Bishop's Stortford house prices: £416,250 town median

This site covers two parts of Hertfordshire that do not usually get put together. Bishop’s Stortford sits on the Stort and the Essex border, with Sawbridgeworth below it and Stansted Airport a few minutes up the road. Broxbourne, Waltham Cross, Cheshunt and Hoddesdon are further west, strung along the Lea and the road and rail lines into London.

They are in different district councils, and we are straightforward about that throughout, because it decides who empties your bin and who rules on the application next door. What the two halves share is a county, a set of railway lines into Liverpool Street, and the same problem of decisions being published where nobody reads them. We read them and report what they say, with a link to the document each time.

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• House prices: the middle Bishop’s Stortford home sold for £416,250, the lowest median of the four East Herts towns, with sold-price figures for Ware, Hertford, Hoddesdon and Cheshunt.
• Trains to London: 37 minutes off-peak, longer in the rush hour, plus 2026 season prices and the contactless fares that arrived in March.
• Roadworks and parking: what is closed on the M11 and A120 this week, the A10 Cheshunt plan, and the car park that costs half what the others do.
• Things to do: the free museum and castle mound in the town centre, and checked prices for everything within half an hour.
• Planning news: East Herts is down to 3.4 years of housing land, and Old River Lane is still undecided.

The Local Info hub collects these and everything else we hold on the practical side of living here. News and What’s On follow as the site grows.

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