Speedwell Close, Cambridge house prices are built from 269 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 21 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £110,000. Across the 12 years from 2010 to 2022 the median moved +6.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.7%.
Median price paid
£110,000
Change in cash, 2010–2022
+6.6%
Change in real terms
-22.7%
Median per m²
£2,566
HM Land Registry269 sales97 with floor areaLatest sale 21 Nov 2025
Section 01
How Speedwell Close, Cambridge prices moved
The chart tracks the median Speedwell Close, Cambridge house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2022. 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 | 5 | £54,750 | £121,571 |
| 2000s | 9 | £144,725 | £263,646 |
| 2010s | 3 | £206,250 | £290,813 |
| 2020s | 1 | £218,500 | £223,250 |
The highest yearly median on record for Speedwell Close, Cambridge is £250,000 in 2016; the lowest is £47,500 in 1996. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £54,750 to £218,500.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £121,571, so the real change over the whole record is +108.2% — about +2.75% 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: +6.6% in cash against -22.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 40 | 24 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 32 | 31 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £332,000 | £339,217 |
| 120 | 11 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 77 | 9 Dec 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £262,000 | £275,687 |
| 109 | 19 Jul 2024 | Semi-detached | £323,000 | £339,873 |
| 55 | 29 May 2024 | Terraced | £432,000 | £454,567 |
| 64 | 15 Sep 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £172,874 |
| 44 | 7 Jul 2023 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £210,690 |
| 105 | 21 Apr 2023 | Terraced | £422,500 | £456,494 |
| 25 | 31 May 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 97 | 16 May 2022 | Detached | £363,000 | £420,567 |
| 28 | 28 Apr 2022 | Detached | £416,000 | £481,972 |
| 58 | 9 Mar 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £207,000 | £239,827 |
| 102 | 24 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £206,000 | £238,669 |
| 79 | 4 Feb 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £189,500 | £219,552 |
| 103 | 10 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £420,000 | £530,645 |
| 67 | 19 Mar 2021 | Terraced | £287,500 | £363,239 |
| 121 | 11 Dec 2020 | Terraced | £380,000 | £492,011 |
| 18 | 23 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £300,000 | £388,430 |
| 60 | 20 Mar 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £194,215 |
| 57 | 20 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £300,000 | £392,393 |
| 55 | 18 Sep 2019 | Terraced | £400,000 | £523,191 |
| 85 | 12 Jul 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £186,000 | £243,284 |
| 75 | 20 Mar 2019 | Flat or maisonette | £178,000 | £232,820 |
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 Speedwell Close, Cambridge values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 Speedwell Close | £51,500 (1998) | £190,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +2.2% |
| 40 Speedwell Close | £38,950 (1996) | £200,000 (2025) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 32 Speedwell Close | £54,250 (1995) | £332,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 120 Speedwell Close | £59,950 (1999) | £185,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.7% |
| 77 Speedwell Close | £92,500 (2001) | £262,000 (2024) | +4.6% | +1.8% |
| 109 Speedwell Close | £95,500 (2000) | £323,000 (2024) | +5.2% | +2.4% |
| 55 Speedwell Close | £92,995 (1999) | £432,000 (2024) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 64 Speedwell Close | £37,000 (1995) | £160,000 (2023) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 44 Speedwell Close | £73,500 (2001) | £195,000 (2023) | +4.5% | +1.7% |
| 105 Speedwell Close | £98,000 (2000) | £422,500 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.7% |
| 25 Speedwell Close | £75,250 (2000) | £230,000 (2022) | +5.2% | +2.6% |
| 97 Speedwell Close | £84,500 (1999) | £363,000 (2022) | +6.5% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Speedwell Close, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 134 | 49.8% | £83,000 | £28,000 – £262,000 |
| Terraced | 106 | 39.4% | £140,000 | £53,000 – £432,000 |
| Semi-detached | 20 | 7.4% | £149,950 | £56,500 – £323,000 |
| Detached | 9 | 3.3% | £136,000 | £82,000 – £416,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Speedwell Close, Cambridge
136 of the sales on record are leasehold and 133 freehold — 50.6% 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 £83,750 and the median freehold sale £140,000 — a gap of +67.2%. 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 | 136 | 50.6% | £83,750 |
| Freehold | 133 | 49.4% | £140,000 |
| New build | 1 | 0.4% | £74,000 |
| Existing home | 268 | 99.6% | £110,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -32.7%. 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 13 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 Speedwell Close, 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 £110,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 19.68% 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 CB1, 572 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 147 violent, 11 burglary, 16 vehicle-related and 86 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.4 times busier.
Against the 145,674 residents the 2021 census counted in Cambridge, that is 3.93 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 Speedwell Close, 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.
18 state and independent schools have a CB1 postcode: 11 primary, 4 secondary, 2 nursery, 1 16 plus. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Netherhall School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,259 |
| St Bede's Inter-Church School | Secondary | Academy converter | 943 |
| Parkside Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 667 |
| St Matthew's Primary School | Primary | Community school | 628 |
| Coleridge Community College | Secondary | Academy converter | 553 |
| Queen Edith Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 394 |
| Queen Emma Primary School | Primary | Foundation school | 391 |
| Morley Memorial Primary School | Primary | Community school | 371 |
| Bewick Bridge Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 222 |
| Colville Primary School | Primary | Community school | 221 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge Rail Station | Rail | 0.3 km |
| Cambridge South Rail Station | Rail | 2.4 km |
| Cambridge North Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Shelford (Cambs) Rail Station | Rail | 5.2 km |
Section 09
How Speedwell Close, Cambridge compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Speedwell Close, Cambridge sits below that national figure — -30.2%.
Within Cambridge the street ranks 2669 of 2762 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £240,000 (-54.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,566 per square metre, across 97 of the 269 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 £28,000 to £432,000. 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.
Speedwell Close, 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
- Mill Road£192,250 median
- Cromwell Road£230,000 median
- Cherry Hinton Road£196,000 median
- Rustat Avenue£260,000 median
- Lucerne Close£121,000 median
- St Matthews Gardens£260,000 median
- Queen Ediths Way£338,050 median
- Tamarin Gardens£129,450 median
- Coleridge Road£172,975 median
- York Street£202,000 median
- Coldhams Lane£250,000 median
- Thoday Street£222,750 median
- Gwydir Street£280,000 median
- Catharine Street£229,500 median
- Cavendish Road£196,000 median
- Ross Street£240,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 55 Speedwell Close7 sales
- 40 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 32 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 67 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 121 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 21 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 76 Speedwell Close5 sales
- 120 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 77 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 64 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 25 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 28 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 18 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 57 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 65 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 119 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 38 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 61 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 81 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 16 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 23 Speedwell Close4 sales
- 116 Speedwell Close3 sales
- 109 Speedwell Close3 sales
- 44 Speedwell Close3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Speedwell Close, Cambridge?
The median price paid in Speedwell Close, Cambridge across every sale on the register is £110,000. 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 Speedwell Close, Cambridge?
269 sales are on record for Speedwell Close, Cambridge, the most recent completing on 21 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Speedwell Close, Cambridge house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +6.6% between 2010 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.7%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Speedwell Close, Cambridge house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £250,000, set in 2016. 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 Speedwell Close, Cambridge?
£2,566 per square metre, from the 97 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 21 Nov 2025. 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, “Speedwell Close, 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.