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Abington Pigotts market report SG8, Royston
The SG8 (Abington Pigotts) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 21,974 registered sales in SG8 (Royston) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SG8 (Royston) home changed hands for £395,000 in 2026 (median of 196 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier), with the mean at £451,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,400 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,974 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SG8 covering Royston, Abington Pigotts, Arrington sits in Royston. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SG8 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.
SG8 sold prices: where the market stands
The SG8 median stands at £395,000 for 2026, built from 196 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £451,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in SG8
The last five years of sales put SG8 at roughly £4,400 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SG8 trades 39% above the country as a whole.
A typical SG8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £395,000 | £395,000 | 196 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 617 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 616 |
| 2023 | £425,000 | £466,971 | 531 |
| 2022 | £446,200 | £523,220 | 776 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 971 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 557 |
| 2019 | £355,200 | £465,582 | 569 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 512 |
| 2017 | £343,000 | £467,818 | 647 |
| 2016 | £327,500 | £458,176 | 745 |
| 2015 | £290,500 | £410,477 | 649 |
| 2014 | £265,000 | £375,949 | 736 |
| 2013 | £239,000 | £343,897 | 673 |
| 2012 | £247,500 | £364,289 | 571 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 481 |
| 2010 | £232,200 | £364,149 | 508 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 483 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 440 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 852 |
| 2006 | £213,000 | £369,741 | 889 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 705 |
| 2004 | £194,000 | £352,342 | 977 |
| 2003 | £188,000 | £346,342 | 806 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 1,004 |
| 2001 | £129,500 | £248,957 | 889 |
| 2000 | £125,000 | £245,313 | 756 |
| 1999 | £103,900 | £207,067 | 924 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 692 |
| 1997 | £81,000 | £166,115 | 881 |
| 1996 | £71,500 | £150,790 | 751 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 570 |
In cash terms the typical SG8 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £395,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 133%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SG8 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 (+21.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.9%). 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) | −4.8% | −7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £630,000 against £200,800 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, SG8
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £630,000 | 64 | 8,261 |
| Semi-detached | £405,000 | 53 | 5,703 |
| Terraced | £342,500 | 47 | 5,294 |
| Flats | £200,800 | 32 | 2,716 |
Sales activity in SG8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
SG8 recorded 450 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 860 sales a year before the financial crisis and 547 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around SG8
SG8 falls under South Cambridgeshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,009 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,149, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £395,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 4.3% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about SG8 (Abington Pigotts)
Are property prices falling in SG8 (Abington Pigotts)?
Is SG8 (Abington Pigotts) a good place to buy a house?
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What happens to SG8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in SG8 now
Everything above is what homes in SG8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 183 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the SG8 median sold price.
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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in SG
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SG area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
SG8 ranks 15 of 19 in the SG area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside SG8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SG8 0 | £550,000 | 11 |
| SG8 5 | £347,500 | 56 |
| SG8 6 | £405,000 | 43 |
| SG8 7 | £395,000 | 43 |
| SG8 8 | £527,500 | 13 |
| SG8 9 | £362,500 | 30 |
How SG8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SG area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SG10 | £685,000 | +1% |
| SG4 | £480,000 | +9% |
| SG14 | £471,000 | +13% |
| SG3 | £451,000 | -4% |
| SG9 | £445,000 | +0% |
| SG12 | £435,000 | +12% |
| SG5 | £425,000 | +2% |
| SG13 | £420,800 | -2% |
| SG11 | £417,500 | -23% |
| SG17 | £415,000 | +6% |
| SG6 | £395,000 | +19% |
| SG8 (this report) | £395,000 | -1% |
| SG16 | £371,200 | +0% |
| SG18 | £366,800 | +7% |
| SG7 | £365,000 | -9% |
| SG15 | £356,500 | +14% |
| SG1 | £350,000 | +14% |
| SG2 | £350,000 | +10% |
| SG19 | £342,500 | +3% |
Selling a home in SG8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SG8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SG8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SG8 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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SG8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SG8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SG8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.