Stevenage Property Market Report, September 2026
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.
This Stevenage property market report for September 2026 shows a town where completions have thinned out, yet pricing has stayed firm. Completed sales fell 15.8 per cent over the past year, while the average sale price rose 3.4 per cent to £334,060, and price per square foot, the fairer like for like measure, rose 2.4 per cent.
A smaller pool of completions moving at a firmer price points to buyers who are still willing to pay for the right home, just fewer of them finding one worth completing on. Houses made up 82.6 per cent of completions against 17.4 per cent flats, with terraced houses the single largest group by volume. Average prices by type held a familiar order, detached homes at £567,603, semi detached at £413,106, terraced houses at £336,973 and flats at £191,423, all close to or above where they sat twelve months ago.
With completions down and no single dominant comparable to point to, buyers are doing more of their own homework before they ever pick up the phone, comparing recent sales themselves rather than taking a guide price on trust. That makes the strength of the evidence behind a launch matter more than the number of homes competing for attention.
If you are considering selling in Stevenage, the useful starting point is a guide price built carefully on genuine, recent local evidence rather than the town average, set out through Putterills' five step process, which is what gives a launch credibility from day one. For buyers, with fewer homes completing, the ones that represent genuine value do not tend to linger, so it pays to have your own comparable evidence ready before you make an offer.
Nationally, Rightmove's asking prices rose for the first time since May, though supply remains at a twelve year high and buyer enquiries are still 9 per cent below last year, a backdrop that makes a well evidenced guide price all the more valuable.
