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non-geographic market report SG6 1, Hitchin
The standing SG6 1 (non-geographic) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,868 registered sales in SG6 1 (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 typical home in SG6 1 (Hitchin) sold for £395,000 in 2026, the median of 27 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £412,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,370 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,868 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SG6 1 is one sector of SG6 (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 SG6 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.
The going rate for a home in SG6 1
Across 27 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SG6 1 home went for £395,000. The mean is £412,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in SG6 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG6 1 costs about £4,370 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SG6 1 sits 39% above the national market.
A typical SG6 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 27 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 79 |
| 2024 | £360,000 | £382,754 | 99 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 101 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 96 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 143 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 101 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 86 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 74 |
| 2017 | £329,800 | £449,814 | 136 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 165 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 163 |
| 2014 | £191,200 | £271,251 | 135 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 137 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 135 |
| 2011 | £201,200 | £303,735 | 98 |
| 2010 | £173,000 | £271,309 | 124 |
| 2009 | £181,000 | £290,959 | 131 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 71 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 169 |
| 2006 | £166,500 | £289,023 | 140 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 83 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 127 |
| 2003 | £134,000 | £246,860 | 137 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 139 |
| 2001 | £95,600 | £183,786 | 161 |
| 2000 | £76,200 | £149,543 | 132 |
| 1999 | £68,800 | £137,115 | 164 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 135 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 164 |
| 1996 | £48,200 | £101,652 | 132 |
| 1995 | £49,200 | £106,953 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical SG6 1 home went from £49,200 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 269%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG6 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 2015 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−13.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.9% | +15.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.4% | +1.6% |
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
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.
The register shows 27 SG6 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 136 sales a year before the financial crisis and 80 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of SG6 1
SG6 1 falls under North Hertfordshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £395,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,421 a month (£17,052 a year) works out at a 4.3% 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.
The shape of the SG6 1 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. 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.
SG6 1 (non-geographic): the questions that come up
Is SG6 1 (non-geographic) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to SG6 1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
On the market in SG6 today
Turning to what is actually available: 75 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG6 district, not just SG6 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Spencer Way, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, Letchworth Garden City
- Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
- Baldock Road, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, Letchworth Garden City
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 SG6 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SG: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SG area, straight 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SG6
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG6, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG6 2 | £550,000 | 33 |
| SG6 3 | £452,500 | 30 |
| SG6 4 | £360,000 | 63 |
Zoom out to the full SG6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG6 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SG6 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 SG6 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 SG6 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG6 1.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every SG6 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.