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Clifton market report SG17 5, Shefford
The SG17 5 (Clifton) 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: 8,247 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG17 5 (Shefford) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in SG17 5 (Shefford) sold for £415,000 in 2026, the median of 89 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier. The mean was £451,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 8,247 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like SG17 5 is a single group of streets within SG17 (Shefford), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SG17 5 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 SG17 5 homes really sell for
Take the 89 registered 2026 sales in SG17 5 and the middle price, the median, is £415,000. The mean lands at £451,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SG17 5
The last five years of sales put SG17 5 at roughly £4,120 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG17 5 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
A typical SG17 5 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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 89 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 282 |
| 2024 | £396,000 | £421,029 | 246 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 284 |
| 2022 | £424,000 | £497,188 | 394 |
| 2021 | £392,500 | £496,956 | 411 |
| 2020 | £370,000 | £480,083 | 253 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 290 |
| 2018 | £346,000 | £461,225 | 258 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 252 |
| 2016 | £299,000 | £418,304 | 233 |
| 2015 | £277,000 | £391,401 | 263 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 322 |
| 2013 | £224,500 | £323,033 | 278 |
| 2012 | £237,500 | £349,570 | 167 |
| 2011 | £207,500 | £313,245 | 165 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 122 |
| 2009 | £186,000 | £298,997 | 183 |
| 2008 | £227,500 | £372,921 | 125 |
| 2007 | £224,000 | £379,966 | 255 |
| 2006 | £213,000 | £369,741 | 263 |
| 2005 | £193,000 | £343,462 | 303 |
| 2004 | £186,800 | £339,265 | 272 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 388 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 318 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 314 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 227 |
| 1999 | £91,000 | £181,358 | 263 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 263 |
| 1997 | £74,800 | £153,400 | 282 |
| 1996 | £61,200 | £129,068 | 264 |
| 1995 | £59,600 | £129,561 | 218 |
In cash terms the typical SG17 5 home went from £59,600 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 220%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG17 5 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG17 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.4% | +3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 89 SG17 5 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 259 sales a year recently, against 293 a year before 2008. 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 SG17 5
For renting purposes SG17 5 sits in Central Bedfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,247 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £862 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,039 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £415,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
SG17 5 (Clifton): the questions that come up
Is SG17 5 (Clifton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG17 5 (Clifton)?
Are property prices falling in SG17 5 (Clifton)?
What happens to SG17 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
What you could buy in SG17 now
Turning to what is actually available: 130 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG17 district, not just SG17 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 39% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SG17 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SG: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. 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.
SG area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full SG17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG17 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SG17 5? 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 SG17 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG17 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG17 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG17 5.
Take it further
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The live map plots every individual SG17 5 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.
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.