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non-geographic market report SG6 4, Hitchin
The standing SG6 4 (non-geographic) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 5,853 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG6 4 (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: a typical SG6 4 (Hitchin) home changed hands for £360,000 in 2026 (median of 63 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £383,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,650 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,853 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SG6 4 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 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.
What SG6 4 homes really sell for
The SG6 4 median stands at £360,000 for 2026, built from 63 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £383,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SG6 4
The last five years of sales put SG6 4 at roughly £4,650 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 4 runs 26% above it.
A typical SG6 4 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £360,000 | £360,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £377,800 | £386,834 | 152 |
| 2024 | £351,000 | £373,185 | 144 |
| 2023 | £353,800 | £388,740 | 106 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 159 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 214 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 153 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 149 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 133 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 177 |
| 2016 | £268,500 | £375,634 | 157 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 198 |
| 2014 | £208,500 | £295,794 | 186 |
| 2013 | £179,500 | £258,283 | 162 |
| 2012 | £185,200 | £272,591 | 156 |
| 2011 | £177,700 | £268,259 | 192 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 140 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 126 |
| 2008 | £171,000 | £280,305 | 111 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 208 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 248 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 226 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 218 |
| 2003 | £135,000 | £248,703 | 197 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 285 |
| 2001 | £90,000 | £173,020 | 237 |
| 2000 | £81,800 | £160,533 | 204 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 259 |
| 1998 | £63,000 | £127,170 | 211 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 211 |
| 1996 | £47,300 | £99,754 | 272 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 199 |
In cash terms the typical SG6 4 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £360,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 231%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG6 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 2003 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−5.4%). 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) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.1% | +1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SG6 4 recorded 63 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 228 sales a year before the financial crisis and 125 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.
What tenants pay around SG6 4
The local authority for SG6 4 is North Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,013 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,218 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £360,000 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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 4 market
Against the SG6 district median, SG6 4 sits 9% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Common questions on SG6 4 (non-geographic)
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What happens to SG6 4 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in SG6 right 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 4: 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.
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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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 1 | £395,000 | 27 |
| SG6 2 | £550,000 | 33 |
| SG6 3 | £452,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full SG6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG6 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SG6 4: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG6 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG6 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG6 4 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 SG6 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG6 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG6 4 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.
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.