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Bar Hill market report CB23 8, Cambridge
The CB23 8 (Bar Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,212 registered sales in CB23 8 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for CB23 8 (Cambridge) is £320,000, from 25 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £412,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,160 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,212 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CB23 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB23 (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 CB23 8 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 buyers actually paid in CB23 8
25 sales were registered in CB23 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £320,000. The mean works out at £412,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
CB23 8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB23 8 sales average about £4,160 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB23 8 runs 12% above it.
A typical CB23 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £365,000 | £373,728 | 68 |
| 2024 | £290,000 | £308,330 | 71 |
| 2023 | £337,500 | £370,830 | 55 |
| 2022 | £368,000 | £431,522 | 79 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 81 |
| 2020 | £285,200 | £370,053 | 46 |
| 2019 | £280,000 | £367,013 | 88 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 78 |
| 2017 | £280,000 | £381,892 | 81 |
| 2016 | £265,000 | £370,738 | 88 |
| 2015 | £247,000 | £349,011 | 86 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 87 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 93 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 78 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 83 |
| 2010 | £171,000 | £268,172 | 87 |
| 2009 | £159,000 | £255,594 | 87 |
| 2008 | £170,200 | £278,994 | 58 |
| 2007 | £184,500 | £312,963 | 108 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 119 |
| 2005 | £150,500 | £267,829 | 124 |
| 2004 | £140,500 | £255,175 | 107 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 143 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 127 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 169 |
| 2000 | £83,500 | £163,869 | 155 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 149 |
| 1998 | £66,900 | £135,042 | 154 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 170 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 159 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 109 |
In cash terms the typical CB23 8 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 189%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB23 8 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 2022 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−14.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.3% | −14.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CB23 8
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 25 sales completed in CB23 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 132 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
The rental side of CB23 8
CB23 8 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.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
Reading the CB23 8 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB23 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 CB23, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about CB23 8 (Bar Hill)
How much did a house sell for in CB23 8 (Bar Hill)?
Are property prices falling in CB23 8 (Bar Hill)?
Is CB23 8 (Bar Hill) a good place to buy a house?
Are CB23 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
CB23's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 70 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB23 district, not just CB23 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 48% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in CB: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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.
Winners and losers across the CB area, five years
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 3 | £338,000 | 26 |
| CB23 4 | £300,000 | 1 |
| CB23 5 | £386,000 | 14 |
| CB23 6 | £297,000 | 31 |
| CB23 7 | £438,400 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full CB23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB23 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CB23 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB23 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB23 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB23 8 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 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB23 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CB23 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.