That is the middle of 100 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 5.1 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.
100 homes sold in three years: 38 detached houses, 39 semi-detached houses, 17 terraced houses and 6 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£613K
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£525K–£760K
Last 12 months
£676K8 sold
Semi-detached houses£424K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£348K–£456K
Last 12 months
£431K12 sold
Terraced houses£325K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£370K
Last 12 months
£325K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 6 sold, median £193K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses38%
Semi-detached houses39%
Terraced houses17%
Flats and maisonettes6%
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 Comberton’s homes sold for between £348K and £580K
One sale in ten was under £242K and one in ten over £790K. 11% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £450,000, sits in the £400–500K band
100 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.1 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £84,000 in 1995 to £430,000 in the last 12 months (£410,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
29 sales in the last 12 months, against 49 in 2005, the busiest year, and 16 in 2022. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Comberton costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Comberton, 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
£180K
£248K
£451K
£345K
£490K
£385K
£676K
Semi-detached houses
£66K
£110K
£199K
£224K
—
£326K
£431K
Terraced houses
£55K
£94K
£164K
£192K
£245K
£269K
£325K
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
38 new homes have been sold in Comberton since 1995; the share peaked at 21% 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
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.3% sold leasehold in Comberton. 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
Barrons Way is Comberton’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
10 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Barrons Way
CB23
9
£520,000
Mixed
2
Hillfield Road
CB23
9
£322,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Kentings
CB23
8
£436,750
Mixed
4
Barton Road
CB23
6
£652,500
Mixed
5
Long Road
CB23
6
£612,500
Mostly detached houses
6
Swaynes Lane
CB23
6
£575,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Westlands
CB23
6
£425,250
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Foxs Way
CB23
5
£432,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
9
Bush Close
CB23
5
£346,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
10
St Thomas Close
CB23
5
£325,000
Mostly terraced houses
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.
Comberton’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Comberton
What is the average house price in Comberton?
The median home in Comberton sold for £450,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 100 standard sales (£430,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £612,500, semi-detached houses £423,500, terraced houses £325,000 and flats and maisonettes £192,500.
Are house prices going up in Comberton?
The median was £455,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£449,000), and £430,000 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 Comberton each year?
29 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 29 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Comberton?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Barton Road (CB23, £652,500), Long Road (CB23, £612,500) and Swaynes Lane (CB23, £575,000).
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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