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Potton market report SG19, Sandy
The SG19 (Potton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 15,843 HM Land Registry entries for SG19 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SG19 (Sandy) is £342,500, from 129 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £369,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 15,843 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG19 is the postcode district covering Sandy, Potton, Gamlingay in Sandy. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SG19 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 homes really sell for
129 sales were registered in SG19 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £342,500. The mean works out at £369,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SG19
The last five years of sales put SG19 at roughly £3,830 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 SG19 trades 20% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SG19 home, 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 | £342,500 | £342,500 | 129 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 415 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 329 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 296 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 440 |
| 2021 | £332,800 | £421,368 | 690 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 404 |
| 2019 | £306,000 | £401,093 | 377 |
| 2018 | £296,000 | £394,574 | 378 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 422 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 402 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 525 |
| 2014 | £202,000 | £286,572 | 525 |
| 2013 | £196,000 | £282,024 | 391 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 299 |
| 2011 | £172,800 | £260,862 | 308 |
| 2010 | £187,000 | £293,264 | 343 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 312 |
| 2008 | £190,000 | £311,450 | 242 |
| 2007 | £188,000 | £318,900 | 681 |
| 2006 | £183,000 | £317,665 | 655 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 550 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 614 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 715 |
| 2002 | £130,000 | £244,594 | 790 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 683 |
| 2000 | £93,000 | £182,513 | 652 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 759 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 667 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 841 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 624 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 385 |
In cash terms the typical SG19 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £342,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG19 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 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG19 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £467,500 against £170,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SG19
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 | £467,500 | 43 | 5,194 |
| Semi-detached | £350,000 | 33 | 4,606 |
| Terraced | £295,000 | 46 | 5,048 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 7 | 995 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 296 SG19 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 668 sales a year before the financial crisis and 322 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.
How SG19 trades
By median price SG19 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
The rental side of SG19
The local authority for SG19 is Central Bedfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,247 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £862 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,039, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £342,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,247 a month (£14,964 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
SG19 (Potton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SG19 (Potton)?
Is SG19 (Potton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG19 (Potton)?
What happens to SG19 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SG19's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in SG19 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the SG19 median sold price.
36% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SG prices by size
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG19 ranks 10 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 SG19, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG19 1 | £318,000 | 44 |
| SG19 2 | £374,000 | 64 |
| SG19 3 | £350,000 | 21 |
How SG19 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 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 (this report) | £342,500 | +3% |
Before you sell in SG19: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG19'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.
Estate agents working SG19: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG19.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG19. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG19 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.