Stewart Road, Harpenden house prices are built from 106 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 20 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £372,500. Across the 11 years from 2008 to 2019 the median moved +64.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +28.2%.
Median price paid
£372,500
Change in cash, 2008–2019
+64.5%
Change in real terms
+28.2%
Median per m²
£3,401
HM Land Registry106 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Stewart Road, Harpenden prices moved
The chart tracks the median Stewart Road, Harpenden house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2019. 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 | 3 | £89,950 | £199,731 |
| 2000s | 2 | £520,000 | £947,287 |
| 2010s | 3 | £1,150,000 | £1,621,500 |
The highest yearly median on record for Stewart Road, Harpenden is £1,190,000 in 2015; the lowest is £82,950 in 1997. Across the full 24-year record the cash median has moved from £185,000 to £1,000,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £401,308, so the real change over the whole record is +225.9% — about +5.27% 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: +64.5% in cash against +28.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 20 Aug 2025 | Detached | £1,950,000 | £1,992,391 |
| 18a | 7 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £1,042,500 | £1,065,163 |
| 24 Crosthwaite Court | 28 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £385,000 | £405,112 |
| 9 | 15 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,125,000 | £1,183,769 |
| 25 Crosthwaite Court | 3 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| 16 | 11 Aug 2023 | Detached | £1,375,000 | £1,485,632 |
| 7 Crosthwaite Court | 4 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| Glenamoy, 27 | 5 Oct 2022 | Detached | £2,415,000 | £2,797,987 |
| 26 | 5 Jan 2022 | Detached | £2,025,000 | £2,346,138 |
| 12 | 3 Dec 2021 | Semi-detached | £1,150,000 | £1,452,957 |
| 17 Crosthwaite Court | 15 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £360,000 | £454,839 |
| 25 Crosthwaite Court | 27 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £485,537 |
| 18 Crosthwaite Court | 14 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £414,325 |
| 13 | 1 Nov 2019 | Detached | £1,230,000 | £1,608,813 |
| 58 | 31 Oct 2019 | Detached | £1,750,000 | £2,288,961 |
| 21 Crosthwaite Court | 25 Oct 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £347,000 | £453,868 |
| 18 | 12 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £720,000 | £941,744 |
| 6 | 15 May 2019 | Detached | £1,000,000 | £1,307,978 |
| 15 | 10 Apr 2018 | Detached | £2,000,000 | £2,665,406 |
| 36 | 12 Mar 2018 | Detached | £1,536,800 | £2,048,098 |
| 18a | 6 Oct 2017 | Semi-detached | £880,000 | £1,197,683 |
| 19 Crosthwaite Court | 30 Aug 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £375,000 | £510,376 |
| 17 | 19 Apr 2017 | Detached | £1,251,000 | £1,702,616 |
| 6 Crosthwaite Court | 13 Jan 2017 | Flat or maisonette | £380,000 | £517,181 |
| 22 | 27 Nov 2015 | Detached | £1,190,000 | £1,677,900 |
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 Stewart Road, Harpenden values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Stewart Road | £260,000 (1997) | £1,950,000 (2025) | +7.5% | +4.7% |
| 18A Stewart Road | £475,000 (2009) | £1,042,500 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.0% |
| 9 Stewart Road | £581,250 (2004) | £1,125,000 (2024) | +3.4% | +0.5% |
| 25 CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road | £157,500 (1999) | £400,000 (2024) | +3.8% | +1.1% |
| 12 Stewart Road | £475,000 (2005) | £1,150,000 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 17 CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road | £335,000 (2015) | £360,000 (2021) | +1.2% | -0.6% |
| 13 Stewart Road | £997,500 (2010) | £1,230,000 (2019) | +2.4% | +0.1% |
| 21 CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road | £222,500 (2004) | £347,000 (2019) | +3.0% | +0.6% |
| 18 Stewart Road | £185,000 (1999) | £720,000 (2019) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 15 Stewart Road | £455,000 (1997) | £2,000,000 (2018) | +7.3% | +5.0% |
| 19 CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road | £157,000 (2001) | £375,000 (2017) | +5.6% | +3.2% |
| 6 CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road | £78,000 (1997) | £380,000 (2017) | +8.2% | +5.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Stewart Road, Harpenden 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 50 | 47.2% | £200,000 | £57,000 – £400,000 |
| Detached | 43 | 40.6% | £935,000 | £185,000 – £2,415,000 |
| Semi-detached | 13 | 12.3% | £475,000 | £185,000 – £1,150,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Stewart Road, Harpenden
50 of the sales on record are leasehold and 56 freehold — 47.2% 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 £209,975 and the median freehold sale £831,254 — a gap of +295.9%. 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 | 50 | 47.2% | £209,975 |
| Freehold | 56 | 52.8% | £831,254 |
| New build | 2 | 1.9% | £470,975 |
| Existing home | 104 | 98.1% | £365,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +29.0%. 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 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.
