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Ashwell market report SG7, Baldock
The standing SG7 (Ashwell) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,950 HM Land Registry entries for SG7 (Baldock), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG7 (Baldock) came in at £365,000, out of 61 registered, down 9% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £368,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,660 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,950 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SG7 is the postcode district covering Baldock, Ashwell, Hinxworth in Baldock. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SG7 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 buyers actually paid in SG7
The 2026 median for SG7 is £365,000, taken from 61 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £368,300, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in SG7
A square metre of SG7 home has cost about £4,660 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG7 trades 28% above the country as a whole.
SG7'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £365,000 | £365,000 | 61 |
| 2025 | £357,500 | £366,049 | 215 |
| 2024 | £380,000 | £404,018 | 168 |
| 2023 | £386,000 | £424,120 | 174 |
| 2022 | £390,000 | £457,320 | 216 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 272 |
| 2020 | £337,500 | £437,913 | 162 |
| 2019 | £315,000 | £412,890 | 180 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 197 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 204 |
| 2016 | £296,200 | £414,387 | 232 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 231 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 250 |
| 2013 | £222,000 | £319,436 | 235 |
| 2012 | £228,200 | £335,882 | 198 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 203 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 194 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 159 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 152 |
| 2007 | £205,000 | £347,737 | 335 |
| 2006 | £197,000 | £341,967 | 339 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 286 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 310 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 309 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 415 |
| 2001 | £108,200 | £208,009 | 342 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 288 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 366 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 311 |
| 1997 | £65,800 | £134,943 | 366 |
| 1996 | £63,000 | £132,864 | 328 |
| 1995 | £65,100 | £141,517 | 252 |
In cash terms the typical SG7 home went from £65,100 in 1995 to £365,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 158%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 28% 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 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 2002 (+24.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−15.6%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £550,000 against £219,500 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, SG7
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 | £550,000 | 8 | 1,450 |
| Semi-detached | £440,000 | 15 | 2,051 |
| Terraced | £365,000 | 20 | 2,861 |
| Flats | £219,500 | 18 | 1,588 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.8% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 144 SG7 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 328 sales a year before the financial crisis and 167 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around SG7
For renting purposes SG7 sits in North Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,421 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, which against the £365,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
How SG7 trades
This is a thin market: 144 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.
SG7 (Ashwell): the questions that come up
Is SG7 (Ashwell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SG7 (Ashwell)?
Are property prices falling in SG7 (Ashwell)?
Will SG7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SG7 today
Everything above is what homes in SG7 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 194 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the SG7 median sold price.
24% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- High Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, Baldock
- Stane Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire, Baldock
- Colbron Close, Ashwell, Baldock, Ashwell
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SG7 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%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG7 ranks 18 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 SG7, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG7 5 | £350,000 | 18 |
| SG7 6 | £365,000 | 43 |
How SG7 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 | £395,000 | +19% |
| SG8 | £395,000 | -1% |
| SG16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| SG18 | £366,800 | +7% |
| SG7 (this report) | £365,000 | -9% |
| SG15 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Selling a home in SG7? 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 SG7'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SG7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SG7 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.
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.