Barkway Road, Royston house prices are built from 133 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 8 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £220,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +36.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.0%.
Median price paid
£220,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+36.7%
Change in real terms
-1.0%
Median per m²
£2,391
HM Land Registry133 sales37 with floor areaLatest sale 8 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Barkway Road, Royston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Barkway Road, Royston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £87,000 | £193,181 |
| 2000s | 5 | £164,998 | £300,577 |
| 2010s | 4 | £249,500 | £351,795 |
| 2020s | 3 | £390,250 | £398,734 |
The highest yearly median on record for Barkway Road, Royston is £410,000 in 2025; the lowest is £66,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £66,500 to £410,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £144,254, so the real change over the whole record is +190.4% — about +3.74% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +36.7% in cash against -1.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 | 8 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £355,000 | £355,000 |
| Beldam House | 9 Jan 2026 | Detached | £795,000 | £795,000 |
| 30 | 3 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £450,000 | £459,783 |
| 46 | 23 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £411,500 | £420,446 |
| 58 | 21 May 2025 | Terraced | £335,000 | £342,283 |
| 101 | 3 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £330,000 | £337,174 |
| 23 | 10 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 3 Flint Hall Barns | 23 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,150,000 | £1,210,075 |
| 4 Flint Hall Barns | 29 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £1,100,000 | £1,157,463 |
| 5 Flint Hall Barns | 20 Dec 2023 | Detached | £825,000 | £891,379 |
| 2 Flint Hall Barns | 2 Oct 2023 | Detached | £1,175,000 | £1,269,540 |
| 1 Flint Hall Barns | 23 Sep 2023 | Detached | £1,072,000 | £1,158,253 |
| Silver Hill | 29 Jun 2023 | Detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 25 | 20 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £388,000 | £449,532 |
| 97 | 3 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £375,000 | £434,470 |
| 49 | 11 Oct 2022 | Terraced | £400,000 | £463,435 |
| 60 | 8 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £435,000 | £503,985 |
| 54 | 8 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £390,250 | £452,138 |
| Silver Hill | 17 Dec 2021 | Detached | £410,000 | £518,011 |
| 95 | 22 Oct 2021 | Terraced | £335,000 | £423,253 |
| Eagle Tavern House | 12 Oct 2021 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,516,129 |
| Sunnymead | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £700,000 | £884,409 |
| 47 | 10 Sep 2021 | Terraced | £362,000 | £457,366 |
| 30 | 16 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £376,500 | £475,685 |
| 85 | 29 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £310,000 | £391,667 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Barkway Road, Royston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81 Barkway Road | £92,000 (2000) | £355,000 (2026) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| BELDAM HOUSE Barkway Road | £695,000 (2019) | £795,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.9% |
| 30 Barkway Road | £191,000 (2014) | £450,000 (2025) | +8.1% | +4.8% |
| 46 Barkway Road | £89,000 (1998) | £411,500 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 58 Barkway Road | £66,500 (1996) | £335,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 23 Barkway Road | £196,000 (2008) | £410,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.4% |
| SILVER HILL Barkway Road | £410,000 (2021) | £650,000 (2023) | +25.9% | +16.4% |
| 25 Barkway Road | £167,100 (2006) | £388,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.6% |
| 97 Barkway Road | £155,000 (2003) | £375,000 (2022) | +4.8% | +2.1% |
| 49 Barkway Road | £174,000 (2003) | £400,000 (2022) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 54 Barkway Road | £84,950 (1998) | £390,250 (2022) | +6.6% | +4.0% |
| 60 Barkway Road | £220,000 (2011) | £435,000 (2022) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barkway Road, Royston is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 84 | 63.2% | £205,000 | £41,000 – £435,000 |
| Detached | 36 | 27.1% | £387,500 | £66,000 – £1,200,000 |
| Semi-detached | 13 | 9.8% | £295,000 | £88,500 – £1,100,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Barkway Road, Royston
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 133 freehold — 0.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 133 | 100.0% | £220,500 |
| New build | 6 | 4.5% | £178,550 |
| Existing home | 127 | 95.5% | £224,995 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -20.6%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 2 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Barkway Road, Royston
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Central Bedfordshire, 54.5% of 139,601 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,405 | 1.0% |
| B | 28,531 | 20.4% |
| C | 46,180 | 33.1% |
| D | 45,015 | 32.2% |
| E | 14,404 | 10.3% |
| F | 3,286 | 2.4% |
| G | 780 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Central Bedfordshire at £1,250 a month as of Jun 2026 — £864 for a one-bedroom home and £1,374 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £220,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.80% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SG8, 38 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 15 violent, 0 burglary, 3 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.4 times quieter.
