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Potton market report SG19 1, Sandy
The SG19 1 (Potton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,841 HM Land Registry entries for SG19 1 (Sandy), 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: a typical SG19 1 (Sandy) home changed hands for £318,000 in 2026 (median of 44 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier), with the mean at £309,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,660 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,841 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SG19 1 is a single group of streets within SG19 (Sandy), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SG19 1 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 SG19 1 homes really sell for
44 sales were registered in SG19 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £318,000. The mean works out at £309,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
SG19 1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SG19 1 at roughly £3,660 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG19 1 12% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SG19 1 home, 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 | £318,000 | £318,000 | 44 |
| 2025 | £295,000 | £302,054 | 146 |
| 2024 | £285,000 | £303,014 | 121 |
| 2023 | £303,000 | £332,923 | 114 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 129 |
| 2021 | £277,000 | £350,718 | 213 |
| 2020 | £267,000 | £346,438 | 121 |
| 2019 | £248,000 | £325,069 | 110 |
| 2018 | £259,500 | £345,918 | 126 |
| 2017 | £240,000 | £327,336 | 151 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 151 |
| 2015 | £227,000 | £320,751 | 213 |
| 2014 | £181,000 | £256,780 | 212 |
| 2013 | £165,000 | £237,419 | 145 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 109 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 130 |
| 2010 | £154,000 | £241,512 | 131 |
| 2009 | £148,000 | £237,911 | 125 |
| 2008 | £166,500 | £272,929 | 98 |
| 2007 | £163,500 | £277,342 | 264 |
| 2006 | £159,000 | £276,004 | 241 |
| 2005 | £136,200 | £242,381 | 190 |
| 2004 | £134,600 | £244,460 | 246 |
| 2003 | £131,200 | £241,702 | 286 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 355 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 264 |
| 2000 | £68,000 | £133,450 | 236 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 305 |
| 1998 | £58,500 | £118,086 | 219 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 245 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 236 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 165 |
In cash terms the typical SG19 1 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £318,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 215%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 9% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG19 1 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 2002 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.1%). 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) | +7.8% | +5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG19 1
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 44 sales completed in SG19 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 260 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 a year over the last five. 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 SG19 1
SG19 1 falls under Central Bedfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, which against the £318,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
The shape of the SG19 1 market
This is a thin market: 44 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.
Asked and answered: SG19 1 (Potton)
Are property prices falling in SG19 1 (Potton)?
Is SG19 1 (Potton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG19 1 (Potton)?
Are SG19 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
What is for sale in SG19 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 36 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG19 district, not just SG19 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 SG19 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.
What another bedroom costs in SG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SG area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG19
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG19, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG19 2 | £374,000 | 64 |
| SG19 3 | £350,000 | 21 |
Zoom out to the full SG19 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG19 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG19 1? 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 SG19 1'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG19 1.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG19 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG19 1 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.