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Cambridge market report CB4 1
The standing CB4 1 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 7,041 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB4 1 (Cambridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in CB4 1 (Cambridge) sold for £457,500 in 2026, the median of 71 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £491,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,810 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,041 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CB4 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB4 (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 CB4 1 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 CB4 1 prices, from the sold record
Take the 71 registered 2026 sales in CB4 1 and the middle price, the median, is £457,500. The mean lands at £491,100, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CB4 1
By floor space, homes in CB4 1 have sold for about £5,810 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CB4 1 trades 61% above the country as a whole.
CB4 1's median sold price, 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 | £457,500 | £457,500 | 71 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 152 |
| 2024 | £468,800 | £498,431 | 164 |
| 2023 | £460,000 | £505,428 | 158 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 195 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 188 |
| 2020 | £421,200 | £546,516 | 140 |
| 2019 | £411,500 | £539,378 | 156 |
| 2018 | £395,000 | £526,542 | 167 |
| 2017 | £410,000 | £559,199 | 188 |
| 2016 | £411,000 | £574,993 | 194 |
| 2015 | £417,500 | £589,928 | 198 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 193 |
| 2013 | £260,100 | £374,258 | 193 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 152 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 211 |
| 2010 | £249,000 | £390,496 | 212 |
| 2009 | £225,000 | £361,689 | 220 |
| 2008 | £237,900 | £389,968 | 265 |
| 2007 | £259,800 | £440,693 | 329 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 311 |
| 2005 | £200,000 | £355,919 | 242 |
| 2004 | £190,000 | £345,077 | 245 |
| 2003 | £205,000 | £377,660 | 320 |
| 2002 | £160,000 | £301,039 | 295 |
| 2001 | £135,000 | £259,531 | 235 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 277 |
| 1999 | £99,000 | £197,302 | 286 |
| 1998 | £90,000 | £181,671 | 272 |
| 1997 | £80,600 | £165,294 | 352 |
| 1996 | £69,500 | £146,572 | 263 |
| 1995 | £64,500 | £140,213 | 197 |
In cash terms the typical CB4 1 home went from £64,500 in 1995 to £457,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 226%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2015; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2015 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB4 1 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 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.4%). 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) | −3.7% | −5.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 register shows 71 CB4 1 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 282 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 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.
The rental side of CB4 1
CB4 1 falls under Cambridge, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,805 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,255 a month here against £2,661 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cambridge
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £457,500 median sold price, £1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: 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 kind of market CB4 1 is
Within CB4, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What people ask about CB4 1 (Cambridge)
How much did a house sell for in CB4 1 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB4 1 (Cambridge)?
Is CB4 1 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
Will CB4 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% 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.
On the market in CB4 today
The live side of the market holds 93 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB4 district, not just CB4 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
54% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Woodhouse Way, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Craister Court, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Sweetpea Way, Cambridge, CB4, 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 CB4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CB
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CB area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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.
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.
Other sectors in CB4
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB4, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB4 2 | £380,000 | 42 |
| CB4 3 | £455,000 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full CB4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CB4 1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB4 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB4 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB4 1 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 CB4 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB4 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB4 1 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.