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Cottered market report SG9 9, Buntingford
The standing SG9 9 (Cottered) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,894 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG9 9 (Buntingford) 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: 49 registered 2026 sales put the SG9 9 (Buntingford) median at £440,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £481,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,890 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,894 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG9 9 is one sector of SG9 (Buntingford): 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 SG9 9 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 SG9 9 homes really sell for
In the SG9 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £440,000, from 49 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £481,700, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SG9 9 prices by floor area
A square metre of SG9 9 home has cost about £4,890 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SG9 9 54% above the national figure.
A typical SG9 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £440,000 | £440,000 | 49 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 125 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 131 |
| 2023 | £434,600 | £477,519 | 114 |
| 2022 | £457,500 | £536,471 | 169 |
| 2021 | £435,000 | £550,766 | 241 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 158 |
| 2019 | £410,000 | £537,412 | 303 |
| 2018 | £405,000 | £539,873 | 251 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 282 |
| 2016 | £390,000 | £545,614 | 215 |
| 2015 | £365,000 | £515,745 | 157 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 137 |
| 2013 | £302,000 | £434,548 | 138 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 106 |
| 2011 | £292,500 | £441,563 | 101 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 98 |
| 2009 | £244,000 | £392,232 | 62 |
| 2008 | £268,000 | £439,309 | 67 |
| 2007 | £249,000 | £422,373 | 163 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 141 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 139 |
| 2004 | £227,800 | £413,729 | 160 |
| 2003 | £192,000 | £353,711 | 103 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 166 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 180 |
| 2000 | £127,200 | £249,630 | 122 |
| 1999 | £112,500 | £224,207 | 162 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 124 |
| 1997 | £86,500 | £177,394 | 188 |
| 1996 | £82,800 | £174,621 | 202 |
| 1995 | £80,900 | £175,864 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical SG9 9 home went from £80,900 in 1995 to £440,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG9 9 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 (+21.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−14.5%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.2% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SG9 9
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 49 SG9 9 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 118 sales a year recently, against 147 a year before 2008. 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 SG9 9
For renting purposes SG9 9 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £1,064 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,406, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £440,000 median sold price, £1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
How SG9 9 trades
This is a thin market: 49 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.
Common questions on SG9 9 (Cottered)
How much did a house sell for in SG9 9 (Cottered)?
Are property prices falling in SG9 9 (Cottered)?
Is SG9 9 (Cottered) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SG9 9 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in SG9 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 25 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG9 district, not just SG9 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
13% 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.
- Rushden, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, Buntingford
- Church Street, Buntingford
- Cottered, Buntingford, Hertfordshire, Buntingford
"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 SG9 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.
What another bedroom costs in SG
Real sold prices by size across the SG area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SG9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG9 0 | £736,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full SG9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG9 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SG9 9: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG9 9'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 SG9 9: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG9 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG9 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SG9 9 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.