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Babraham market report CB22 5, Cambridge

The CB22 5 (Babraham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,038 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB22 5 (Cambridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: the 2026 median for CB22 5 (Cambridge) is £610,000, from 31 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier; the mean is £649,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,580 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,038 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.

A postcode sector like CB22 5 is a single group of streets within CB22 (Cambridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What buyers actually paid in CB22 5

The 2026 median for CB22 5 is £610,000, taken from 31 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £649,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.

What a square metre costs in CB22 5

By floor space, homes in CB22 5 have sold for about £5,580 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.

Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB22 5 sits 114% above the national market.

In cash terms the typical CB22 5 home went from £90,000 in 1995 to £610,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 212%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2010 (+26.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−31.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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.

Transaction volumes

CB22 5 recorded 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 a year over the last five. 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.

What kind of market CB22 5 is

This is a thin market: 31 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 CB22, this sector trades 42% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Rents around CB22 5

The local authority for CB22 5 is South Cambridgeshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,009 a month here against £2,149 for four or more bedrooms.

Against the £610,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 2.8% 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.

Common questions on CB22 5 (Babraham)

Are CB22 5 prices heading up or down?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.

CB22's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in CB

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the CB area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in CB22

Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB22, one report each:

Zoom out to the full CB22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB22 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in CB22 5? Start from the sold record

Keep digging

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The live map plots every individual CB22 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.