Sawbridgeworth house prices are built from 7,948 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 8 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £205,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +40.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.4%.
Median price paid
£205,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+40.2%
Change in real terms
+0.4%
Median per m²
£3,113
HM Land Registry7,948 sales1,705 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Sawbridgeworth prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sawbridgeworth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. 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 | £73,500 | £163,205 |
| 2000s | 10 | £181,750 | £331,095 |
| 2010s | 10 | £287,500 | £405,375 |
| 2020s | 7 | £457,000 | £466,935 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sawbridgeworth is £505,000 in 2022; the lowest is £71,995 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £71,995 to £462,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,863, so the real change over the whole record is +189.3% — about +3.49% 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: +40.2% in cash against +0.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Barnard Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £495,000 | £495,000 |
| 12 Wychford Drive | 29 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 113 Sheering Mill Lane | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| 117 West Road | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £518,500 | £518,500 |
| 34 Forebury Avenue | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £762,500 | £762,500 |
| 88 London Road | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £280,000 | £280,000 |
| 84 Lawrence Moorings | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £295,000 | £295,000 |
| 15 Lawrence Moorings | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 9 Orchard Lea | 8 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £147,000 | £147,000 |
| 3 Wheatley Close | 6 May 2026 | Detached | £580,000 | £580,000 |
| Starlings Roost, 5 | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £730,000 | £730,000 |
| 22 Barnard Road | 30 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £520,000 | £520,000 |
| 91 White Post Field | 30 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £324,000 | £324,000 |
| 100 Sheering Mill Lane | 28 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| PRIMROSE COTTAGE Slough Road | 22 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £640,000 | £640,000 |
| 12A Bullfields | 14 Apr 2026 | Detached | £760,000 | £760,000 |
| 6 East Park | 14 Apr 2026 | Detached | £607,000 | £607,000 |
| 6 Copper Court | 9 Apr 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £226,500 | £226,500 |
| 33 BURTONS MILL Mill Lane | 27 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 42 Ash Groves | 26 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £427,000 | £427,000 |
| 2 Reedings Way | 26 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 5 the Orchards | 24 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £465,000 | £465,000 |
| 52 Giffin Way | 20 Mar 2026 | Detached | £519,995 | £519,995 |
| 34 the Crest | 19 Mar 2026 | Detached | £535,000 | £535,000 |
| 6 Clements Street | 13 Mar 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
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 Sawbridgeworth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 Barnard Road | £166,500 (2002) | £495,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 113 Sheering Mill Lane | £269,950 (2006) | £570,000 (2026) | +3.8% | +0.9% |
| 117 West Road | £111,000 (2003) | £518,500 (2026) | +6.9% | +4.0% |
| 34 Forebury Avenue | £218,000 (2003) | £762,500 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 88 London Road | £48,000 (1996) | £280,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 84 Lawrence Moorings | £73,340 (1995) | £295,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
| 9 Orchard Lea | £175,000 (2009) | £147,000 (2026) | -1.0% | -3.9% |
| 15 Lawrence Moorings | £130,000 (2012) | £215,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.7% |
| 3 Wheatley Close | £335,000 (2009) | £580,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| 91 White Post Field | £59,995 (1997) | £324,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 22 Barnard Road | £226,000 (2006) | £520,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 100 Sheering Mill Lane | £250,000 (2009) | £570,000 (2026) | +5.0% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sawbridgeworth 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 | 2,523 | 31.7% | £121,250 | £10,000 – £1,295,000 |
| Detached | 1,882 | 23.7% | £400,000 | £22,837 – £3,180,000 |
| Semi-detached | 1,829 | 23.0% | £275,000 | £35,000 – £1,275,000 |
| Terraced | 1,714 | 21.6% | £194,000 | £12,000 – £985,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Sawbridgeworth
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 1,411 certificates cover Sawbridgeworth, and their median floor area is 81 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +6.6%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 81 m² | about 872 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 59 m² | about 635 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 114 m² | about 1,222 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 26.4% | 372 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 10.8% | 153 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sawbridgeworth
2,597 of the sales on record are leasehold and 5,351 freehold — 32.7% 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 £122,000 and the median freehold sale £280,000 — a gap of +129.5%. 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 | 2,597 | 32.7% | £122,000 |
| Freehold | 5,351 | 67.3% | £280,000 |
| New build | 570 | 7.2% | £309,000 |
| Existing home | 7,378 | 92.8% | £198,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +56.1%. 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 203 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 09
How Sawbridgeworth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sawbridgeworth sits above that national figure — +30.2%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,113 per square metre, across 1,705 of the 7,948 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 £10,000 to £3,180,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Sawbridgeworth
- Lawrence Moorings559 sales
- Sheering Lower Road474 sales
- Station Road362 sales
- Ladywell Prospect335 sales
- London Road299 sales
- West Road250 sales
- The Meadows236 sales
- Cambridge Road219 sales
- Nursery Fields175 sales
- Sheering Mill Lane133 sales
- The Maltings118 sales
- Elmwood110 sales
- The Crest105 sales
- High Wych Road103 sales
- Leat Close100 sales
- Sayesbury Road99 sales
- Hazel Gardens96 sales
- Bullfields94 sales
- Knight Street93 sales
- Hatfield Heath Road86 sales
- Luxford Place85 sales
- Orchard Lea84 sales
- Bell Street83 sales
- Sun Street82 sales
- White Post Field76 sales
- Gilders73 sales
- Burtons Mill71 sales
- Wychford Drive69 sales
- Pishiobury Drive66 sales
- Ash Groves64 sales
- Parkway63 sales
- Highgate Grove62 sales
- High Wych Lane58 sales
- Copper Court57 sales
- Springhall Road53 sales
- The Gables53 sales
- Vantorts Road51 sales
- The Four Acres50 sales
- Yewlands49 sales
- Saffron Crescent48 sales
- Atherton End47 sales
- School Lane46 sales
- Barnard Road44 sales
- Hampton Gardens44 sales
- Blacksmith Way42 sales
- Giffin Way42 sales
- Church Walk41 sales
- Redricks Lane41 sales
- Brook Road40 sales
- Burnside40 sales
- Sayesbury Avenue40 sales
- Slough Road40 sales
- Forebury Avenue38 sales
- The Orchards38 sales
- New Street37 sales
- Rowney Gardens36 sales
- Rowney Wood36 sales
- Crofters End35 sales
- East Park35 sales
- Honeymeade35 sales
Postcode districts covering Sawbridgeworth
- CM21£205,000 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sawbridgeworth?
The median price paid in Sawbridgeworth across every sale on the register is £205,000. 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 Sawbridgeworth?
7,948 sales are on record for Sawbridgeworth, the most recent completing on 8 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sawbridgeworth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +40.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sawbridgeworth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £505,000, set in 2022. 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 Sawbridgeworth?
£3,113 per square metre, from the 1,705 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 8 Jun 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, “Sawbridgeworth 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.