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Codicote market report SG4 0, Hitchin
The SG4 0 (Codicote) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,453 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG4 0 (Hitchin) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SG4 0 (Hitchin) sold for £435,000 in 2026, the median of 57 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £447,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,140 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,453 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 SG4 0 is a single group of streets within SG4 (Hitchin), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SG4 0 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 SG4 0 sells for
57 sales were registered in SG4 0 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £435,000. The mean works out at £447,300, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in SG4 0
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG4 0 sales average about £5,140 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG4 0 trades 53% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SG4 0 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £435,000 | £435,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £410,000 | £419,804 | 137 |
| 2024 | £446,000 | £474,190 | 201 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 153 |
| 2022 | £405,000 | £474,909 | 137 |
| 2021 | £402,300 | £509,364 | 153 |
| 2020 | £365,000 | £473,595 | 109 |
| 2019 | £321,500 | £421,410 | 124 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 177 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 185 |
| 2016 | £305,500 | £427,398 | 137 |
| 2015 | £301,200 | £425,596 | 155 |
| 2014 | £233,000 | £330,551 | 159 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 141 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 133 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 117 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 125 |
| 2009 | £178,800 | £287,423 | 140 |
| 2008 | £183,000 | £299,976 | 107 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 262 |
| 2006 | £171,000 | £296,834 | 185 |
| 2005 | £173,500 | £308,760 | 195 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 170 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 201 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 255 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 215 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 175 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 260 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 197 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 350 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 245 |
| 1995 | £54,900 | £119,344 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical SG4 0 home went from £54,900 in 1995 to £435,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 264%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG4 0 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 (+29.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.1% | +3.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.8% | +1.9% |
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.
Sales activity in SG4 0
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, 57 sales completed in SG4 0. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 207 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the SG4 0 market
Only 57 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG4 0 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the SG4 district median, SG4 0 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around SG4 0
SG4 0 falls under North Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,013 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,218 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £435,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,421 a month (£17,052 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
SG4 0 (Codicote): the questions that come up
Is SG4 0 (Codicote) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG4 0 (Codicote)?
Are property prices falling in SG4 0 (Codicote)?
Will SG4 0 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 SG4 now
The live side of the market holds 300 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG4 district, not just SG4 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- St Ippolyts, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Codicote, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Grove Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4
"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 SG4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SG prices by size
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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG4 7 | £681,800 | 20 |
| SG4 8 | £395,000 | 35 |
| SG4 9 | £527,800 | 64 |
Zoom out to the full SG4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SG4 0: 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 SG4 0'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG4 0.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG4 0. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG4 0 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.