Horn Book, Saffron Walden house prices are built from 165 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2002 and the most recent on 12 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £143,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +18.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -13.1%.
Median price paid
£143,500
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+18.5%
Change in real terms
-13.1%
Median per m²
£2,437
HM Land Registry165 sales48 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Horn Book, Saffron Walden prices moved
The chart tracks the median Horn Book, Saffron Walden house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2002 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 5 | £137,500 | £250,484 |
| 2010s | 2 | £161,000 | £227,010 |
| 2020s | 1 | £190,750 | £194,897 |
The highest yearly median on record for Horn Book, Saffron Walden is £195,000 in 2017; the lowest is £112,500 in 2002. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £112,500 to £190,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £216,997, so the real change over the whole record is -7.5% — about -0.35% 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: +18.5% in cash against -13.1% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 12 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £207,500 | £207,500 |
| 80 | 4 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 48 | 14 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 31 | 11 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 57 | 7 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| 62 | 26 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £176,000 | £185,194 |
| 36 | 20 Nov 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 76 | 2 Oct 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 34 | 27 Sep 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £218,000 | £229,388 |
| 61 | 20 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £189,000 | £198,873 |
| 72 | 16 Aug 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £192,500 | £202,556 |
| 74 | 30 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £226,231 |
| 65 | 17 May 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £178,881 |
| 1 | 22 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £216,092 |
| 67 | 23 Feb 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £194,483 |
| 50 | 18 May 2022 | Terraced | £325,000 | £376,541 |
| 43 | 8 Apr 2022 | Detached | £350,000 | £405,505 |
| 44 | 28 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £172,000 | £199,277 |
| 5 | 25 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £158,000 | £183,057 |
| 69 | 9 Jul 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £218,575 |
| 6 | 7 Apr 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £227,419 |
| 71 | 12 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £219,740 |
| 60 | 14 Jun 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £175,000 | £228,896 |
| 75 | 15 Nov 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £196,000 | £261,210 |
| 61 | 10 Aug 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £183,000 | £243,885 |
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 Horn Book, Saffron Walden values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 68 Horn Book | £132,000 (2003) | £207,500 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 80 Horn Book | £128,000 (2003) | £180,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| 48 Horn Book | £130,000 (2003) | £200,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 31 Horn Book | £124,000 (2002) | £210,000 (2025) | +2.3% | -0.5% |
| 57 Horn Book | £122,000 (2003) | £215,000 (2025) | +2.6% | -0.2% |
| 62 Horn Book | £131,000 (2003) | £176,000 (2024) | +1.4% | -1.4% |
| 36 Horn Book | £120,000 (2002) | £200,000 (2024) | +2.3% | -0.4% |
| 76 Horn Book | £124,000 (2003) | £185,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 34 Horn Book | £126,000 (2002) | £218,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.3% |
| 61 Horn Book | £125,000 (2003) | £189,000 (2024) | +2.0% | -0.8% |
| 72 Horn Book | £128,500 (2003) | £192,500 (2024) | +1.9% | -0.9% |
| 74 Horn Book | £122,000 (2003) | £215,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Horn Book, Saffron Walden 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 | 139 | 84.2% | £137,500 | £106,500 – £218,000 |
| Terraced | 18 | 10.9% | £212,500 | £190,000 – £325,000 |
| Detached | 5 | 3.0% | £200,000 | £197,000 – £350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | 1.8% | £132,000 | £130,000 – £222,500 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Horn Book, Saffron Walden
141 of the sales on record are leasehold and 24 freehold — 85.5% 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 £137,000 and the median freehold sale £213,750 — a gap of +56.0%. 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 | 141 | 85.5% | £137,000 |
| Freehold | 24 | 14.5% | £213,750 |
| New build | 59 | 35.8% | £128,000 |
| Existing home | 106 | 64.2% | £162,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -21.0%. 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 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 Horn Book, Saffron Walden
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Uttlesford, 52.5% of 41,328 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 6.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 499 | 1.2% |
| B | 9,869 | 23.9% |
| C | 11,323 | 27.4% |
| D | 11,385 | 27.5% |
| E | 5,729 | 13.9% |
| F | 2,073 | 5.0% |
| G | 450 | 1.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Uttlesford at £1,286 a month as of Jun 2026 — £902 for a one-bedroom home and £1,438 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £143,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.75% 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 CB11, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 3 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 91,341 residents the 2021 census counted in Uttlesford, that is 0.03 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 Horn Book, Saffron Walden
The 2021 census counted 91,341 residents in Uttlesford across 36,955 households. 72.4% of those households own their home and 27.6% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a CB11 postcode: 9 primary, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saffron Walden County High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 2,157 |
| Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport | Secondary | Academy converter | 865 |
| R A Butler Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 384 |
| R A Butler Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 271 |
| Katherine Semar Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 256 |
| St Thomas More Catholic Primary School, Saffron Walden | Primary | Academy converter | 206 |
| Katherine Semar Infant School | Primary | Academy converter | 180 |
| Clavering Primary School | Primary | Community school | 179 |
| Newport Primary School | Primary | Community school | 155 |
| Debden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 140 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Audley End Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Newport (Essex) Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Great Chesterford Rail Station | Rail | 6.9 km |
| Elsenham Rail Station | Rail | 8.8 km |
Section 09
How Horn Book, Saffron Walden compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Horn Book, Saffron Walden sits below that national figure — -8.9%.
Within Saffron Walden the street ranks 433 of 471 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £250,000 (-42.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,437 per square metre, across 48 of the 165 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 £106,500 to £350,000. 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.
Horn Book, Saffron Walden sits in Uttlesford, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Uttlesford at 11.7 times median local earnings of £39,491 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
- Radwinter Road£210,000 median
- Thaxted Road£250,000 median
- Station Street£136,000 median
- Ross Close£111,500 median
- London Road£285,000 median
- Loompits Way£150,000 median
- Debden Road£242,000 median
- Cherry Garden Lane£187,500 median
- Audley Road£179,750 median
- Wicken Road£294,000 median
- South Road£352,950 median
- Winstanley Road£185,000 median
- Long Horse Croft£135,500 median
- Cambridge Road£357,000 median
- Pleasant Valley£207,265 median
- Clay Pit Piece£86,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 67 Horn Book6 sales
- 75 Horn Book6 sales
- 10 Horn Book5 sales
- 68 Horn Book4 sales
- 80 Horn Book4 sales
- 36 Horn Book4 sales
- 34 Horn Book4 sales
- 72 Horn Book4 sales
- 44 Horn Book4 sales
- 47 Horn Book4 sales
- 63 Horn Book4 sales
- 51 Horn Book4 sales
- 70 Horn Book4 sales
- 33 Horn Book4 sales
- 48 Horn Book3 sales
- 61 Horn Book3 sales
- 65 Horn Book3 sales
- 1 Horn Book3 sales
- 69 Horn Book3 sales
- 71 Horn Book3 sales
- 56 Horn Book3 sales
- 77 Horn Book3 sales
- 3 Horn Book3 sales
- 37 Horn Book3 sales
Back to Saffron Walden house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Horn Book, Saffron Walden?
The median price paid in Horn Book, Saffron Walden across every sale on the register is £143,500. 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 Horn Book, Saffron Walden?
165 sales are on record for Horn Book, Saffron Walden, the most recent completing on 12 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Horn Book, Saffron Walden house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +18.5% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -13.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Horn Book, Saffron Walden house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £195,000, set in 2017. 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 Horn Book, Saffron Walden?
£2,437 per square metre, from the 48 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 12 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, “Horn Book, Saffron Walden 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.