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Cottenham market report CB24 8, Cambridge
The standing CB24 8 (Cottenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,105 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB24 8 (Cambridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CB24 8 (Cambridge) home changed hands for £410,000 in 2026 (median of 42 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £415,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,105 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like CB24 8 is a single group of streets within CB24 (Cambridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CB24 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.
Today's CB24 8 prices, from the sold record
Across 42 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB24 8 home went for £410,000. The mean is £415,600, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in CB24 8
A square metre of CB24 8 home has cost about £4,240 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CB24 8 44% above the national figure.
A typical CB24 8 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 134 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 101 |
| 2023 | £442,500 | £486,199 | 106 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 128 |
| 2021 | £352,500 | £446,310 | 152 |
| 2020 | £364,200 | £472,557 | 118 |
| 2019 | £323,000 | £423,376 | 104 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 75 |
| 2017 | £340,000 | £463,726 | 91 |
| 2016 | £298,500 | £417,604 | 87 |
| 2015 | £305,000 | £430,965 | 124 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 139 |
| 2013 | £217,000 | £312,241 | 101 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 85 |
| 2011 | £248,400 | £374,988 | 94 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 111 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 95 |
| 2008 | £206,000 | £337,677 | 56 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 145 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 171 |
| 2005 | £192,000 | £341,683 | 145 |
| 2004 | £165,300 | £300,217 | 140 |
| 2003 | £163,000 | £300,286 | 161 |
| 2002 | £143,000 | £269,053 | 182 |
| 2001 | £134,500 | £258,569 | 203 |
| 2000 | £121,800 | £239,033 | 266 |
| 1999 | £107,200 | £213,644 | 252 |
| 1998 | £89,500 | £180,662 | 168 |
| 1997 | £82,000 | £168,165 | 129 |
| 1996 | £71,200 | £150,158 | 110 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical CB24 8 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 166%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB24 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 2015 (+22.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CB24 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.1% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.8% | +1.0% |
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.
The register shows 42 CB24 8 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 177 sales a year before the financial crisis and 102 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.
How CB24 8 trades
This is a thin market: 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Rents around CB24 8
The local authority for CB24 8 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 £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.
Common questions on CB24 8 (Cottenham)
How much did a house sell for in CB24 8 (Cottenham)?
Are property prices falling in CB24 8 (Cottenham)?
Is CB24 8 (Cottenham) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to CB24 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 you could buy in CB24 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 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
41% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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
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 CB24 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in CB: the cost
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 | — | £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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CB24
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB24, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB24 1 | £350,000 | 14 |
| CB24 3 | £409,000 | 20 |
| CB24 4 | £318,500 | 12 |
| CB24 5 | £330,000 | 42 |
| CB24 6 | £337,800 | 24 |
| 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 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB24 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB24 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB24 8 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 8.
Keep digging
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See every individual CB24 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.