House prices in 'SG8 6', Melbourn

Price per square metre data and charts revealed. Latest statistics for the housing market in 'SG8 6' (Melbourn, Royston) - calculated on 01 December 2025.

Defining 'SG8 6'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "SG8 6", this is also called the postcode sector. There are no official postcode sector names so I've just labelled it SG8 6, Melbourn. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in SG8 6 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in September 2025, 5, Old Mill Court, Melbourn, SG8 6FN sold for £515,000. Given the internal area of 118 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £515,000 ÷ 118 sqm = £4,364.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on SG8 6 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for 'SG8 6' vs 'SG8'

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in SG8 6 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £3,800 to £4,000, £4,000 to £4,200, £4,200 to £4,400 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 178 sales that took place in SG8 6, Melbourn, Royston in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in SG8 6, Melbourn. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £5,040 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of SG8 6 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for SG8 6

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Melbourn. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'SG8 6' as well as the 'SG8' postcode district.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'SG8 6' is £4,380.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 178 transactions in SG8 6, Melbourn half were sold for between £3,780 and £5,040 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 178 for SG8 6, Melbourn.

    • Property price map for Melbourn

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'SG8 6' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Melbourn
    House price map for Melbourn

    Melbourn house price forecasting

    House prices in SG8 6 grew 1.8% in the last year, -2.0% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in SG8 6 (Melbourn) compared with the wider postcode district of SG8.

    House price index for SG8 6

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'SG8 6' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in SG8 6 and is set to 100 in 2004. I'm comparing the trends for SG8 6,Melbourn with the wider postcode district of SG8 What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire South Cambridgeshire local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for SG8 6
    SG8 6 sector SG8 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 3.6% 0.8% 3.4% 0.6%
    20 yr total 101.6% 16.8% 95.8% 13.5%
    10 yr per annum 2.4% -0.7% 2.7% -0.4%
    10 yr total 26.4% -7.2% 30.8% -3.9%
    5 yr per annum 2.0% -2.4% 2.5% -1.9%
    5 yr total 10.4% -11.5% 13.3% -9.2%
    1 yr per annum 1.8% -2.0% 1.7% -2.2%
    1 yr total 1.8% -2.0% 1.7% -2.2%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, SG8 district have seen a 0.6% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 13.5% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, SG8 district have seen a -1.9% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -9.2% in real terms.

    Most recent SG8 6 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Medcalfe Way, Melbourn, SG8 6H 91 sqm £4,071 12
    High Street, Melbourn, SG8 6A 117 sqm £4,839 12
    Russet Way, Melbourn, SG8 6H 69 sqm £4,247 12
    Bramley Avenue, Melbourn, SG8 6H 84 sqm £4,073 12
    Beechwood Avenue, Melbourn, SG8 6B 98 sqm £4,354 9
    The Moor, Melbourn, SG8 6E 108 sqm £4,173 8
    New Road, Melbourn, SG8 6B 109 sqm £4,425 8
    Greengage Rise, Melbourn, SG8 6D 87 sqm £4,386 8

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'SG8 6' compares to the other postcode sectors in SG8.

    Sector Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    SG8 9 Royston £4,000 sqm £4,580 sqm £5,000 sqm 211
    SG8 8 Barkway £4,170 sqm £4,600 sqm £5,240 sqm 71
    SG8 7 Royston £4,020 sqm £4,500 sqm £5,210 sqm 270
    SG8 6 Melbourn £3,780 sqm £4,380 sqm £5,040 sqm 178
    SG8 5 Royston £3,560 sqm £4,100 sqm £4,690 sqm 276
    SG8 0 Steeple Morden £3,810 sqm £4,320 sqm £5,190 sqm 87
    CB22 7 Harston £4,450 sqm £4,870 sqm £5,100 sqm 88
    CB22 6 Foxton £4,350 sqm £4,680 sqm £5,000 sqm 24

    Raw data

    Our analysis of SG8 6 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    5, Old Mill Court, Melbourn, Royston £515,000
    Sep-2025
    		 118 4,364
    1, Haggers Close, Melbourn, Royston £372,500
    Sep-2025
    		 85 4,382
    15, Gables Close, Melbourn, Royston £257,000
    Aug-2025
    		 57 4,508

    See the entire list of all sales in SG8 6 here.

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