Old Bourne Way, Stevenage house prices are built from 186 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 14 Jun 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £146,750. Across the 10 years from 2011 to 2021 the median moved +104.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +68.5%.
Median price paid
£146,750
Change in cash, 2011–2021
+104.4%
Change in real terms
+68.5%
Median per m²
£2,398
HM Land Registry186 sales42 with floor areaLatest sale 14 Jun 2024
Section 01
How Old Bourne Way, Stevenage prices moved
The chart tracks the median Old Bourne Way, Stevenage house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. 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 | 1 | £89,950 | £199,731 |
| 2000s | 9 | £168,000 | £306,047 |
| 2010s | 3 | £205,000 | £289,050 |
| 2020s | 1 | £375,000 | £383,152 |
The highest yearly median on record for Old Bourne Way, Stevenage is £375,000 in 2021; the lowest is £89,950 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £89,950 to £375,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £183,280, so the real change over the whole record is +158.5% — about +4.41% 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: +104.4% in cash against +68.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 14 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £405,112 |
| 51 | 3 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £315,000 | £340,345 |
| 54 | 17 Mar 2023 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £459,195 |
| 63 | 16 Jun 2022 | Terraced | £410,000 | £475,021 |
| 53 | 30 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £372,500 | £470,632 |
| 31 | 27 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 42 | 3 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £390,000 | £492,742 |
| 51 | 31 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £295,000 | £372,715 |
| 3 | 11 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 35 | 26 Feb 2021 | Semi-detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| 26 | 25 Jan 2021 | Terraced | £257,000 | £324,704 |
| 65 | 21 Aug 2020 | Terraced | £270,000 | £349,587 |
| 29 | 10 Feb 2020 | Terraced | £285,000 | £369,008 |
| 63 | 2 Aug 2019 | Terraced | £355,000 | £464,332 |
| 66 | 21 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £267,000 | £355,832 |
| 12 | 24 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £358,000 | £477,108 |
| 23 | 23 Aug 2018 | Semi-detached | £334,500 | £445,789 |
| 5 | 20 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £446,456 |
| 35 | 16 Jul 2018 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £486,437 |
| 54 | 25 May 2018 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £399,811 |
| 65 | 2 Aug 2017 | Terraced | £265,000 | £360,666 |
| 29 | 14 Jul 2017 | Terraced | £275,000 | £374,276 |
| 69 | 18 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £476,351 |
| 55 | 9 Jan 2017 | Semi-detached | £337,000 | £458,658 |
| 68 | 10 Jun 2016 | Semi-detached | £314,000 | £438,356 |
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 Old Bourne Way, Stevenage values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Old Bourne Way | £105,950 (1999) | £385,000 (2024) | +5.3% | +2.5% |
| 51 Old Bourne Way | £79,950 (1999) | £315,000 (2023) | +5.9% | +3.1% |
| 54 Old Bourne Way | £111,950 (1999) | £425,000 (2023) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 63 Old Bourne Way | £105,950 (1999) | £410,000 (2022) | +6.1% | +3.5% |
| 53 Old Bourne Way | £109,950 (1999) | £372,500 (2021) | +5.7% | +3.4% |
| 31 Old Bourne Way | £97,950 (1999) | £375,000 (2021) | +6.3% | +4.0% |
| 42 Old Bourne Way | £107,950 (1999) | £390,000 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 3 Old Bourne Way | £114,000 (2000) | £375,000 (2021) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 35 Old Bourne Way | £99,950 (1999) | £375,000 (2021) | +6.2% | +3.9% |
| 26 Old Bourne Way | £83,950 (1999) | £257,000 (2021) | +5.2% | +3.0% |
| 65 Old Bourne Way | £82,950 (1999) | £270,000 (2020) | +5.8% | +3.5% |
| 29 Old Bourne Way | £81,950 (1999) | £285,000 (2020) | +6.1% | +3.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old Bourne Way, Stevenage 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 | 102 | 54.8% | £134,950 | £41,950 – £425,000 |
| Terraced | 84 | 45.2% | £150,500 | £21,151 – £410,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Old Bourne Way, Stevenage
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 186 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 | 186 | 100.0% | £146,750 |
| New build | 68 | 36.6% | £92,950 |
| Existing home | 118 | 63.4% | £180,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -48.5%. 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 4 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 Old Bourne Way, Stevenage
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 273 | 0.4% |
| B | 7,267 | 10.8% |
| C | 25,734 | 38.1% |
| D | 23,792 | 35.3% |
| E | 8,065 | 12.0% |
| F | 1,896 | 2.8% |
| G | 435 | 0.6% |
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 £146,750 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.64% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Old Bourne Way, Stevenage
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Saint John Henry Newman Catholic School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,620 |
| Barclay Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,044 |
| The Thomas Alleyne Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 970 |
| Fairlands Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 655 |
| Martins Wood Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 532 |
| Round Diamond Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 436 |
| Saint Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 433 |
| The Leys Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 406 |
| Almond Hill Junior School | Primary | Community school | 347 |
| Giles Junior School | Primary | Community school | 346 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Stevenage Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Knebworth Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
| Hitchin Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
| Letchworth Garden City Rail Station | Rail | 7.8 km |
Section 09
How Old Bourne Way, Stevenage compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Bourne Way, Stevenage sits below that national figure — -6.8%.
Within Stevenage the street ranks 541 of 722 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £168,000 (-12.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,398 per square metre, across 42 of the 186 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 £21,151 to £425,000. 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.
Old Bourne Way, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Prestatyn Close£63,750 median
- Ripon Road£134,500 median
- Canterbury Way£125,000 median
- Cleveland Way£224,950 median
- York Road£134,500 median
- Lonsdale Road£160,000 median
- Archer Road£140,000 median
- Wisden Road£140,250 median
- Jessop Road£147,500 median
- Fairfield Way£175,000 median
- Woolners Way£170,000 median
- Wansbeck Close£149,995 median
- Mendip Way£249,995 median
- Grace Way£150,000 median
- Great Ashby Way£218,000 median
- Serpentine Close£218,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 35 Old Bourne Way7 sales
- 55 Old Bourne Way6 sales
- 51 Old Bourne Way5 sales
- 26 Old Bourne Way5 sales
- 29 Old Bourne Way5 sales
- 23 Old Bourne Way5 sales
- 63 Old Bourne Way4 sales
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- 18 Old Bourne Way3 sales
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- 59 Old Bourne Way3 sales
Back to Stevenage house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Old Bourne Way, Stevenage?
The median price paid in Old Bourne Way, Stevenage across every sale on the register is £146,750. 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 Old Bourne Way, Stevenage?
186 sales are on record for Old Bourne Way, Stevenage, the most recent completing on 14 Jun 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Old Bourne Way, Stevenage house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +104.4% between 2011 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +68.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Old Bourne Way, Stevenage house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £375,000, set in 2021. 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 Old Bourne Way, Stevenage?
£2,398 per square metre, from the 42 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 14 Jun 2024. 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, “Old Bourne Way, 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.