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Barway market report CB7 4, Ely
The CB7 4 (Barway) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 6,718 registered sales in CB7 4 (Ely) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 44 registered 2026 sales put the CB7 4 (Ely) median at £308,800, down 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £345,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,860 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,718 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CB7 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CB7 (Ely). 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 CB7 4 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 CB7 4
In the CB7 4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £308,800, from 44 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £345,200, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in CB7 4
Per square metre, CB7 4 homes have averaged around £3,860 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CB7 4 8% above the national figure.
The price of a typical CB7 4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £308,800 | £308,800 | 44 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 169 |
| 2024 | £335,000 | £356,174 | 161 |
| 2023 | £335,000 | £368,083 | 139 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 280 |
| 2021 | £323,800 | £409,973 | 272 |
| 2020 | £325,000 | £421,694 | 150 |
| 2019 | £295,000 | £386,674 | 145 |
| 2018 | £250,000 | £333,255 | 199 |
| 2017 | £260,000 | £354,614 | 165 |
| 2016 | £241,900 | £338,420 | 146 |
| 2015 | £231,000 | £326,403 | 177 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 197 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 195 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 191 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 183 |
| 2010 | £180,500 | £283,070 | 192 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 167 |
| 2008 | £177,000 | £290,140 | 191 |
| 2007 | £185,800 | £315,169 | 343 |
| 2006 | £169,000 | £293,362 | 261 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 237 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 206 |
| 2003 | £127,000 | £233,965 | 263 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 282 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 290 |
| 2000 | £81,000 | £158,963 | 246 |
| 1999 | £77,200 | £153,856 | 326 |
| 1998 | £67,900 | £137,061 | 285 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 268 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 209 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical CB7 4 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £308,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 179%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 27% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB7 4 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 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.6%). 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) | −3.5% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.9% | −5.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 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.
Sales activity in CB7 4
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.
The register shows 44 CB7 4 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 266 sales a year before the financial crisis and 159 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market CB7 4 is
This is a thin market: 44 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.
What tenants pay around CB7 4
For renting purposes CB7 4 sits in East Cambridgeshire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,024 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £721 a month here against £1,643 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, East Cambridgeshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £308,800 median purchase price, a rent of £1,024 a month (£12,288 a year) works out at a 4.0% 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.
Asked and answered: CB7 4 (Barway)
How much did a house sell for in CB7 4 (Barway)?
Are property prices falling in CB7 4 (Barway)?
Is CB7 4 (Barway) a good place to buy a house?
Are CB7 4 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 5% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
CB7's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 81 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB7 district, not just CB7 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% 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.
"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 CB7 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. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the CB area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CB7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CB7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB7 5 | £287,500 | 98 |
| CB7 6 | £340,000 | 7 |
| CB7 7 | £122,500 | 1 |
Zoom out to the full CB7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CB7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in CB7 4? 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 CB7 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CB7 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CB7 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CB7 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CB7 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CB7 4 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.