Orchard Row, Ely house prices are built from 179 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £117,250. Across the 10 years from 2010 to 2020 the median moved +49.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.3%.
Median price paid
£117,250
Change in cash, 2010–2020
+49.6%
Change in real terms
+21.3%
HM Land Registry179 salesLatest sale 29 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Orchard Row, Ely prices moved
The chart tracks the median Orchard Row, Ely house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2020. 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 | £42,000 | £93,260 |
| 2000s | 9 | £105,000 | £191,279 |
| 2010s | 6 | £144,000 | £203,040 |
| 2020s | 1 | £215,000 | £219,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for Orchard Row, Ely is £225,000 in 2017; the lowest is £37,000 in 1996. Across the full 26-year record the cash median has moved from £40,500 to £215,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £89,929, so the real change over the whole record is +209.5% — about +4.62% 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: +49.6% in cash against +21.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 126 | 29 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 142 | 13 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 93 | 16 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 123 | 9 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 66 | 24 Oct 2025 | Detached | £320,000 | £326,957 |
| 75 | 18 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £167,000 | £170,630 |
| 48 | 17 Jun 2025 | Detached | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 140 | 10 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £222,500 | £227,337 |
| 157 | 12 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 138 | 8 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £220,000 | £231,493 |
| 165 | 27 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £240,000 | £252,537 |
| 159 | 15 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £200,000 | £210,448 |
| 112 | 20 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £232,000 | £250,667 |
| 133 | 18 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £217,000 | £234,460 |
| 131 | 18 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £202,500 | £218,793 |
| 33 | 24 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £265,000 | £286,322 |
| 169 | 2 Dec 2022 | Terraced | £205,000 | £237,510 |
| 141 | 29 Jul 2022 | Terraced | £195,000 | £225,924 |
| 102 | 30 Jun 2022 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £243,303 |
| 139 | 28 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £197,500 | £228,821 |
| 33 | 16 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 137 | 20 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £195,000 | £246,371 |
| 125 | 23 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £193,000 | £249,890 |
| 100 | 22 May 2020 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £246,006 |
| 144 | 24 Apr 2020 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £278,375 |
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 Orchard Row, Ely values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 142 Orchard Row | £190,000 (2019) | £255,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +0.4% |
| 93 Orchard Row | £84,950 (2002) | £270,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 123 Orchard Row | £43,000 (1996) | £210,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
| 66 Orchard Row | £109,950 (2001) | £320,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 48 Orchard Row | £83,000 (1997) | £370,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| 157 Orchard Row | £51,750 (1998) | £280,000 (2024) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 165 Orchard Row | £58,500 (2000) | £240,000 (2024) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 159 Orchard Row | £93,500 (2004) | £200,000 (2024) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 112 Orchard Row | £125,000 (2010) | £232,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +1.8% |
| 133 Orchard Row | £116,000 (2010) | £217,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +1.8% |
| 131 Orchard Row | £42,000 (1997) | £202,500 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 33 Orchard Row | £185,000 (2016) | £265,000 (2023) | +5.3% | +1.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Orchard Row, Ely 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 | 93 | 52.0% | £115,000 | £30,150 – £280,000 |
| Semi-detached | 54 | 30.2% | £114,000 | £28,000 – £264,000 |
| Detached | 32 | 17.9% | £139,950 | £50,000 – £370,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Orchard Row, Ely
1 of the sales on record are leasehold and 178 freehold — 0.6% 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 £52,500 and the median freehold sale £118,625 — a gap of +126.0%. 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 | 1 | 0.6% | £52,500 |
| Freehold | 178 | 99.4% | £118,625 |
| New build | 5 | 2.8% | £114,000 |
| Existing home | 174 | 97.2% | £121,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -5.8%. 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 6 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 Orchard Row, Ely
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 748 | 1.7% |
| B | 6,858 | 15.4% |
| C | 13,740 | 30.9% |
| D | 14,050 | 31.6% |
| E | 6,646 | 14.9% |
| F | 2,028 | 4.6% |
| G | 448 | 1.0% |
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 £117,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.53% 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 CB7, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 2 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.
Against the 87,762 residents the 2021 census counted in East Cambridgeshire, that is 0.02 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 Orchard Row, Ely
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.
8 state and independent schools have a CB7 postcode: 7 primary, 1 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soham Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,436 |
| St Andrew's CofE Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 461 |
| Fordham CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 413 |
| The Weatheralls Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 342 |
| The Shade Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 250 |
| Ely St Mary's CofE Junior School | Primary | Academy converter | 226 |
| Isleham Church of England Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 201 |
| Spring Meadow Infant School | Primary | Community school | 143 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Soham | Rail | 2.9 km |
| Ely Rail Station | Rail | 5.4 km |
| Shippea Hill Rail Station | Rail | 9.8 km |
| Littleport Rail Station | Rail | 11.4 km |
Section 09
How Orchard Row, Ely compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Orchard Row, Ely sits below that national figure — -25.6%.
Within Ely the street ranks 755 of 834 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-33.0%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £28,000 to £370,000. 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.
Orchard Row, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Station Road£168,998 median
- Morton Close£94,225 median
- Kings Avenue£169,950 median
- Henley Way£156,250 median
- Cambridge Road£210,000 median
- Dobede Way£162,750 median
- Northfield Park£118,000 median
- Longchamp Drive£222,050 median
- Blackthorn Court£109,000 median
- Fordham Road£195,750 median
- Tower Court£108,000 median
- Carter Street£169,000 median
- Fen Bank£148,000 median
- Merivale Way£206,500 median
- Guntons Close£138,500 median
- Fitzgerald Close£109,995 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 149 Orchard Row7 sales
- 89 Orchard Row6 sales
- 119 Orchard Row6 sales
- 93 Orchard Row5 sales
- 157 Orchard Row5 sales
- 131 Orchard Row5 sales
- 141 Orchard Row5 sales
- 139 Orchard Row5 sales
- 137 Orchard Row5 sales
- 153 Orchard Row5 sales
- 123 Orchard Row4 sales
- 133 Orchard Row4 sales
- 147 Orchard Row4 sales
- 171 Orchard Row4 sales
- 127 Orchard Row4 sales
- 48 Orchard Row3 sales
- 165 Orchard Row3 sales
- 159 Orchard Row3 sales
- 112 Orchard Row3 sales
- 33 Orchard Row3 sales
- 144 Orchard Row3 sales
- 135 Orchard Row3 sales
- 60 Orchard Row3 sales
- 14 Orchard Row3 sales
Back to Ely house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Orchard Row, Ely?
The median price paid in Orchard Row, Ely across every sale on the register is £117,250. 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 Orchard Row, Ely?
179 sales are on record for Orchard Row, Ely, the most recent completing on 29 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Orchard Row, Ely house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +49.6% between 2010 and 2020. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Orchard Row, Ely house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £225,000, set in 2017. 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 Orchard Row, Ely?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 Apr 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, “Orchard Row, 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.