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Codicote market report SG4 7, Hitchin
The SG4 7 (Codicote) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,018 registered sales in SG4 7 (Hitchin) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG4 7 (Hitchin) came in at £681,800, out of 20 registered, up 37% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £833,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,520 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,018 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SG4 7 is one sector of SG4 (Hitchin): 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 SG4 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 buyers actually paid in SG4 7
In the SG4 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £681,800, from 20 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £833,100, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in SG4 7
The last five years of sales put SG4 7 at roughly £5,520 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 SG4 7 trades 139% above the country as a whole.
SG4 7's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £681,800 | £681,800 | 20 |
| 2025 | £607,500 | £622,027 | 69 |
| 2024 | £575,000 | £611,343 | 79 |
| 2023 | £650,000 | £714,191 | 33 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 61 |
| 2021 | £496,500 | £628,633 | 90 |
| 2020 | £500,000 | £648,760 | 53 |
| 2019 | £512,500 | £671,765 | 48 |
| 2018 | £540,000 | £719,830 | 59 |
| 2017 | £562,500 | £767,194 | 56 |
| 2016 | £346,000 | £484,057 | 67 |
| 2015 | £426,600 | £602,786 | 72 |
| 2014 | £345,000 | £489,443 | 67 |
| 2013 | £345,000 | £496,421 | 66 |
| 2012 | £420,000 | £618,188 | 43 |
| 2011 | £340,000 | £513,269 | 50 |
| 2010 | £320,000 | £501,842 | 34 |
| 2009 | £321,200 | £516,332 | 48 |
| 2008 | £290,000 | £475,371 | 42 |
| 2007 | £329,000 | £558,076 | 67 |
| 2006 | £366,200 | £635,676 | 88 |
| 2005 | £282,000 | £501,846 | 63 |
| 2004 | £286,200 | £519,795 | 80 |
| 2003 | £237,500 | £437,533 | 68 |
| 2002 | £195,000 | £366,891 | 67 |
| 2001 | £210,000 | £403,714 | 81 |
| 2000 | £182,500 | £358,156 | 64 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 65 |
| 1998 | £136,000 | £274,526 | 62 |
| 1997 | £162,200 | £332,639 | 100 |
| 1996 | £155,000 | £326,888 | 71 |
| 1995 | £118,000 | £256,514 | 85 |
In cash terms the typical SG4 7 home went from £118,000 in 1995 to £681,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG4 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 2017 (+62.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−18.9%). 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) | +12.2% | +9.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.0% | +3.5% |
| 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.
How many homes change hands in SG4 7
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 20 SG4 7 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 72 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
The shape of the SG4 7 market
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG4 7 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. Within SG4, this sector trades 42% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around SG4 7
For renting purposes SG4 7 sits in North Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,421 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,013 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,218, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £681,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,421 a month (£17,052 a year) works out at a 2.5% 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.
What people ask about SG4 7 (Codicote)
Is SG4 7 (Codicote) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG4 7 (Codicote)?
Are property prices falling in SG4 7 (Codicote)?
Will SG4 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
SG4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 300 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG4 district, not just SG4 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- St Ippolyts, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Codicote, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Grove Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG4
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SG4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
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%) | — | — |
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
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 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 0 | £435,000 | 57 |
| 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.
Selling in SG4 7? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG4 7'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 SG4 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG4 7. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG4 7 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.