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Codicote market report SG4 9, Hitchin
The standing SG4 9 (Codicote) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,556 HM Land Registry entries for SG4 9 (Hitchin), 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 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 9 (Hitchin) came in at £527,800, out of 64 registered, up 19% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £564,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,610 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,556 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like SG4 9 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 9 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 SG4 9 homes really sell for
The SG4 9 median stands at £527,800 for 2026, built from 64 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £564,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SG4 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG4 9 costs about £5,610 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG4 9 85% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SG4 9 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £527,800 | £527,800 | 64 |
| 2025 | £489,000 | £500,693 | 152 |
| 2024 | £515,000 | £547,551 | 161 |
| 2023 | £467,500 | £513,668 | 110 |
| 2022 | £565,000 | £662,527 | 135 |
| 2021 | £443,000 | £560,895 | 173 |
| 2020 | £450,100 | £584,014 | 118 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 149 |
| 2018 | £430,000 | £573,198 | 135 |
| 2017 | £442,500 | £603,526 | 146 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 157 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 213 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 181 |
| 2013 | £255,000 | £366,920 | 210 |
| 2012 | £249,800 | £367,674 | 152 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 171 |
| 2010 | £233,000 | £365,404 | 161 |
| 2009 | £225,800 | £362,975 | 164 |
| 2008 | £245,300 | £402,098 | 118 |
| 2007 | £247,000 | £418,981 | 217 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 235 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 247 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 209 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 244 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 234 |
| 2001 | £146,000 | £280,678 | 211 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 155 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 208 |
| 1998 | £82,800 | £167,138 | 186 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 201 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 188 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 151 |
In cash terms the typical SG4 9 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £527,800 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 260%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG4 9 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 2022 (+27.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−17.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG4 9 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.9% | +1.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
SG4 9 recorded 64 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 219 sales a year before the financial crisis and 124 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 homes rent for around SG4 9
SG4 9 falls under North Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,013 a month here against £2,218 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £527,800 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 3.2%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Reading the SG4 9 market
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 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on SG4 9 (Codicote)
Is SG4 9 (Codicote) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG4 9 (Codicote)?
Are property prices falling in SG4 9 (Codicote)?
Where do SG4 9 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
On the market in SG4 today
Turning to what is actually available: 300 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG4 district, not just SG4 9: 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SG: the cost
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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SG4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG4 0 | £435,000 | 57 |
| SG4 7 | £681,800 | 20 |
| SG4 8 | £395,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full SG4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SG4 9? 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 9'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 9.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG4 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG4 9 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.
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.