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Abington Pigotts market report SG8 5, Royston
The standing SG8 5 (Abington Pigotts) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,583 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SG8 5 (Royston) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 56 registered 2026 sales put the SG8 5 (Royston) median at £347,500, down 4% on five years earlier, with a mean of £381,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,140 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,583 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SG8 5 is one sector of SG8 (Royston): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SG8 5 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
Today's SG8 5 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SG8 5 is £347,500, taken from 56 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £381,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SG8 5
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SG8 5 costs about £4,140 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SG8 5 22% above the country at large.
SG8 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £347,500 | £347,500 | 56 |
| 2025 | £357,000 | £365,537 | 148 |
| 2024 | £370,000 | £393,386 | 149 |
| 2023 | £364,000 | £399,947 | 143 |
| 2022 | £382,500 | £448,525 | 183 |
| 2021 | £363,500 | £460,238 | 260 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 157 |
| 2019 | £300,000 | £393,228 | 156 |
| 2018 | £293,000 | £390,575 | 156 |
| 2017 | £275,000 | £375,072 | 239 |
| 2016 | £302,500 | £423,200 | 296 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 226 |
| 2014 | £232,000 | £329,133 | 214 |
| 2013 | £223,000 | £320,875 | 187 |
| 2012 | £220,400 | £324,401 | 162 |
| 2011 | £192,000 | £289,846 | 140 |
| 2010 | £211,000 | £330,902 | 124 |
| 2009 | £186,000 | £298,997 | 157 |
| 2008 | £186,000 | £304,893 | 117 |
| 2007 | £202,500 | £343,496 | 279 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 248 |
| 2005 | £158,500 | £282,066 | 263 |
| 2004 | £157,800 | £286,596 | 256 |
| 2003 | £167,000 | £307,654 | 253 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 337 |
| 2001 | £107,000 | £205,702 | 263 |
| 2000 | £92,000 | £180,550 | 208 |
| 1999 | £87,200 | £173,785 | 288 |
| 1998 | £75,400 | £152,200 | 234 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 287 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 233 |
| 1995 | £64,000 | £139,126 | 164 |
In cash terms the typical SG8 5 home went from £64,000 in 1995 to £347,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 24% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG8 5 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+31.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2017 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.7% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in SG8 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SG8 5 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 263 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The shape of the SG8 5 market
Only 56 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SG8 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SG8 district median, SG8 5 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of SG8 5
For renting purposes SG8 5 sits in North Hertfordshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,421 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,013 a month here against £2,218 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Hertfordshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,421 a month is £17,052 a year, which against the £347,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: SG8 5 (Abington Pigotts)
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Where do SG8 5 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 4% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in SG8 now
The live side of the market holds 183 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG8 district, not just SG8 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Church Street, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, Guilden Morden
- Litlington, Royston, Cambridgeshire, Royston
- Guilden Morden, Royston, Cambridgeshire, Royston
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every SG8 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: SG prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SG area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £425,000 | £562,950 (+32%) | £790,000 (+40%) | £1,107,500 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £315,000 | £375,000 (+19%) | £450,000 (+20%) | £582,500 (+29%) | £785,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £290,000 | £342,000 (+18%) | £375,000 (+10%) | £510,000 (+36%) | £715,000 (+40%) |
| Flat | £205,000 | £270,000 (+32%) | £410,000 (+52%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SG area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SG8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SG8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG8 0 | £550,000 | 11 |
| SG8 6 | £405,000 | 43 |
| SG8 7 | £395,000 | 43 |
| SG8 8 | £527,500 | 13 |
| SG8 9 | £362,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full SG8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SG8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SG8 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG8 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG8 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG8 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SG8 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG8 5.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SG8 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG8 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.