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Cottenham market report CB24, Cambridge
The standing CB24 (Cottenham) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 21,077 HM Land Registry entries for CB24 (Cambridge), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CB24 (Cambridge) came in at £396,800, out of 182 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £423,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,220 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 21,077 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB24 is a postcode district covering Cottenham, Fen Drayton, Histon 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 CB24 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 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for CB24 is £396,800, taken from 182 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £423,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CB24 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CB24 costs about £4,220 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB24 runs 39% above it.
The price of a typical CB24 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £396,800 | £396,800 | 182 |
| 2025 | £415,000 | £424,924 | 617 |
| 2024 | £395,000 | £419,966 | 548 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 563 |
| 2022 | £410,000 | £480,772 | 709 |
| 2021 | £385,000 | £487,460 | 905 |
| 2020 | £373,500 | £484,624 | 659 |
| 2019 | £364,900 | £478,297 | 680 |
| 2018 | £350,000 | £466,557 | 650 |
| 2017 | £350,000 | £477,365 | 557 |
| 2016 | £329,200 | £460,554 | 454 |
| 2015 | £308,000 | £435,204 | 548 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 677 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 636 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 571 |
| 2011 | £244,500 | £369,101 | 546 |
| 2010 | £225,000 | £352,858 | 522 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 471 |
| 2008 | £221,000 | £362,266 | 361 |
| 2007 | £232,500 | £394,385 | 757 |
| 2006 | £200,000 | £347,174 | 941 |
| 2005 | £193,500 | £344,352 | 680 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 728 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 687 |
| 2002 | £148,200 | £278,837 | 772 |
| 2001 | £134,500 | £258,569 | 885 |
| 2000 | £111,000 | £217,838 | 1,075 |
| 1999 | £99,500 | £198,298 | 885 |
| 1998 | £92,200 | £186,112 | 784 |
| 1997 | £83,000 | £170,216 | 855 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 674 |
| 1995 | £73,000 | £158,691 | 498 |
In cash terms the typical CB24 home went from £73,000 in 1995 to £396,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% 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 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 (+21.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £480,000 against £230,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, CB24
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 | £480,000 | 80 | 9,260 |
| Semi-detached | £391,800 | 46 | 5,914 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 45 | 4,660 |
| Flats | £230,000 | 11 | 1,243 |
What CB24 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.4% | −6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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.
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
CB24 recorded 424 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 816 sales a year before the financial crisis and 524 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.
Rents around CB24
CB24 falls under South Cambridgeshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,407 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,009 a month here against £2,149 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £396,800 median sold price, £1,407 a month is £16,884 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
CB24 (Cottenham): the questions that come up
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What happens to CB24 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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
Everything above is what homes in CB24 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 222 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% below the CB24 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 41% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CB prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CB area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CB24 ranks 6 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 CB24, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| 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 8 | £410,000 | 42 |
| CB24 9 | £525,000 | 28 |
How CB24 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 (this report) | £396,800 | +3% |
| CB23 | £385,000 | +8% |
| CB6 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CB7 | £295,000 | -3% |
| CB8 | £293,000 | -10% |
| CB9 | £265,000 | -3% |
Selling in CB24? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB24'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CB24.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB24. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB24 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.