That is the middle of 403 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
403 homes sold in three years: 141 detached houses, 72 semi-detached houses, 118 terraced houses and 72 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£529K
median sale · 141 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£433K–£580K
Last 12 months
£520K43 sold
New build
£560K
Semi-detached houses£370K
median sale · 72 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£326K–£420K
Last 12 months
£370K19 sold
New build
£398K
Terraced houses£309K
median sale · 118 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£348K
Last 12 months
£317K29 sold
New build
£380K
Flats and maisonettes£190K
median sale · 72 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£165K–£215K
Last 12 months
£185K22 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses35%
Semi-detached houses18%
Terraced houses29%
Flats and maisonettes18%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Shefford’s homes sold for between £262K and £458K
One sale in ten was under £183K and one in ten over £575K. 22% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £350,000, sits in the £300–400K band
403 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.9 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £53,500 in 1995 to £370,000 in the last 12 months (£307,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
113 sales in the last 12 months, against 218 in 2001, the busiest year, and 64 in 2010. Sales fell by 29% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 49% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Shefford costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Shefford, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£89K
£151K
£250K
£285K
£347K
£418K
£520K
Semi-detached houses
£56K
£102K
£173K
£195K
£250K
£333K
£370K
Terraced houses
£50K
£83K
£144K
£159K
£214K
£260K
£317K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£56K
£118K
£124K
£150K
£215K
£185K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 2% of sales in the last 12 months, after 43% in 2022
1,071 new homes have been sold in Shefford since 1995; the share peaked at 43% in 2022.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £449,995
against £340,000 for a home sold on, 32% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
22% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.8% sold leasehold in Shefford. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
River View is Shefford’s busiest street, with 29 sales in three years
31 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
River View
SG17
29
£189,000
Mostly flats
2
Clifton Road
SG17
22
£325,500
Mostly terraced houses
3
Ampthill Road
SG17
16
£475,000
Mixed
4
Pomona Way
SG17
16
£447,495
Mixed · new builds
5
Elgar Drive
SG17
15
£340,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Shepherds Place
SG17
15
£275,000
Mostly flats
7
Kingfisher Road
SG17
10
£381,250
Mixed
8
Collar Close
SG17
9
£397,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
9
Eisenhower Road
SG17
9
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
10
New Street
SG17
9
£330,000
Mixed
11
Bury Road
SG17
8
£288,750
Mostly terraced houses
12
Coopers Court
SG17
8
£209,500
Mostly flats
13
Odell Way
SG17
7
£575,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
14
Northbridge Street
SG17
7
£330,000
Mixed
15
Ivel Road
SG17
7
£325,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Odell Way: £575,000
Shefford median£350K
Odell Way£575K
Orcus Gardens£560K
Hitchin Road£490K
Ampthill Road£475K
Tippett Drive£468K
Cheapest streets
St Francis Court: £167,000
Shefford median£350K
St Francis Court£167K
River View£189K
Old Station Way£190K
High Street£190K
Coopers Court£210K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.4 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Bedfordshire
Shefford is the 19th most expensive of 33 towns in Bedfordshire
Shefford is in the middle of Bedfordshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Shefford
What is the average house price in Shefford?
The median home in Shefford sold for £350,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 403 standard sales (£370,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £529,000, semi-detached houses £370,000, terraced houses £308,500 and flats and maisonettes £189,500.
Are house prices going up in Shefford?
The median was £362,000 in 2025, up 11% on 2024 (£325,000), and £370,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Shefford each year?
113 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 158 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Shefford?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Odell Way (SG17, £575,000), Orcus Gardens (SG17, £559,995) and Hitchin Road (SG17, £490,000).
How much does a new build cost in Shefford?
New homes sold for a median £449,995 over three years, against £340,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 8.4% of sales.
Is Shefford expensive for Bedfordshire?
Shefford is the 18th most expensive of 33 towns of 2,500 or more in Bedfordshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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