AL5 vs IP14: house prices per square metre compared
AL5 (Bower Heath) is the more expensive of the two: a median of £7,080 per m² against £3,210 in IP14 (Stowupland) — IP14 is 55% cheaper per m² than AL5. The figures come from 309 and 428 sales with an EPC-matched floor area in the last 12 months of HM Land Registry data.
AL5
Bower Heath, Harpenden
£7,080median per m²
- Median sale price
- £800,000
- Middle 60% of sales (p20–p80)
- £5,900 – £8,410
- Sales (last 12 months)
- 336
- With a matched floor area
- 309
- Mean floor area (matched sales)
- 133 m²
- Annual change over 9.8 years
- +2.5% a year
IP14
Stowupland, Stowmarket
£3,210median per m²
- Median sale price
- £277,250
- Middle 60% of sales (p20–p80)
- £2,700 – £3,680
- Sales (last 12 months)
- 554
- With a matched floor area
- 428
- Mean floor area (matched sales)
- 96 m²
- Annual change over 9.8 years
- +3.1% a year
The line beside each annual change is that area’s own quarterly median price per m² over the same period, with gaps where a quarter had too few matched sales to publish. Each is scaled to its own range, so the two compare in direction rather than in height.
Side by side
The current figures cover sales in the last 12 months; the change-a-year row covers 9.8 years of quarterly history. Same dataset and same method for both areas.
| Measure | AL5 | IP14 | DifferenceIP14 vs AL5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median price per m² | £7,080 | £3,210 | −55% |
| Median sale price | £800,000 | £277,250 | −65% |
| Sales (last 12 months) | 336 | 554 | +218 |
| Annual change | +2.5% | +3.1% | +0.6 pts |
By property type
Median price per m² for each property type sold in the last 12 months. Only types with recorded sales are listed; where a type has too few matched sales to publish a reliable median the row says so and gives the count.
| Property type | AL5 | IP14 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £7,780n = 109 | £3,400n = 170 |
| Semi-detached | £7,240n = 96 | £3,190n = 131 |
| Terraced | £7,060n = 50 | £3,040n = 94 |
| Flat | £5,310n = 54 | £2,450n = 33 |
Compare other areas
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