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Cambridge market report CB1 3
The CB1 3 (Cambridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,488 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB1 3 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 80 registered 2026 sales put the CB1 3 (Cambridge) median at £469,500, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £462,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,100 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,488 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB1 3 is one sector of CB1 (Cambridge): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CB1 3 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 CB1 3 homes really sell for
The CB1 3 median stands at £469,500 for 2026, built from 80 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £462,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in CB1 3
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB1 3 costs about £6,100 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB1 3 runs 65% above it.
CB1 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £469,500 | £469,500 | 80 |
| 2025 | £489,000 | £500,693 | 227 |
| 2024 | £500,000 | £531,603 | 227 |
| 2023 | £465,000 | £510,921 | 252 |
| 2022 | £466,200 | £546,673 | 304 |
| 2021 | £461,000 | £583,685 | 324 |
| 2020 | £425,500 | £552,095 | 212 |
| 2019 | £413,700 | £542,262 | 254 |
| 2018 | £420,000 | £559,868 | 220 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 257 |
| 2016 | £405,000 | £566,599 | 270 |
| 2015 | £380,000 | £536,940 | 228 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 290 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 309 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 229 |
| 2011 | £263,000 | £397,029 | 287 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 262 |
| 2009 | £232,500 | £373,746 | 231 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 197 |
| 2007 | £246,000 | £417,285 | 417 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 495 |
| 2005 | £210,000 | £373,715 | 386 |
| 2004 | £209,500 | £380,493 | 371 |
| 2003 | £175,000 | £322,392 | 395 |
| 2002 | £169,000 | £317,972 | 347 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 338 |
| 2000 | £124,800 | £244,920 | 364 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 385 |
| 1998 | £91,000 | £183,690 | 331 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 389 |
| 1996 | £69,000 | £145,518 | 328 |
| 1995 | £66,000 | £143,474 | 282 |
In cash terms the typical CB1 3 home went from £66,000 in 1995 to £469,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 227%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB1 3 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 (+24.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−4.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB1 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.0% | −6.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.0% | +1.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CB1 3
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CB1 3 recorded 80 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 389 sales a year before the financial crisis and 218 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around CB1 3
The local authority for CB1 3 is Cambridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,805 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £469,500 median sold price, £1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
CB1 3 (Cambridge): the questions that come up
Is CB1 3 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB1 3 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB1 3 (Cambridge)?
Where do CB1 3 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in CB1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 94 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB1 district, not just CB1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 47% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Lichfield Road, Cambridge
- Catharine Street, Cambridge, Cambridge
- Brooks Road, Cambridge, CB1, Cambridge
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 CB1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CB area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CB1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CB1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB1 1 | £337,500 | 14 |
| CB1 2 | £485,800 | 32 |
| CB1 7 | £754,500 | 14 |
| CB1 8 | £770,000 | 8 |
| CB1 9 | £426,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full CB1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CB1 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB1 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CB1 3.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CB1 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.