That is the middle of 380 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 6.1 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.
380 homes sold in three years: 159 detached houses, 127 semi-detached houses, 71 terraced houses and 23 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£340K
median sale · 159 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£286K–£400K
Last 12 months
£350K43 sold
Semi-detached houses£223K
median sale · 127 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£263K
Last 12 months
£244K34 sold
Terraced houses£208K
median sale · 71 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£174K–£235K
Last 12 months
£200K13 sold
Flats and maisonettes£138K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£120K–£147K
Last 12 months
£145K6 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 42% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses42%
Semi-detached houses33%
Terraced houses19%
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 Yaxley’s homes sold for between £205K and £330K
One sale in ten was under £165K and one in ten over £410K. 49% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £250,250, sits in the £250–300K band
380 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,000 in 1995 to £261,250 in the last 12 months (£228,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
96 sales in the last 12 months, against 348 in 2002, the busiest year, and 100 in 2023. Sales fell by 34% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 9%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 60% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Yaxley costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Yaxley, 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
£64K
£115K
£185K
£196K
£241K
£285K
£350K
Semi-detached houses
£42K
£63K
£131K
£130K
£159K
£200K
£244K
Terraced houses
£34K
£54K
£117K
£130K
£136K
£170K
£200K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£34K
£114K
—
£100K
£117K
£145K
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
932 new homes have been sold in Yaxley since 1995; the share peaked at 47% in 2001.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
6% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.3% sold leasehold in Yaxley. 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
Broadway is Yaxley’s busiest street, with 33 sales in three years
22 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 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
Broadway
PE7
33
£229,000
Mixed
2
Main Street
PE7
24
£245,000
Mixed
3
Chapel Street
PE7
14
£200,000
Mixed
4
Ferndale
PE7
13
£350,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Violet Way
PE7
13
£148,250
Mixed
6
Blenheim Way
PE7
12
£227,750
Mixed
7
Whitney Drive
PE7
10
£230,750
Mostly terraced houses
8
London Road
PE7
8
£575,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Marconi Drive
PE7
7
£345,000
Mostly detached houses
10
Windsor Road
PE7
6
£282,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
11
Middletons Road
PE7
6
£255,000
Mixed
12
Apple Tree Close
PE7
6
£243,500
Mostly detached houses
13
Mere View
PE7
6
£235,000
Mixed
14
Mallory Drive
PE7
6
£181,500
Mostly terraced houses
15
Bentley Avenue
PE7
5
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
London Road: £575,000
Yaxley median£250K
London Road£575K
Bentley Avenue£385K
Shackleton Way£363K
Ferndale£350K
Marconi Drive£345K
Cheapest streets
Violet Way: £148,250
Yaxley median£250K
Violet Way£148K
Mallory Drive£182K
Elm Close£193K
Chapel Street£200K
Landsdowne Road£220K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3.9 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
Yaxley is the 46th most expensive of 51 towns in Cambridgeshire
Yaxley 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 Yaxley
What is the average house price in Yaxley?
The median home in Yaxley sold for £250,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 380 standard sales (£261,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £340,000, semi-detached houses £222,500, terraced houses £207,500 and flats and maisonettes £138,000.
Are house prices going up in Yaxley?
The median was £266,250 in 2025, up 10% on 2024 (£241,000), and £261,250 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 Yaxley each year?
96 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 158 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Yaxley?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: London Road (PE7, £575,000), Bentley Avenue (PE7, £385,000) and Shackleton Way (PE7, £363,000).
Is Yaxley expensive for Cambridgeshire?
Yaxley is the 46th 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.
Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0