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Codicote market report SG4, Hitchin
The SG4 (Codicote) 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: 16,488 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG4 (Hitchin) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SG4 (Hitchin) sold for £480,000 in 2026, the median of 176 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £540,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,350 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 16,488 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SG4 is the postcode district covering Hitchin (east), Codicote, Kimpton in Hitchin. 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 SG4 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.
SG4 sold prices: where the market stands
176 sales were registered in SG4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £480,000. The mean works out at £540,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
SG4 prices by floor area
A square metre of SG4 home has cost about £5,350 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG4 sits 68% above the national market.
SG4's median sold price, 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 | £480,000 | £480,000 | 176 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 509 |
| 2024 | £485,000 | £515,655 | 558 |
| 2023 | £452,000 | £496,638 | 389 |
| 2022 | £473,100 | £554,764 | 442 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 552 |
| 2020 | £438,700 | £569,222 | 380 |
| 2019 | £375,000 | £491,535 | 405 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 452 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 481 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 468 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 538 |
| 2014 | £276,000 | £391,554 | 518 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 513 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 409 |
| 2011 | £241,500 | £364,572 | 420 |
| 2010 | £234,000 | £366,972 | 424 |
| 2009 | £217,200 | £349,151 | 430 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 337 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 665 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 652 |
| 2005 | £198,000 | £352,360 | 607 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 569 |
| 2003 | £181,000 | £333,446 | 627 |
| 2002 | £147,000 | £276,579 | 723 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 660 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 505 |
| 1999 | £90,300 | £179,963 | 659 |
| 1998 | £84,500 | £170,569 | 580 |
| 1997 | £79,000 | £162,013 | 791 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 616 |
| 1995 | £75,500 | £164,125 | 433 |
In cash terms the typical SG4 home went from £75,500 in 1995 to £480,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 192%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG4 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 2000 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−7.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £794,000 against £235,200 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, SG4
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 | £794,000 | 44 | 3,752 |
| Semi-detached | £532,800 | 54 | 4,920 |
| Terraced | £416,200 | 48 | 4,435 |
| Flats | £235,200 | 30 | 3,381 |
How many homes change hands in SG4
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 395 sales completed in SG4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 626 sales a year before the financial crisis and 415 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.
The shape of the SG4 market
Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, SG4 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What tenants pay around SG4
SG4 falls under North Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, which against the £480,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.
Common questions on SG4 (Codicote)
How much did a house sell for in SG4 (Codicote)?
Are property prices falling in SG4 (Codicote)?
Is SG4 (Codicote) a good place to buy a house?
Will SG4 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
What is for sale in SG4 right now
Everything above is what homes in SG4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 300 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the SG4 median sold price.
34% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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
"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 →
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.
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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG4 ranks 7 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.
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.
Inside SG4, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG4 0 | £435,000 | 57 |
| SG4 7 | £681,800 | 20 |
| SG4 8 | £395,000 | 35 |
| SG4 9 | £527,800 | 64 |
How SG4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SG10 | £685,000 | +1% |
| SG4 (this report) | £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 | £342,500 | +3% |
Before you sell in SG4: 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'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 SG4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG4. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG4 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.
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.