Dove Close, Sandy house prices are built from 93 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 11 Jul 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £99,000. Across the 5 years from 1997 to 2002 the median moved +81.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +65.4%.
Median price paid
£99,000
Change in cash, 1997–2002
+81.8%
Change in real terms
+65.4%
Median per m²
£1,747
HM Land Registry93 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 11 Jul 2025
Section 01
How Dove Close, Sandy prices moved
The chart tracks the median Dove Close, Sandy house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2002. 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 | £65,995 | £146,540 |
| 2000s | 3 | £98,498 | £179,433 |
The highest yearly median on record for Dove Close, Sandy is £120,000 in 2002; the lowest is £63,495 in 1998. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £65,995 to £120,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £139,929, so the real change over the whole record is +65.4% — about +10.59% 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: +81.8% in cash against +65.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 11 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £300,000 | £306,522 |
| 9 | 10 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £301,413 |
| 31 | 4 Feb 2025 | Semi-detached | £292,500 | £298,859 |
| 28 | 29 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £295,000 | £310,410 |
| 2 | 19 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £361,954 |
| 4 | 21 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 24 | 5 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £345,000 | £399,712 |
| 25 | 22 Jul 2022 | Detached | £285,000 | £330,197 |
| 12 | 24 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £258,000 | £325,968 |
| 9 | 15 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £242,500 | £306,384 |
| 31 | 26 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £238,000 | £308,154 |
| 20 | 7 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £255,000 | £330,165 |
| 28 | 21 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £340,074 |
| 10 | 26 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £247,000 | £329,178 |
| 4 | 15 Sep 2016 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £397,871 |
| 25 | 14 Sep 2016 | Detached | £238,500 | £332,955 |
| 20 | 30 Jul 2015 | Terraced | £189,950 | £267,830 |
| 12 | 30 Jul 2012 | Terraced | £147,000 | £219,566 |
| 21 | 23 Sep 2011 | Terraced | £140,000 | £214,565 |
| 33 | 18 Mar 2011 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £206,902 |
| 4 | 28 Sep 2010 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £295,413 |
| 4 | 24 Sep 2010 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £287,429 |
| 7 | 3 Dec 2009 | Detached | £169,000 | £277,727 |
| 8 | 15 May 2009 | Terraced | £130,000 | £213,636 |
| 24 | 12 Jun 2008 | Semi-detached | £203,000 | £340,750 |
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 Dove Close, Sandy values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Dove Close | £63,995 (1998) | £300,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 9 Dove Close | £59,950 (1997) | £295,000 (2025) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 31 Dove Close | £63,495 (1998) | £292,500 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 28 Dove Close | £65,995 (1998) | £295,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 2 Dove Close | £79,495 (1997) | £335,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 4 Dove Close | £79,995 (1997) | £375,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.8% |
| 24 Dove Close | £85,000 (1998) | £345,000 (2022) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
| 25 Dove Close | £66,995 (1998) | £285,000 (2022) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 20 Dove Close | £58,895 (1998) | £255,000 (2020) | +6.9% | +4.6% |
| 10 Dove Close | £59,845 (1997) | £247,000 (2018) | +7.0% | +4.6% |
| 21 Dove Close | £62,995 (1998) | £140,000 (2011) | +6.3% | +3.9% |
| 33 Dove Close | £63,495 (1998) | £135,000 (2011) | +6.0% | +3.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Dove Close, Sandy 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 57 | 61.3% | £99,000 | £59,845 – £375,000 |
| Terraced | 25 | 26.9% | £84,000 | £57,995 – £300,000 |
| Detached | 11 | 11.8% | £152,500 | £65,995 – £285,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Dove Close, Sandy
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 93 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 93 | 100.0% | £99,000 |
| New build | 30 | 32.3% | £63,498 |
| Existing home | 63 | 67.7% | £137,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -53.7%. 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 Dove Close, Sandy
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 £99,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.15% 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 SG19, 16 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 6 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 10.4 times quieter.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.05 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 Dove Close, Sandy
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.
11 state and independent schools have a SG19 postcode: 10 primary, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Secondary School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,259 |
| Gamlingay Village Primary | Primary | Academy converter | 387 |
| Potton Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 387 |
| Robert Peel Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 386 |
| Maple Tree Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 241 |
| Laburnum Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 174 |
| St Swithun's Church of England VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 172 |
| Barnabas Oley CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 144 |
| Sutton CofE VA Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 98 |
| Everton Heath Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 82 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Biggleswade Rail Station | Rail | 6.3 km |
| St Neots Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Arlesey Rail Station | Rail | 12.8 km |
| Ashwell & Morden Rail Station | Rail | 15.0 km |
Section 09
How Dove Close, Sandy compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Dove Close, Sandy sits below that national figure — -37.1%.
Within Sandy the street ranks 333 of 363 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £173,000 (-42.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,747 per square metre, across 14 of the 93 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 £57,995 to £375,000. 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.
Dove Close, Sandy 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
- High Street£215,000 median
- St Neots Road£171,500 median
- Kestrel Way£151,500 median
- Station Road£190,000 median
- Laburnum Road£125,000 median
- Everton Road£185,000 median
- Merlin Drive£170,000 median
- Church Street£190,000 median
- Chapel Field£144,998 median
- Willow Road£79,250 median
- Banks Drive£203,000 median
- Weavers Green£99,250 median
- London Road£137,250 median
- Horslow Street£170,000 median
- King Street£182,000 median
- Wingfield Drive£181,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 31 Dove Close7 sales
- 28 Dove Close6 sales
- 4 Dove Close5 sales
- 12 Dove Close4 sales
- 9 Dove Close4 sales
- 2 Dove Close4 sales
- 20 Dove Close4 sales
- 10 Dove Close4 sales
- 7 Dove Close4 sales
- 8 Dove Close4 sales
- 26 Dove Close4 sales
- 24 Dove Close3 sales
- 25 Dove Close3 sales
- 1 Dove Close3 sales
- 27 Dove Close3 sales
- 18 Dove Close3 sales
- 23 Dove Close3 sales
- 3 Dove Close3 sales
- 22 Dove Close3 sales
- 29 Dove Close3 sales
- 21 Dove Close2 sales
- 33 Dove Close2 sales
- 14 Dove Close2 sales
- 17 Dove Close2 sales
Back to Sandy house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Dove Close, Sandy?
The median price paid in Dove Close, Sandy across every sale on the register is £99,000. 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 Dove Close, Sandy?
93 sales are on record for Dove Close, Sandy, the most recent completing on 11 Jul 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Dove Close, Sandy house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +81.8% between 1997 and 2002. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +65.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Dove Close, Sandy house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £120,000, set in 2002. 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 Dove Close, Sandy?
£1,747 per square metre, from the 14 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 11 Jul 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, “Dove Close, Sandy 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.