Riverside, Bishop’s Stortford house prices

Riverside, Bishop's Stortford house prices are built from 194 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2008 and the most recent on 17 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £190,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -22.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -44.1%.

HM Land Registry194 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Riverside, Bishop's Stortford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2008 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 Riverside, Bishop's Stortford is £242,998 in 2015; the lowest is £70,000 in 2008. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £70,000 to £187,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £117,500, so the real change over the whole record is +63.0% — about +2.92% 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: -22.8% in cash against -44.1% 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 Riverside, 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. Riverside, Bishop's Stortford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

193 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1 freehold — 99.5% 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.

The median leasehold sale is £190,000 and the median freehold sale £725,000 — a gap of +281.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -13.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 6 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 £190,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.51% 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. Riverside, Bishop's Stortford sits above that national figure — +20.6%.

Within Bishop's Stortford the street ranks 616 of 777 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £245,000 (-22.4%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,134 per square metre, across 7 of the 194 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 £50,400 to £725,000. 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.

Riverside, 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

• FLAT 26, NAVIGATION HOUSE Riverside4 sales
• FLAT 92, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside4 sales
• FLAT 104, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 30, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 22, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 105, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 67, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 32, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 21, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 58, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 49, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 64, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 3, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 24, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 6, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 17, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside3 sales
• FLAT 43, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 102, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 10, NAVIGATION HOUSE Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 81, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 79, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 25, NAVIGATION HOUSE Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 82, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales
• FLAT 86, RIVERSIDE WHARF Riverside2 sales

Back to Bishop's Stortford house prices.

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

The median price paid in Riverside, Bishop's Stortford across every sale on the register is £190,000. 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 Riverside, Bishop's Stortford?

194 sales are on record for Riverside, Bishop's Stortford, the most recent completing on 17 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Riverside, Bishop's Stortford house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose -22.8% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -44.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

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

The highest yearly median on record is £242,998, set in 2015. 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 Riverside, Bishop's Stortford?

£3,134 per square metre, from the 7 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 17 Dec 2025. 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, “Riverside, 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.