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Cambridge market report CB1 7
The standing CB1 7 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,036 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB1 7 (Cambridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for CB1 7 (Cambridge) is £754,500, from 14 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £967,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,900 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,036 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CB1 7 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 7 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 a home in CB1 7 sells for
The CB1 7 median stands at £754,500 for 2026, built from 14 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £967,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
CB1 7 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB1 7 costs about £6,900 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB1 7 sits 165% above the national market.
A typical CB1 7 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 | £754,500 | £754,500 | 14 |
| 2025 | £777,500 | £796,092 | 50 |
| 2024 | £787,500 | £837,274 | 50 |
| 2023 | £655,000 | £719,685 | 43 |
| 2022 | £690,000 | £809,104 | 51 |
| 2021 | £675,000 | £854,637 | 51 |
| 2020 | £681,900 | £884,779 | 42 |
| 2019 | £626,000 | £820,536 | 44 |
| 2018 | £640,000 | £853,132 | 40 |
| 2017 | £640,000 | £872,896 | 49 |
| 2016 | £542,500 | £758,963 | 48 |
| 2015 | £635,000 | £897,255 | 54 |
| 2014 | £495,000 | £702,244 | 59 |
| 2013 | £411,000 | £591,388 | 57 |
| 2012 | £439,500 | £646,889 | 44 |
| 2011 | £447,000 | £674,798 | 71 |
| 2010 | £305,000 | £478,319 | 63 |
| 2009 | £293,500 | £471,804 | 64 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 55 |
| 2007 | £373,100 | £632,882 | 76 |
| 2006 | £324,000 | £562,423 | 67 |
| 2005 | £273,800 | £487,254 | 90 |
| 2004 | £295,000 | £535,778 | 60 |
| 2003 | £272,500 | £502,011 | 84 |
| 2002 | £240,000 | £451,558 | 117 |
| 2001 | £223,000 | £428,706 | 69 |
| 2000 | £185,000 | £363,063 | 81 |
| 1999 | £129,500 | £258,087 | 91 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 87 |
| 1997 | £108,200 | £221,896 | 106 |
| 1996 | £94,000 | £198,242 | 83 |
| 1995 | £88,800 | £193,038 | 76 |
In cash terms the typical CB1 7 home went from £88,800 in 1995 to £754,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 291%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 16% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB1 7 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 2011 (+46.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.6%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.0% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
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 year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CB1 7 recorded 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 81 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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 homes rent for around CB1 7
For renting purposes CB1 7 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £754,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,805 a month (£21,660 a year) works out at a 2.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
How CB1 7 trades
This is a thin market: 14 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the CB1 district median, CB1 7 sits 59% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about CB1 7 (Cambridge)
Are property prices falling in CB1 7 (Cambridge)?
Is CB1 7 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB1 7 (Cambridge)?
Are CB1 7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CB1 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 94 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB1 district, not just CB1 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
47% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Lichfield Road, Cambridge
- Catharine Street, Cambridge, Cambridge
- Brooks Road, Cambridge, CB1, Cambridge
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CB1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: CB prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CB area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
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:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB1 1 | £337,500 | 14 |
| CB1 2 | £485,800 | 32 |
| CB1 3 | £469,500 | 80 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CB1 7: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB1 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB1 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB1 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB1 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB1 7.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB1 7. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB1 7 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.