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non-geographic market report SG6, Hitchin
The SG6 (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: 15,352 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG6 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SG6 (Hitchin) sold for £395,000 in 2026, the median of 153 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £454,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,600 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 15,352 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
The postcode district SG6 covering non-geographic sits in Hitchin. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SG6 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
153 sales were registered in SG6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £395,000. The mean works out at £454,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in SG6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG6 costs about £4,600 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG6 runs 39% above it.
SG6's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 153 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 383 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 403 |
| 2023 | £360,000 | £395,552 | 357 |
| 2022 | £365,000 | £428,004 | 432 |
| 2021 | £332,000 | £420,355 | 555 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 398 |
| 2019 | £306,200 | £401,355 | 364 |
| 2018 | £316,800 | £422,300 | 348 |
| 2017 | £325,000 | £443,267 | 501 |
| 2016 | £295,500 | £413,407 | 466 |
| 2015 | £250,000 | £353,250 | 540 |
| 2014 | £221,500 | £314,236 | 492 |
| 2013 | £192,000 | £276,269 | 487 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 428 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 424 |
| 2010 | £188,000 | £294,832 | 409 |
| 2009 | £183,000 | £294,174 | 410 |
| 2008 | £189,000 | £309,811 | 297 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 575 |
| 2006 | £172,800 | £299,959 | 634 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 460 |
| 2004 | £159,500 | £289,683 | 530 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 553 |
| 2002 | £118,500 | £222,957 | 703 |
| 2001 | £102,000 | £196,090 | 661 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 547 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 655 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 549 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 563 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 602 |
| 1995 | £59,200 | £128,692 | 473 |
In cash terms the typical SG6 home went from £59,200 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 207%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 12% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG6 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 (+22.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−8.8%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £690,000 against £200,000 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, SG6
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 | £690,000 | 39 | 3,011 |
| Semi-detached | £550,000 | 30 | 3,186 |
| Terraced | £340,000 | 47 | 5,331 |
| Flats | £200,000 | 37 | 3,824 |
What SG6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.3% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 299 SG6 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 583 sales a year before the financial crisis and 346 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
The local authority for SG6 is North Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,013 a month here against £2,218 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £395,000 median sold price, £1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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 SG6 (non-geographic)
Are property prices falling in SG6 (non-geographic)?
Is SG6 (non-geographic) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG6 (non-geographic)?
Are SG6 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% 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.
What is for sale in SG6 right now
Everything above is what homes in SG6 sold for. The live side of the market holds 75 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the SG6 median sold price.
38% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG6 ranks 1 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SG6, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG6 1 | £395,000 | 27 |
| SG6 2 | £550,000 | 33 |
| SG6 3 | £452,500 | 30 |
| SG6 4 | £360,000 | 63 |
How SG6 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 | £425,000 | +2% |
| SG13 | £420,800 | -2% |
| SG11 | £417,500 | -23% |
| SG17 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SG6 (this report) | £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 SG6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG6, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG6 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.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG6 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.