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Bar Hill market report CB23 3, Cambridge
The standing CB23 3 (Bar Hill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,868 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB23 3 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CB23 3 (Cambridge) sold for £338,000 in 2026, the median of 26 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £351,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,868 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CB23 3 is a single group of streets within CB23 (Cambridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CB23 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 CB23 3 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for CB23 3 is £338,000, taken from 26 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £351,800, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CB23 3
A square metre of CB23 3 home has cost about £3,550 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB23 3 sits 19% above the national market.
The price of a typical CB23 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £338,000 | £338,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 60 |
| 2024 | £334,000 | £355,111 | 54 |
| 2023 | £347,000 | £381,268 | 64 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 111 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 103 |
| 2020 | £295,000 | £382,769 | 65 |
| 2019 | £272,500 | £357,182 | 82 |
| 2018 | £287,500 | £383,243 | 80 |
| 2017 | £290,000 | £395,531 | 88 |
| 2016 | £262,000 | £366,541 | 118 |
| 2015 | £255,000 | £360,315 | 129 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 171 |
| 2013 | £228,000 | £328,069 | 125 |
| 2012 | £210,000 | £309,094 | 125 |
| 2011 | £207,500 | £313,245 | 60 |
| 2010 | £211,800 | £332,157 | 58 |
| 2009 | £226,000 | £363,297 | 41 |
| 2008 | £245,000 | £401,607 | 55 |
| 2007 | £219,000 | £371,485 | 135 |
| 2006 | £217,000 | £376,684 | 111 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 79 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 83 |
| 2003 | £159,500 | £293,838 | 108 |
| 2002 | £146,000 | £274,698 | 134 |
| 2001 | £164,000 | £315,282 | 143 |
| 2000 | £173,000 | £339,513 | 107 |
| 1999 | £127,000 | £253,104 | 100 |
| 1998 | £80,500 | £162,495 | 76 |
| 1997 | £88,000 | £180,470 | 83 |
| 1996 | £65,000 | £137,082 | 59 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 35 |
In cash terms the typical CB23 3 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £338,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 127%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 19% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB23 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 1999 (+57.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2002 (−11.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB23 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.0% | +1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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, 26 sales completed in CB23 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 113 sales a year before the financial crisis and 63 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.
The rental side of CB23 3
The local authority for CB23 3 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.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £338,000 median sold price, £1,407 a month is £16,884 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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 CB23 3 is
This is a thin market: 26 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. Against the CB23 district median, CB23 3 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CB23 3 (Bar Hill)
How much did a house sell for in CB23 3 (Bar Hill)?
Are property prices falling in CB23 3 (Bar Hill)?
Is CB23 3 (Bar Hill) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CB23 3 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in CB23 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 70 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB23 district, not just CB23 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
48% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Hillcrest, Bar Hill, CB23, Cambridge
- Baldwins Close, Bourn, CB23, Cambridge
- Worcester Avenue, Hardwick, CB23, 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 CB23 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.
What another bedroom costs in CB
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 CB23
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CB23's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB23 1 | £456,200 | 12 |
| CB23 2 | £716,200 | 6 |
| CB23 4 | £300,000 | 1 |
| CB23 5 | £386,000 | 14 |
| CB23 6 | £297,000 | 31 |
| CB23 7 | £438,400 | 36 |
| CB23 8 | £320,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full CB23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB23 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CB23 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB23 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB23 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB23 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CB23 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB23 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB23 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.