York Road, Stevenage house prices

York Road, Stevenage house prices are built from 514 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £134,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +64.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.5%.

HM Land Registry514 sales152 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026

The chart tracks the median York Road, Stevenage house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 York Road, Stevenage is £350,500 in 2025; the lowest is £44,500 in 1995. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £44,500 to £350,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £98,811, so the real change over the whole record is +262.4% — about +4.39% 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: +64.9% in cash against +19.5% 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.

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 York Road, 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. York Road, Stevenage is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

55 of the sales on record are leasehold and 459 freehold — 10.7% 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 £99,000 and the median freehold sale £142,950 — a gap of +44.4%. 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 — -25.2%. 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 22 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 £134,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 12.70% 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. York Road, Stevenage sits below that national figure — -14.6%.

Within Stevenage the street ranks 600 of 722 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £168,000 (-19.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,660 per square metre, across 152 of the 514 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 £24,500 to £399,000. 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.

York Road, 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 nearby

• Prestatyn Close£63,750 median
• Ripon Road£134,500 median
• Canterbury Way£125,000 median
• Cleveland Way£224,950 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
• Vardon Road£150,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 188 York Road8 sales
• 178 York Road7 sales
• 221 York Road6 sales
• 270 York Road6 sales
• 544 York Road5 sales
• 25 York Road5 sales
• 414 York Road5 sales
• 480 York Road5 sales
• 46 York Road5 sales
• 167 York Road4 sales
• 79 York Road4 sales
• 392 York Road4 sales
• 185 York Road4 sales
• 426 York Road4 sales
• 213 York Road4 sales
• 174 York Road4 sales
• 324 York Road4 sales
• 9 York Road4 sales
• 268 York Road4 sales
• 81 York Road4 sales
• 340 York Road4 sales
• 264 York Road4 sales
• 32 York Road4 sales
• 428 York Road4 sales

Back to Stevenage house prices.

What is the average house price in York Road, Stevenage?

The median price paid in York Road, Stevenage across every sale on the register is £134,500. 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 York Road, Stevenage?

514 sales are on record for York Road, Stevenage, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have York Road, Stevenage house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +64.9% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were York Road, Stevenage house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £350,500, 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 York Road, Stevenage?

£1,660 per square metre, from the 152 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 29 May 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, “York Road, 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.