Imagine stepping out onto your balcony to watch the local cricket team play this could soon be your reality

Within Letchworth, one estate is climbing strongly, one has barely moved, and the gap is not really about location.

Welwyn Garden City is not one market this year. Across its five neighbourhoods, growth is not following the price ladder, and the strongest gains are not in the most expensive streets.

Stevenage completed noticeably fewer sales this year, but the homes that did sell went for more, not less, a different story to a slowing market.