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Arkesden market report CB11, Saffron Walden
The CB11 (Arkesden) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 10,767 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB11 (Saffron Walden) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CB11 (Saffron Walden) home changed hands for £450,000 in 2026 (median of 93 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £506,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,550 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,767 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CB11 is a postcode district covering Saffron Walden (south), Arkesden, Audley End in Saffron Walden. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CB11 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 CB11 homes really sell for
Across 93 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB11 home went for £450,000. The mean is £506,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CB11
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB11 sales average about £4,550 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB11 58% above the country at large.
CB11's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £450,000 | £450,000 | 93 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 314 |
| 2024 | £465,000 | £494,391 | 283 |
| 2023 | £440,600 | £484,112 | 270 |
| 2022 | £475,000 | £556,992 | 352 |
| 2021 | £438,800 | £555,577 | 414 |
| 2020 | £460,000 | £596,860 | 242 |
| 2019 | £380,000 | £498,089 | 291 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 287 |
| 2017 | £410,000 | £559,199 | 316 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 361 |
| 2015 | £317,200 | £448,204 | 362 |
| 2014 | £309,000 | £438,370 | 377 |
| 2013 | £285,000 | £410,087 | 355 |
| 2012 | £305,000 | £448,922 | 301 |
| 2011 | £288,000 | £434,769 | 307 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 277 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 239 |
| 2008 | £238,000 | £390,132 | 221 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 396 |
| 2006 | £228,200 | £396,126 | 434 |
| 2005 | £211,200 | £375,851 | 368 |
| 2004 | £198,600 | £360,696 | 350 |
| 2003 | £179,500 | £330,683 | 397 |
| 2002 | £157,600 | £296,523 | 398 |
| 2001 | £138,000 | £265,298 | 397 |
| 2000 | £118,500 | £232,556 | 378 |
| 1999 | £102,000 | £203,281 | 437 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 435 |
| 1997 | £76,500 | £156,886 | 416 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 400 |
| 1995 | £77,000 | £167,386 | 299 |
In cash terms the typical CB11 home went from £77,000 in 1995 to £450,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 169%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB11 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 2016 (+21.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−10.0%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £672,500 against £240,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, CB11
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 | £672,500 | 29 | 3,658 |
| Semi-detached | £465,000 | 29 | 2,740 |
| Terraced | £360,000 | 21 | 2,394 |
| Flats | £240,000 | 14 | 1,975 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.0% | −12.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The monthly pulse, last five years
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, 225 sales completed in CB11. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 390 sales a year before the financial crisis and 262 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.
Rents around CB11
For renting purposes CB11 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.
Set against the £450,000 median sold price, £1,283 a month is £15,396 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about CB11 (Arkesden)
How much did a house sell for in CB11 (Arkesden)?
Are property prices falling in CB11 (Arkesden)?
Is CB11 (Arkesden) a good place to buy a house?
Are CB11 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CB11's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CB11 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 57 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 61% above the CB11 median sold price.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, 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
CB11 ranks 7 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.
CB area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CB11, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB11 3 | £438,500 | 58 |
| CB11 4 | £465,000 | 35 |
How CB11 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 | £485,000 | +9% |
| CB1 | £475,000 | +2% |
| CB21 | £455,000 | +1% |
| CB11 (this report) | £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 CB11? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB11's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working CB11: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB11.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB11 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB11 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.