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Bar Hill market report CB23 6, Cambridge
The standing CB23 6 (Bar Hill) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 5,022 registered sales in CB23 6 (Cambridge) since 1996, 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: the typical home in CB23 6 (Cambridge) sold for £297,000 in 2026, the median of 31 registered sales, down 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £325,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,820 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,022 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1996 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like CB23 6 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 6 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.
The going rate for a home in CB23 6
The 2026 median for CB23 6 is £297,000, taken from 31 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £325,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CB23 6
The last five years of sales put CB23 6 at roughly £3,820 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CB23 6 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CB23 6 home, 1996 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 | £297,000 | £297,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 166 |
| 2024 | £398,500 | £423,687 | 190 |
| 2023 | £392,100 | £430,822 | 174 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 254 |
| 2021 | £312,000 | £395,032 | 197 |
| 2020 | £298,500 | £387,310 | 116 |
| 2019 | £305,000 | £399,782 | 181 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 204 |
| 2017 | £300,000 | £409,170 | 203 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 217 |
| 2015 | £289,000 | £408,357 | 262 |
| 2014 | £242,000 | £343,319 | 271 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 223 |
| 2012 | £196,000 | £288,488 | 174 |
| 2011 | £209,000 | £315,510 | 171 |
| 2010 | £196,000 | £307,378 | 206 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 202 |
| 2008 | £202,500 | £331,940 | 147 |
| 2007 | £219,000 | £371,485 | 176 |
| 2006 | £203,800 | £353,771 | 182 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 197 |
| 2004 | £197,000 | £357,790 | 205 |
| 2003 | £176,500 | £325,156 | 196 |
| 2002 | £176,000 | £331,142 | 157 |
| 2001 | £154,000 | £296,057 | 143 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 122 |
| 1999 | £107,400 | £214,043 | 54 |
| 1996 | £120,000 | £253,075 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical CB23 6 home went from £120,000 in 1996 to £297,000 in 2026, roughly 2.5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 17%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 31% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB23 6 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 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−21.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −21.8% | −23.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.0% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.1% | −3.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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, 31 sales completed in CB23 6. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 163 sales a year recently, against 172 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.
The rental side of CB23 6
For renting purposes CB23 6 sits in South Cambridgeshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,407 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £297,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 5.7% 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 CB23 6 market
Only 31 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB23 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Within CB23, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: CB23 6 (Bar Hill)
Is CB23 6 (Bar Hill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB23 6 (Bar Hill)?
Are property prices falling in CB23 6 (Bar Hill)?
What happens to CB23 6 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% 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 CB23 right now
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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 48% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 →
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
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%) | — | — |
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
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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CB23
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CB23, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB23 1 | £456,200 | 12 |
| CB23 2 | £716,200 | 6 |
| CB23 3 | £338,000 | 26 |
| CB23 4 | £300,000 | 1 |
| CB23 5 | £386,000 | 14 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CB23 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB23 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB23 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB23 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CB23 6.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CB23 6. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB23 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.