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Stotfold market report SG5 4, Hitchin
The SG5 4 (Stotfold) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,429 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG5 4 (Hitchin) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: 71 registered 2026 sales put the SG5 4 (Hitchin) median at £420,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £422,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,250 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,429 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG5 4 is one sector of SG5 (Hitchin): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SG5 4 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.
SG5 4 sold prices: where the market stands
71 sales were registered in SG5 4 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £420,000. The mean works out at £422,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
SG5 4 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG5 4 costs about £4,250 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 SG5 4 47% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SG5 4 home, 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 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 215 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 237 |
| 2023 | £431,500 | £474,113 | 222 |
| 2022 | £425,000 | £498,361 | 297 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 451 |
| 2020 | £387,500 | £502,789 | 223 |
| 2019 | £378,000 | £495,468 | 207 |
| 2018 | £370,500 | £493,883 | 268 |
| 2017 | £365,000 | £497,823 | 270 |
| 2016 | £330,000 | £461,673 | 230 |
| 2015 | £295,000 | £416,835 | 300 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 337 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 277 |
| 2012 | £246,200 | £362,376 | 226 |
| 2011 | £237,000 | £357,779 | 253 |
| 2010 | £237,500 | £372,461 | 261 |
| 2009 | £220,000 | £353,652 | 235 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 275 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 375 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 445 |
| 2005 | £232,500 | £413,756 | 266 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 181 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 155 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 151 |
| 2001 | £121,500 | £233,578 | 144 |
| 2000 | £113,000 | £221,763 | 135 |
| 1999 | £89,700 | £178,767 | 150 |
| 1998 | £80,000 | £161,486 | 146 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 184 |
| 1996 | £67,000 | £141,300 | 119 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 123 |
In cash terms the typical SG5 4 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: 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 17% 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 4 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 2002 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG5 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.3% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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
How many homes change hands
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.
SG5 4 recorded 71 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 208 sales a year recently, against 232 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around SG5 4
For renting purposes SG5 4 sits in Central Bedfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,247 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £862 a month here against £2,039 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Central Bedfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £420,000 median sold price, £1,247 a month is £14,964 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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 people ask about SG5 4 (Stotfold)
Is SG5 4 (Stotfold) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG5 4 (Stotfold)?
Are property prices falling in SG5 4 (Stotfold)?
Where do SG5 4 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
SG5's current homes for sale
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 4: 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
"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.
What another bedroom costs in SG
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own 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 2 | £475,000 | 33 |
| SG5 3 | £425,000 | 27 |
Zoom out to the full SG5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG5 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SG5 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG5 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG5 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SG5 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG5 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG5 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG5 4 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.