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Cambridge market report CB5
The standing CB5 (Cambridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,381 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CB5 (Cambridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CB5 (Cambridge) came in at £405,000, out of 29 registered, down 1% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £447,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,560 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,381 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB5 is the postcode district covering Cambridge (East) 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 CB5 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CB5 home went for £405,000. The mean is £447,000, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
CB5 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CB5 homes have averaged around £5,560 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB5 42% above the country at large.
The price of a typical CB5 home, 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 | £434,000 | £444,378 | 116 |
| 2024 | £510,000 | £542,235 | 181 |
| 2023 | £621,000 | £682,327 | 196 |
| 2022 | £522,000 | £612,105 | 160 |
| 2021 | £411,000 | £520,379 | 232 |
| 2020 | £380,000 | £493,058 | 115 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 95 |
| 2018 | £384,000 | £511,879 | 112 |
| 2017 | £375,000 | £511,462 | 142 |
| 2016 | £350,000 | £489,653 | 131 |
| 2015 | £330,000 | £466,290 | 168 |
| 2014 | £300,000 | £425,602 | 189 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 259 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 198 |
| 2011 | £229,000 | £345,702 | 154 |
| 2010 | £246,000 | £385,791 | 155 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 135 |
| 2008 | £217,500 | £356,528 | 96 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 237 |
| 2006 | £218,700 | £379,635 | 214 |
| 2005 | £205,600 | £365,885 | 243 |
| 2004 | £185,800 | £337,449 | 200 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 201 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 165 |
| 2001 | £116,000 | £223,004 | 182 |
| 2000 | £105,000 | £206,063 | 180 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 214 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 175 |
| 1997 | £74,600 | £152,990 | 210 |
| 1996 | £64,500 | £136,028 | 175 |
| 1995 | £59,400 | £129,126 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical CB5 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. The real-terms peak came in 2023, and today's median remains roughly 41% under it: a 2023 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB5 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 (+27.0% 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £645,000 against £296,400 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, CB5
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 | £645,000 (2025) | – | 506 |
| Semi-detached | £446,500 | 10 | 1,682 |
| Terraced | £717,500 | 8 | 1,587 |
| Flats | £234,000 | 11 | 1,600 |
What CB5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.3% | −4.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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
Sales per year, counted
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
CB5 recorded 78 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 203 sales a year before the financial crisis and 136 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.
How CB5 trades
This is a thin market: 78 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.
The rental side of CB5
The local authority for CB5 is Cambridge, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £405,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
Asked and answered: CB5 (Cambridge)
Is CB5 (Cambridge) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB5 (Cambridge)?
Are property prices falling in CB5 (Cambridge)?
What happens to CB5 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.
What you could buy in CB5 now
Everything above is what homes in CB5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 29 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the CB5 median sold price.
34% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 CB5 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.
Moving up a bedroom in CB: the cost
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CB5 ranks 12 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 CB5, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB5 8 | £405,000 | 29 |
How CB5 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 (this report) | £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 CB5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB5'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.
Estate agents working CB5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB5.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB5. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CB5 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.