That is the middle of 3,760 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 6.7 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.
3,760 homes sold in three years: 472 detached houses, 802 semi-detached houses, 1,378 terraced houses and 1,108 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£720K
median sale · 472 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£600K–£1.1M
Last 12 months
£800K113 sold
New build
£647K
Semi-detached houses£550K
median sale · 802 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£466K–£700K
Last 12 months
£550K215 sold
New build
£602K
Terraced houses£500K
median sale · 1,378 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£415K–£660K
Last 12 months
£493K388 sold
New build
£702K
Flats and maisonettes£325K
median sale · 1,108 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£255K–£410K
Last 12 months
£303K296 sold
New build
£470K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses13%
Semi-detached houses21%
Terraced houses37%
Flats and maisonettes29%
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 Cambridge’s homes sold for between £369K and £655K
One sale in ten was under £270K and one in ten over £900K. 7% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £484,602, sits in the £400–500K band
3,760 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £69,995 in 1995 to £470,500 in the last 12 months (£431,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,012 sales in the last 12 months, against 2,425 in 2006, the busiest year, and 1,303 in 2020. Sales fell by 38% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Cambridge costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Cambridge, 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
£137K
£205K
£296K
£401K
£630K
£600K
£800K
Semi-detached houses
£74K
£129K
£207K
£275K
£425K
£478K
£550K
Terraced houses
£68K
£128K
£220K
£268K
£412K
£468K
£493K
Flats and maisonettes
£50K
£88K
£165K
£185K
£285K
£315K
£303K
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: 1% of sales in the last 12 months
8,403 new homes have been sold in Cambridge since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2013.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £599,995
against £475,000 for a home sold on, 26% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
31% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.1% sold leasehold in Cambridge. 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
Turing Way is Cambridge’s busiest street, with 49 sales in three years
262 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 82 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
Turing Way
CB3
49
£484,453
Mostly flats · new builds
2
Hills Road
CB2
40
£455,000
Mostly flats
3
Cromwell Road
CB1
39
£360,000
Mostly flats
4
Brigettine Square
CB1
27
£581,950
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
Newmarket Road
CB5
27
£440,000
Mixed
6
Queen Ediths Way
CB1
24
£695,000
Mixed
7
Milton Road
CB4
24
£655,000
Mixed
8
Coldhams Lane
CB1
23
£475,000
Mixed
9
High Street (CB4)
CB4
23
£470,000
Mixed
10
Histon Road
CB4
21
£435,000
Mixed
11
Riverside
CB5
20
£770,000
Mostly terraced houses
12
Perne Road
CB1
20
£628,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
13
Cherry Hinton Road
CB1
20
£550,000
Mixed
14
Victoria Road
CB4
20
£485,250
Mixed
15
St Matthews Gardens
CB1
20
£470,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Chaucer Road: £3,250,000
Cambridge median£485K
Chaucer Road£3.3M
St Barnabas Road£2.1M
Pretoria Road£1.4M
Maids Causeway£1.3M
Cavendish Avenue£1.2M
Cheapest streets
Haig Court: £145,000
Cambridge median£485K
Haig Court£145K
East Road£155K
Mill Road£192K
Loris Court£213K
Oyster Row£231K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 22.4 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
Cambridge is the 5th most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
Cambridge is one of Cambridgeshire’s dearest 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 Cambridge
What is the average house price in Cambridge?
The median home in Cambridge sold for £484,602 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 3,760 standard sales (£470,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £720,252, semi-detached houses £550,000, terraced houses £500,000 and flats and maisonettes £325,000.
Are house prices going up in Cambridge?
The median was £485,125 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£490,000), and £470,500 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 Cambridge each year?
1,012 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,555 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Cambridge?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Chaucer Road (CB2, £3,250,000), St Barnabas Road (CB1, £2,057,000) and Pretoria Road (CB4, £1,425,000).
How much does a new build cost in Cambridge?
New homes sold for a median £599,995 over three years, against £475,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.5% of sales.
Is Cambridge expensive for Cambridgeshire?
Cambridge is the 5th 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.