That is the middle of 425 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 6.3 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 Baldock’s sales are flats and maisonettes
425 homes sold in three years: 42 detached houses, 118 semi-detached houses, 131 terraced houses and 134 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£538K
median sale · 42 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£490K–£628K
Last 12 months
£550K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£430K
median sale · 118 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£495K
Last 12 months
£438K38 sold
Terraced houses£345K
median sale · 131 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£294K–£395K
Last 12 months
£365K37 sold
Flats and maisonettes£232K
median sale · 134 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£278K
Last 12 months
£230K38 sold
New build
£431K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses10%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses31%
Flats and maisonettes32%
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 Baldock’s homes sold for between £255K and £455K
One sale in ten was under £180K and one in ten over £550K. 24% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £355,000, sits in the £300–400K band
425 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £58,250 in 1995 to £365,000 in the last 12 months (£297,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
124 sales in the last 12 months, against 351 in 2002, the busiest year, and 120 in 2008. Sales fell by 53% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 10%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 56% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Baldock costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Baldock, 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
£110K
£210K
£310K
£419K
£395K
£465K
£550K
Semi-detached houses
£66K
£113K
£200K
£193K
£289K
£360K
£438K
Terraced houses
£55K
£85K
£163K
£178K
£250K
£300K
£365K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£59K
£136K
£151K
£159K
£198K
£230K
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
Hardly any new homes: 1.6% of sales in the last 12 months
455 new homes have been sold in Baldock since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2011.
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 £430,500
against £350,000 for a home sold on, 23% 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.
34% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.4% sold leasehold in Baldock. 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
Icknield Way is Baldock’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
31 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 8 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
Icknield Way
SG7
33
£420,500
Mostly flats · new builds
2
High Street
SG7
19
£105,000
Mostly flats
3
London Road
SG7
12
£444,500
Mixed
4
Mercia Road
SG7
12
£351,000
Mixed
5
Royston Road
SG7
12
£234,775
Mostly flats
6
Chiltern Road
SG7
11
£313,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Arbury Place
SG7
11
£260,000
Mostly flats
8
Page Close
SG7
10
£250,750
Mostly terraced houses
9
Sale Drive
SG7
9
£385,000
Mixed
10
Larkins Close
SG7
9
£347,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
South Road
SG7
8
£352,500
Mostly terraced houses
12
Hillcrest
SG7
8
£318,750
Mixed
13
Coachmans Lane
SG7
8
£237,500
Mostly terraced houses
14
Hitchin Street
SG7
8
£200,000
Mostly flats
15
Ivel Way
SG7
7
£369,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Turpins Way: £522,500
Baldock median£355K
Turpins Way£523K
Ashtons Lane£490K
Icknield Way East£475K
London Road£445K
Weston Way£436K
Cheapest streets
High Street: £105,000
Baldock median£355K
High Street£105K
Hitchin Street£200K
Whitehorse Street£205K
Riddell Gardens£216K
Royston Road£235K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5 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 Hertfordshire
Baldock is the 49th most expensive of 50 towns in Hertfordshire
Baldock is one of Hertfordshire’s cheapest 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 Baldock
What is the average house price in Baldock?
The median home in Baldock sold for £355,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 425 standard sales (£365,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £537,750, semi-detached houses £430,000, terraced houses £345,000 and flats and maisonettes £231,500.
Are house prices going up in Baldock?
The median was £345,000 in 2025, down 4% on 2024 (£360,000), and £365,000 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 Baldock each year?
124 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 162 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Baldock?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Turpins Way (SG7, £522,500), Ashtons Lane (SG7, £490,000) and Icknield Way East (SG7, £475,000).
How much does a new build cost in Baldock?
New homes sold for a median £430,500 over three years, against £350,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 5.9% of sales.
Is Baldock expensive for Hertfordshire?
Baldock is the 49th most expensive of 50 towns of 2,500 or more in Hertfordshire 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.