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Cambridge market report CB2 8
The standing CB2 8 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,145 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB2 8 (Cambridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CB2 8 (Cambridge) sold for £665,000 in 2026, the median of 8 registered sales, down 52% on five years earlier. The mean was £848,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,530 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,145 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CB2 8 is a single group of streets within CB2 (Cambridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CB2 8 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 CB2 8 homes really sell for
Take the 8 registered 2026 sales in CB2 8 and the middle price, the median, is £665,000. The mean lands at £848,800, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in CB2 8
A square metre of CB2 8 home has cost about £6,530 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB2 8 133% above the country at large.
CB2 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £665,000 | £665,000 | 8 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 59 |
| 2024 | £477,500 | £507,681 | 46 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 49 |
| 2022 | £560,000 | £656,664 | 63 |
| 2021 | £1,380,200 | £1,747,511 | 41 |
| 2020 | £467,500 | £606,591 | 28 |
| 2019 | £550,000 | £720,918 | 37 |
| 2018 | £452,200 | £602,791 | 58 |
| 2017 | £510,000 | £695,589 | 73 |
| 2016 | £535,000 | £748,470 | 68 |
| 2015 | £500,000 | £706,500 | 57 |
| 2014 | £405,000 | £574,563 | 203 |
| 2013 | £307,700 | £442,750 | 124 |
| 2012 | £320,000 | £471,000 | 85 |
| 2011 | £336,500 | £507,986 | 119 |
| 2010 | £315,000 | £494,001 | 167 |
| 2009 | £382,500 | £614,872 | 122 |
| 2008 | £132,500 | £217,195 | 233 |
| 2007 | £330,000 | £559,772 | 81 |
| 2006 | £665,000 | £1,154,355 | 83 |
| 2005 | £496,000 | £882,680 | 42 |
| 2004 | £279,000 | £506,719 | 20 |
| 2003 | £405,000 | £746,108 | 39 |
| 2002 | £515,000 | £968,968 | 26 |
| 2001 | £410,000 | £788,204 | 26 |
| 2000 | £282,500 | £554,406 | 25 |
| 1999 | £312,500 | £622,796 | 26 |
| 1998 | £223,000 | £450,141 | 41 |
| 1997 | £226,000 | £463,480 | 30 |
| 1996 | £242,000 | £510,367 | 26 |
| 1995 | £205,000 | £445,638 | 40 |
In cash terms the typical CB2 8 home went from £205,000 in 1995 to £665,000 in 2026, roughly 3.2 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 49%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 62% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB2 8 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 2021 (+195.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−59.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB2 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +35.7% | +32.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −13.6% | −17.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | 0.0% | −2.7% |
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 CB2 8
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 register shows 8 CB2 8 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 45 sales a year recently, against 43 a year before 2008. 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 homes rent for around CB2 8
The local authority for CB2 8 is Cambridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,805 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,255 a month here against £2,661 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £665,000 median sold price, £1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
Reading the CB2 8 market
This is a thin market: 8 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. Within CB2, this sector trades 36% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Common questions on CB2 8 (Cambridge)
How much did a house sell for in CB2 8 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB2 8 (Cambridge)?
Is CB2 8 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
Will CB2 8 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 52% over five years in cash but down 62% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in CB2 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 26 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB2 district, not just CB2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 12% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 CB2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Moving up a bedroom in CB: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, from the Land Registry record. 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.
Winners and losers across the CB area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CB2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB2 0 | £490,000 | 7 |
| CB2 1 | £417,400 | 11 |
| CB2 7 | £608,000 | 1 |
| CB2 9 | £475,500 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full CB2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CB2 8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB2 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB2 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB2 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CB2 8 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.