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Aldreth market report CB6, Ely
The CB6 (Aldreth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 23,365 HM Land Registry entries for CB6 (Ely), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 209 registered 2026 sales put the CB6 (Ely) median at £330,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £355,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,510 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 23,365 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB6 is a postcode district covering Ely (west), Aldreth, Apes Hall in Ely. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CB6 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 buyers actually paid in CB6
Take the 209 registered 2026 sales in CB6 and the middle price, the median, is £330,000. The mean lands at £355,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CB6
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CB6 sales average about £3,510 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, CB6 runs 16% above it.
A typical CB6 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 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 209 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 593 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 623 |
| 2023 | £352,500 | £387,311 | 681 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 859 |
| 2021 | £310,000 | £392,500 | 904 |
| 2020 | £302,800 | £392,889 | 592 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 615 |
| 2018 | £270,500 | £360,582 | 596 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 591 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 621 |
| 2015 | £237,000 | £334,881 | 631 |
| 2014 | £207,500 | £294,375 | 722 |
| 2013 | £192,500 | £276,988 | 657 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 571 |
| 2011 | £176,400 | £266,296 | 602 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 652 |
| 2009 | £168,800 | £271,347 | 558 |
| 2008 | £173,000 | £283,584 | 495 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 971 |
| 2006 | £176,700 | £306,729 | 1,129 |
| 2005 | £173,000 | £307,870 | 911 |
| 2004 | £167,000 | £303,305 | 998 |
| 2003 | £149,000 | £274,494 | 955 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 1,125 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 1,108 |
| 2000 | £93,200 | £182,905 | 746 |
| 1999 | £77,500 | £154,453 | 865 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 712 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 859 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 684 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 530 |
In cash terms the typical CB6 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 153%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CB6 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 2002 (+20.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.5%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £418,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, CB6
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 | £420,000 | 88 | 10,522 |
| Semi-detached | £297,000 | 59 | 7,005 |
| Terraced | £275,000 | 59 | 5,308 |
| Flats | £160,000 (2025) | – | 527 |
What CB6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.9% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 438 CB6 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 993 sales a year before the financial crisis and 593 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 CB6
For renting purposes CB6 sits in East Cambridgeshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,024 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £721 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,643 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, East Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £330,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,024 a month (£12,288 a year) works out at a 3.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the CB6 market
Among the 16 measurable districts of its area, CB6 ranks 13 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Asked and answered: CB6 (Aldreth)
Are property prices falling in CB6 (Aldreth)?
Is CB6 (Aldreth) a good place to buy a house?
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Will CB6 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CB6's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in CB6 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 102 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the CB6 median sold price.
34% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Perry Close, Haddenham, Ely
"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 CB6 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CB area. 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
CB6 ranks 5 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 CB6, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CB6 1 | £285,900 | 66 |
| CB6 2 | £330,000 | 68 |
| CB6 3 | £365,000 | 75 |
How CB6 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 | £405,000 | -1% |
| CB25 | £405,000 | +11% |
| CB24 | £396,800 | +3% |
| CB23 | £385,000 | +8% |
| CB6 (this report) | £330,000 | +6% |
| CB7 | £295,000 | -3% |
| CB8 | £293,000 | -10% |
| CB9 | £265,000 | -3% |
Thinking of selling in CB6? 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 CB6'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 CB6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CB6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CB6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB6 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.
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.