Homes in Stanstead Abbotts sell for a median £400,000
That is the middle of 152 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 7.1 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 Stanstead Abbotts’s sales are terraced houses
152 homes sold in three years: 27 detached houses, 25 semi-detached houses, 50 terraced houses and 50 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.6 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£655K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£510K–£735K
Last 12 months
£661K8 sold
Semi-detached houses£568K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£500K–£690K
Last 12 months
£535K9 sold
Terraced houses£408K
median sale · 50 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£456K
Last 12 months
£410K11 sold
Flats and maisonettes£248K
median sale · 50 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£217K–£270K
Last 12 months
£263K13 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 33% of sales
Detached houses18%
Semi-detached houses16%
Terraced houses33%
Flats and maisonettes33%
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 Stanstead Abbotts’s homes sold for between £270K and £545K
One sale in ten was under £224K and one in ten over £690K. 17% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £400,000, sits in the £400–500K band
152 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £59,997 in 1995 to £425,000 in the last 12 months (£329,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
41 sales in the last 12 months, against 162 in 1999, the busiest year, and 51 in 2023. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 77% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Stanstead Abbotts costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Stanstead Abbotts, 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
£122K
£237K
£338K
£460K
£455K
—
£661K
Semi-detached houses
£76K
£167K
£244K
£250K
£378K
£543K
£535K
Terraced houses
£60K
£128K
£210K
£243K
£300K
£385K
£410K
Flats and maisonettes
£50K
£85K
£148K
£144K
£175K
£219K
£263K
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: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
172 new homes have been sold in Stanstead Abbotts since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2009.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
36% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.9% sold leasehold in Stanstead Abbotts. 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 Meads is Stanstead Abbotts’s busiest street, with 28 sales in three years
11 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 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 Meads
SG12
28
£247,500
Mostly flats
2
Roydon Road
SG12
14
£408,250
Mostly terraced houses
3
Sanville Gardens
SG12
10
£287,497
Mostly flats
4
Chapelfields
SG12
8
£286,250
Mostly flats
5
Lee Close
SG12
7
£280,000
Mostly flats
6
The Granary
SG12
7
£270,000
Mixed
7
Wilderness Grove
SG12
6
£767,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
High Street
SG12
6
£344,500
Mixed
9
Millers Lane
SG12
5
£510,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Hoddesdon Road
SG12
5
£475,500
Mixed
11
South Street
SG12
5
£435,000
Mostly terraced houses
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
Stanstead Abbotts is the 43rd most expensive of 50 towns in Hertfordshire
Stanstead Abbotts 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 Stanstead Abbotts
What is the average house price in Stanstead Abbotts?
The median home in Stanstead Abbotts sold for £400,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 152 standard sales (£425,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £655,000, semi-detached houses £567,500, terraced houses £407,500 and flats and maisonettes £247,500.
Are house prices going up in Stanstead Abbotts?
The median was £425,000 in 2025, up 12% on 2024 (£380,000), 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 Stanstead Abbotts each year?
41 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 67 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Stanstead Abbotts?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Wilderness Grove (SG12, £767,500), Millers Lane (SG12, £510,000) and Hoddesdon Road (SG12, £475,500).
Is Stanstead Abbotts expensive for Hertfordshire?
Stanstead Abbotts is the 43rd 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.