Riverside, Cambridge house prices are built from 282 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £371,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +39.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +0.7%.
Median price paid
£371,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+39.0%
Change in real terms
+0.7%
Median per m²
£3,450
HM Land Registry282 sales56 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Riverside, Cambridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Riverside, Cambridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 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 | 1 | £165,000 | £366,378 |
| 2000s | 7 | £335,111 | £610,473 |
| 2010s | 9 | £440,000 | £620,400 |
| 2020s | 6 | £670,000 | £684,565 |
The highest yearly median on record for Riverside, Cambridge is £797,500 in 2024; the lowest is £165,000 in 1999. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £165,000 to £795,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £336,199, so the real change over the whole record is +141.6% — about +3.45% 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: +39.0% in cash against +0.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 St Bartholomews Court | 20 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 76 St Bartholomews Court | 17 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 41 | 12 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £1,084,000 | £1,084,000 |
| 86 St Bartholomews Court | 1 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 21 | 2 May 2025 | Terraced | £990,000 | £1,011,522 |
| 39 St Bartholomews Court | 31 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £795,000 | £812,283 |
| 21 St Bartholomews Court | 21 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 26 | 7 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £867,000 | £885,848 |
| 62 St Bartholomews Court | 31 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £800,000 | £841,791 |
| 61 St Bartholomews Court | 30 Oct 2024 | Terraced | £750,000 | £789,179 |
| 15 | 11 Oct 2024 | Semi-detached | £920,000 | £968,060 |
| 48 St Bartholomews Court | 5 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £825,000 | £868,097 |
| 27 St Bartholomews Court | 5 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £790,000 | £831,269 |
| 32 | 2 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £810,000 | £852,313 |
| 41 St Bartholomews Court | 17 May 2024 | Terraced | £795,000 | £836,530 |
| 27 | 3 May 2024 | Terraced | £520,000 | £547,164 |
| 4 Water View | 20 Dec 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £392,500 | £424,080 |
| 85 | 20 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 34 St Bartholomews Court | 28 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £670,000 | £723,908 |
| 37 St Bartholomews Court | 27 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £865,000 | £934,598 |
| 9 Water View | 10 May 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £900,000 | £972,414 |
| 3 Water View | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £650,000 | £753,081 |
| 82 St Bartholomews Court | 21 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £320,000 | £370,748 |
| 15 | 3 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £950,000 | £1,100,657 |
| 24 St Bartholomews Court | 9 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £832,000 | £963,944 |
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 Riverside, Cambridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside | £275,000 (2018) | £335,000 (2026) | +2.5% | -1.1% |
| 41 Riverside | £365,000 (2002) | £1,084,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 26 Riverside | £167,000 (1999) | £867,000 (2025) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| 62 ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside | £495,000 (2012) | £800,000 (2024) | +4.1% | +1.1% |
| 15 Riverside | £170,450 (1999) | £920,000 (2024) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 4 WATER VIEW Riverside | £250,000 (2006) | £392,500 (2023) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| 9 WATER VIEW Riverside | £495,300 (2006) | £900,000 (2023) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| 3 WATER VIEW Riverside | £407,500 (2006) | £650,000 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
| 82 ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside | £200,000 (2009) | £320,000 (2022) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| RIVERSIDE HOUSE, 82 Riverside | £240,000 (2010) | £455,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 28 Riverside | £220,000 (2000) | £740,000 (2022) | +5.7% | +3.1% |
| 33 Riverside | £227,500 (1999) | £1,138,000 (2021) | +7.6% | +5.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Riverside, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 130 | 46.1% | £395,000 | £40,000 – £1,138,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 125 | 44.3% | £305,000 | £65,000 – £900,000 |
| Semi-detached | 23 | 8.2% | £375,000 | £105,000 – £950,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 1.4% | £286,000 | £123,000 – £460,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Riverside, Cambridge
126 of the sales on record are leasehold and 156 freehold — 44.7% 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 £302,500 and the median freehold sale £394,998 — a gap of +30.6%. 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 | 126 | 44.7% | £302,500 |
| Freehold | 156 | 55.3% | £394,998 |
| New build | 80 | 28.4% | £361,750 |
| Existing home | 202 | 71.6% | £385,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.0%. 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 5 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 09
How Riverside, Cambridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Riverside, Cambridge sits above that national figure — +135.6%.
Within Cambridge the street ranks 682 of 2762 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £240,000 (+54.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,450 per square metre, across 56 of the 282 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 £40,000 to £1,138,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£260,000 median
- Newmarket Road£246,500 median
- Kingsley Walk£398,950 median
- Thorpe Way£155,000 median
- Whitehill Road£157,000 median
- Beche Road£277,500 median
- Howard Road£181,000 median
- Peverel Road£205,000 median
- Ditton Fields£154,000 median
- Ditton Walk£201,500 median
- Riverside Place£327,020 median
- Oyster Row£140,000 median
- Ditton Lane£221,000 median
- Stanley Road£185,250 median
- Howard Close£132,500 median
- Marleigh Avenue£422,352 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 17 Riverside5 sales
- 15 Riverside4 sales
- 20 Riverside4 sales
- 12, WATER VIEW Riverside4 sales
- 41 Riverside3 sales
- 26 Riverside3 sales
- 4, WATER VIEW Riverside3 sales
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE, 82 Riverside3 sales
- 28 Riverside3 sales
- 77, ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside3 sales
- 56, ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside3 sales
- 43 Riverside3 sales
- 18, WATER VIEW Riverside3 sales
- 5, WATER VIEW Riverside3 sales
- 6, WATER VIEW Riverside3 sales
- 87 Riverside3 sales
- 14, WATER VIEW Riverside3 sales
- 50 Riverside3 sales
- 16 Riverside3 sales
- 31 Riverside3 sales
- 6, ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside2 sales
- 62, ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside2 sales
- 9, WATER VIEW Riverside2 sales
- 82, ST BARTHOLOMEWS COURT Riverside2 sales
Back to Cambridge house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Riverside, Cambridge?
The median price paid in Riverside, Cambridge across every sale on the register is £371,000. 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 Riverside, Cambridge?
282 sales are on record for Riverside, Cambridge, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Riverside, Cambridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +39.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +0.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Riverside, Cambridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £797,500, set in 2024. 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 Riverside, Cambridge?
£3,450 per square metre, from the 56 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 20 Mar 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, “Riverside, 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.