Orton Drive, Ely house prices are built from 151 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1997 and the most recent on 27 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £121,000. Across the 14 years from 2004 to 2018 the median moved +55.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +11.5%.
Median price paid
£121,000
Change in cash, 2004–2018
+55.3%
Change in real terms
+11.5%
HM Land Registry151 salesLatest sale 27 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Orton Drive, Ely prices moved
The chart tracks the median Orton Drive, Ely house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1997 to 2018. 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 | 3 | £73,725 | £163,704 |
| 2000s | 3 | £121,000 | £220,426 |
| 2010s | 4 | £216,000 | £304,560 |
The highest yearly median on record for Orton Drive, Ely is £262,500 in 2017; the lowest is £61,500 in 1997. Across the full 22-year record the cash median has moved from £61,500 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £130,398, so the real change over the whole record is +155.5% — about +4.57% 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: +55.3% in cash against +11.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 27 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £328,000 | £335,130 |
| 2 | 15 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £278,000 | £284,043 |
| 89 | 20 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| 61 | 6 Sep 2024 | Detached | £285,000 | £299,888 |
| 25 | 9 Aug 2024 | Semi-detached | £290,000 | £305,149 |
| 93 | 23 May 2023 | Semi-detached | £355,000 | £383,563 |
| 8 | 21 Dec 2022 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £480,813 |
| 67 | 30 May 2022 | Semi-detached | £393,000 | £455,325 |
| 87 | 21 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £290,000 | £335,990 |
| 81 | 31 Aug 2021 | Semi-detached | £286,500 | £361,976 |
| 69 | 8 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 3 | 18 Dec 2020 | Detached | £317,000 | £410,441 |
| 35 | 9 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £336,639 |
| 65 | 5 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £322,500 | £417,562 |
| 77 | 20 Aug 2019 | Semi-detached | £280,000 | £366,234 |
| 73 | 11 Jun 2019 | Semi-detached | £271,250 | £354,789 |
| 79 | 1 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £359,694 |
| 6 | 27 Nov 2018 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £353,166 |
| 29 | 19 Oct 2018 | Semi-detached | £268,000 | £357,164 |
| 16 | 24 Aug 2018 | Detached | £245,000 | £326,512 |
| 49 | 2 May 2018 | Terraced | £230,000 | £306,522 |
| 17 | 5 Apr 2018 | Detached | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 87 | 9 Feb 2018 | Terraced | £250,000 | £333,176 |
| 75 | 22 Nov 2017 | Semi-detached | £262,500 | £357,264 |
| 61 | 2 Nov 2017 | Detached | £260,000 | £353,861 |
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 Orton Drive, Ely values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Orton Drive | £64,950 (1997) | £328,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 89 Orton Drive | £79,950 (1999) | £320,000 (2024) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 61 Orton Drive | £61,500 (1997) | £285,000 (2024) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 25 Orton Drive | £61,500 (1997) | £290,000 (2024) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 93 Orton Drive | £80,800 (1999) | £355,000 (2023) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 67 Orton Drive | £79,950 (1999) | £393,000 (2022) | +7.2% | +4.6% |
| 87 Orton Drive | £79,950 (1999) | £290,000 (2022) | +5.8% | +3.2% |
| 81 Orton Drive | £79,950 (1999) | £286,500 (2021) | +6.0% | +3.7% |
| 69 Orton Drive | £79,950 (1999) | £325,000 (2021) | +6.6% | +4.3% |
| 3 Orton Drive | £186,000 (2010) | £317,000 (2020) | +5.5% | +3.3% |
| 35 Orton Drive | £64,950 (1997) | £260,000 (2020) | +6.2% | +4.0% |
| 65 Orton Drive | £64,950 (1997) | £322,500 (2020) | +7.2% | +4.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Orton Drive, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 95 | 62.9% | £119,000 | £61,500 – £415,000 |
| Detached | 39 | 25.8% | £121,000 | £61,500 – £317,000 |
| Terraced | 17 | 11.3% | £138,500 | £64,950 – £290,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Orton Drive, Ely
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 151 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 151 | 100.0% | £121,000 |
| New build | 47 | 31.1% | £64,950 |
| Existing home | 104 | 68.9% | £178,750 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -63.7%. 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 3 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 Orton Drive, 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 £121,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.20% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Orton Drive, 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.
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ely College | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,635 |
| Witchford Village College | Secondary | Academy converter | 804 |
| Vista Academy Littleport | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 547 |
| Lantern Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 448 |
| Isle of Ely Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 446 |
| Millfield Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 416 |
| Littleport Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 406 |
| Ely St John's Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 371 |
| The Rackham Church of England Primary School and Pre-School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 307 |
| Sutton CofE VC Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 271 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Ely Rail Station | Rail | 3.4 km |
| Littleport Rail Station | Rail | 8.9 km |
| Manea Rail Station | Rail | 10.6 km |
| Soham | Rail | 10.7 km |
Section 09
How Orton Drive, Ely compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Orton Drive, Ely sits below that national figure — -23.2%.
Within Ely the street ranks 740 of 834 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £175,000 (-30.9%).
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 £61,500 to £415,000. 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.
Orton Drive, 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
- High Street£185,000 median
- Main Street£184,995 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
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 18 Orton Drive6 sales
- 61 Orton Drive6 sales
- 69 Orton Drive5 sales
- 35 Orton Drive5 sales
- 65 Orton Drive5 sales
- 79 Orton Drive5 sales
- 63 Orton Drive5 sales
- 89 Orton Drive4 sales
- 93 Orton Drive4 sales
- 87 Orton Drive4 sales
- 6 Orton Drive4 sales
- 17 Orton Drive4 sales
- 51 Orton Drive4 sales
- 45 Orton Drive4 sales
- 14 Orton Drive4 sales
- 47 Orton Drive4 sales
- 67 Orton Drive3 sales
- 81 Orton Drive3 sales
- 3 Orton Drive3 sales
- 77 Orton Drive3 sales
- 73 Orton Drive3 sales
- 75 Orton Drive3 sales
- 7 Orton Drive3 sales
- 19 Orton Drive3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Orton Drive, Ely?
The median price paid in Orton Drive, Ely across every sale on the register is £121,000. 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 Orton Drive, Ely?
151 sales are on record for Orton Drive, Ely, the most recent completing on 27 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Orton Drive, Ely house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +55.3% between 2004 and 2018. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +11.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Orton Drive, Ely house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £262,500, 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 Orton Drive, 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 27 Oct 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, “Orton Drive, 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.