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Cottered market report SG9, Buntingford
The SG9 (Cottered) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,200 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG9 (Buntingford) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SG9 (Buntingford) is £445,000, from 55 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier; the mean is £502,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,900 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,200 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SG9 is a postcode district covering Buntingford, Cottered, Great Hormead in Buntingford. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where SG9 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.
Today's SG9 prices, from the sold record
55 sales were registered in SG9 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £445,000. The mean works out at £502,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SG9
Per square metre, SG9 homes have averaged around £4,900 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG9 56% above the country at large.
SG9's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £445,000 | £445,000 | 55 |
| 2025 | £463,000 | £474,072 | 167 |
| 2024 | £454,000 | £482,695 | 154 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 141 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 190 |
| 2021 | £445,000 | £563,427 | 294 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 200 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 326 |
| 2018 | £411,500 | £548,537 | 286 |
| 2017 | £388,500 | £529,875 | 302 |
| 2016 | £400,000 | £559,604 | 256 |
| 2015 | £382,000 | £539,766 | 201 |
| 2014 | £329,000 | £466,744 | 187 |
| 2013 | £316,200 | £454,980 | 178 |
| 2012 | £283,000 | £416,541 | 139 |
| 2011 | £313,800 | £473,717 | 134 |
| 2010 | £300,000 | £470,477 | 137 |
| 2009 | £279,000 | £448,495 | 91 |
| 2008 | £297,500 | £487,665 | 97 |
| 2007 | £280,000 | £474,958 | 217 |
| 2006 | £260,500 | £452,195 | 188 |
| 2005 | £240,000 | £427,103 | 179 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 223 |
| 2003 | £231,000 | £425,558 | 148 |
| 2002 | £190,000 | £357,483 | 231 |
| 2001 | £155,200 | £298,364 | 230 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 171 |
| 1999 | £124,500 | £248,122 | 209 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 186 |
| 1997 | £94,000 | £192,775 | 242 |
| 1996 | £90,000 | £189,806 | 255 |
| 1995 | £95,800 | £208,254 | 186 |
In cash terms the typical SG9 home went from £95,800 in 1995 to £445,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 114%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 21% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SG9 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 1998 (+27.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−9.8%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £680,000 against £205,000 for a flat, 3.3 times the price.
Median by property type, SG9
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 | £680,000 | 15 | 2,349 |
| Semi-detached | £457,500 | 16 | 1,636 |
| Terraced | £390,000 | 18 | 1,816 |
| Flats | £205,000 | 6 | 396 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.9% | −6.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
Sales activity in SG9
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SG9 recorded 112 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 198 sales a year before the financial crisis and 141 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.
Reading the SG9 market
This is a thin market: 112 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. SG9 sits 5 of 19 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What homes rent for around SG9
For renting purposes SG9 sits in East Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,503 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,064 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,406 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,503 a month is £18,036 a year, which against the £445,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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.
SG9 (Cottered): the questions that come up
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What happens to SG9 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in SG9 today
Everything above is what homes in SG9 sold for. The live side of the market holds 25 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 35% above the SG9 median sold price.
13% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
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. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SG9 ranks 13 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.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SG9, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SG9 0 | £736,500 | 6 |
| SG9 9 | £440,000 | 49 |
How SG9 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 (this report) | £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 | £365,000 | -9% |
| SG15 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Selling in SG9? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SG9'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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG9.
Keep digging
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See every individual SG9 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.