Stevenage house prices

Stevenage house prices are built from 47,649 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 23 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £168,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +36.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.4%.

HM Land Registry47,649 sales11,316 with floor areaLatest sale 23 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Stevenage 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Stevenage is £350,000 in 2025; the lowest is £54,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £54,000 to £350,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £119,906, so the real change over the whole record is +191.9% — about +3.52% 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: +36.2% in cash against -2.4% 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.

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.

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 Stevenage values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Stevenage is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 15,979 certificates cover Stevenage, and their median floor area is 77 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. 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.

8,070 of the sales on record are leasehold and 39,579 freehold — 16.9% 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 £125,000 and the median freehold sale £179,000 — a gap of +43.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -4.4%. 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 2,120 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across North Hertfordshire, 49.3% of 67,462 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in North Hertfordshire at £1,424 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,016 for a one-bedroom home and £1,564 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £168,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.17% 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 SG1, 390 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 139 violent, 12 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 91 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.3 times busier.

Against the 133,210 residents the 2021 census counted in North Hertfordshire, that is 2.93 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.

The 2021 census counted 133,210 residents in North Hertfordshire across 56,733 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 34.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

19 state and independent schools have a SG1 postcode: 15 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Stevenage sits above that national figure — +6.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,414 per square metre, across 11,316 of the 47,649 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 £2,500 to £2,100,000. 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.

Stevenage sits in North Hertfordshire, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in North Hertfordshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £42,555 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.

Streets in Stevenage

• Prestatyn Close650 sales
• Ripon Road610 sales
• Canterbury Way603 sales
• Cleveland Way566 sales
• York Road514 sales
• Lonsdale Road493 sales
• Archer Road480 sales
• Wisden Road386 sales
• Jessop Road367 sales
• Fairfield Way350 sales
• Woolners Way328 sales
• Wansbeck Close326 sales
• Broadwater Crescent321 sales
• Mendip Way312 sales
• Grace Way294 sales
• Hayfield287 sales
• Kimbolton Crescent279 sales
• Shearwater Close276 sales
• Augustus Gate270 sales
• Great Ashby Way269 sales
• Serpentine Close268 sales
• Vardon Road268 sales
• Chepstow Close264 sales
• Wheatlands264 sales
• Fairview Road256 sales
• Durham Road254 sales
• Mildmay Road254 sales
• High Street251 sales
• Pankhurst Crescent248 sales
• Admiral Drive247 sales
• Telford Avenue246 sales
• Morecambe Close241 sales
• Walkern Road239 sales
• Jackdaw Close234 sales
• Torquay Crescent234 sales
• Chalkdown232 sales
• Lomond Way231 sales
• Tamar Close230 sales
• Shephall Way229 sales
• Swingate228 sales
• Downlands225 sales
• Grasmere223 sales
• Collenswood Road217 sales
• The Chilterns212 sales
• Chertsey Rise209 sales
• Colwyn Close207 sales
• The Pastures205 sales
• Trajan Gate202 sales
• Raleigh Crescent201 sales
• Boxfield Green194 sales
• The Beacons193 sales
• Sparrow Drive192 sales
• Chells Way190 sales
• Sefton Road190 sales
• Bude Crescent189 sales
• Lime Close188 sales
• Derby Way186 sales
• Old Bourne Way186 sales
• Blackdown Close184 sales
• Uplands182 sales

Postcode districts covering Stevenage

• SG1£169,995 median
• SG2£165,000 median

What is the average house price in Stevenage?

The median price paid in Stevenage across every sale on the register is £168,000. 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 Stevenage?

47,649 sales are on record for Stevenage, the most recent completing on 23 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Stevenage house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +36.2% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Stevenage house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £350,000, 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 Stevenage?

£2,414 per square metre, from the 11,316 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 23 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, “Stevenage 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.