8 Fortune Way is a four-bedroom detached house in Bassingbourn, Royston, Royston (SG8 5YR). It has a recorded floor area of 157 m² (around 1690 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1991-1995 and council tax band G. The latest certificate (May 2017) shows an E (score 52), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 70), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil. Records show the property has been extended at some point in its history. The home occupies a cul-de-sac position.
Sale prices here have outpaced England HPI: 5.4% per year against 0% for the wider region. Today's modelled estimate of £651,000 is 19.4% above the 2019 sale price. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£322/sq ft) was about 60.4% above the typical sold price in the postcode. One planning record on file: an extension approved in 2011. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. At 157 m² it's 18.9% larger than the typical home in the postcode (132 m² median across 11 EPCs). It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 82% of similar EPCs). Last sale on file: £545,000 in March 2019.
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8 Fortune Way's carbon output runs well above what efficient homes in the postcode produce.
Sale price has at least doubled since 1998.
£651,000
Modelled from EPC, postcode comparables and a sale-price growth of 5.4% per year over 20 years.
£545,000
Growth on file: 5.4% per year over 20 years.
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8 Fortune Way is notably below the street on co₂ emissions.
Price per m²
£3,471
Street avg £3,621
Floor Area
157 m²
Street avg 126 m²
Habitable Rooms
7 rooms
Street avg 7 rooms
Daytime road noise here sits well below conversation level — a quiet pocket of the postcode.
Crime
3/mo
Steady year-on-year across the wider district.
Closest school
0.6 km

Daytime· 07:00 – 23:00
43.8dB

Valuation
against the asking price
Risks
planning & flood
Sold prices
similar homes nearby
Trends
the local market
Erection of oil tank and enclosure to North side of property and conservatory to the rear.
What's in 8 Fortune Way, Bassingbourn, Royston, SG8 5YR's planning history?
Refusals, disputes and full decisions on this property and nearby, in the report.
22 March 2019Most recent
£545,000
+189.9%over 20 years30 October 1998
£188,000
Median price across the last 5 sales in SG8 5YR: £575,000 (2024–2020).

CO₂ Emissions
8.4 t/year
Street avg 5.4 t/year
SG8 5FL
Bassingbourn Village College. 2 schools nearby.
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Night-time· 23:00 – 07:00
36.1dB