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Cambridge market report CB

The standing CB (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 227,875 registered sales in the CB postcode area (Cambridge) 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 data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.

In short: the typical home in the CB postcode area (Cambridge) sold for £381,300 in 2026, the median of 2,294 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £439,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,470 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 227,875 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

The figures for CB centred on Cambridge run across 16 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.

What buyers actually paid in CB

The 2026 median for CB is £381,300, taken from 2,294 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £439,500, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.

What a square metre costs in CB

Per square metre, CB homes have averaged around £4,470 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.

Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB runs 34% above it.

In cash terms the typical CB home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £381,300 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 164%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+20.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £510,000 against £250,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.

Annualised returns

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.

Sales activity in CB

The register shows 4,304 CB sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 8,848 sales a year before the financial crisis and 5,548 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.

Rents around CB

For renting purposes CB sits in Cambridge, the local authority covering most of the CB area (parts fall under South Cambridgeshire and East Cambridgeshire, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,805 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,255 a month here against £2,661 for four or more bedrooms.

£1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, which against the £381,300 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.

Asked and answered: CB (Cambridge)

Will CB prices rise from here?

The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.

What you could buy in CB now

The CB sales calendar

Across the 33,864 sales completed in CB from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.3% of the total) and April the quietest (6.4%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.

What another bedroom costs in CB

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

District by district

The spread inside CB matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.

Thinking of selling in CB? Get a rough value first

Keep digging

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB. Free after a one click sign in.

See every individual CB sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.

How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.