Main Street, Ely house prices

Main Street, Ely house prices are built from 717 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Dec 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £184,995. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +54.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +12.0%.

HM Land Registry717 sales4 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Dec 2025

The chart tracks the median Main Street, Ely house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Main Street, Ely is £460,000 in 2023; the lowest is £65,000 in 1997. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £71,250 to £425,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £158,209, so the real change over the whole record is +174.5% — about +3.42% 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: +54.5% in cash against +12.0% 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.

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.

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 Main Street, Ely values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Main Street, Ely is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

33 of the sales on record are leasehold and 684 freehold — 4.6% 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 £120,000 and the median freehold sale £195,750 — a gap of +63.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -25.4%. 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 53 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across East Cambridgeshire, 47.9% of 44,518 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.6% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in East Cambridgeshire at £1,029 a month as of Jun 2026 — £725 for a one-bedroom home and £1,157 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £184,995 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.67% 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 CB6, 5 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 3 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 1 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 33.4 times quieter.

Against the 87,762 residents the 2021 census counted in East Cambridgeshire, that is 0.06 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.

The 2021 census counted 87,762 residents in East Cambridgeshire across 37,202 households. 69.5% of those households own their home and 30.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

16 state and independent schools have a CB6 postcode: 13 primary, 3 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Main Street, Ely sits above that national figure — +17.5%.

Within Ely the street ranks 435 of 834 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £175,000 (+5.7%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,754 per square metre, across 4 of the 717 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 £22,750 to £1,250,000. 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.

Main Street, Ely sits in East Cambridgeshire, in the East of England.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in East Cambridgeshire at 10.0 times median local earnings of £34,117 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.

Streets nearby

• High Street£185,000 median
• Columbine Road£167,500 median
• Ely Road£195,000 median
• Lynn Road£198,250 median
• Beresford Road£199,950 median
• Victoria Street£135,500 median
• Brooke Grove£169,995 median
• Wisbech Road£140,000 median
• Meadow Way£192,000 median
• Stour Green£242,500 median
• Tennyson Place£171,995 median
• The Row£205,500 median
• Alexander Chase£279,998 median
• Briars End£134,000 median
• West End£184,000 median
• Wissey Way£181,475 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 18 Main Street15 sales
• 8 Main Street13 sales
• 3 Main Street13 sales
• 10 Main Street12 sales
• 15 Main Street11 sales
• 1 Main Street11 sales
• 16 Main Street10 sales
• 33 Main Street10 sales
• 20 Main Street10 sales
• 19 Main Street9 sales
• 37 Main Street9 sales
• 9 Main Street8 sales
• 31 Main Street8 sales
• 28 Main Street8 sales
• 45 Main Street7 sales
• 6 Main Street7 sales
• 11 Main Street7 sales
• 23 Main Street7 sales
• 34 Main Street6 sales
• 54 Main Street6 sales
• 4 Main Street6 sales
• 11A Main Street6 sales
• 30 Main Street6 sales
• 21 Main Street6 sales

Back to Ely house prices.

What is the average house price in Main Street, Ely?

The median price paid in Main Street, Ely across every sale on the register is £184,995. 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 Main Street, Ely?

717 sales are on record for Main Street, Ely, the most recent completing on 19 Dec 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Main Street, Ely house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +54.5% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +12.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Main Street, Ely house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £460,000, set in 2023. 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 Main Street, Ely?

£2,754 per square metre, from the 4 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 19 Dec 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, “Main Street, Ely 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.