Long Road, Cambridge house prices are built from 178 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1998 and the most recent on 27 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £436,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -7.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -32.7%.
Median price paid
£436,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-7.1%
Change in real terms
-32.7%
Median per m²
£4,372
HM Land Registry178 sales22 with floor areaLatest sale 27 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Long Road, Cambridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Long Road, Cambridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1998 to 2025. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 2 | £240,000 | £532,913 |
| 2000s | 3 | £342,500 | £623,934 |
| 2010s | 5 | £560,000 | £789,600 |
| 2020s | 3 | £440,000 | £449,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Long Road, Cambridge is £740,000 in 2011; the lowest is £240,000 in 1998. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £240,000 to £520,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £497,647, so the real change over the whole record is +6.8% — about +0.24% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: -7.1% in cash against -32.7% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 27 Feb 2026 | Detached | £1,975,000 | £1,975,000 |
| 49 | 26 Aug 2025 | Detached | £650,000 | £664,130 |
| 63a | 4 Aug 2025 | Detached | £525,000 | £536,413 |
| 1 | 25 Jul 2025 | Detached | £1,480,000 | £1,512,174 |
| 6 | 21 Jul 2025 | Detached | £520,000 | £531,304 |
| Flat 3 Henslow House, 18 | 15 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| Flat 6 Henslow House, 18 | 14 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| Flat 7 Henslow House, 18 | 13 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £361,000 | £368,848 |
| 65 | 26 Feb 2025 | Detached | £575,000 | £587,500 |
| Flat 2 the Orangery, 139 | 7 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £490,000 | £500,652 |
| 91 | 3 Oct 2024 | Detached | £1,600,000 | £1,683,582 |
| Harborough House | 28 Aug 2024 | Detached | £1,200,000 | £1,262,687 |
| Rayden House, 3a | 9 Jul 2024 | Detached | £810,000 | £852,313 |
| Flat 11 the Orangery, 139 | 4 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £625,000 | £675,287 |
| 55 | 1 Nov 2023 | Detached | £452,500 | £488,908 |
| 79 | 31 Mar 2023 | Detached | £1,250,000 | £1,350,575 |
| 2b | 1 Jul 2022 | Detached | £2,200,000 | £2,548,891 |
| 47 | 30 Jun 2022 | Detached | £1,520,000 | £1,761,052 |
| Flat 12 the Orangery, 139 | 24 Jun 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £575,000 | £666,187 |
| 45 | 22 Dec 2021 | Detached | £486,000 | £614,032 |
| 2a | 19 Nov 2021 | Detached | £1,820,000 | £2,299,462 |
| 13 | 30 Sep 2021 | Detached | £440,000 | £555,914 |
| 17 | 28 Sep 2021 | Detached | £457,000 | £577,392 |
| 11 | 14 Sep 2021 | Detached | £490,000 | £619,086 |
| 15 | 7 Sep 2021 | Detached | £485,000 | £612,769 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Long Road, Cambridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Long Road | £600,000 (2018) | £1,975,000 (2026) | +16.1% | +12.0% |
| 49 Long Road | £212,000 (1996) | £650,000 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.3% |
| 63A Long Road | £245,000 (2006) | £525,000 (2025) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 1 Long Road | £86,000 (1997) | £1,480,000 (2025) | +10.7% | +7.8% |
| 6 Long Road | £430,000 (2020) | £520,000 (2025) | +3.9% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 3 HENSLOW HOUSE, 18 Long Road | £265,000 (2006) | £385,000 (2025) | +2.0% | -1.0% |
| FLAT 6 HENSLOW HOUSE, 18 Long Road | £280,000 (2006) | £380,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| FLAT 7 HENSLOW HOUSE, 18 Long Road | £285,000 (2006) | £361,000 (2025) | +1.3% | -1.7% |
| FLAT 2 the ORANGERY, 139 Long Road | £315,000 (2007) | £490,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| HARBOROUGH HOUSE Long Road | £740,000 (2009) | £1,200,000 (2024) | +3.3% | +0.3% |
| RAYDEN HOUSE, 3A Long Road | £250,000 (2003) | £810,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +2.8% |
| FLAT 11 the ORANGERY, 139 Long Road | £450,000 (2007) | £625,000 (2023) | +2.1% | -0.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Long Road, Cambridge is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 117 | 65.7% | £560,000 | £86,000 – £2,300,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 56 | 31.5% | £332,500 | £250,000 – £755,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5 | 2.8% | £310,000 | £167,000 – £362,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Long Road, Cambridge
56 of the sales on record are leasehold and 122 freehold — 31.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £332,500 and the median freehold sale £532,500 — a gap of +60.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 56 | 31.5% | £332,500 |
| Freehold | 122 | 68.5% | £532,500 |
| New build | 56 | 31.5% | £342,500 |
| Existing home | 122 | 68.5% | £532,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -35.7%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 8 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Long Road, Cambridge
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cambridge, 55.3% of 69,219 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 795 | 1.1% |
| B | 13,587 | 19.6% |
| C | 23,913 | 34.5% |
| D | 21,522 | 31.1% |
| E | 7,667 | 11.1% |
| F | 1,421 | 2.1% |
| G | 314 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cambridge at £1,804 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,255 for a one-bedroom home and £1,905 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £436,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.97% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CB24, 16 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 3 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 10.4 times quieter.
