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Clifton market report SG17, Shefford
The SG17 (Clifton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 8,247 HM Land Registry entries for SG17 (Shefford), 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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SG17 (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.
The postcode district SG17 covering Shefford, Clifton, Meppershall sits in Shefford. 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 SG17 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 homes really sell for
In the SG17 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £415,000, from 89 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £451,900, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SG17
Per square metre, SG17 homes have averaged around £4,120 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG17 sits 46% above the national market.
SG17's median sold price, 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 | £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 home went from £59,600 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 220%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG17 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.
Annualised returns
| 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% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £525,000 against £179,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SG17
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 | £525,000 | 43 | 3,395 |
| Semi-detached | £385,000 | 22 | 1,997 |
| Terraced | £321,500 | 16 | 2,065 |
| Flats | £179,000 | 8 | 790 |
Sales activity in SG17
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 204 SG17 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.
The rental side of SG17
The local authority for SG17 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.
Against the £415,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,247 a month (£14,964 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
SG17 (Clifton): the questions that come up
Is SG17 (Clifton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG17 (Clifton)?
Are property prices falling in SG17 (Clifton)?
What happens to SG17 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 SG17 today
Everything above is what homes in SG17 sold for. The live side of the market holds 130 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the SG17 median sold price.
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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in SG
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, 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
SG17 ranks 9 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.
SG area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SG17, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SG17 5 | £415,000 | 89 |
How SG17 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 (this report) | £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 SG17? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG17, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG17 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG17 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG17.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG17 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG17 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.