That is the middle of 690 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 5.7 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.
690 homes sold in three years: 195 detached houses, 193 semi-detached houses, 222 terraced houses and 80 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£425K
median sale · 195 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£500K
Last 12 months
£435K49 sold
New build
£400K
Semi-detached houses£310K
median sale · 193 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£350K
Last 12 months
£314K54 sold
Terraced houses£255K
median sale · 222 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£211K–£300K
Last 12 months
£267K55 sold
Flats and maisonettes£198K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£158K–£228K
Last 12 months
£200K25 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 32% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses32%
Flats and maisonettes12%
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 St Ives’s homes sold for between £237K and £375K
One sale in ten was under £184K and one in ten over £470K. 28% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £305,000, sits in the £300–400K band
690 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.7 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £54,000 in 1995 to £310,000 in the last 12 months (£270,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
183 sales in the last 12 months, against 503 in 2002, the busiest year, and 210 in 2023. Sales fell by 38% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 64% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
St Ives costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: St Ives, 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
£85K
£136K
£224K
£235K
£310K
£400K
£435K
Semi-detached houses
£54K
£83K
£160K
£179K
£230K
£280K
£314K
Terraced houses
£46K
£69K
£130K
£145K
£180K
£216K
£267K
Flats and maisonettes
£38K
£48K
£117K
£128K
£165K
£181K
£200K
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: 0.5% of sales in the last 12 months
809 new homes have been sold in St Ives since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 1995.
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 £372,500
against £304,500 for a home sold on, 22% 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.
14% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.1% sold leasehold in St Ives. 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
Ramsey Road is St Ives’s busiest street, with 27 sales in three years
48 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 11 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
Ramsey Road
PE27
27
£285,000
Mixed
2
Edinburgh Drive
PE27
15
£240,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Green Leys
PE27
14
£330,000
Mixed
4
Waveney Road
PE27
14
£252,500
Mixed
5
Knights Way
PE27
13
£345,000
Mixed
6
Needingworth Road
PE27
12
£468,750
Mixed
7
London Road
PE27
12
£240,000
Mostly flats
8
Pettis Road
PE27
11
£315,000
Mixed
9
Hill Rise
PE27
11
£290,000
Mixed
10
Burstellars
PE27
10
£315,000
Mixed
11
Erica Road
PE27
10
£283,250
Mixed
12
Houghton Road
PE27
9
£445,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Nene Way
PE27
9
£267,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Derwent Close
PE27
9
£191,000
Mostly terraced houses
15
Tamar Close
PE27
8
£232,500
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Adams Drive: £490,000
St Ives median£305K
Adams Drive£490K
Rushington Close£475K
Needingworth Road£469K
Houghton Road£445K
Woodside Way£430K
Cheapest streets
Barley Close: £140,000
St Ives median£305K
Barley Close£140K
Harvest Court£175K
Welland Close£188K
Derwent Close£191K
Farthing Lane£201K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.5 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
St Ives is the 33rd most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
St Ives 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 St Ives
What is the average house price in St Ives?
The median home in St Ives sold for £305,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 690 standard sales (£310,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £425,000, semi-detached houses £310,000, terraced houses £255,000 and flats and maisonettes £197,500.
Are house prices going up in St Ives?
The median was £311,250 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£298,500), and £310,000 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 St Ives each year?
183 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 275 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in St Ives?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Adams Drive (PE27, £490,000), Rushington Close (PE27, £475,000) and Needingworth Road (PE27, £468,750).
How much does a new build cost in St Ives?
New homes sold for a median £372,500 over three years, against £304,500 for homes sold on. New builds were 1.2% of sales.
Is St Ives expensive for Cambridgeshire?
St Ives is the 33rd 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.