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Cottenham market report CB24 5, Cambridge
The standing CB24 5 (Cottenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,085 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB24 5 (Cambridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CB24 5 (Cambridge) came in at £330,000, out of 42 registered, down 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £392,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,085 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB24 5 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 5 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 CB24 5
In the CB24 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £330,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £392,100, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
CB24 5 prices by floor area
A square metre of CB24 5 home has cost about £3,770 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CB24 5 sits 16% above the national market.
A typical CB24 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 112 |
| 2024 | £390,000 | £414,650 | 99 |
| 2023 | £395,000 | £434,009 | 107 |
| 2022 | £370,000 | £433,867 | 110 |
| 2021 | £360,000 | £455,806 | 135 |
| 2020 | £321,000 | £416,504 | 114 |
| 2019 | £347,500 | £455,489 | 121 |
| 2018 | £315,000 | £419,901 | 118 |
| 2017 | £310,000 | £422,809 | 111 |
| 2016 | £295,000 | £412,708 | 100 |
| 2015 | £275,000 | £388,575 | 112 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 119 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 113 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 98 |
| 2011 | £243,000 | £366,837 | 97 |
| 2010 | £223,500 | £350,506 | 92 |
| 2009 | £198,000 | £318,287 | 93 |
| 2008 | £220,500 | £361,446 | 86 |
| 2007 | £237,500 | £402,866 | 163 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 215 |
| 2005 | £206,000 | £366,597 | 136 |
| 2004 | £195,000 | £354,158 | 172 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 132 |
| 2002 | £155,000 | £291,631 | 159 |
| 2001 | £144,200 | £277,217 | 170 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 154 |
| 1999 | £101,500 | £202,284 | 155 |
| 1998 | £99,500 | £200,848 | 182 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 239 |
| 1996 | £80,000 | £168,716 | 135 |
| 1995 | £75,200 | £163,473 | 94 |
In cash terms the typical CB24 5 home went from £75,200 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 102%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB24 5 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 (+25.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB24 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.4% | −17.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.7% | −6.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CB24 5 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 163 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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.
Reading the CB24 5 market
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CB24 5 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. Against the CB24 district median, CB24 5 sits 17% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around CB24 5
For renting purposes CB24 5 sits in South Cambridgeshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,407 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £330,000 median sold price, £1,407 a month is £16,884 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about CB24 5 (Cottenham)
How much did a house sell for in CB24 5 (Cottenham)?
Are property prices falling in CB24 5 (Cottenham)?
Is CB24 5 (Cottenham) a good place to buy a house?
Where do CB24 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in CB24 right now
The live side of the market holds 222 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB24 district, not just CB24 5: 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 →
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
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%) | — | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £409,000 | 20 |
| CB24 4 | £318,500 | 12 |
| 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.
Before you sell in CB24 5: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CB24 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the CB24 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CB24 5 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 CB24 5.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB24 5. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CB24 5 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.