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non-geographic market report SG6 2, Hitchin
The SG6 2 (non-geographic) 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: 3,026 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG6 2 (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: the 2026 median for SG6 2 (Hitchin) is £550,000, from 33 registered sales, up 50% on five years earlier; the mean is £522,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,490 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,026 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG6 2 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 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 a home in SG6 2 sells for
The 2026 median for SG6 2 is £550,000, taken from 33 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £522,000, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
SG6 2 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SG6 2 at roughly £4,490 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, SG6 2 runs 93% above it.
A typical SG6 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £550,000 | £550,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 77 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 88 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 66 |
| 2022 | £421,000 | £493,671 | 87 |
| 2021 | £366,000 | £463,403 | 91 |
| 2020 | £480,000 | £622,810 | 71 |
| 2019 | £358,500 | £469,908 | 70 |
| 2018 | £320,000 | £426,566 | 73 |
| 2017 | £395,000 | £538,740 | 91 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 71 |
| 2015 | £280,200 | £395,923 | 108 |
| 2014 | £295,000 | £418,509 | 92 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 77 |
| 2012 | £209,000 | £307,622 | 75 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 65 |
| 2010 | £189,000 | £296,401 | 76 |
| 2009 | £224,500 | £360,886 | 90 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 51 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 116 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 129 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 89 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 113 |
| 2003 | £193,000 | £355,553 | 128 |
| 2002 | £174,500 | £328,320 | 160 |
| 2001 | £143,000 | £274,910 | 146 |
| 2000 | £129,000 | £253,163 | 105 |
| 1999 | £121,200 | £241,545 | 130 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 127 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 104 |
| 1996 | £77,000 | £162,390 | 105 |
| 1995 | £95,000 | £206,515 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical SG6 2 home went from £95,000 in 1995 to £550,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 166%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. 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 SG6 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 2016 (+42.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2021 (−23.8%). 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) | +15.8% | +13.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +8.5% | +3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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 SG6 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 123 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 SG6 2
For renting purposes SG6 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.
Set against the £550,000 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Reading the SG6 2 market
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG6 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within SG6, this sector trades 39% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about SG6 2 (non-geographic)
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What happens to SG6 2 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 50% over five years in cash and up 19% 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 SG6 now
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
38% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SG6 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
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%) | — | — |
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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 1 | £395,000 | 27 |
| 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 2? 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 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.
Estate agents working SG6 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG6 2.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG6 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG6 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.
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.