What is the median house price in SG5?

Homes in SG5 sold for a median £470,380 over the 12 months to Apr 2026, 377 sales. Per square metre that is £4,931/m². Registered completions, not asking prices.

What is the average rent in SG5?

Homes to let in SG5 asked a median £1,623 a month over the 12 months to Jul 2026, 419 lets. Asking rent, not the rent agreed.

What is the gross rental yield in SG5?

4.0% on the asking basis: the asking rent times twelve over the asking sale price in the same listing cell, before costs, voids and finance, over the 12 months to Aug 2026, 633 lets. +8.9% on the previous 12 months.

How quickly do homes sell in SG5?

2.9% of the homes in SG5 changed hands over the 12 months to Jan 2026, 492 sales.

Postcode district

SG5 property market

Sold £4,931/m² · Median sold £470,380 (377 sales) · Index -3.5% y/y · Turnover 2.9% · 12 months, sales to Apr 2026, listings to Aug 2026

What is SG5?

Buildings: 11,081
Mixed-use buildings: 1.1%
HMO-shaped units: 8.0%

What does SG5 cost?

SG5: sold price per m² £4,931/m² (12 months to Apr 2026, 377 sales). -3.5% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price per m²

£4,931/m² 12 months to Apr 2026

377 sales

-3.5% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sold price

£470,380 12 months to Apr 2026

377 sales

-3.5% over the year to Dec 2025 by the house price index, which follows the same homes over time.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own carries the parent area's price rather than a measurement, and is not published with no sample.

Asking price

£444,134 12 months to Aug 2026

1,186 listings

-4% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated listings that came to market in the latest month (added and reduced cohorts).

Sold price per m²: £4,019/m² in Jul 2016 to £5,105/m² in Jul 2026.

Sold price: £395,403 in Jul 2016 to £440,666 in Jul 2026.

Asking price: £400,000 in Jan 2022 to £425,000 in Aug 2026.

Asking price per m²: £6,077/m² in Aug 2025 to £5,111/m² in Jul 2026.

Asking to sold: 87% in Feb 2022 to 99% in May 2024.

Settled months to Dec 2025; the dashed tail is the pipeline's projection of the index 12 months ahead, inside its 80% band. A projection of the index, not a forecast of any home's price.

ObservedForecast with intervalIndex points, not property prices

Asking price index: 96.7 in Jan 2022 to 98.5 in Aug 2026.

What does SG5 earn?

SG5: asking rent £1,623 a month (12 months to Jul 2026, 419 lets).

Asking rent

£1,623 a month 12 months to Jul 2026

419 lets

Gross yield, asking basis

4.0% 12 months to Aug 2026

633 lets

+8.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the dated lettings behind the latest month's rent cell.

Asking rent: £1,502 pcm in Aug 2025 to £1,682 pcm in Jul 2026.

Gross yield, asking basis: 3.1% in Jan 2022 to 4.4% in Aug 2026.

How does SG5 vary by home size?

Asking price in SG5 runs from £196,679 for 1 bedroom to £936,886 for 5+ bedrooms.

Asking price by bedroom band in SG5, 12 months to Aug 2026. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.
Homes	Asking price	Window	Change	Listings
1 bedroom	£196,679	12 months to Aug 2026	-15% on the previous 12 months	134
2 bedrooms	£313,884	12 months to Aug 2026	-3.7% on the previous 12 months	345
3 bedrooms	£483,377	12 months to Aug 2026	-1% on the previous 12 months	389
4 bedrooms	£684,016	12 months to Aug 2026	-5.7% on the previous 12 months	249
5+ bedrooms	£936,886	12 months to Aug 2026	—	88

Asking price by bedroom band: the monthly medians of sale listings that came to market, weighted by their dated listings, over the last 12 observed months, from portal listings. A band with fewer than 30 dated listings in the year is not published.

How liquid is SG5?

SG5: turnover 2.9% (12 months to Jan 2026, 492 sales). -7.2% on the previous 12 months.

Turnover

2.9% 12 months to Jan 2026

492 sales

-7.2% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the matched completed sales behind the latest month. A month in which this cohort recorded no sale of its own has a rate of zero by arithmetic rather than a measured rate, and is not published with no sample.

Completed sales

598 12 months to Jan 2026

598 sales

+1.9% on the previous 12 months.

Sample is the registry count itself; months within six months of the last ingest are still filling.

Listings for sale

743 12 months to Jul 2026

743 listings

Who is active in SG5?

30 agents listed homes for sale in SG5; the three largest took 31% of the listings.

Agents active: 30
Top three agents’ share: 31%
New homes among listings: 16%

days_to_completion is on the registry-matched subset (sold_matched_n), not a sell-through rate.

Who owns SG5?

Corporate landlords hold 75% of the 433 units in SG5 whose freeholder is classified; 98% of all units are not yet classified.

Corporate landlords75% of classified · 326 units
Individuals (not traceable in bulk)15% of classified · 64 units
Housing associations7.6% of classified · 33 units
RMC2.3% of classified · 10 units

Freeholder class per addressable unit, from HM Land Registry CCOD/OCOD matched to the title and Companies House. Individuals are counted, never itemised.

Where does SG5 rank?

SG5 ranks 3rd of 5 postcode districts in North Hertfordshire for sold price per m², at £4,931/m².

Sold price per m² · postcode districts in North Hertfordshire