Homes in Hatfield Heath sell for a median £712,500
That is the middle of 36 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 7.2 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.
36 homes sold in three years: 22 detached houses, 8 semi-detached houses, 4 terraced houses and 2 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£898K
median sale · 22 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£750K–£1.2M
Last 12 months
£775K9 sold
Fewer sales
Semi-detached houses: 8 sold, median £498K Terraced houses: 4 sold Flats and maisonettes: 2 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 61% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses61%
Semi-detached houses22%
Terraced houses11%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 Hatfield Heath’s homes sold for between £515K and £1.1M
One sale in ten was under £385K and one in ten over £1.3M. 0% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £712,500, sits in the £500–750K band
36 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.2 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £89,000 in 1995 to £642,500 in the last 12 months (£578,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
16 sales in the last 12 months, against 45 in 1997, the busiest year, and 8 in 2024.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hatfield Heath costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hatfield Heath, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Each type, year by year
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£117K
£275K
£359K
£405K
£735K
£745K
£775K
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
6% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
94 new homes have been sold in Hatfield Heath since 1995; the share peaked at 60% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
6% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Hatfield Heath. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Hatfield Heath’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Sawbridgeworth, Bishop's Stortford and Takeley and Little Canfield.
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 Hatfield Heath
What is the average house price in Hatfield Heath?
The median home in Hatfield Heath sold for £712,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 36 standard sales (£642,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £897,500 and semi-detached houses £497,500.
How many homes sell in Hatfield Heath each year?
16 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 19 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.