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Bar Hill market report CB23, Cambridge
The CB23 (Bar Hill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 19,709 registered sales in CB23 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CB23 (Cambridge) sold for £385,000 in 2026, the median of 151 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £429,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,070 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 19,709 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CB23 is a postcode district covering Bar Hill, Barton, Bourn in Cambridge. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CB23 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 CB23 homes really sell for
Across 151 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB23 home went for £385,000. The mean is £429,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CB23
By floor space, homes in CB23 have sold for about £4,070 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, CB23 sits 35% above the national market.
A typical CB23 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 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 151 |
| 2025 | £407,600 | £417,347 | 536 |
| 2024 | £405,900 | £431,555 | 574 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 513 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 768 |
| 2021 | £355,500 | £450,109 | 724 |
| 2020 | £340,000 | £441,157 | 459 |
| 2019 | £320,000 | £419,443 | 589 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 554 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 588 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 665 |
| 2015 | £290,000 | £409,770 | 713 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 784 |
| 2013 | £230,000 | £330,947 | 692 |
| 2012 | £212,500 | £312,773 | 595 |
| 2011 | £225,500 | £340,418 | 566 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 590 |
| 2009 | £190,000 | £305,427 | 566 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 453 |
| 2007 | £234,400 | £397,608 | 820 |
| 2006 | £213,800 | £371,129 | 924 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 748 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 776 |
| 2003 | £171,900 | £316,681 | 808 |
| 2002 | £165,000 | £310,446 | 803 |
| 2001 | £144,400 | £277,602 | 877 |
| 2000 | £132,500 | £260,031 | 652 |
| 1999 | £101,300 | £201,886 | 542 |
| 1998 | £83,500 | £168,551 | 441 |
| 1997 | £76,000 | £155,861 | 498 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 432 |
| 1995 | £68,000 | £147,822 | 308 |
In cash terms the typical CB23 home went from £68,000 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 160%, 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 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB23 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 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.6%). 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) | −5.5% | −7.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 42% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £545,000 against £170,500 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, CB23
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £545,000 | 59 | 8,238 |
| Semi-detached | £375,000 | 42 | 4,989 |
| Terraced | £312,500 | 38 | 5,198 |
| Flats | £170,500 | 12 | 1,280 |
The turnover behind the prices
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.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
CB23 recorded 366 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 801 sales a year before the financial crisis and 508 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of CB23
The local authority for CB23 is South Cambridgeshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,009 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,149 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 4.4% 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 CB23 (Bar Hill)
How much did a house sell for in CB23 (Bar Hill)?
Are property prices falling in CB23 (Bar Hill)?
Is CB23 (Bar Hill) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CB23 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CB23 today
Everything above is what homes in CB23 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 70 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the CB23 median sold price.
48% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB23 ranks 4 of 16 in the CB area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, CB area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CB23, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| CB23 8 | £320,000 | 25 |
How CB23 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 | £645,000 | +10% |
| CB2 | £490,000 | -1% |
| CB10 | £485,000 | +9% |
| CB1 | £475,000 | +2% |
| CB21 | £455,000 | +1% |
| CB11 | £450,000 | +3% |
| CB22 | £430,000 | -6% |
| CB4 | £413,200 | +1% |
| CB5 | £405,000 | -1% |
| CB25 | £405,000 | +11% |
| CB24 | £396,800 | +3% |
| CB23 (this report) | £385,000 | +8% |
| CB6 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CB7 | £295,000 | -3% |
| CB8 | £293,000 | -10% |
| CB9 | £265,000 | -3% |
Selling a home in CB23? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB23'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 CB23: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB23.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB23 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB23 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.
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.