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Ashwell market report SG7 5, Baldock
The SG7 5 (Ashwell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 2,752 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG7 5 (Baldock) 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: 18 registered 2026 sales put the SG7 5 (Baldock) median at £350,000, down 33% on five years earlier, with a mean of £405,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,810 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,752 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG7 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SG7 (Baldock). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SG7 5 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 SG7 5
Take the 18 registered 2026 sales in SG7 5 and the middle price, the median, is £350,000. The mean lands at £405,200, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SG7 5
Per square metre, SG7 5 homes have averaged around £4,810 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG7 5 trades 23% above the country as a whole.
A typical SG7 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £350,000 | £350,000 | 18 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 91 |
| 2024 | £460,500 | £489,606 | 57 |
| 2023 | £461,000 | £506,526 | 63 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 81 |
| 2021 | £520,800 | £659,400 | 122 |
| 2020 | £410,000 | £531,983 | 54 |
| 2019 | £351,000 | £460,077 | 61 |
| 2018 | £287,500 | £383,243 | 76 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 75 |
| 2016 | £343,000 | £479,860 | 79 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 95 |
| 2014 | £257,500 | £365,309 | 84 |
| 2013 | £240,000 | £345,336 | 91 |
| 2012 | £263,000 | £387,103 | 59 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 71 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 79 |
| 2009 | £255,500 | £410,718 | 48 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 54 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 109 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 118 |
| 2005 | £183,200 | £326,022 | 92 |
| 2004 | £215,700 | £391,753 | 108 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 99 |
| 2002 | £141,000 | £265,290 | 123 |
| 2001 | £113,000 | £217,237 | 119 |
| 2000 | £120,000 | £235,500 | 95 |
| 1999 | £95,000 | £189,330 | 118 |
| 1998 | £88,000 | £177,634 | 109 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 121 |
| 1996 | £68,500 | £144,463 | 96 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 87 |
In cash terms the typical SG7 5 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £350,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 118%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 47% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG7 5 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 (+41.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−36.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.4% | −13.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −7.6% | −11.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG7 5
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.
SG7 5 recorded 18 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 62 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 SG7 5
SG7 5 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 £350,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,421 a month (£17,052 a year) works out at a 4.9% 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 SG7 5 market
This is a thin market: 18 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.
Common questions on SG7 5 (Ashwell)
Is SG7 5 (Ashwell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG7 5 (Ashwell)?
Are property prices falling in SG7 5 (Ashwell)?
Where do SG7 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 33% over five years in cash but down 47% 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.
SG7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 194 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG7 district, not just SG7 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- High Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, Baldock
- Stane Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, Baldock
- Colbron Close, Ashwell, Baldock, Ashwell
"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 SG7 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
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SG7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SG7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG7 6 | £365,000 | 43 |
Zoom out to the full SG7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SG7 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SG7 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SG7 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SG7 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG7 5.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SG7 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG7 5 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.
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.