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Babraham market report CB22 3, Cambridge
The CB22 3 (Babraham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,763 registered sales in CB22 3 (Cambridge) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 34 registered 2026 sales put the CB22 3 (Cambridge) median at £382,500, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £410,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,490 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,763 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB22 3 is one sector of CB22 (Cambridge): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CB22 3 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.
Today's CB22 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CB22 3 is £382,500, taken from 34 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £410,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
CB22 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB22 3 costs about £4,490 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CB22 3 34% above the national figure.
A typical CB22 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £382,500 | £382,500 | 34 |
| 2025 | £432,500 | £442,842 | 115 |
| 2024 | £425,000 | £451,862 | 131 |
| 2023 | £411,000 | £451,589 | 78 |
| 2022 | £385,000 | £451,456 | 143 |
| 2021 | £413,500 | £523,544 | 152 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 105 |
| 2019 | £337,500 | £442,382 | 112 |
| 2018 | £330,000 | £439,896 | 94 |
| 2017 | £329,000 | £448,723 | 88 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 83 |
| 2015 | £292,000 | £412,596 | 98 |
| 2014 | £257,200 | £364,883 | 126 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 95 |
| 2012 | £227,800 | £335,293 | 97 |
| 2011 | £202,000 | £304,942 | 92 |
| 2010 | £213,000 | £334,039 | 119 |
| 2009 | £192,000 | £308,642 | 89 |
| 2008 | £216,800 | £355,381 | 86 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 126 |
| 2006 | £193,000 | £335,023 | 161 |
| 2005 | £182,200 | £324,243 | 126 |
| 2004 | £167,200 | £303,668 | 154 |
| 2003 | £159,500 | £293,838 | 156 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 142 |
| 2001 | £123,500 | £237,422 | 138 |
| 2000 | £109,000 | £213,913 | 117 |
| 1999 | £84,500 | £168,404 | 146 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 143 |
| 1997 | £73,000 | £149,708 | 122 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 167 |
| 1995 | £83,500 | £181,516 | 128 |
In cash terms the typical CB22 3 home went from £83,500 in 1995 to £382,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 111%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB22 3 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB22 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.6% | −13.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.5% | −6.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 34 sales completed in CB22 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 140 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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.
How CB22 3 trades
Only 34 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB22 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within CB22, this sector trades 11% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of CB22 3
The local authority for CB22 3 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.
£1,407 a month is £16,884 a year, which against the £382,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
CB22 3 (Babraham): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CB22 3 (Babraham)?
Are property prices falling in CB22 3 (Babraham)?
Is CB22 3 (Babraham) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CB22 3 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in CB22 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 43 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB22 district, not just CB22 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
45% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Ringstone, Duxford, Cambridge
- Hurdles Way, Duxford, CAMBRIDGE
- Abberley Wood, Great Shelford, 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 CB22 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.
What another bedroom costs in CB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CB22
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB22, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB22 4 | £369,000 | 12 |
| CB22 5 | £610,000 | 31 |
| CB22 6 | £397,400 | 4 |
| CB22 7 | £500,000 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full CB22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB22 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CB22 3? 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 CB22 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB22 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB22 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CB22 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB22 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB22 3 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.