Shearwater Close, Stevenage house prices are built from 276 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 6 Aug 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £120,000. Across the 13 years from 2010 to 2023 the median moved +61.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.2%.
Median price paid
£120,000
Change in cash, 2010–2023
+61.4%
Change in real terms
+9.2%
Median per m²
£2,466
HM Land Registry276 sales81 with floor areaLatest sale 6 Aug 2025
Section 01
How Shearwater Close, Stevenage prices moved
The chart tracks the median Shearwater Close, Stevenage house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2023. 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 | £57,500 | £127,677 |
| 2000s | 8 | £124,250 | £226,347 |
| 2010s | 5 | £214,500 | £302,445 |
| 2020s | 3 | £252,500 | £257,989 |
The highest yearly median on record for Shearwater Close, Stevenage is £282,500 in 2023; the lowest is £50,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £52,625 to £282,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £116,852, so the real change over the whole record is +161.2% — 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: +61.4% in cash against +9.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 | 6 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £306,000 | £312,652 |
| 43 | 30 May 2025 | Terraced | £442,500 | £452,120 |
| Sunny Cottage, 95 | 13 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 85 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 60 | 28 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £300,000 | £315,672 |
| 30 | 1 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £297,000 | £312,515 |
| 33 | 14 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £308,000 | £324,090 |
| 74 | 30 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £282,500 | £305,230 |
| 25 | 25 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £213,000 | £230,138 |
| 40 | 21 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £294,000 | £317,655 |
| 56 | 30 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £320,000 | £345,747 |
| 21 | 17 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £210,000 | £226,897 |
| 42 | 9 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £328,000 | £380,016 |
| 27 | 10 Aug 2022 | Terraced | £231,000 | £267,634 |
| 41 | 8 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £284,500 | £329,618 |
| 52 | 28 Feb 2022 | Terraced | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| 26 | 19 Nov 2021 | Terraced | £202,500 | £255,847 |
| 46 | 19 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £205,000 | £259,005 |
| 81 | 16 Aug 2021 | Terraced | £303,000 | £382,823 |
| 59 | 21 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £305,000 | £385,349 |
| 83 | 29 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £252,500 | £319,019 |
| 30 | 19 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £260,000 | £328,495 |
| 19 | 9 Feb 2021 | Terraced | £190,000 | £240,054 |
| 50 | 11 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 40 | 4 Sep 2020 | Terraced | £245,000 | £317,218 |
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 Shearwater Close, Stevenage values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83 Shearwater Close | £69,950 (1999) | £306,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 43 Shearwater Close | £97,000 (2001) | £442,500 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 85 Shearwater Close | £57,500 (1997) | £320,000 (2024) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 60 Shearwater Close | £240,000 (2017) | £300,000 (2024) | +3.2% | -0.5% |
| 30 Shearwater Close | £52,250 (1995) | £297,000 (2024) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 33 Shearwater Close | £71,500 (1998) | £308,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 74 Shearwater Close | £50,000 (1996) | £282,500 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.9% |
| 25 Shearwater Close | £29,000 (1996) | £213,000 (2023) | +7.7% | +4.9% |
| 40 Shearwater Close | £86,000 (2000) | £294,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 56 Shearwater Close | £52,500 (1996) | £320,000 (2023) | +6.9% | +4.2% |
| 21 Shearwater Close | £47,500 (1998) | £210,000 (2023) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| 42 Shearwater Close | £156,000 (2005) | £328,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Shearwater Close, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 245 | 88.8% | £120,000 | £29,000 – £442,500 |
| Semi-detached | 22 | 8.0% | £100,000 | £48,000 – £306,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 3.3% | £175,000 | £83,500 – £450,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Shearwater Close, Stevenage
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 276 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 | 276 | 100.0% | £120,000 |
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 Shearwater Close, Stevenage
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Hertfordshire, 50.1% of 67,360 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 598 | 0.9% |
| B | 12,018 | 17.8% |
| C | 21,159 | 31.4% |
| D | 22,088 | 32.8% |
| E | 8,670 | 12.9% |
| F | 2,271 | 3.4% |
| G | 556 | 0.8% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Hertfordshire at £1,505 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,066 for a one-bedroom home and £1,641 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £120,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.05% 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 SG2, 175 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 71 violent, 2 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 150,158 residents the 2021 census counted in East Hertfordshire, that is 1.17 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 Shearwater Close, Stevenage
The 2021 census counted 150,158 residents in East Hertfordshire across 62,023 households. 70.8% of those households own their home and 29.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
18 state and independent schools have a SG2 postcode: 14 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. 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 Nobel School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,475 |
| Marriotts School | Secondary | Community school | 1,415 |
| Barnwell School | Secondary | Foundation school | 1,270 |
| Peartree Spring Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 626 |
| Camps Hill Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 462 |
| Roebuck Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 452 |
| Lodge Farm Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 386 |
| St Margaret Clitherow Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 235 |
| Shephalbury Park Primary School | Primary | Community school | 228 |
| Featherstone Wood Primary School | Primary | Community school | 222 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Stevenage Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Knebworth Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
| Watton-at-Stone Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Welwyn North Rail Station | Rail | 8.4 km |
Section 09
How Shearwater Close, Stevenage compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Shearwater Close, Stevenage sits below that national figure — -23.8%.
Within Stevenage the street ranks 648 of 722 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £168,000 (-28.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,466 per square metre, across 81 of the 276 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 £29,000 to £450,000. 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.
Shearwater Close, Stevenage sits in East Hertfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Hertfordshire at 10.7 times median local earnings of £42,219 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
- Broadwater Crescent£154,000 median
- Hayfield£151,000 median
- Kimbolton Crescent£135,000 median
- Augustus Gate£117,750 median
- Wheatlands£121,000 median
- Pankhurst Crescent£166,500 median
- Telford Avenue£165,000 median
- Jackdaw Close£134,975 median
- Chalkdown£187,250 median
- Shephall Way£151,000 median
- Downlands£135,000 median
- Collenswood Road£165,000 median
- Chertsey Rise£156,000 median
- The Pastures£149,500 median
- Trajan Gate£173,000 median
- Raleigh Crescent£158,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 69 Shearwater Close8 sales
- 74 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 52 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 50 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 89 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 12 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 87 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 55 Shearwater Close6 sales
- 85 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 30 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 40 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 46 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 81 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 39 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 66 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 71 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 49 Shearwater Close5 sales
- 83 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 43 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 25 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 21 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 42 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 27 Shearwater Close4 sales
- 23 Shearwater Close4 sales
Back to Stevenage house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Shearwater Close, Stevenage?
The median price paid in Shearwater Close, Stevenage across every sale on the register is £120,000. 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 Shearwater Close, Stevenage?
276 sales are on record for Shearwater Close, Stevenage, the most recent completing on 6 Aug 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Shearwater Close, Stevenage house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +61.4% between 2010 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Shearwater Close, Stevenage house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £282,500, set in 2023. 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 Shearwater Close, Stevenage?
£2,466 per square metre, from the 81 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 6 Aug 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, “Shearwater Close, 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.