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Stotfold market report SG5 2, Hitchin
The standing SG5 2 (Stotfold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 4,010 registered sales in SG5 2 (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 SG5 2 (Hitchin) came in at £475,000, out of 33 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £543,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,650 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,010 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SG5 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SG5 (Hitchin). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SG5 2 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 SG5 2
The SG5 2 median stands at £475,000 for 2026, built from 33 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £543,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SG5 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SG5 2 at roughly £5,650 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG5 2 runs 67% above it.
The price of a typical SG5 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £475,000 | £475,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £445,000 | £455,641 | 119 |
| 2024 | £442,500 | £470,468 | 98 |
| 2023 | £417,500 | £458,731 | 105 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 101 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 147 |
| 2020 | £397,500 | £515,764 | 100 |
| 2019 | £410,000 | £537,412 | 131 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 113 |
| 2017 | £355,000 | £484,184 | 124 |
| 2016 | £335,000 | £468,668 | 117 |
| 2015 | £319,000 | £450,747 | 182 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 136 |
| 2013 | £249,000 | £358,286 | 125 |
| 2012 | £238,500 | £351,042 | 90 |
| 2011 | £244,500 | £369,101 | 88 |
| 2010 | £222,200 | £348,467 | 104 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 99 |
| 2008 | £247,000 | £404,885 | 86 |
| 2007 | £233,800 | £396,590 | 178 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 193 |
| 2005 | £206,000 | £366,597 | 110 |
| 2004 | £192,100 | £348,891 | 146 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 145 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 167 |
| 2001 | £123,000 | £236,461 | 143 |
| 2000 | £120,400 | £236,285 | 142 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 138 |
| 1998 | £83,500 | £168,551 | 157 |
| 1997 | £72,500 | £148,683 | 131 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 139 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical SG5 2 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £475,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 212%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG5 2 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−21.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 33 SG5 2 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 153 sales a year before the financial crisis and 91 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.
How SG5 2 trades
This is a thin market: 33 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. Within SG5, this sector trades 12% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of SG5 2
For renting purposes SG5 2 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 £475,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,421 a month (£17,052 a year) works out at a 3.6% 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.
Asked and answered: SG5 2 (Stotfold)
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What happens to SG5 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SG5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 291 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG5 district, not just SG5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Market Place, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Hitchin
- Baldock Road, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, Stotfold
- Comfrey Road, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, Stotfold
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 SG5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
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 1 | £443,200 | 38 |
| 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 in SG5 2? 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 SG5 2'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 SG5 2.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG5 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SG5 2 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.