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Babraham market report CB22 7, Cambridge
The standing CB22 7 (Babraham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 1,497 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB22 7 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CB22 7 (Cambridge) home changed hands for £500,000 in 2026 (median of 16 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier), with the mean at £563,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,880 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,497 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CB22 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB22 (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 CB22 7 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 CB22 7 sells for
Across 16 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB22 7 home went for £500,000. The mean is £563,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CB22 7
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB22 7 sales average about £4,880 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CB22 7 trades 75% above the country as a whole.
A typical CB22 7 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £500,000 | £500,000 | 16 |
| 2025 | £499,000 | £510,933 | 47 |
| 2024 | £606,000 | £644,302 | 52 |
| 2023 | £639,000 | £702,105 | 62 |
| 2022 | £622,500 | £729,952 | 70 |
| 2021 | £544,000 | £688,774 | 61 |
| 2020 | £525,000 | £681,198 | 43 |
| 2019 | £520,000 | £681,596 | 36 |
| 2018 | £478,000 | £637,183 | 41 |
| 2017 | £576,200 | £785,879 | 40 |
| 2016 | £488,000 | £682,717 | 53 |
| 2015 | £430,000 | £607,590 | 41 |
| 2014 | £409,900 | £581,515 | 56 |
| 2013 | £443,500 | £638,152 | 36 |
| 2012 | £415,000 | £610,828 | 34 |
| 2011 | £305,000 | £460,433 | 54 |
| 2010 | £338,500 | £530,855 | 35 |
| 2009 | £325,200 | £522,762 | 48 |
| 2008 | £315,000 | £516,352 | 27 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 47 |
| 2006 | £357,500 | £620,574 | 58 |
| 2005 | £275,000 | £489,389 | 37 |
| 2004 | £260,000 | £472,211 | 45 |
| 2003 | £226,000 | £416,347 | 38 |
| 2002 | £187,000 | £351,839 | 62 |
| 2001 | £192,500 | £370,071 | 43 |
| 2000 | £155,000 | £304,188 | 55 |
| 1999 | £160,000 | £318,872 | 67 |
| 1998 | £140,000 | £282,600 | 57 |
| 1997 | £117,500 | £240,969 | 47 |
| 1996 | £106,800 | £225,236 | 58 |
| 1995 | £87,000 | £189,125 | 31 |
In cash terms the typical CB22 7 home went from £87,000 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2017; the current median sits about 36% below that. Someone who bought at the 2017 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB22 7 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 2012 (+36.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−17.7%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.2% | −3.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
Sales activity in CB22 7
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 CB22 7. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 49 sales a year recently, against 48 a year before 2008. 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 CB22 7
CB22 7 falls under South Cambridgeshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
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 £500,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.4%. 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.
How CB22 7 trades
This is a thin market: 16 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. 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. Against the CB22 district median, CB22 7 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CB22 7 (Babraham)
Are property prices falling in CB22 7 (Babraham)?
Is CB22 7 (Babraham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB22 7 (Babraham)?
Will CB22 7 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% 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 CB22 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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
45% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Ringstone, Duxford, Cambridge
- Hurdles Way, Duxford, CAMBRIDGE
- Abberley Wood, Great Shelford, 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 CB22 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in CB
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. 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 3 | £382,500 | 34 |
| CB22 4 | £369,000 | 12 |
| CB22 5 | £610,000 | 31 |
| CB22 6 | £397,400 | 4 |
Zoom out to the full CB22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB22 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CB22 7? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB22 7'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 CB22 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB22 7.
Go deeper
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CB22 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB22 7 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.