station Road, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, Arlesey
- Hitchin Road, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, Arlesey
- Chase Hill Road, Arlesey, Bedfordshire, Arlesey
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 SG15 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
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Zoom out to the full SG15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG15 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG15 6? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SG15 6, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG15 6's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG15 6 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SG15 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG15 6.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG15 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG15 6 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.