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Cambridge market report CB1
The CB1 (Cambridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 24,864 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB1 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical CB1 (Cambridge) home changed hands for £477,500 in 2026 (median of 228 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £527,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,220 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 24,864 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district CB1 covering Cambridge (Central, South), Teversham (parts of) sits in Cambridge. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CB1 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.
The going rate for a home in CB1
Take the 228 registered 2026 sales in CB1 and the middle price, the median, is £477,500. The mean lands at £527,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CB1 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CB1 have sold for about £6,220 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB1 runs 68% above it.
A typical CB1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £477,500 | £477,500 | 228 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 583 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 540 |
| 2023 | £482,500 | £530,150 | 531 |
| 2022 | £475,800 | £557,930 | 760 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 750 |
| 2020 | £440,500 | £571,558 | 492 |
| 2019 | £420,000 | £550,519 | 551 |
| 2018 | £417,500 | £556,535 | 525 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 617 |
| 2016 | £403,000 | £563,801 | 669 |
| 2015 | £376,500 | £531,995 | 689 |
| 2014 | £327,400 | £464,474 | 674 |
| 2013 | £297,500 | £428,073 | 821 |
| 2012 | £275,000 | £404,766 | 588 |
| 2011 | £272,200 | £410,917 | 704 |
| 2010 | £265,500 | £416,372 | 694 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 617 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 527 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 990 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 1,074 |
| 2005 | £218,000 | £387,952 | 1,054 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 947 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 1,085 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 1,040 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 939 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 1,035 |
| 1999 | £104,500 | £208,263 | 1,086 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 971 |
| 1997 | £84,500 | £173,292 | 1,130 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 1,041 |
| 1995 | £70,000 | £152,169 | 912 |
In cash terms the typical CB1 home went from £70,000 in 1995 to £477,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB1 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 2002 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.1%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £740,000 against £290,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CB1
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 | £740,000 | 21 | 2,742 |
| Semi-detached | £525,000 | 47 | 5,747 |
| Terraced | £502,000 | 105 | 10,443 |
| Flats | £290,000 | 55 | 5,932 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −2.6% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 427 CB1 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 1,021 sales a year before the financial crisis and 528 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.
How CB1 trades
Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, CB1 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
The rental side of CB1
CB1 falls under Cambridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,805 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,255 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,661, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £477,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,805 a month (£21,660 a year) works out at a 4.5% 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.
What people ask about CB1 (Cambridge)
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What happens to CB1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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.
CB1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CB1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 72 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% below the CB1 median sold price.
Set against 427 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 72 homes on the market here are roughly 2 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
39% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CB1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Month by month: when CB1 sells
Across the 3,164 sales completed in CB1 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (10.9% of the total) and May the quietest (6.0%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 219 | 6.9% |
| February | 276 | 8.7% |
| March | 344 | 10.9% |
| April | 195 | 6.2% |
| May | 190 | 6.0% |
| June | 301 | 9.5% |
| July | 258 | 8.2% |
| August | 276 | 8.7% |
| September | 326 | 10.3% |
| October | 255 | 8.1% |
| November | 232 | 7.3% |
| December | 292 | 9.2% |
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 | £311,250 | £365,000 (+17%) | £429,000 (+18%) | £554,000 (+29%) | £730,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | £300,000 (+18%) | £380,000 (+27%) | £480,000 (+26%) | £690,000 (+44%) |
| Terraced | £238,000 | £285,600 (+20%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £470,000 (+34%) | £702,500 (+49%) |
| Flat | £225,000 | £273,000 (+21%) | £412,500 (+51%) | £525,000 (+27%) | £509,950 (-3%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB1 ranks 8 of 16 in the CB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, CB area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CB1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB1 1 | £392,500 | 18 |
| CB1 2 | £491,500 | 41 |
| CB1 3 | £473,800 | 102 |
| CB1 7 | £749,000 | 17 |
| CB1 8 | £740,000 | 9 |
| CB1 9 | £412,500 | 41 |
How CB1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 | £621,000 | +6% |
| CB1 (this report) | £477,500 | +3% |
| CB10 | £475,000 | +7% |
| CB21 | £470,000 | +4% |
| CB2 | £465,000 | -6% |
| CB11 | £450,000 | +3% |
| CB22 | £438,200 | -4% |
| CB4 | £406,000 | +0% |
| CB5 | £405,000 | -1% |
| CB24 | £405,000 | +5% |
| CB25 | £405,000 | +11% |
| CB23 | £387,000 | +9% |
| CB6 | £320,000 | +3% |
| CB7 | £300,000 | -2% |
| CB8 | £295,000 | -9% |
| CB9 | £267,500 | -2% |
Selling in CB1? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB1, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual CB1 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.