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Cambridge market report CB4
The CB4 (Cambridge) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 17,300 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in CB4 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 142 registered 2026 sales put the CB4 (Cambridge) median at £413,200, up 1% on five years earlier, with a mean of £456,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,460 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 17,300 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB4 is the postcode district covering Cambridge (North) 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 CB4 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 CB4 homes really sell for
Take the 142 registered 2026 sales in CB4 and the middle price, the median, is £413,200. The mean lands at £456,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CB4
The last five years of sales put CB4 at roughly £5,460 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB4 45% above the country at large.
CB4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £413,200 | £413,200 | 142 |
| 2025 | £450,000 | £460,761 | 390 |
| 2024 | £450,000 | £478,442 | 404 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 381 |
| 2022 | £420,000 | £492,498 | 459 |
| 2021 | £407,400 | £515,821 | 486 |
| 2020 | £400,000 | £519,008 | 347 |
| 2019 | £378,500 | £496,123 | 387 |
| 2018 | £370,000 | £493,217 | 409 |
| 2017 | £378,000 | £515,554 | 465 |
| 2016 | £364,000 | £509,240 | 473 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 528 |
| 2014 | £275,000 | £390,136 | 536 |
| 2013 | £250,000 | £359,725 | 485 |
| 2012 | £238,000 | £350,306 | 461 |
| 2011 | £213,000 | £321,548 | 563 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 535 |
| 2009 | £207,500 | £333,558 | 511 |
| 2008 | £221,000 | £362,266 | 562 |
| 2007 | £238,000 | £403,714 | 839 |
| 2006 | £205,000 | £355,854 | 777 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 604 |
| 2004 | £182,500 | £331,456 | 611 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 716 |
| 2002 | £145,000 | £272,816 | 671 |
| 2001 | £127,500 | £245,112 | 641 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 629 |
| 1999 | £92,500 | £184,348 | 694 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 627 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 840 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 628 |
| 1995 | £63,200 | £137,387 | 499 |
In cash terms the typical CB4 home went from £63,200 in 1995 to £413,200 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 201%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CB4 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 (+30.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−8.2%). 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) | −8.2% | −10.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.3% | −2.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £712,500 against £285,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, CB4
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 | £712,500 | 12 | 1,697 |
| Semi-detached | £518,000 | 37 | 4,630 |
| Terraced | £410,000 | 53 | 6,250 |
| Flats | £285,000 | 40 | 4,723 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 305 sales completed in CB4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 686 sales a year before the financial crisis and 355 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.
What tenants pay around CB4
CB4 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.
£1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, which against the £413,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Common questions on CB4 (Cambridge)
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What happens to CB4 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in CB4 right now
Everything above is what homes in CB4 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 93 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 9% below the CB4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 54% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Woodhouse Way, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Craister Court, Cambridge, CB4, Cambridge
- Sweetpea Way, Cambridge, CB4, 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 CB4 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.
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. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB4 ranks 9 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CB4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CB4 1 | £457,500 | 71 |
| CB4 2 | £380,000 | 42 |
| CB4 3 | £455,000 | 29 |
How CB4 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 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in CB4? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB4'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CB4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB4 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.