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Arkesden market report CB11 3, Saffron Walden
The CB11 3 (Arkesden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,144 registered sales in CB11 3 (Saffron Walden) 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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 58 registered 2026 sales put the CB11 3 (Saffron Walden) median at £438,500, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £487,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,144 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like CB11 3 is a single group of streets within CB11 (Saffron Walden), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CB11 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.
CB11 3 sold prices: where the market stands
58 sales were registered in CB11 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £438,500. The mean works out at £487,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CB11 3
By floor space, homes in CB11 3 have sold for about £4,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB11 3 sits 54% above the national market.
CB11 3's median sold price, 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 | £438,500 | £438,500 | 58 |
| 2025 | £455,000 | £465,880 | 183 |
| 2024 | £472,500 | £502,365 | 176 |
| 2023 | £435,500 | £478,508 | 166 |
| 2022 | £462,500 | £542,334 | 220 |
| 2021 | £425,000 | £538,105 | 235 |
| 2020 | £430,000 | £557,934 | 144 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 189 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 180 |
| 2017 | £420,000 | £572,838 | 209 |
| 2016 | £382,500 | £535,121 | 221 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 189 |
| 2014 | £276,300 | £391,980 | 180 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 199 |
| 2012 | £307,200 | £452,160 | 180 |
| 2011 | £274,000 | £413,635 | 182 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 153 |
| 2009 | £219,600 | £353,009 | 128 |
| 2008 | £242,800 | £398,000 | 134 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 247 |
| 2006 | £230,000 | £399,251 | 242 |
| 2005 | £222,500 | £395,960 | 211 |
| 2004 | £200,000 | £363,239 | 190 |
| 2003 | £179,000 | £329,761 | 243 |
| 2002 | £157,900 | £297,087 | 220 |
| 2001 | £142,200 | £273,372 | 214 |
| 2000 | £119,500 | £234,519 | 219 |
| 1999 | £105,000 | £209,260 | 208 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 236 |
| 1997 | £71,000 | £145,607 | 219 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 208 |
| 1995 | £79,500 | £172,821 | 161 |
In cash terms the typical CB11 3 home went from £79,500 in 1995 to £438,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 154%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB11 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 1998 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.6% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Sales activity in CB11 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.
CB11 3 recorded 58 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 223 sales a year before the financial crisis and 161 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around CB11 3
CB11 3 falls under Uttlesford, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,283 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £900 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,028, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Uttlesford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £438,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,283 a month (£15,396 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
How CB11 3 trades
This is a thin market: 58 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.
What people ask about CB11 3 (Arkesden)
Is CB11 3 (Arkesden) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB11 3 (Arkesden)?
Are property prices falling in CB11 3 (Arkesden)?
Will CB11 3 prices rise from here?
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.
On the market in CB11 today
The live side of the market holds 57 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB11 district, not just CB11 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Debden Green, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, Nr Saffron Walden
- Newport, Saffron Walden, Essex, Saffron Walden
- Quendon, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, Nr Saffron Walden
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 CB11 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CB: the cost
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.
CB area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CB11
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CB11, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB11 4 | £465,000 | 35 |
Zoom out to the full CB11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB11 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CB11 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB11 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB11 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB11 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CB11 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB11 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CB11 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.