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Cambridge market report CB
The CB (Cambridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 227,354 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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in the CB postcode area (Cambridge) sold for £380,000 in 2026, the median of 1,905 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £432,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,470 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 227,354 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.
Where CB 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.
What buyers actually paid in CB
The 2026 median for CB is £380,000, taken from 1,905 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £432,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
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 33% above it.
A typical CB home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 1,905 |
| 2025 | £405,000 | £414,685 | 6,168 |
| 2024 | £404,800 | £430,386 | 5,918 |
| 2023 | £412,000 | £452,687 | 5,657 |
| 2022 | £398,000 | £466,700 | 7,576 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 8,420 |
| 2020 | £362,600 | £470,481 | 5,577 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 6,058 |
| 2018 | £341,000 | £454,559 | 6,202 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 6,540 |
| 2016 | £322,000 | £450,481 | 6,647 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 6,863 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 7,804 |
| 2013 | £245,000 | £352,531 | 6,991 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 5,976 |
| 2011 | £225,000 | £339,663 | 6,246 |
| 2010 | £223,000 | £349,721 | 6,195 |
| 2009 | £197,500 | £317,483 | 5,686 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 5,159 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 9,079 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 9,913 |
| 2005 | £191,000 | £339,903 | 8,004 |
| 2004 | £179,000 | £325,099 | 8,404 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 8,596 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 9,092 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 9,195 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 8,497 |
| 1999 | £90,500 | £180,362 | 8,946 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 7,909 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 8,728 |
| 1996 | £67,500 | £142,354 | 7,529 |
| 1995 | £66,500 | £144,561 | 5,874 |
In cash terms the typical CB home went from £66,500 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 163%: 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.
Year-on-year change in the CB 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 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 £507,500 against £250,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, CB
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 | £507,500 | 575 | 73,967 |
| Semi-detached | £375,800 | 539 | 58,863 |
| Terraced | £319,500 | 560 | 65,875 |
| Flats | £250,000 | 231 | 28,649 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.2% | −8.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 4,366 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 5,445 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, which against the £380,000 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)
Are property prices falling in CB (Cambridge)?
Is CB (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in 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
Everything above is what homes in CB sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,384 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the CB median sold price.
37% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Woodhouse Way, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Craister Court, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Waterloo Close, Newmarket, CB8, Newmarket
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 CB home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in CB
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CB area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £360,500 | £494,995 (+37%) | £689,000 (+39%) | £979,975 (+42%) |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | £325,000 (+25%) | £408,000 (+26%) | £562,500 (+38%) | £760,000 (+35%) |
| Terraced | £250,000 | £315,000 (+26%) | £379,972 (+21%) | £575,000 (+51%) | £925,000 (+61%) |
| Flat | £237,975 | £350,000 (+47%) | £495,000 (+41%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the CB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
CB area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
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.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| CB3 Cambridge (North-West), Girton | £645,000 | +10% | 37 |
| CB2 Cambridge (West) | £490,000 | -1% | 69 |
| CB10 Saffron Walden (north and town centre), Ashdon | £485,000 | +9% | 65 |
| CB1 Cambridge (Central, South) | £475,000 | +2% | 178 |
| CB21 Abington, Balsham | £455,000 | +1% | 69 |
| CB11 Saffron Walden (south), Arkesden | £450,000 | +3% | 93 |
| CB22 Babraham, Barrington | £430,000 | -6% | 97 |
| CB4 Cambridge (North) | £413,200 | +1% | 142 |
| CB5 Cambridge (East) | £405,000 | -1% | 29 |
| CB25 Bottisham, Burwell | £405,000 | +11% | 100 |
| CB24 Cottenham, Fen Drayton | £396,800 | +3% | 182 |
| CB23 Bar Hill, Barton | £385,000 | +8% | 151 |
| CB6 Ely (west), Aldreth | £330,000 | +6% | 209 |
| CB7 Ely (east and city centre), Barway | £295,000 | -3% | 150 |
| CB8 Newmarket, Ashley | £293,000 | -10% | 167 |
| CB9 Haverhill, Barnardiston | £265,000 | -3% | 167 |
Thinking of selling in CB? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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Keep digging
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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.