Icknield Close, Hitchin house prices are built from 173 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 3 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £89,950. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +46.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +5.9%.
Median price paid
£89,950
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+46.2%
Change in real terms
+5.9%
HM Land Registry173 salesLatest sale 3 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Icknield Close, Hitchin prices moved
The chart tracks the median Icknield Close, Hitchin house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 4 | £42,000 | £93,260 |
| 2000s | 8 | £81,500 | £148,469 |
| 2010s | 3 | £171,000 | £241,110 |
| 2020s | 3 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Icknield Close, Hitchin is £250,000 in 2025; the lowest is £28,750 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £28,750 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £63,839, so the real change over the whole record is +300.1% — about +4.73% 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: +46.2% in cash against +5.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 3 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 21 | 23 Jan 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 28 | 3 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 7 | 3 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 70 | 5 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £430,000 | £439,348 |
| 4 | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 18 | 26 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £249,950 | £255,384 |
| 61 | 27 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £247,276 |
| 56 | 29 Aug 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £227,000 | £245,264 |
| 52 | 11 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £237,000 | £274,585 |
| 57 | 27 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 38 | 12 Apr 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £167,500 | £194,063 |
| 71 | 4 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £420,800 | £487,533 |
| 46 | 26 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £192,043 |
| 45 | 27 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 40 | 22 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| 7 | 31 Mar 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £222,000 | £280,484 |
| 73 | 18 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 61 | 11 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £297,796 |
| 69 | 30 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £388,000 | £502,369 |
| 24 | 24 Jul 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £142,250 | £184,180 |
| 19 | 8 Apr 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £208,000 | £269,311 |
| 16 | 21 Feb 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £128,500 | £166,377 |
| 72 | 11 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £350,000 | £457,792 |
| 2 | 9 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £317,500 | £415,283 |
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 Icknield Close, Hitchin values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61 Icknield Close | £82,000 (2002) | £240,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 21 Icknield Close | £75,000 (2002) | £215,000 (2026) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 28 Icknield Close | £40,000 (1995) | £250,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 7 Icknield Close | £44,950 (1999) | £250,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
| 70 Icknield Close | £88,000 (1999) | £430,000 (2025) | +6.3% | +3.5% |
| 18 Icknield Close | £66,000 (2001) | £249,950 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 56 Icknield Close | £148,000 (2007) | £227,000 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 52 Icknield Close | £41,000 (1997) | £237,000 (2022) | +7.3% | +4.7% |
| 57 Icknield Close | £35,000 (1996) | £230,000 (2022) | +7.5% | +4.9% |
| 38 Icknield Close | £67,000 (2003) | £167,500 (2022) | +4.9% | +2.3% |
| 71 Icknield Close | £91,995 (2000) | £420,800 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
| 46 Icknield Close | £20,500 (1996) | £152,000 (2021) | +8.3% | +6.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Icknield Close, Hitchin 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 | 141 | 81.5% | £82,000 | £18,000 – £250,000 |
| Terraced | 28 | 16.2% | £177,500 | £60,000 – £440,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 2.3% | £109,000 | £75,000 – £215,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Icknield Close, Hitchin
142 of the sales on record are leasehold and 31 freehold — 82.1% 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 £82,500 and the median freehold sale £180,000 — a gap of +118.2%. 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 | 142 | 82.1% | £82,500 |
| Freehold | 31 | 17.9% | £180,000 |
A further 9 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 Icknield Close, Hitchin
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 £89,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.68% 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 SG5, 42 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 13 violent, 2 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 15 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.0 times quieter.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.14 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 Icknield Close, Hitchin
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.
16 state and independent schools have a SG5 postcode: 12 primary, 2 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 middle deemed 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchin Boys' School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,364 |
| The Priory School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,221 |
| Pix Brook Academy | Middle deemed secondary | Free schools | 1,011 |
| Fairfield Park Lower School | Primary | Community school | 479 |
| Samuel Lucas Junior Mixed and Infant School | Primary | Community school | 416 |
| Roecroft Lower School | Primary | Community school | 359 |
| St Mary's CofE Academy Stotfold | Primary | Academy converter | 297 |
| Wilshere-Dacre Junior Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 234 |
| Ickleford Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 213 |
| Strathmore Infant and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 198 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hitchin Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Letchworth Garden City Rail Station | Rail | 3.6 km |
| Arlesey Rail Station | Rail | 6.0 km |
| Baldock Rail Station | Rail | 6.8 km |
Section 09
How Icknield Close, Hitchin compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Icknield Close, Hitchin sits below that national figure — -42.9%.
Within Hitchin the street ranks 766 of 772 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £235,000 (-61.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £18,000 to £440,000. 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.
Icknield Close, Hitchin 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
- Bedford Road£148,000 median
- Kingsley Avenue£238,000 median
- Hitchin Road£248,500 median
- Grove Road£179,000 median
- Nightingale Road£205,000 median
- Symonds Road£182,500 median
- Ickleford Road£214,000 median
- Bearton Road£270,000 median
- Old Park Road£260,000 median
- Bancroft£205,000 median
- Bronte Avenue£325,995 median
- Arlesey Road£228,000 median
- Whinbush Road£208,498 median
- Balmoral Road£220,000 median
- Heathfield Road£142,000 median
- Old Hale Way£298,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 7 Icknield Close7 sales
- 28 Icknield Close6 sales
- 24 Icknield Close6 sales
- 61 Icknield Close5 sales
- 70 Icknield Close5 sales
- 38 Icknield Close5 sales
- 48 Icknield Close5 sales
- 39 Icknield Close5 sales
- 21 Icknield Close4 sales
- 71 Icknield Close4 sales
- 45 Icknield Close4 sales
- 40 Icknield Close4 sales
- 12 Icknield Close4 sales
- 8 Icknield Close4 sales
- 30 Icknield Close4 sales
- 29 Icknield Close4 sales
- 20 Icknield Close4 sales
- 62 Icknield Close4 sales
- 18 Icknield Close3 sales
- 52 Icknield Close3 sales
- 46 Icknield Close3 sales
- 73 Icknield Close3 sales
- 69 Icknield Close3 sales
- 19 Icknield Close3 sales
Back to Hitchin house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Icknield Close, Hitchin?
The median price paid in Icknield Close, Hitchin across every sale on the register is £89,950. 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 Icknield Close, Hitchin?
173 sales are on record for Icknield Close, Hitchin, the most recent completing on 3 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Icknield Close, Hitchin house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +46.2% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +5.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Icknield Close, Hitchin house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2025. 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 Icknield Close, Hitchin?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 3 Feb 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, “Icknield Close, Hitchin 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.