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Cottenham market report CB24 1, Cambridge
The standing CB24 1 (Cottenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,319 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB24 1 (Cambridge) since 2017, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical CB24 1 (Cambridge) home changed hands for £410,000 in 2026 (median of 19 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £363,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,319 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 2017, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CB24 1 is one sector of CB24 (Cambridge): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CB24 1 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 CB24 1
19 sales were registered in CB24 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £410,000. The mean works out at £363,200, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
Price per square metre in CB24 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB24 1 costs about £3,870 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB24 1 44% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CB24 1 home, 2017 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £380,000 | £389,087 | 97 |
| 2024 | £363,000 | £385,944 | 120 |
| 2023 | £418,000 | £459,280 | 133 |
| 2022 | £424,000 | £497,188 | 197 |
| 2021 | £397,200 | £502,906 | 186 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 157 |
| 2019 | £377,000 | £494,157 | 167 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 188 |
| 2017 | £373,000 | £508,735 | 55 |
In cash terms the typical CB24 1 home went from £373,000 in 2017 to £410,000 in 2026, a 10% rise. In today's money the market has gone backwards by roughly 19%: a home here costs less in real terms now than it did in 2017. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. 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 CB24 1 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 2026 (+7.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−13.2%). 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 year (since 2025) | +7.9% | +5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.3% | −3.0% |
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.
CB24 1 recorded 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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.
Reading the CB24 1 market
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB24 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around CB24 1
The local authority for CB24 1 is South Cambridgeshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,407 a month (£16,884 a year) works out at a 4.1% 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.
Asked and answered: CB24 1 (Cottenham)
How much did a house sell for in CB24 1 (Cottenham)?
Are property prices falling in CB24 1 (Cottenham)?
Is CB24 1 (Cottenham) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CB24 1 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 18% 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 CB24 today
Turning to what is actually available: 154 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB24 district, not just CB24 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Shepherds Court, Willingham, CB24, Cambridge
- Hardy Close, Longstanton, CB24, Cambridge
- Aspinalls Yard, Willingham, CB24, Cambridge
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CB24 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CB prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, 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 | £311,250 | £365,000 (+17%) | £429,000 (+18%) | £554,000 (+29%) | £730,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £255,000 | £300,000 (+18%) | £380,000 (+27%) | £480,000 (+26%) | £690,000 (+44%) |
| Terraced | £238,000 | £285,600 (+20%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £470,000 (+34%) | £702,500 (+49%) |
| Flat | £225,000 | £273,000 (+21%) | £412,500 (+51%) | £525,000 (+27%) | £509,950 (-3%) |
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.
Five-year change in the median, CB area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CB24
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CB24, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB24 3 | £409,000 | 24 |
| CB24 4 | £342,000 | 13 |
| CB24 5 | £335,000 | 44 |
| CB24 6 | £366,500 | 28 |
| CB24 8 | £422,500 | 51 |
| CB24 9 | £500,000 | 33 |
Zoom out to the full CB24 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB24 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CB24 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB24 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB24 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB24 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB24 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CB24 1 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.