The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford house prices are built from 160 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £129,750. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved -33.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -51.3%.
Median price paid
£129,750
Change in cash, 2014–2024
-33.6%
Change in real terms
-51.3%
Median per m²
£2,170
HM Land Registry160 sales60 with floor areaLatest sale 6 May 2026
Section 01
How The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford prices moved
The chart tracks the median The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £46,000 | £102,142 |
| 2000s | 8 | £111,250 | £202,665 |
| 2010s | 2 | £166,000 | £234,060 |
| 2020s | 1 | £192,500 | £196,685 |
The highest yearly median on record for The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford is £290,000 in 2014; the lowest is £40,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £192,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +102.7% — about +2.47% 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: -33.6% in cash against -51.3% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 6 May 2026 | Terraced | £238,200 | £238,200 |
| 4 | 6 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £239,000 | £239,000 |
| 9 | 28 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| 52 | 30 Jul 2025 | Detached | £735,000 | £750,978 |
| 13 | 12 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £270,000 | £275,870 |
| 47 | 28 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 48 | 11 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £405,112 |
| 32 | 26 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £173,619 |
| 21 | 28 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 13 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 6 | 3 Jan 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £172,500 | £181,511 |
| 28 | 28 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 3 | 20 Nov 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 4 | 22 Mar 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £211,338 | £228,342 |
| 23 | 5 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £370,000 | £428,677 |
| 34 | 15 Jul 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 43 | 5 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £240,000 | £303,226 |
| 57 | 28 Apr 2021 | Detached | £685,000 | £865,457 |
| 41 | 30 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £217,500 | £281,612 |
| 37 | 22 May 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £165,000 | £213,636 |
| 64 | 25 Oct 2018 | Detached | £475,000 | £633,034 |
| 20 | 3 May 2017 | Terraced | £185,000 | £251,786 |
| 43 | 17 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £205,500 | £279,686 |
| 16 | 17 Mar 2017 | Terraced | £195,000 | £265,396 |
| 5 | 12 Dec 2016 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £251,287 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 the Paddock | £57,500 (1999) | £238,200 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 4 the Paddock | £40,500 (1996) | £239,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 9 the Paddock | £42,500 (1995) | £235,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 52 the Paddock | £459,000 (2012) | £735,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 13 the Paddock | £220,000 (2024) | £270,000 (2025) | +22.7% | +19.2% |
| 47 the Paddock | £49,950 (1997) | £200,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 48 the Paddock | £90,000 (1998) | £385,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 32 the Paddock | £36,500 (1996) | £165,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 21 the Paddock | £42,500 (1998) | £185,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 6 the Paddock | £39,000 (1997) | £172,500 (2024) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 23 the Paddock | £92,995 (2000) | £370,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +3.9% |
| 34 the Paddock | £44,000 (1997) | £230,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 79 | 49.4% | £114,000 | £35,000 – £370,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 46 | 28.7% | £124,995 | £30,000 – £239,000 |
| Detached | 21 | 13.1% | £355,000 | £103,500 – £735,000 |
| Semi-detached | 14 | 8.8% | £110,000 | £46,000 – £385,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford
57 of the sales on record are leasehold and 103 freehold — 35.6% 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 £123,500 and the median freehold sale £147,000 — a gap of +19.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 57 | 35.6% | £123,500 |
| Freehold | 103 | 64.4% | £147,000 |
A further 5 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.
Section 07
Living in The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 598 | 0.9% |
| B | 12,018 | 17.8% |
| C | 21,159 | 31.4% |
| D | 22,088 | 32.8% |
| E | 8,670 | 12.9% |
| F | 2,271 | 3.4% |
| G | 556 | 0.8% |
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 £129,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.92% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,508 |
| Birchwood High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,417 |
| The Bishop's Stortford High School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,279 |
| St Mary's Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,106 |
| Hockerill Anglo-European College | Secondary | Academy converter | 903 |
| Avanti Grange Secondary School | Secondary | Free schools | 660 |
| Northgate Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 455 |
| Windhill21 | Primary | Academy converter | 451 |
| Manor Fields Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 449 |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School B/S | Primary | Academy converter | 436 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bishops Stortford Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Stansted Mountfitchet Rail Station | Rail | 4.3 km |
| Sawbridgeworth Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Elsenham Rail Station | Rail | 7.2 km |
Section 09
How The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford sits below that national figure — -17.6%.
Within Bishop's Stortford the street ranks 747 of 777 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £245,000 (-47.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,170 per square metre, across 60 of the 160 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 £30,000 to £735,000. 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.
The Paddock, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
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
- 37 the Paddock7 sales
- 42 the Paddock6 sales
- 43 the Paddock6 sales
- 16 the Paddock6 sales
- 19 the Paddock5 sales
- 26 the Paddock5 sales
- 4 the Paddock4 sales
- 32 the Paddock4 sales
- 21 the Paddock4 sales
- 23 the Paddock4 sales
- 34 the Paddock4 sales
- 41 the Paddock4 sales
- 49 the Paddock4 sales
- 31 the Paddock4 sales
- 40 the Paddock4 sales
- 9 the Paddock3 sales
- 52 the Paddock3 sales
- 48 the Paddock3 sales
- 5 the Paddock3 sales
- 36 the Paddock3 sales
- 8 the Paddock3 sales
- 11 the Paddock3 sales
- 18 the Paddock3 sales
- 33 the Paddock3 sales
Back to Bishop's Stortford house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford?
The median price paid in The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford across every sale on the register is £129,750. 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 The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford?
160 sales are on record for The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford, the most recent completing on 6 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -33.6% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -51.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £290,000, set in 2014. 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 The Paddock, Bishop's Stortford?
£2,170 per square metre, from the 60 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 6 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, “The Paddock, 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.