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Stotfold market report SG5 1, Hitchin
The SG5 1 (Stotfold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,445 HM Land Registry entries for SG5 1 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for SG5 1 (Hitchin) is £443,200, from 38 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £437,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,260 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,445 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SG5 1 is a single group of streets within SG5 (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 SG5 1 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 SG5 1 homes really sell for
Take the 38 registered 2026 sales in SG5 1 and the middle price, the median, is £443,200. The mean lands at £437,000, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in SG5 1
By floor space, homes in SG5 1 have sold for about £5,260 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG5 1 runs 56% above it.
SG5 1'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 | £443,200 | £443,200 | 38 |
| 2025 | £472,500 | £483,799 | 152 |
| 2024 | £412,000 | £438,041 | 125 |
| 2023 | £390,000 | £428,515 | 139 |
| 2022 | £415,000 | £486,635 | 145 |
| 2021 | £406,500 | £514,681 | 202 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 133 |
| 2019 | £345,000 | £452,212 | 158 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 171 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 139 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 177 |
| 2015 | £265,000 | £374,445 | 195 |
| 2014 | £243,500 | £345,447 | 202 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 163 |
| 2012 | £227,000 | £334,116 | 149 |
| 2011 | £210,000 | £317,019 | 162 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 147 |
| 2009 | £195,600 | £314,429 | 174 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 96 |
| 2007 | £219,500 | £372,333 | 325 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 325 |
| 2005 | £180,500 | £321,217 | 164 |
| 2004 | £172,500 | £313,294 | 189 |
| 2003 | £162,500 | £299,364 | 175 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 207 |
| 2001 | £119,500 | £229,733 | 200 |
| 2000 | £87,500 | £171,719 | 184 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 191 |
| 1998 | £76,700 | £154,824 | 155 |
| 1997 | £63,500 | £130,226 | 171 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 155 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 137 |
In cash terms the typical SG5 1 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £443,200 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 264%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG5 1 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 2001 (+36.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG5 1
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 38 SG5 1 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 221 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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.
What homes rent for around SG5 1
The local authority for SG5 1 is North Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £443,200 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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.
What kind of market SG5 1 is
This is a thin market: 38 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. 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.
Asked and answered: SG5 1 (Stotfold)
How much did a house sell for in SG5 1 (Stotfold)?
Are property prices falling in SG5 1 (Stotfold)?
Is SG5 1 (Stotfold) a good place to buy a house?
Are SG5 1 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in SG5 now
The live side of the market holds 291 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG5 district, not just SG5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Baldock Road, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, Stotfold
- Comfrey Road, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, Stotfold
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SG5 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
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%) | — | — |
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.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SG5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG5 2 | £475,000 | 33 |
| SG5 3 | £425,000 | 27 |
| SG5 4 | £420,000 | 71 |
Zoom out to the full SG5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SG5 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG5 1'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 SG5 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG5 1.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG5 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG5 1 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.
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.