That is the middle of 546 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 5.4 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.
A third of Chatteris’s sales are semi-detached houses
546 homes sold in three years: 185 detached houses, 195 semi-detached houses, 142 terraced houses and 24 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£315K
median sale · 185 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£276K–£363K
Last 12 months
£315K54 sold
New build
£322K
Semi-detached houses£225K
median sale · 195 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£250K
Last 12 months
£225K48 sold
New build
£236K
Terraced houses£185K
median sale · 142 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£210K
Last 12 months
£185K39 sold
Flats and maisonettes£114K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£125K
Last 12 months
£111K8 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses34%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses26%
Flats and maisonettes4%
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 Chatteris’s homes sold for between £188K and £290K
One sale in ten was under £146K and one in ten over £360K. 60% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £230,000, sits in the £200–250K band
546 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,500 in 1995 to £230,000 in the last 12 months (£183,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
149 sales in the last 12 months, against 413 in 2002, the busiest year, and 152 in 2020. Sales fell by 59% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 98% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Chatteris costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Chatteris, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£59K
£88K
£200K
£184K
£212K
£250K
£315K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£59K
£128K
£125K
£145K
£190K
£225K
Terraced houses
£35K
£47K
£107K
£109K
£125K
£148K
£185K
Flats and maisonettes
£26K
£33K
£74K
—
£79K
£105K
£111K
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: 2% of sales in the last 12 months
905 new homes have been sold in Chatteris since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 2004.
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 £287,950
against £225,000 for a home sold on, 28% 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.
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Chatteris. 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
Fillenham Way is Chatteris’s busiest street, with 47 sales in three years
36 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Fillenham Way
PE16
47
£260,000
Mixed · new builds
2
London Road
PE16
22
£286,500
Mixed
3
New Road
PE16
22
£220,000
Mixed
4
Oatfields
PE16
15
£327,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
5
The Elms
PE16
14
£201,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
6
Green Park
PE16
13
£238,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Angoods Lane
PE16
11
£188,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Whitemill Road
PE16
11
£185,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Lindsells Walk
PE16
11
£171,500
Mostly terraced houses
10
Wheatfields
PE16
10
£263,500
Mixed · new builds
11
Westbourne Road
PE16
10
£261,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
12
Station Street
PE16
10
£230,000
Mixed
13
Old Station Place
PE16
10
£124,500
Mostly flats
14
Lode Way
PE16
9
£250,000
Mostly detached houses
15
West Street
PE16
8
£277,500
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Fortrey Court: £342,625
Chatteris median£230K
Fortrey Court£343K
Eastwood£335K
Oatfields£327K
London Road£287K
West Street£278K
Cheapest streets
Old Station Place: £124,500
Chatteris median£230K
Old Station Place£125K
High Street£138K
Mayfly Close£155K
Lindsells Walk£172K
Meadow Close£178K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 2.8 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
Chatteris is the 48th most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
Chatteris is one of Cambridgeshire’s cheapest 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 Chatteris
What is the average house price in Chatteris?
The median home in Chatteris sold for £230,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 546 standard sales (£230,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £315,000, semi-detached houses £225,000, terraced houses £185,000 and flats and maisonettes £114,250.
Are house prices going up in Chatteris?
The median was £236,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£230,000), and £230,000 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 Chatteris each year?
149 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 228 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Chatteris?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Fortrey Court (PE16, £342,625), Eastwood (PE16, £335,000) and Oatfields (PE16, £327,000).
How much does a new build cost in Chatteris?
New homes sold for a median £287,950 over three years, against £225,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 14% of sales.
Is Chatteris expensive for Cambridgeshire?
Chatteris is the 48th 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.
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