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Cambridge market report CB2
The standing CB2 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 8,186 HM Land Registry entries for CB2 (Cambridge), 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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CB2 (Cambridge) came in at £490,000, out of 69 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £596,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,820 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,186 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB2 is the postcode district covering Cambridge (West) in Cambridge. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CB2 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 a home in CB2 sells for
69 sales were registered in CB2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £490,000. The mean works out at £596,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in CB2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB2 costs about £5,820 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB2 sits 72% above the national market.
CB2's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £490,000 | £490,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £547,500 | £560,592 | 230 |
| 2024 | £496,200 | £527,563 | 214 |
| 2023 | £550,000 | £604,316 | 265 |
| 2022 | £480,000 | £562,855 | 383 |
| 2021 | £495,000 | £626,734 | 299 |
| 2020 | £510,000 | £661,736 | 253 |
| 2019 | £530,000 | £694,703 | 316 |
| 2018 | £595,000 | £793,146 | 364 |
| 2017 | £505,000 | £688,769 | 483 |
| 2016 | £517,500 | £723,988 | 409 |
| 2015 | £500,000 | £706,500 | 348 |
| 2014 | £420,000 | £595,843 | 642 |
| 2013 | £360,000 | £518,004 | 476 |
| 2012 | £305,000 | £448,922 | 241 |
| 2011 | £315,000 | £475,529 | 205 |
| 2010 | £296,500 | £464,988 | 265 |
| 2009 | £290,000 | £466,177 | 205 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 306 |
| 2007 | £304,600 | £516,686 | 290 |
| 2006 | £264,000 | £458,270 | 325 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 165 |
| 2004 | £208,000 | £377,769 | 125 |
| 2003 | £228,800 | £421,505 | 132 |
| 2002 | £207,000 | £389,469 | 146 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 164 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 143 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 142 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 158 |
| 1997 | £107,000 | £219,435 | 165 |
| 1996 | £93,000 | £196,133 | 125 |
| 1995 | £94,000 | £204,342 | 133 |
In cash terms the typical CB2 home went from £94,000 in 1995 to £490,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2018; the current median sits about 38% below that. Someone who bought at the 2018 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB2 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 2009 (+56.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−39.3%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £800,000 against £390,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, CB2
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 | £800,000 | 8 | 1,480 |
| Semi-detached | £627,500 | 12 | 966 |
| Terraced | £607,500 | 24 | 2,070 |
| Flats | £390,000 | 25 | 3,670 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −10.5% | −12.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.5% | −3.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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 CB2
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 163 CB2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Unusually, activity here runs above its pre-2008 level: 232 sales a year over the last five years against 186 before the financial crisis. 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
For renting purposes CB2 sits in Cambridge. The ONS average private rent there is £1,805 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £490,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,805 a month (£21,660 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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.
Reading the CB2 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, CB2 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about CB2 (Cambridge)
How much did a house sell for in CB2 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB2 (Cambridge)?
Is CB2 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CB2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CB2's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CB2 sold for. The live side of the market holds 26 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 7% below the CB2 median sold price.
12% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 CB2 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CB2 ranks 11 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 CB2, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CB2 0 | £490,000 | 7 |
| CB2 1 | £417,400 | 11 |
| CB2 7 | £608,000 | 1 |
| CB2 8 | £665,000 | 8 |
| CB2 9 | £475,500 | 42 |
How CB2 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 | £645,000 | +10% |
| CB2 (this report) | £490,000 | -1% |
| CB10 | £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% |
Selling a home in CB2? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB2'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 CB2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB2.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB2 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.
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.