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Cambridge market report CB1 2

The CB1 2 (Cambridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,545 registered sales in CB1 2 (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 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the 2026 median for CB1 2 (Cambridge) is £485,800, from 32 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £534,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,780 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,545 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

CB1 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB1 (Cambridge). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

What a home in CB1 2 sells for

The CB1 2 median stands at £485,800 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £534,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

Price per square metre in CB1 2

A square metre of CB1 2 home has cost about £6,780 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CB1 2 70% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical CB1 2 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £485,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 198%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2014 (+41.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.

The turnover behind the prices

The register shows 32 CB1 2 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 194 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.

The rental side of CB1 2

For renting purposes CB1 2 sits in Cambridge. The ONS average private rent there is £1,805 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,255 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,661 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

£1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, which against the £485,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.

What kind of market CB1 2 is

Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB1 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.

Common questions on CB1 2 (Cambridge)

Will CB1 2 prices rise from here?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.

What you could buy in CB1 now

The price of an extra bedroom 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.

Other sectors in CB1

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CB1's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full CB1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB1 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in CB1 2? Price it on the evidence

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB1 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

Two maps carry on from here: every CB1 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.

Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.