Photo: Keith Edkins · CC BY-SA 2.0The median home in Down Field sells for £254,750
That is the middle of 26 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 6.5 times as much as in 1996. 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.
Half of Down Field’s sales are semi-detached houses
26 homes sold in three years: 5 detached houses, 13 semi-detached houses and 8 terraced houses.
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
- Middle half
- £223K–£258K
- Last 12 months
- £255K7 sold
Detached houses: 5 sold, median £320K
Terraced houses: 8 sold, median £234K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 50% of sales
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.
The typical home costs 6.5 times as much as in 1996, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £39,000 in 1996 to £255,000 in the last 12 months.
More homes sell than in most years
12 sales in the last 12 months, against 18 in 2001, the busiest year, and 2 in 2018. Sales fell by 23% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 14%.
Down Field costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Down Field, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
Each type, year by year
| 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Last 12 months | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached houses | £71K | — | — | £200K | — | £255K |
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.
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
10 new homes have been sold in Down Field since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 2001.
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Down Field. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Down Field’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
| Town | Miles | Median | Sold, 12 mo | Since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Down Field | — | £255K | 12 | — |
| Soham | 1.4 | £272K | 116 | +26% |
| Fordham | 1.6 | £383K | 32 | +56% |
| Isleham | 3 | £375K | 19 | +21% |
| Burwell | 3.1 | £350K | 54 | +21% |
| Exning | 3.8 | £420K | 38 | +27% |
| Newmarket | 5.4 | £275K | 231 | +28% |
| Stretham | 6 | £349K | 23 | +21% |
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 Down Field
What is the average house price in Down Field?
The median home in Down Field sold for £254,750 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 26 standard sales (£255,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £320,000, semi-detached houses £254,500 and terraced houses £233,500.
How many homes sell in Down Field each year?
12 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 8 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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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