Mathams Drive, Bishop’s Stortford house prices

Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford house prices are built from 149 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £173,950. Across the 13 years from 2012 to 2025 the median moved +57.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +7.5%.

HM Land Registry149 sales42 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026

The chart tracks the median Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford is £376,000 in 2018; the lowest is £60,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £60,000 to £323,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,154, so the real change over the whole record is +153.6% — about +3.26% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +57.2% in cash against +7.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 149 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

A further 2 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Hertfordshire, 50.1% of 67,360 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Hertfordshire at £1,505 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,066 for a one-bedroom home and £1,641 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £173,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.38% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CM23, 274 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 80 violent, 7 burglary, 18 vehicle-related and 84 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.

Against the 150,158 residents the 2021 census counted in East Hertfordshire, that is 1.82 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 150,158 residents in East Hertfordshire across 62,023 households. 70.8% of those households own their home and 29.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

24 state and independent schools have a CM23 postcode: 17 primary, 7 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford sits above that national figure — +10.4%.

Within Bishop's Stortford the street ranks 675 of 777 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £245,000 (-29.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,220 per square metre, across 42 of the 149 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £46,500 to £595,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford sits in East Hertfordshire, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Hertfordshire at 10.7 times median local earnings of £42,219 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets nearby

• Rye Street£150,000 median
• Hadham Road£190,000 median
• London Road£155,000 median
• Stansted Road£250,000 median
• The Thatchers£196,998 median
• South Street£248,995 median
• Ashdale£145,000 median
• Ellenborough Close£150,000 median
• Cannons Close£275,000 median
• Apton Road£180,998 median
• Honeybourne£190,000 median
• John Dyde Close£208,500 median
• Marguerite Way£199,998 median
• Nursery Road£190,000 median
• Windhill£174,000 median
• Stortford Hall Park£196,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 33 Mathams Drive8 sales
• 42 Mathams Drive7 sales
• 43 Mathams Drive6 sales
• 55 Mathams Drive5 sales
• 38 Mathams Drive5 sales
• 23 Mathams Drive5 sales
• 44 Mathams Drive5 sales
• 34 Mathams Drive5 sales
• 29 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 27 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 3 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 17 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 47 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 35 Mathams Drive4 sales
• 41 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 26 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 49 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 13 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 4 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 30 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 58 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 24 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 22 Mathams Drive3 sales
• 18 Mathams Drive3 sales

Back to Bishop's Stortford house prices.

What is the average house price in Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford?

The median price paid in Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford across every sale on the register is £173,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford?

149 sales are on record for Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +57.2% between 2012 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +7.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £376,000, set in 2018. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford?

£3,220 per square metre, from the 42 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 22 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Mathams Drive, Bishop's Stortford house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.