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Arkesden market report CB11 4, Saffron Walden
The standing CB11 4 (Arkesden) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,623 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB11 4 (Saffron Walden) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CB11 4 (Saffron Walden) came in at £465,000, out of 35 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £538,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,780 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,623 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CB11 4 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 4 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 CB11 4 prices, from the sold record
In the CB11 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £465,000, from 35 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £538,000, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in CB11 4
Per square metre, CB11 4 homes have averaged around £4,780 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB11 4 63% above the country at large.
A typical CB11 4 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 | £465,000 | £465,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £565,000 | £578,511 | 131 |
| 2024 | £442,000 | £469,937 | 107 |
| 2023 | £505,000 | £554,872 | 104 |
| 2022 | £512,500 | £600,965 | 132 |
| 2021 | £467,500 | £591,915 | 179 |
| 2020 | £502,500 | £652,004 | 98 |
| 2019 | £377,500 | £494,812 | 102 |
| 2018 | £390,000 | £519,877 | 107 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 107 |
| 2016 | £405,100 | £566,739 | 140 |
| 2015 | £370,000 | £522,810 | 173 |
| 2014 | £333,000 | £472,419 | 197 |
| 2013 | £343,500 | £494,262 | 156 |
| 2012 | £283,000 | £416,541 | 121 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 125 |
| 2010 | £270,800 | £424,684 | 124 |
| 2009 | £250,000 | £401,877 | 111 |
| 2008 | £225,000 | £368,823 | 87 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 149 |
| 2006 | £202,000 | £350,646 | 192 |
| 2005 | £182,000 | £323,887 | 157 |
| 2004 | £190,200 | £345,440 | 160 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 154 |
| 2002 | £157,500 | £296,335 | 178 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 183 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 159 |
| 1999 | £97,000 | £193,316 | 229 |
| 1998 | £92,000 | £185,709 | 199 |
| 1997 | £82,600 | £169,396 | 197 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 192 |
| 1995 | £70,200 | £152,604 | 138 |
In cash terms the typical CB11 4 home went from £70,200 in 1995 to £465,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 205%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 29% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB11 4 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 2020 (+33.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB11 4 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.7% | −19.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.1% | −4.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.4% | −2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
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 CB11 4
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 35 sales completed in CB11 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 167 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
What kind of market CB11 4 is
This is a thin market: 35 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
The rental side of CB11 4
The local authority for CB11 4 is Uttlesford, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,283 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £900 a month here against £2,028 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Uttlesford
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £465,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,283 a month (£15,396 a year) works out at a 3.3% 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: CB11 4 (Arkesden)
How much did a house sell for in CB11 4 (Arkesden)?
Are property prices falling in CB11 4 (Arkesden)?
Is CB11 4 (Arkesden) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CB11 4 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 21% 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.
What is for sale in CB11 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB11 district, not just CB11 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% 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.
- Debden Green, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, Nr Saffron Walden
- Newport, Saffron Walden, Essex, Saffron Walden
- Quendon, 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 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.
What another bedroom costs in CB
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%) | — | — |
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
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 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 3 | £438,500 | 58 |
Zoom out to the full CB11 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB11 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CB11 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB11 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB11 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB11 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB11 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB11 4.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB11 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CB11 4 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.
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.