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Abington Pigotts market report SG8 7, Royston
The standing SG8 7 (Abington Pigotts) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,781 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SG8 7 (Royston) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SG8 7 (Royston) came in at £395,000, out of 43 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £440,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,510 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,781 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SG8 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SG8 (Royston). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SG8 7 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.
What a home in SG8 7 sells for
In the SG8 7 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £395,000, from 43 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £440,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SG8 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SG8 7 sales average about £4,510 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SG8 7 runs 39% above it.
SG8 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 157 |
| 2024 | £416,000 | £442,293 | 146 |
| 2023 | £407,400 | £447,633 | 117 |
| 2022 | £417,500 | £489,566 | 166 |
| 2021 | £395,000 | £500,121 | 181 |
| 2020 | £355,500 | £461,269 | 118 |
| 2019 | £390,000 | £511,197 | 135 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 121 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 103 |
| 2016 | £310,000 | £433,693 | 121 |
| 2015 | £285,000 | £402,705 | 139 |
| 2014 | £264,000 | £374,530 | 156 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 145 |
| 2012 | £240,000 | £353,250 | 144 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 125 |
| 2010 | £233,500 | £366,188 | 116 |
| 2009 | £187,700 | £301,729 | 90 |
| 2008 | £195,000 | £319,646 | 95 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 196 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 187 |
| 2005 | £212,500 | £378,164 | 129 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 299 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 219 |
| 2002 | £169,700 | £319,289 | 224 |
| 2001 | £142,000 | £272,988 | 259 |
| 2000 | £151,000 | £296,338 | 208 |
| 1999 | £88,800 | £176,974 | 152 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 109 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 141 |
| 1996 | £65,500 | £138,137 | 144 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical SG8 7 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 169%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2019. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SG8 7 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 2000 (+70.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SG8 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.8% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
SG8 7 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 126 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.
What tenants pay around SG8 7
The local authority for SG8 7 is North Hertfordshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,421 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,013 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,218 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £395,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
How SG8 7 trades
This is a thin market: 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
SG8 7 (Abington Pigotts): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SG8 7 (Abington Pigotts)?
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What happens to SG8 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SG8 today
Turning to what is actually available: 183 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SG8 district, not just SG8 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Church Street, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire, Guilden Morden
- Litlington, Royston, Cambridgeshire, Royston
- Guilden Morden, Royston, Cambridgeshire, Royston
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SG8 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SG area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SG area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 5 | £347,500 | 56 |
| SG8 6 | £405,000 | 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.
Before you sell in SG8 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG8 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG8 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG8 7 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 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG8 7.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG8 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SG8 7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.