That is the middle of 1,873 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 5.8 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.
1,873 homes sold in three years: 544 detached houses, 498 semi-detached houses, 556 terraced houses and 275 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£470K
median sale · 544 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£405K–£533K
Last 12 months
£470K123 sold
New build
£489K
Semi-detached houses£330K
median sale · 498 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£380K
Last 12 months
£320K123 sold
New build
£385K
Terraced houses£275K
median sale · 556 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£242K–£318K
Last 12 months
£275K176 sold
New build
£348K
Flats and maisonettes£175K
median sale · 275 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£137K–£220K
Last 12 months
£175K66 sold
New build
£250K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 30% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses30%
Flats and maisonettes15%
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 Neots’s homes sold for between £250K and £416K
One sale in ten was under £175K and one in ten over £513K. 25% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £320,000, sits in the £300–400K band
1,873 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.8 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £53,000 in 1995 to £308,375 in the last 12 months (£265,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
488 sales in the last 12 months, against 987 in 2002, the busiest year, and 508 in 2020. Sales fell by 33% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 73% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
St Neots costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: St Neots, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£85K
£135K
£230K
£264K
£320K
£389K
£470K
Semi-detached houses
£56K
£78K
£165K
£175K
£229K
£287K
£320K
Terraced houses
£42K
£63K
£135K
£150K
£189K
£225K
£275K
Flats and maisonettes
£30K
£45K
£116K
£123K
£150K
£165K
£175K
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
5% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
3,237 new homes have been sold in St Neots since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2011.
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 £425,000
against £305,000 for a home sold on, 39% 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.
15% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in St Neots. 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
Ailwyn Road is St Neots’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
138 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 42 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
Ailwyn Road
PE19
33
£514,950
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
Great North Road
PE19
30
£334,000
Mixed
3
Field Maple Close
PE19
26
£248,725
Mostly flats · new builds
4
Church Street
PE19
25
£128,500
Mostly flats
5
Pelham Road
PE19
24
£384,999
Mixed · new builds
6
St Neots Road
PE19
24
£238,500
Mixed
7
Honeysuckle Close
PE19
22
£427,500
Mostly detached houses · new builds
8
Sweet Gum Way
PE19
20
£342,000
Mixed · new builds
9
Howitts Gardens
PE19
20
£249,997
Mostly terraced houses
10
Angelica Close
PE19
19
£515,300
Mostly detached houses · new builds
11
Currington Avenue
PE19
19
£475,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
12
Duck Lane
PE19
19
£250,000
Mostly terraced houses
13
Old Market Court
PE19
19
£138,000
Mostly flats
14
Nuffield Road
PE19
18
£358,997
Mostly terraced houses · new builds
15
Buttercup Avenue
PE19
16
£318,750
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Wordsworth Avenue: £585,000
St Neots median£320K
Wordsworth Avenue£585K
The Paddock£583K
Rowley Road£580K
Hawkesford Way£565K
Ackerman Street£552K
Cheapest streets
Church Street: £128,500
St Neots median£320K
Church Street£129K
Old Market Court£138K
Linclare Place£147K
Peer Road£163K
Cambridge Road£167K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.6 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 Neots is the 31st most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
St Neots 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 Neots
What is the average house price in St Neots?
The median home in St Neots sold for £320,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 1,873 standard sales (£308,375 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £470,000, semi-detached houses £330,000, terraced houses £275,000 and flats and maisonettes £175,000.
Are house prices going up in St Neots?
The median was £325,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£325,000), and £308,375 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 Neots each year?
488 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 662 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in St Neots?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Wordsworth Avenue (PE19, £585,000), The Paddock (PE19, £582,500) and Rowley Road (PE19, £580,000).
How much does a new build cost in St Neots?
New homes sold for a median £425,000 over three years, against £305,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 18% of sales.
Is St Neots expensive for Cambridgeshire?
St Neots is the 31st 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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