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Cambridge market report CB5 8
The standing CB5 8 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,338 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB5 8 (Cambridge) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in CB5 8 (Cambridge) sold for £405,000 in 2026, the median of 29 registered sales, down 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £447,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,560 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,338 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CB5 8 is one sector of CB5 (Cambridge): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CB5 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.
CB5 8 sold prices: where the market stands
29 sales were registered in CB5 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £405,000. The mean works out at £447,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CB5 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB5 8 sales average about £5,560 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CB5 8 42% above the national figure.
A typical CB5 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £405,000 | £405,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £440,000 | £450,522 | 115 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 181 |
| 2023 | £621,000 | £682,327 | 196 |
| 2022 | £522,000 | £612,105 | 160 |
| 2021 | £410,000 | £519,113 | 231 |
| 2020 | £377,500 | £489,814 | 114 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 95 |
| 2018 | £384,000 | £511,879 | 112 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 140 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 131 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 167 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 188 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 259 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 198 |
| 2011 | £229,000 | £345,702 | 154 |
| 2010 | £245,500 | £385,007 | 154 |
| 2009 | £199,500 | £320,698 | 134 |
| 2008 | £217,500 | £356,528 | 95 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 232 |
| 2006 | £220,000 | £381,892 | 213 |
| 2005 | £205,600 | £365,885 | 241 |
| 2004 | £185,800 | £337,449 | 198 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 198 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 163 |
| 2001 | £116,000 | £223,004 | 179 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 178 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 212 |
| 1998 | £76,200 | £153,815 | 170 |
| 1997 | £74,600 | £152,990 | 208 |
| 1996 | £64,500 | £136,028 | 171 |
| 1995 | £59,400 | £129,126 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical CB5 8 home went from £59,400 in 1995 to £405,000 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 214%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 41% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB5 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 2022 (+27.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−17.9%). 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) | −8.0% | −10.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.2% | −4.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CB5 8
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 29 sales completed in CB5 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 200 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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 CB5 8
For renting purposes CB5 8 sits in Cambridge. The ONS average private rent there is £1,805 a month (May 2026). 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 £405,000 median sold price, £1,805 a month is £21,660 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
The shape of the CB5 8 market
This is a thin market: 29 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
CB5 8 (Cambridge): the questions that come up
Is CB5 8 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB5 8 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB5 8 (Cambridge)?
What happens to CB5 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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.
On the market in CB5 today
The live side of the market holds 29 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB5 district, not just CB5 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Elfleda Road, Cambridge, CB5, Cambridge
- Abbey Road, Cambridge, CB5, Cambridge
- Thorpe Way, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...
"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 CB5 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
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Zoom out to the full CB5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB5 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CB5 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CB5 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB5 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB5 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CB5 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB5 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB5 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB5 8 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.