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Ashdon market report CB10, Saffron Walden
The standing CB10 (Ashdon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,293 HM Land Registry entries for CB10 (Saffron Walden), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CB10 (Saffron Walden) home changed hands for £485,000 in 2026 (median of 65 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier), with the mean at £506,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,730 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 7,293 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district CB10 covering Saffron Walden (north and town centre), Ashdon, Church End sits in Saffron Walden. 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 CB10 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.
Today's CB10 prices, from the sold record
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB10 home went for £485,000. The mean is £506,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in CB10
The last five years of sales put CB10 at roughly £4,730 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB10 sits 70% above the national market.
A typical CB10 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 | £485,000 | £485,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 217 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 205 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 178 |
| 2022 | £485,000 | £568,718 | 243 |
| 2021 | £445,000 | £563,427 | 284 |
| 2020 | £455,000 | £590,372 | 199 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 244 |
| 2018 | £415,000 | £553,203 | 249 |
| 2017 | £418,000 | £570,110 | 203 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 220 |
| 2015 | £345,000 | £487,485 | 264 |
| 2014 | £320,000 | £453,976 | 254 |
| 2013 | £320,000 | £460,448 | 178 |
| 2012 | £282,500 | £415,805 | 179 |
| 2011 | £260,000 | £392,500 | 165 |
| 2010 | £281,800 | £441,935 | 187 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 139 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 144 |
| 2007 | £255,000 | £432,551 | 256 |
| 2006 | £243,000 | £421,817 | 257 |
| 2005 | £220,000 | £391,511 | 239 |
| 2004 | £206,500 | £375,044 | 253 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 260 |
| 2002 | £170,000 | £319,854 | 284 |
| 2001 | £146,000 | £280,678 | 302 |
| 2000 | £125,200 | £245,705 | 266 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 323 |
| 1998 | £97,500 | £196,811 | 271 |
| 1997 | £91,600 | £187,853 | 279 |
| 1996 | £76,500 | £161,335 | 271 |
| 1995 | £74,000 | £160,865 | 215 |
In cash terms the typical CB10 home went from £74,000 in 1995 to £485,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 201%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB10 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 1997 (+19.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB10 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.1% | −0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £687,500 against £258,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, CB10
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 | £660,000 | 25 | 2,940 |
| Semi-detached | £402,000 | 17 | 1,817 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 20 | 1,830 |
| Flats | £258,000 (2025) | – | 703 |
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 158 sales completed in CB10. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 265 sales a year before the financial crisis and 182 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.
Reading the CB10 market
CB10 sits 3 of 16 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
The rental side of CB10
For renting purposes CB10 sits in Uttlesford. The ONS average private rent there is £1,283 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £900 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,028 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Uttlesford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £485,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,283 a month (£15,396 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
Asked and answered: CB10 (Ashdon)
Is CB10 (Ashdon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB10 (Ashdon)?
Are property prices falling in CB10 (Ashdon)?
What happens to CB10 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CB10's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CB10 sold for. The live side of the market holds 38 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 36% above the CB10 median sold price.
21% 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.
- Great Chesterford, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, Nr Saffron Walden
- Saffron Walden, Essex, Essex
- Sewards End, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, Nr Saffron Walden
"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 CB10 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CB
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB10 ranks 3 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 CB10, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB10 1 | £505,000 | 20 |
| CB10 2 | £482,000 | 45 |
How CB10 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 | £645,000 | +10% |
| CB2 | £490,000 | -1% |
| CB10 (this report) | £485,000 | +9% |
| CB1 | £475,000 | +2% |
| CB21 | £455,000 | +1% |
| CB11 | £450,000 | +3% |
| CB22 | £430,000 | -6% |
| CB4 | £413,200 | +1% |
| CB5 | £405,000 | -1% |
| CB25 | £405,000 | +11% |
| CB24 | £396,800 | +3% |
| CB23 | £385,000 | +8% |
| CB6 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CB7 | £295,000 | -3% |
| CB8 | £293,000 | -10% |
| CB9 | £265,000 | -3% |
Thinking of selling in CB10? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB10, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB10 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB10 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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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB10. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB10 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.