A typical home in Stevenage sells for about £350,000. Flats go for just over £200,000. Terraces make up most of the sales and come in a little under the median. A detached house costs well over half a million. For a town with a main-line station in the middle, the bottom rung is still within reach.
The Land Registry recorded 760 sales in the year to May 2026, with a median price of £350,000. By type, flats sold for a median of about £208,000, terraced houses about £337,000, semis about £400,000 and detached houses about £570,000. Terraces accounted for 425 of those 760 sales, so the median here is mostly a terrace price under another name. With only 100 detached sales, that figure moves around much more from year to year.
The house price index for Stevenage put the average at about £318,000 in May 2026, up 4% on a year earlier, and 11% higher than five years before. The latest month was down half a percent, which is noise and nothing more. Flats rose by less than 1% over the year. Anyone buying a flat now and counting on the gain to fund a house later is relying on an index that barely moved.
Band C is the most common council tax band in Stevenage, and 21% of homes are in Bands A or B. A Band D bill comes to about £2,390 a year, which is the easiest figure to hold up against what you pay now.
Across Stevenage borough, the Office for National Statistics puts typical private rent at about £1,420 a month as of April 2026, up 4% in a year. That figure is a mean from its rent index, not a median of advertised lets. By size, the borough averages are about £1,010 for one bedroom, £1,300 for two, £1,530 for three and £2,100 for four or more. No reliable figure exists for studios or single rooms.
The Office for National Statistics models median household income across the area at about £58,000 a year before tax, for the financial year to March 2023. Set that against a £350,000 median price and a typical household is looking at a stretch it can make, especially with a terrace or a flat. That income figure is gross and three years old, though, and the mortgage gets paid out of what is left after tax today.
Among the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate, 92% of the total, the median price works out at about £4,190 per square metre, and the typical home behind that figure is 86 square metres. The floor area on a home's energy certificate is public, and it is the quickest way to check whether an asking price is paying for space or for a freshly painted hallway. Eighty-six square metres can be a decent three-bedroom family house, or a two-bedroom house once someone stops listing the box room as a bedroom.
The 2021 census counted 46% of Stevenage households in three-bedroom homes, 22% in two bedrooms, 17% in four or more and 15% in one. The first New Town was built for families moving out of London, and nearly half the housing still has the three-bedroom layout that implies. Buyers after a fourth bedroom are shopping in the smallest corner of the market and paying detached prices to get it.
Stevenage's prices come out well. Most of what sells is a terrace or a flat, and with typical local incomes those are within reach for a household that is careful with money but not desperate.