That is the middle of 619 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 7 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.
A third of Stotfold’s sales are semi-detached houses
619 homes sold in three years: 190 detached houses, 210 semi-detached houses, 123 terraced houses and 96 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£535K
median sale · 190 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£470K–£653K
Last 12 months
£540K47 sold
New build
£600K
Semi-detached houses£425K
median sale · 210 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£483K
Last 12 months
£425K57 sold
New build
£485K
Terraced houses£368K
median sale · 123 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£443K
Last 12 months
£363K31 sold
New build
£475K
Flats and maisonettes£255K
median sale · 96 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£305K
Last 12 months
£272K22 sold
New build
£240K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses34%
Terraced houses20%
Flats and maisonettes16%
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 Stotfold’s homes sold for between £330K and £515K
One sale in ten was under £248K and one in ten over £625K. 10% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £430,000, sits in the £400–500K band
619 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £61,000 in 1995 to £425,000 in the last 12 months (£378,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
157 sales in the last 12 months, against 451 in 2021, the busiest year, and 207 in 2019. Sales fell by 38% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 102% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Stotfold costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Stotfold, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£85K
£150K
£301K
£335K
£390K
£495K
£540K
Semi-detached houses
£62K
£114K
£215K
£229K
£275K
£388K
£425K
Terraced houses
£49K
£80K
£225K
£250K
£268K
£330K
£363K
Flats and maisonettes
£38K
£53K
£195K
£185K
£215K
£252K
£272K
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
4% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
2,111 new homes have been sold in Stotfold since 1995; the share peaked at 59% in 2006.
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 £489,500
against £415,000 for a home sold on, 18% 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.
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.9% sold leasehold in Stotfold. 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
Kingsley Avenue is Stotfold’s busiest street, with 39 sales in three years
41 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 16 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
Kingsley Avenue
SG5
39
£274,000
Mostly flats
2
Cavendish Lane
SG5
38
£495,000
Mixed · new builds
3
Darwin Lane
SG5
23
£495,000
Mixed · new builds
4
Aspen Gardens
SG5
18
£417,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Ruskin Drive
SG5
17
£459,950
Mixed · new builds
6
Bronte Avenue
SG5
13
£620,000
Mixed
7
Ash Tree Way
SG5
13
£550,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
8
Church Road
SG5
13
£440,000
Mixed
9
Regent Street
SG5
13
£345,000
Mixed
10
Hitchin Road
SG5
11
£470,000
Mixed
11
Hawthorn Croft
SG5
10
£477,500
Mostly detached houses
12
Arlesey Road
SG5
10
£475,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Valerian Way
SG5
10
£433,750
Mostly terraced houses
14
Dickens Boulevard
SG5
10
£427,500
Mixed
15
Middlemarch
SG5
10
£418,750
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Bessemer Fields: £1,027,500
Stotfold median£430K
Bessemer Fields£1M
Bronte Avenue£620K
Heathcliff Avenue£565K
Ash Tree Way£550K
The Gardens£507K
Cheapest streets
Wycklond Close: £190,000
Stotfold median£430K
Wycklond Close£190K
Upperstone Close£210K
Kingsley Avenue£274K
High Street£339K
Grange Drive£340K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.4 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
Stotfold is the 3rd most expensive of 33 towns in Bedfordshire
Stotfold is one of Bedfordshire’s dearest 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 Stotfold
What is the average house price in Stotfold?
The median home in Stotfold sold for £430,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 619 standard sales (£425,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £535,000, semi-detached houses £425,000, terraced houses £368,000 and flats and maisonettes £254,500.
Are house prices going up in Stotfold?
The median was £430,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£425,000), and £425,000 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 Stotfold each year?
157 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 265 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Stotfold?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Bessemer Fields (SG5, £1,027,500), Bronte Avenue (SG5, £620,000) and Heathcliff Avenue (SG5, £565,000).
How much does a new build cost in Stotfold?
New homes sold for a median £489,500 over three years, against £415,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 20% of sales.
Is Stotfold expensive for Bedfordshire?
Stotfold is the 3rd 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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