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Stotfold market report SG5 3, Hitchin
The SG5 3 (Stotfold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,234 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG5 3 (Hitchin) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 27 registered 2026 sales put the SG5 3 (Hitchin) median at £425,000, down 14% on five years earlier, with a mean of £506,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,234 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SG5 3 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 3 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.
Today's SG5 3 prices, from the sold record
The SG5 3 median stands at £425,000 for 2026, built from 27 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £506,100, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
SG5 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG5 3 costs about £4,830 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SG5 3 49% above the national figure.
A typical SG5 3 home, priced year by year (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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £575,000 | £588,750 | 139 |
| 2024 | £550,000 | £584,763 | 108 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 57 |
| 2022 | £525,000 | £615,622 | 98 |
| 2021 | £492,500 | £623,569 | 137 |
| 2020 | £470,000 | £609,835 | 127 |
| 2019 | £450,000 | £589,842 | 120 |
| 2018 | £366,000 | £487,885 | 75 |
| 2017 | £405,700 | £553,334 | 81 |
| 2016 | £410,000 | £573,594 | 94 |
| 2015 | £365,000 | £515,745 | 109 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 99 |
| 2013 | £265,000 | £381,309 | 93 |
| 2012 | £283,500 | £417,277 | 58 |
| 2011 | £290,000 | £437,788 | 94 |
| 2010 | £297,500 | £466,557 | 72 |
| 2009 | £262,000 | £421,167 | 54 |
| 2008 | £246,200 | £403,574 | 61 |
| 2007 | £287,500 | £487,680 | 116 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 154 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 93 |
| 2004 | £225,500 | £409,552 | 113 |
| 2003 | £195,800 | £360,711 | 114 |
| 2002 | £161,200 | £303,296 | 148 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 131 |
| 2000 | £123,800 | £242,958 | 94 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 119 |
| 1998 | £113,700 | £229,512 | 106 |
| 1997 | £86,800 | £178,009 | 130 |
| 1996 | £84,700 | £178,629 | 117 |
| 1995 | £65,800 | £143,039 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical SG5 3 home went from £65,800 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 197%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG5 3 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 1998 (+31.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−26.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −26.1% | −27.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.9% | −7.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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.
The register shows 27 SG5 3 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 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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.
Reading the SG5 3 market
This is a thin market: 27 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What tenants pay around SG5 3
The local authority for SG5 3 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.
£1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, which against the £425,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
What people ask about SG5 3 (Stotfold)
Is SG5 3 (Stotfold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG5 3 (Stotfold)?
Are property prices falling in SG5 3 (Stotfold)?
What happens to SG5 3 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SG area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
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 SG5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG5 1 | £443,200 | 38 |
| SG5 2 | £475,000 | 33 |
| 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 3? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SG5 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG5 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG5 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG5 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG5 3 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.