Section 07
Living in Stewart Road, Harpenden
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Central Bedfordshire, 54.5% of 139,601 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,405 | 1.0% |
| B | 28,531 | 20.4% |
| C | 46,180 | 33.1% |
| D | 45,015 | 32.2% |
| E | 14,404 | 10.3% |
| F | 3,286 | 2.4% |
| G | 780 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Central Bedfordshire at £1,250 a month as of Jun 2026 — £864 for a one-bedroom home and £1,374 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £372,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.03% 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 AL5, 109 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 19 violent, 3 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 32 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.5 times quieter.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.37 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 Stewart Road, Harpenden
The 2021 census counted 294,252 residents in Central Bedfordshire across 120,754 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a AL5 postcode: 13 primary, 4 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roundwood Park School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,421 |
| Sir John Lawes School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,373 |
| St George's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,351 |
| Katherine Warington School | Secondary | Free schools | 1,113 |
| Wood End School | Primary | Community school | 457 |
| High Beeches Primary School | Primary | Community school | 420 |
| The Grove Junior School | Primary | Community school | 350 |
| Roundwood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 338 |
| Crabtree Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 256 |
| The Grove Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 243 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Harpenden Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Luton Airport Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Luton Airport DART Station | Metro or underground | 7.1 km |
| St Albans City Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Stewart Road, Harpenden compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Stewart Road, Harpenden sits above that national figure — +136.5%.
Within Harpenden the street ranks 228 of 387 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £375,000 (-0.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,401 per square metre, across 22 of the 106 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 £57,000 to £2,415,000. 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.
Stewart Road, Harpenden sits in Central Bedfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Central Bedfordshire at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,704 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
- Station Road£240,000 median
- Luton Road£325,000 median
- Milton Road£235,000 median
- Roundwood Lane£147,750 median
- Cravells Road£268,000 median
- Southdown Road£250,000 median
- Crabtree Lane£525,000 median
- Cowper Road£409,375 median
- Overstone Road£420,000 median
- Lower Luton Road£247,500 median
- Tuffnells Way£500,000 median
- Grove Road£250,000 median
- Park Mount£395,000 median
- Sun Lane£325,000 median
- Chesterton Avenue£358,750 median
- Piggottshill Lane£450,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Stewart Road5 sales
- 9, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road5 sales
- 21, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road4 sales
- 3, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road4 sales
- 8, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road4 sales
- 18A Stewart Road3 sales
- 25, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road3 sales
- 12 Stewart Road3 sales
- 16, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road3 sales
- 31 Stewart Road3 sales
- 10, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road3 sales
- 20 Stewart Road3 sales
- 42 Stewart Road3 sales
- 14, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road3 sales
- 23 Stewart Road2 sales
- 9 Stewart Road2 sales
- 17, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road2 sales
- 13 Stewart Road2 sales
- 15 Stewart Road2 sales
- 19, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road2 sales
- 6, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road2 sales
- 20, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road2 sales
- 30 Stewart Road2 sales
- 12, CROSTHWAITE COURT Stewart Road2 sales
Back to Harpenden house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Stewart Road, Harpenden?
The median price paid in Stewart Road, Harpenden across every sale on the register is £372,500. 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 Stewart Road, Harpenden?
106 sales are on record for Stewart Road, Harpenden, the most recent completing on 20 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Stewart Road, Harpenden house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +64.5% between 2008 and 2019. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +28.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Stewart Road, Harpenden house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £1,190,000, 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 Stewart Road, Harpenden?
£3,401 per square metre, from the 22 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 20 Aug 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, “Stewart Road, Harpenden 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.