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Barway market report CB7 5, Ely
The CB7 5 (Barway) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 9,931 registered sales in CB7 5 (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: the middle 2026 sale in CB7 5 (Ely) came in at £287,500, out of 98 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £345,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,300 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 9,931 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CB7 5 is one sector of CB7 (Ely): 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 CB7 5 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.
CB7 5 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for CB7 5 is £287,500, taken from 98 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £345,400, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in CB7 5
By floor space, homes in CB7 5 have sold for about £3,300 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CB7 5 1% above the country at large.
A typical CB7 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £287,500 | £287,500 | 98 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 247 |
| 2024 | £301,500 | £320,556 | 222 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 182 |
| 2022 | £309,000 | £362,338 | 270 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 381 |
| 2020 | £272,500 | £353,574 | 215 |
| 2019 | £270,000 | £353,905 | 273 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 323 |
| 2017 | £235,800 | £321,608 | 318 |
| 2016 | £232,000 | £324,570 | 335 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 327 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 352 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 278 |
| 2012 | £158,500 | £233,292 | 276 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 311 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 250 |
| 2009 | £152,000 | £244,341 | 272 |
| 2008 | £181,200 | £297,025 | 234 |
| 2007 | £167,000 | £283,279 | 425 |
| 2006 | £157,500 | £273,400 | 510 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 300 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 369 |
| 2003 | £127,000 | £233,965 | 313 |
| 2002 | £105,000 | £197,557 | 409 |
| 2001 | £90,400 | £173,789 | 399 |
| 2000 | £84,800 | £166,420 | 359 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 374 |
| 1998 | £66,500 | £134,235 | 366 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 344 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 331 |
| 1995 | £51,200 | £111,301 | 268 |
In cash terms the typical CB7 5 home went from £51,200 in 1995 to £287,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 158%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CB7 5 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 2000 (+21.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.2% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 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 5
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 98 CB7 5 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 386 sales a year before the financial crisis and 204 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.
The rental side of CB7 5
For renting purposes CB7 5 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.
Set against the £287,500 median sold price, £1,024 a month is £12,288 a year, a gross yield of 4.3%: 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.
Asked and answered: CB7 5 (Barway)
Are property prices falling in CB7 5 (Barway)?
Is CB7 5 (Barway) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CB7 5 (Barway)?
Are CB7 5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
CB7's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 81 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CB7 district, not just CB7 5: 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.
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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CB prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the CB area, straight 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CB7
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CB7, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CB7 4 | £308,800 | 44 |
| 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.
Selling in CB7 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CB7 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CB7 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CB7 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CB7 5 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.