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Girton market report CB3, Cambridge
The CB3 (Girton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,073 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB3 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 CB3 (Cambridge) came in at £645,000, out of 37 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £793,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £6,380 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,073 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB3 is the postcode district covering Cambridge (North-West), Girton in Cambridge. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CB3 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 CB3
The 2026 median for CB3 is £645,000, taken from 37 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £793,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in CB3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB3 sales average about £6,380 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CB3 runs 126% above it.
CB3's median sold price, 1995 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 | £645,000 | £645,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £630,200 | £645,270 | 200 |
| 2024 | £705,000 | £749,560 | 148 |
| 2023 | £522,500 | £574,100 | 252 |
| 2022 | £695,000 | £814,967 | 131 |
| 2021 | £587,100 | £743,344 | 267 |
| 2020 | £577,500 | £749,318 | 174 |
| 2019 | £510,000 | £668,488 | 161 |
| 2018 | £525,000 | £699,835 | 125 |
| 2017 | £525,000 | £716,047 | 109 |
| 2016 | £545,000 | £762,460 | 106 |
| 2015 | £500,000 | £706,500 | 136 |
| 2014 | £425,000 | £602,937 | 144 |
| 2013 | £382,500 | £550,379 | 131 |
| 2012 | £355,000 | £522,516 | 162 |
| 2011 | £342,000 | £516,288 | 170 |
| 2010 | £325,000 | £509,684 | 128 |
| 2009 | £300,000 | £482,253 | 119 |
| 2008 | £350,000 | £573,724 | 126 |
| 2007 | £340,000 | £576,735 | 194 |
| 2006 | £340,000 | £590,197 | 223 |
| 2005 | £266,800 | £474,796 | 189 |
| 2004 | £285,000 | £517,616 | 147 |
| 2003 | £280,000 | £515,828 | 133 |
| 2002 | £250,000 | £470,373 | 179 |
| 2001 | £230,400 | £442,932 | 154 |
| 2000 | £186,000 | £365,025 | 163 |
| 1999 | £150,500 | £299,939 | 216 |
| 1998 | £147,500 | £297,739 | 186 |
| 1997 | £122,200 | £250,608 | 157 |
| 1996 | £110,800 | £233,672 | 160 |
| 1995 | £114,500 | £248,905 | 146 |
In cash terms the typical CB3 home went from £114,500 in 1995 to £645,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB3 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 2024 (+34.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−24.8%). 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 years (since 2025) | +2.3% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £806,200 against £380,000 for a flat, 2.1 times the price.
Median by property type, CB3
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 | £806,200 | 16 | 1,650 |
| Semi-detached | £565,000 | 6 | 1,067 |
| Terraced | £700,000 | 7 | 1,050 |
| Flats | £380,000 | 8 | 1,306 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 107 CB3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 154 sales a year recently, against 173 a year before 2008. 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 shape of the CB3 market
This is a thin market: 107 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. CB3 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Rents around CB3
CB3 falls under Cambridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,805 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,255 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,661 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £645,000 median sold price, £1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: 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.
CB3 (Girton): the questions that come up
Is CB3 (Girton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB3 (Girton)?
Are property prices falling in CB3 (Girton)?
What happens to CB3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in CB3 now
Everything above is what homes in CB3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 16 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% below the CB3 median sold price.
44% 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.
- Marks Way, Girton, CB3, Cambridge
- Cherry Bounds Road, Girton, CB3, Cambridge
- Wellbrook Way, Girton, CB3, 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 CB3 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%) | — | — |
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
CB3 ranks 2 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.
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.
Inside CB3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 0 | £575,000 | 25 |
| CB3 1 | £571,800 | 43 |
| CB3 9 | £1,065,900 | 12 |
How CB3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CB area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CB3 (this report) | £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 | £396,800 | +3% |
| CB23 | £385,000 | +8% |
| CB6 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CB7 | £295,000 | -3% |
| CB8 | £293,000 | -10% |
| CB9 | £265,000 | -3% |
Selling a home in CB3? 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 CB3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.