That is the middle of 224 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.8 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
224 homes sold in three years: 115 detached houses, 51 semi-detached houses, 37 terraced houses and 21 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 5.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£450K
median sale · 115 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£620K
Last 12 months
£468K25 sold
Semi-detached houses£315K
median sale · 51 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£375K
Last 12 months
£365K11 sold
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 37 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£228K–£320K
Last 12 months
£280K10 sold
Flats and maisonettes£83K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£68K–£132K
Last 12 months
£67K8 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses51%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses17%
Flats and maisonettes9%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Burwell’s homes sold for between £270K and £468K
One sale in ten was under £180K and one in ten over £641K. 21% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £350,000, sits in the £300–400K band
224 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.8 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £61,250 in 1995 to £356,250 in the last 12 months (£339,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
54 sales in the last 12 months, against 214 in 1996, the busiest year, and 62 in 2023. Sales fell by 35% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Burwell costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Burwell, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£76K
£155K
£240K
£280K
£356K
£430K
£468K
Semi-detached houses
£57K
£84K
£181K
£180K
£245K
£295K
£365K
Terraced houses
£50K
£75K
£144K
£155K
£179K
£210K
£280K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£42K
£107K
£70K
£108K
£150K
£67K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
516 new homes have been sold in Burwell since 1995; the share peaked at 47% in 1996.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Burwell. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Ash Grove is Burwell’s busiest street, with 18 sales in three years
13 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 3 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Ash Grove
CB25
18
£76,500
Mostly flats
2
Ness Road
CB25
17
£345,000
Mixed
3
Bayfield Drive
CB25
11
£235,000
Mostly terraced houses
4
The Causeway
CB25
9
£450,000
Mixed
5
North Street
CB25
8
£682,500
Mostly detached houses
6
Swaffham Road
CB25
7
£450,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Low Road
CB25
7
£395,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Toyse Lane
CB25
6
£374,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Kingfisher Drive
CB25
6
£267,500
Mostly terraced houses
10
Mill Lane
CB25
5
£641,000
Mostly detached houses
11
Silver Street
CB25
5
£510,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Appletree Grove
CB25
5
£340,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Myrtle Drive
CB25
5
£245,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
North Street: £682,500
Burwell median£350K
North Street£683K
Mill Lane£641K
Silver Street£510K
Swaffham Road£450K
The Causeway£450K
Cheapest streets
Ash Grove: £76,500
Burwell median£350K
Ash Grove£77K
Bayfield Drive£235K
Myrtle Drive£245K
Kingfisher Drive£268K
Appletree Grove£340K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 8.9 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cambridgeshire
Burwell is the 24th most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
Burwell is in the middle of Cambridgeshire’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Burwell
What is the average house price in Burwell?
The median home in Burwell sold for £350,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 224 standard sales (£356,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £450,000, semi-detached houses £314,500, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £82,500.
Are house prices going up in Burwell?
The median was £345,000 in 2025, up 6% on 2024 (£325,000), and £356,250 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Burwell each year?
54 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 97 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Burwell?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: North Street (CB25, £682,500), Mill Lane (CB25, £641,000) and Silver Street (CB25, £510,000).
Is Burwell expensive for Cambridgeshire?
Burwell is the 24th most expensive of 51 towns of 2,500 or more in Cambridgeshire by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.