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Stotfold market report SG5, Hitchin
The standing SG5 (Stotfold) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 20,118 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG5 (Hitchin) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 169 registered 2026 sales put the SG5 (Hitchin) median at £425,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £462,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 20,118 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG5 is a postcode district covering Hitchin (west), Stotfold, Ickleford in Hitchin. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SG5 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 a home in SG5 sells for
Across 169 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG5 home went for £425,000. The mean is £462,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SG5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG5 sales average about £4,830 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG5 runs 49% above it.
The price of a typical SG5 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 169 |
| 2025 | £470,000 | £481,239 | 625 |
| 2024 | £440,000 | £467,810 | 568 |
| 2023 | £430,000 | £472,465 | 523 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 641 |
| 2021 | £415,000 | £525,444 | 937 |
| 2020 | £405,000 | £525,496 | 583 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 616 |
| 2018 | £361,000 | £481,220 | 627 |
| 2017 | £367,000 | £500,551 | 614 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 618 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 786 |
| 2014 | £270,000 | £383,042 | 774 |
| 2013 | £242,200 | £348,502 | 658 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 523 |
| 2011 | £239,000 | £360,798 | 597 |
| 2010 | £240,000 | £376,382 | 584 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 562 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 518 |
| 2007 | £233,000 | £395,233 | 994 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 1,117 |
| 2005 | £215,000 | £382,613 | 633 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 629 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 589 |
| 2002 | £148,500 | £279,401 | 673 |
| 2001 | £124,000 | £238,384 | 618 |
| 2000 | £111,000 | £217,838 | 555 |
| 1999 | £87,700 | £174,782 | 598 |
| 1998 | £82,000 | £165,523 | 564 |
| 1997 | £72,700 | £149,093 | 616 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 530 |
| 1995 | £64,600 | £140,430 | 479 |
In cash terms the typical SG5 home went from £64,600 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 203%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG5 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 (+26.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
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, 28% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £593,800 against £271,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SG5
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 | £593,800 | 36 | 4,895 |
| Semi-detached | £471,500 | 57 | 5,582 |
| Terraced | £417,000 | 35 | 5,293 |
| Flats | £271,000 | 41 | 4,348 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.6% | −11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Month by month, five years back
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, 408 sales completed in SG5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 726 sales a year before the financial crisis and 505 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.
Rents around SG5
For renting purposes SG5 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.
£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.
Common questions on SG5 (Stotfold)
How much did a house sell for in SG5 (Stotfold)?
Are property prices falling in SG5 (Stotfold)?
Is SG5 (Stotfold) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SG5 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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
Everything above is what homes in SG5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 291 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price level with the SG5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: SG prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SG5 ranks 11 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.
SG area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SG5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SG5 1 | £443,200 | 38 |
| SG5 2 | £475,000 | 33 |
| SG5 3 | £425,000 | 27 |
| SG5 4 | £420,000 | 71 |
How SG5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SG10 | £685,000 | +1% |
| SG4 | £480,000 | +9% |
| SG14 | £471,000 | +13% |
| SG3 | £451,000 | -4% |
| SG9 | £445,000 | +0% |
| SG12 | £435,000 | +12% |
| SG5 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in SG5? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SG5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG5 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.
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.