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South Stevenage market report SG2 7, Stevenage
The SG2 7 (South Stevenage) 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: 5,114 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG2 7 (Stevenage) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SG2 7 (Stevenage) home changed hands for £390,000 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier), with the mean at £483,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,060 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,114 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SG2 7 is one sector of SG2 (Stevenage): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SG2 7 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 a home in SG2 7 sells for
In the SG2 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £390,000, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £483,100, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
SG2 7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SG2 7 at roughly £5,060 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SG2 7 37% above the national figure.
SG2 7'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 | £390,000 | £390,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £465,000 | £476,120 | 139 |
| 2024 | £470,000 | £499,707 | 87 |
| 2023 | £375,000 | £412,033 | 70 |
| 2022 | £469,800 | £550,894 | 108 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 158 |
| 2020 | £387,000 | £502,140 | 117 |
| 2019 | £340,000 | £445,659 | 106 |
| 2018 | £362,500 | £483,219 | 93 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 122 |
| 2016 | £320,800 | £448,802 | 142 |
| 2015 | £315,000 | £445,095 | 136 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 149 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 121 |
| 2012 | £248,200 | £365,319 | 84 |
| 2011 | £242,000 | £365,327 | 103 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 118 |
| 2009 | £198,500 | £319,090 | 102 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 90 |
| 2007 | £197,000 | £334,167 | 155 |
| 2006 | £199,200 | £345,786 | 196 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 165 |
| 2004 | £180,100 | £327,097 | 179 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 161 |
| 2002 | £148,000 | £278,461 | 231 |
| 2001 | £120,000 | £230,694 | 273 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 246 |
| 1999 | £95,200 | £189,729 | 318 |
| 1998 | £92,500 | £186,718 | 278 |
| 1997 | £89,500 | £183,546 | 344 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 261 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 210 |
In cash terms the typical SG2 7 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £390,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG2 7 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 2015 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−20.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG2 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −16.1% | −18.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 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.
Sales activity in SG2 7
Sales per year, counted
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, 52 sales completed in SG2 7. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 201 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.
What kind of market SG2 7 is
This is a thin market: 52 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. Within SG2, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around SG2 7
For renting purposes SG2 7 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,064 a month here against £2,406 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, which against the £390,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
What people ask about SG2 7 (South Stevenage)
Are property prices falling in SG2 7 (South Stevenage)?
Is SG2 7 (South Stevenage) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG2 7 (South Stevenage)?
What happens to SG2 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in SG2 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 155 homes currently on the market from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG2 district, not just SG2 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Keller Close, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- High Street, Walkern, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Glebe View, Walkern, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
"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 SG2 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
Real sold prices by size across the SG area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
SG area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG2 0 | £343,000 | 31 |
| SG2 8 | £350,000 | 62 |
| SG2 9 | £335,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full SG2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG2 7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG2 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG2 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG2 7 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 SG2 7.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG2 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG2 7 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.