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Arlesey market report SG15
The SG15 (Arlesey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 3,999 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG15 (Arlesey) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: a typical SG15 (Arlesey) home changed hands for £356,500 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier), with the mean at £386,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,090 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,999 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SG15 covering Arlesey sits in Arlesey. 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 SG15 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 SG15 homes really sell for
Across 40 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG15 home went for £356,500. The mean is £386,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SG15 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in SG15 have sold for about £4,090 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG15 sits 25% above the national market.
SG15's median sold price, 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 | £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 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. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG15 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £542,500 against £175,000 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SG15
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 | £542,500 | 11 | 720 |
| Semi-detached | £358,000 | 9 | 967 |
| Terraced | £297,000 | 15 | 1,911 |
| Flats | £175,000 | 5 | 395 |
What SG15 has returned, per year
| 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% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SG15 recorded 77 sales in the last 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.
Rents around SG15
For renting purposes SG15 sits in Central Bedfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,247 a month (May 2026). 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.
How SG15 trades
This is a thin market: 77 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. In its area's price order SG15 comes 16 of 19, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Common questions on SG15 (Arlesey)
Are property prices falling in SG15 (Arlesey)?
Is SG15 (Arlesey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG15 (Arlesey)?
Where do SG15 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SG15's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SG15 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the SG15 median sold price.
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SG15 ranks 2 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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SG15, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG15 6 | £356,500 | 40 |
How SG15 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 | £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 (this report) | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Selling in SG15? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG15, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG15 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG15 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG15.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG15. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SG15 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.
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.