Against the 145,674 residents the 2021 census counted in Cambridge, that is 0.11 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Long Road, Cambridge
The 2021 census counted 145,674 residents in Cambridge across 52,474 households. 45.7% of those households own their home and 54.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
16 state and independent schools have a CB24 postcode: 11 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery, 1 all-through. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impington Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,446 |
| Swavesey Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,254 |
| Northstowe Learning Community | All-through | Academy converter | 920 |
| Cottenham Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 860 |
| Cottenham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 471 |
| Pathfinder CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 471 |
| Histon and Impington Park Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 425 |
| Histon and Impington Brook Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 408 |
| Hatton Park Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 380 |
| Willingham Primary School | Primary | Community school | 364 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge North Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
| Waterbeach Rail Station | Rail | 8.2 km |
| Cambridge Rail Station | Rail | 10.3 km |
| Cambridge South Rail Station | Rail | 12.2 km |
Section 09
How Long Road, Cambridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Long Road, Cambridge sits above that national figure — +176.8%.
Within Cambridge the street ranks 438 of 2762 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £240,000 (+81.7%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £4,372 per square metre, across 22 of the 178 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £86,000 to £2,300,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Long Road, Cambridge sits in Cambridge, in the East of England.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cambridge at 10.8 times median local earnings of £45,762 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- The Rowans£145,950 median
- Church Street£295,000 median
- The Sycamores£148,475 median
- Moat Way£142,012 median
- Coxs End£154,000 median
- Magdalene Close£144,000 median
- Rampton Drift£150,000 median
- Kingfisher Way£249,999 median
- Thornhill Place£154,950 median
- Rampton Road£275,000 median
- Balland Field£180,000 median
- Brenda Gautrey Way£178,250 median
- Mitchcroft Road£268,000 median
- King Street£228,500 median
- Rooks Street£186,250 median
- Water Lane£225,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 6, HENSLOW HOUSE, 18 Long Road4 sales
- 2A Long Road4 sales
- 11 Long Road4 sales
- 12 Long Road4 sales
- 17 Long Road3 sales
- 49 Long Road3 sales
- 1 Long Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, the ORANGERY, 139 Long Road3 sales
- FLAT 11, the ORANGERY, 139 Long Road3 sales
- 47 Long Road3 sales
- 13 Long Road3 sales
- 15 Long Road3 sales
- 98 Long Road3 sales
- 14 Long Road3 sales
- 7 Long Road3 sales
- 4 Long Road3 sales
- 3 Long Road3 sales
- 83 Long Road3 sales
- 71 Long Road3 sales
- 59 Long Road3 sales
- FLAT 12, HENSLOW HOUSE, 18 Long Road3 sales
- 102 Long Road3 sales
- 75 Long Road3 sales
- 63A Long Road2 sales
Back to Cambridge house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Long Road, Cambridge?
The median price paid in Long Road, Cambridge across every sale on the register is £436,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Long Road, Cambridge?
178 sales are on record for Long Road, Cambridge, the most recent completing on 27 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Long Road, Cambridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -7.1% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -32.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Long Road, Cambridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £740,000, set in 2011. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Long Road, Cambridge?
£4,372 per square metre, from the 22 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 27 Feb 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Long Road, Cambridge house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.