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Cottenham market report CB24 3, Cambridge
The CB24 3 (Cottenham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,859 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB24 3 (Cambridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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: a typical CB24 3 (Cambridge) home changed hands for £409,000 in 2026 (median of 20 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £458,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,920 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,859 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CB24 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB24 (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 CB24 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.
What CB24 3 homes really sell for
Across 20 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB24 3 home went for £409,000. The mean is £458,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CB24 3 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in CB24 3 have sold for about £3,920 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB24 3 44% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CB24 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £409,000 | £409,000 | 20 |
| 2025 | £381,000 | £390,111 | 60 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 56 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 47 |
| 2022 | £362,500 | £425,073 | 64 |
| 2021 | £371,000 | £469,734 | 114 |
| 2020 | £348,800 | £452,575 | 50 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 65 |
| 2018 | £325,000 | £433,231 | 76 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 82 |
| 2016 | £347,500 | £486,156 | 72 |
| 2015 | £314,500 | £444,389 | 94 |
| 2014 | £287,500 | £407,869 | 110 |
| 2013 | £270,000 | £388,503 | 174 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 150 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 121 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 81 |
| 2009 | £196,000 | £315,072 | 64 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 73 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 141 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 241 |
| 2005 | £178,700 | £318,014 | 114 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 79 |
| 2003 | £154,200 | £284,074 | 62 |
| 2002 | £150,000 | £282,224 | 60 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 117 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 254 |
| 1999 | £115,200 | £229,588 | 34 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 59 |
| 1997 | £90,000 | £184,572 | 57 |
| 1996 | £77,800 | £164,077 | 38 |
| 1995 | £77,500 | £168,473 | 30 |
In cash terms the typical CB24 3 home went from £77,500 in 1995 to £409,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 143%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2016. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB24 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 2001 (+54.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2000 (−29.7%). 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) | +7.3% | +4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.6% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CB24 3
How many homes change hands
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.
The register shows 20 CB24 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 134 sales a year before the financial crisis and 49 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 CB24 3
For renting purposes CB24 3 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 £409,000 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.
What kind of market CB24 3 is
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB24 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on CB24 3 (Cottenham)
How much did a house sell for in CB24 3 (Cottenham)?
Are property prices falling in CB24 3 (Cottenham)?
Is CB24 3 (Cottenham) a good place to buy a house?
Are CB24 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in CB24 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 222 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB24 district, not just CB24 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 41% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Balland Field, Willingham, CB24, Cambridge
- Hardy Close, Longstanton, CB24, Cambridge
- Websters Way, Over, CB24, Cambridge
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every CB24 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
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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the CB area, five years
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 1 | £350,000 | 14 |
| CB24 4 | £318,500 | 12 |
| CB24 5 | £330,000 | 42 |
| CB24 6 | £337,800 | 24 |
| CB24 8 | £410,000 | 42 |
| CB24 9 | £525,000 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full CB24 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB24 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CB24 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB24 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB24 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB24 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CB24 3.
Keep digging
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See every individual CB24 3 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.
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.