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Abington market report CB21, Cambridge
The standing CB21 (Abington) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,123 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB21 (Cambridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 69 registered 2026 sales put the CB21 (Cambridge) median at £455,000, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £522,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,410 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,123 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB21 is a postcode district covering Abington, Balsham, Bartlow in Cambridge. 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 CB21 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.
CB21 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 69 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB21 home went for £455,000. The mean is £522,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CB21 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB21 sales average about £4,410 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB21 sits 60% above the national market.
CB21'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 | £455,000 | £455,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £465,000 | £476,120 | 237 |
| 2024 | £490,000 | £520,971 | 219 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 153 |
| 2022 | £507,500 | £595,102 | 213 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 299 |
| 2020 | £451,200 | £585,441 | 180 |
| 2019 | £415,000 | £543,966 | 191 |
| 2018 | £400,000 | £533,208 | 189 |
| 2017 | £380,000 | £518,282 | 187 |
| 2016 | £375,000 | £524,629 | 210 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 170 |
| 2014 | £310,000 | £439,789 | 238 |
| 2013 | £282,000 | £405,770 | 203 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 182 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 211 |
| 2010 | £260,000 | £407,747 | 197 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 190 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 150 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 251 |
| 2006 | £236,700 | £410,881 | 264 |
| 2005 | £235,000 | £418,205 | 196 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 266 |
| 2003 | £199,800 | £368,080 | 217 |
| 2002 | £181,200 | £340,926 | 272 |
| 2001 | £160,200 | £307,976 | 283 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 230 |
| 1999 | £115,000 | £229,189 | 299 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 303 |
| 1997 | £105,000 | £215,334 | 374 |
| 1996 | £97,000 | £204,569 | 235 |
| 1995 | £84,500 | £183,690 | 245 |
In cash terms the typical CB21 home went from £84,500 in 1995 to £455,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 24% 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 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 2000 (+21.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB21 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.2% | −4.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 50% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £621,000 against £235,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CB21
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 | £547,500 | 30 | 3,568 |
| Semi-detached | £431,500 | 24 | 2,173 |
| Terraced | £340,000 | 14 | 1,237 |
| Flats | £235,000 (2025) | – | 113 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 164 sales completed in CB21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 247 sales a year before the financial crisis and 178 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.
The rental side of CB21
For renting purposes CB21 sits in South Cambridgeshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,407 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £1,009 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,149 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £455,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
The shape of the CB21 market
CB21 sits 5 of 16 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
Asked and answered: CB21 (Abington)
How much did a house sell for in CB21 (Abington)?
Are property prices falling in CB21 (Abington)?
Is CB21 (Abington) a good place to buy a house?
Are CB21 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CB21 now
Everything above is what homes in CB21 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 63 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 18% below the CB21 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 39% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Brinkman Road, Linton, CB21, Cambridge
- Church Close, Great Wilbraham, CB21, Cambridge
- High Street, West Wickham, CB21, Cambridge
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 CB21 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CB prices by size
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB21 ranks 10 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CB21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CB21 4 | £410,000 | 49 |
| CB21 5 | £499,000 | 16 |
| CB21 6 | £752,500 | 4 |
How CB21 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in CB21? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB21, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB21 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB21 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual CB21 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.
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.