Against the 294,252 residents the 2021 census counted in Central Bedfordshire, that is 0.13 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Barkway Road, Royston
The 2021 census counted 294,252 residents in Central Bedfordshire across 120,754 households. 72.9% of those households own their home and 27.0% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
21 state and independent schools have a SG8 postcode: 18 primary, 2 secondary, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| King James Academy Royston | All-through | Academy converter | 947 |
| Bassingbourn Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 652 |
| Melbourn Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 559 |
| Melbourn Primary School | Primary | Community school | 357 |
| Icknield Walk First School | Primary | Community school | 335 |
| Bassingbourn Primary School | Primary | Community school | 326 |
| Tannery Drift School | Primary | Community school | 320 |
| St Mary Roman Catholic Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| Roman Way Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 219 |
| Meldreth Primary School | Primary | Community school | 194 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Royston Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Meldreth Rail Station | Rail | 3.3 km |
| Shepreth Rail Station | Rail | 6.4 km |
| Ashwell & Morden Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How Barkway Road, Royston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barkway Road, Royston sits above that national figure — +40.0%.
Within Royston the street ranks 333 of 555 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £225,000 (-2.0%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,391 per square metre, across 37 of the 133 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £41,000 to £1,200,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Barkway Road, Royston sits in Central Bedfordshire, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Central Bedfordshire at 9.7 times median local earnings of £37,704 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£295,000 median
- Redwing Rise£215,000 median
- Mill Road£170,000 median
- Old North Road£177,000 median
- Princes Mews£144,000 median
- Kneesworth Street£138,500 median
- Queens Road£156,500 median
- New Road£216,000 median
- Orchard Road£211,000 median
- Cambridge Road£285,000 median
- North End£327,500 median
- Church Street£385,000 median
- Burns Road£117,500 median
- Shaftesbury Way£156,500 median
- Melbourn Road£249,998 median
- King James Way£146,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 81 Barkway Road6 sales
- 47 Barkway Road6 sales
- 97 Barkway Road5 sales
- 95 Barkway Road5 sales
- 30 Barkway Road4 sales
- 85 Barkway Road4 sales
- 39 Barkway Road4 sales
- 29 Barkway Road4 sales
- 46 Barkway Road3 sales
- 58 Barkway Road3 sales
- 23 Barkway Road3 sales
- 49 Barkway Road3 sales
- 54 Barkway Road3 sales
- 57 Barkway Road3 sales
- 48 Barkway Road3 sales
- 33 Barkway Road3 sales
- 79 Barkway Road3 sales
- 62 Barkway Road3 sales
- 51 Barkway Road3 sales
- 28 Barkway Road3 sales
- 9 Barkway Road3 sales
- BELDAM HOUSE Barkway Road2 sales
- SILVER HILL Barkway Road2 sales
- 25 Barkway Road2 sales
Back to Royston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Barkway Road, Royston?
The median price paid in Barkway Road, Royston across every sale on the register is £220,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Barkway Road, Royston?
133 sales are on record for Barkway Road, Royston, the most recent completing on 8 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Barkway Road, Royston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +36.7% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Barkway Road, Royston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £410,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Barkway Road, Royston?
£2,391 per square metre, from the 37 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 8 Apr 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Barkway Road, Royston house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.