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Abington market report CB21 5, Cambridge
The standing CB21 5 (Abington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,390 HM Land Registry entries for CB21 5 (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.
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 CB21 5 (Cambridge) sold for £499,000 in 2026, the median of 16 registered sales, up 12% on five years earlier. The mean was £609,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,830 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,390 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CB21 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB21 (Cambridge). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CB21 5 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 CB21 5 sells for
16 sales were registered in CB21 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £499,000. The mean works out at £609,200, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in CB21 5
The last five years of sales put CB21 5 at roughly £4,830 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CB21 5 trades 75% above the country as a whole.
CB21 5'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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £499,000 | £499,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 97 |
| 2024 | £565,000 | £600,711 | 93 |
| 2023 | £495,000 | £543,884 | 47 |
| 2022 | £575,000 | £674,253 | 75 |
| 2021 | £445,000 | £563,427 | 80 |
| 2020 | £436,000 | £565,719 | 58 |
| 2019 | £431,500 | £565,593 | 68 |
| 2018 | £425,000 | £566,533 | 77 |
| 2017 | £395,000 | £538,740 | 57 |
| 2016 | £385,000 | £538,619 | 62 |
| 2015 | £387,500 | £547,538 | 72 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 99 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 68 |
| 2012 | £255,000 | £375,328 | 70 |
| 2011 | £248,000 | £374,385 | 100 |
| 2010 | £280,000 | £439,112 | 73 |
| 2009 | £239,000 | £384,195 | 88 |
| 2008 | £260,000 | £426,195 | 49 |
| 2007 | £302,000 | £512,276 | 67 |
| 2006 | £248,500 | £431,364 | 68 |
| 2005 | £267,500 | £476,042 | 59 |
| 2004 | £219,800 | £399,200 | 78 |
| 2003 | £216,000 | £397,924 | 79 |
| 2002 | £190,500 | £358,424 | 81 |
| 2001 | £167,500 | £322,010 | 84 |
| 2000 | £149,700 | £293,786 | 84 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 64 |
| 1998 | £136,000 | £274,526 | 98 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 115 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 68 |
| 1995 | £102,500 | £222,819 | 96 |
In cash terms the typical CB21 5 home went from £102,500 in 1995 to £499,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 124%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 26% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB21 5 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 2022 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−13.9%). 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) | −0.2% | −2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 16 sales completed in CB21 5. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 66 sales a year recently, against 75 a year before 2008. 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.
Rents around CB21 5
The local authority for CB21 5 is South Cambridgeshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,009 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,149, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £499,000 median sold price, £1,407 a month is £16,884 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 kind of market CB21 5 is
Only 16 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB21 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within CB21, this sector trades 10% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about CB21 5 (Abington)
Is CB21 5 (Abington) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB21 5 (Abington)?
Are property prices falling in CB21 5 (Abington)?
Where do CB21 5 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
CB21's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 63 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB21 district, not just CB21 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Brinkman Road, Linton, CB21, Cambridge
- Church Close, Great Wilbraham, CB21, Cambridge
- High Street, West Wickham, CB21, Cambridge
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CB21 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CB21
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB21, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB21 4 | £410,000 | 49 |
| CB21 6 | £752,500 | 4 |
Zoom out to the full CB21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB21 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CB21 5? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB21 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB21 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB21 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB21 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB21 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB21 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB21 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.