West Fen Road, Ely house prices are built from 155 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 17 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £182,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +28.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -7.0%.
Median price paid
£182,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+28.4%
Change in real terms
-7.0%
Median per m²
£2,161
HM Land Registry155 sales27 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Apr 2026
Section 01
How West Fen Road, Ely prices moved
The chart tracks the median West Fen Road, Ely house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 | 4 | £60,573 | £134,500 |
| 2000s | 6 | £140,000 | £255,039 |
| 2010s | 8 | £217,000 | £305,970 |
| 2020s | 3 | £304,500 | £311,120 |
The highest yearly median on record for West Fen Road, Ely is £308,160 in 2025; the lowest is £46,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £46,000 to £308,160.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,785, so the real change over the whole record is +215.5% — about +4.04% 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: +28.4% in cash against -7.0% 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 17 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £372,000 | £372,000 |
| 114 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £248,000 | £253,391 |
| 160a | 3 Oct 2025 | Detached | £550,000 | £561,957 |
| 56 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £325,000 | £332,065 |
| 13 | 25 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £265,000 | £270,761 |
| 53 | 7 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £308,160 | £314,859 |
| 40a | 28 Oct 2024 | Detached | £800,000 | £841,791 |
| 143 | 3 Nov 2023 | Detached | £570,000 | £615,862 |
| 41 | 9 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £235,000 | £253,908 |
| 35 | 7 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £252,000 | £291,964 |
| 145 | 20 Jun 2022 | Detached | £615,000 | £712,531 |
| 53 | 10 Dec 2021 | Terraced | £285,000 | £360,081 |
| 5 | 24 Sep 2021 | Detached | £570,000 | £720,161 |
| 51 | 30 Jun 2021 | Detached | £600,000 | £758,065 |
| 37 | 9 Apr 2021 | Terraced | £239,950 | £303,163 |
| 63 | 18 Mar 2021 | Semi-detached | £324,000 | £409,355 |
| 68 | 29 Jan 2021 | Semi-detached | £226,000 | £285,538 |
| 54 | 13 Nov 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £155,000 | £200,689 |
| 62 | 5 Nov 2020 | Terraced | £250,000 | £323,691 |
| 100 | 17 Jun 2020 | Semi-detached | £425,000 | £550,275 |
| 40a | 3 Feb 2020 | Detached | £688,000 | £890,799 |
| 132 | 15 Jan 2020 | Semi-detached | £230,000 | £297,796 |
| 40b | 19 Dec 2019 | Detached | £515,000 | £673,609 |
| 162 | 18 Dec 2019 | Detached | £297,000 | £388,469 |
| 96 | 1 Nov 2019 | Semi-detached | £262,062 | £342,771 |
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 West Fen Road, Ely values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 West Fen Road | £186,000 (2013) | £372,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 114 West Fen Road | £49,100 (1997) | £248,000 (2025) | +6.0% | +3.2% |
| 160A West Fen Road | £170,000 (2003) | £550,000 (2025) | +5.5% | +2.6% |
| 56 West Fen Road | £120,000 (2009) | £325,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.3% |
| 53 West Fen Road | £48,000 (1995) | £308,160 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| 40A West Fen Road | £688,000 (2020) | £800,000 (2024) | +3.8% | -1.4% |
| 41 West Fen Road | £58,000 (2001) | £235,000 (2023) | +6.6% | +3.7% |
| 35 West Fen Road | £35,000 (1998) | £252,000 (2022) | +8.6% | +6.0% |
| 37 West Fen Road | £54,000 (1999) | £239,950 (2021) | +7.0% | +4.7% |
| 62 West Fen Road | £56,000 (1998) | £250,000 (2020) | +7.0% | +4.8% |
| 100 West Fen Road | £46,500 (1996) | £425,000 (2020) | +9.7% | +7.3% |
| 65 West Fen Road | £207,500 (2010) | £305,000 (2019) | +4.4% | +2.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. West Fen Road, 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 | 61 | 39.4% | £128,355 | £35,000 – £390,000 |
| Detached | 51 | 32.9% | £250,000 | £56,000 – £800,000 |
| Semi-detached | 39 | 25.2% | £185,000 | £21,000 – £425,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 4 | 2.6% | £33,500 | £32,000 – £155,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in West Fen Road, Ely
4 of the sales on record are leasehold and 151 freehold — 2.6% 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 £52,000 and the median freehold sale £184,000 — a gap of +253.8%. 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 | 4 | 2.6% | £52,000 |
| Freehold | 151 | 97.4% | £184,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.3% | £172,500 |
| Existing home | 153 | 98.7% | £183,950 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.2%. 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 8 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 West Fen Road, 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 £182,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.77% 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 West Fen Road, 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 West Fen Road, Ely compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. West Fen Road, Ely sits above that national figure — +15.9%.
Within Ely the street ranks 440 of 834 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £175,000 (+4.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,161 per square metre, across 27 of the 155 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 £21,000 to £800,000. 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.
West Fen Road, 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
- 53 West Fen Road9 sales
- 37 West Fen Road6 sales
- 23 West Fen Road6 sales
- 112 West Fen Road5 sales
- 63 West Fen Road4 sales
- 114 West Fen Road4 sales
- 41 West Fen Road4 sales
- 35 West Fen Road4 sales
- 61 West Fen Road4 sales
- 58 West Fen Road4 sales
- 160A West Fen Road3 sales
- 100 West Fen Road3 sales
- 55 West Fen Road3 sales
- 19B West Fen Road3 sales
- 65A West Fen Road3 sales
- 79 West Fen Road3 sales
- 61A West Fen Road3 sales
- 153 West Fen Road3 sales
- 50 West Fen Road3 sales
- 56 West Fen Road2 sales
- 40A West Fen Road2 sales
- 62 West Fen Road2 sales
- 65 West Fen Road2 sales
- 47 West Fen Road2 sales
Back to Ely house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in West Fen Road, Ely?
The median price paid in West Fen Road, Ely across every sale on the register is £182,500. 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 West Fen Road, Ely?
155 sales are on record for West Fen Road, Ely, the most recent completing on 17 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have West Fen Road, Ely house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +28.4% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -7.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were West Fen Road, Ely house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £308,160, set in 2025. 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 West Fen Road, Ely?
£2,161 per square metre, from the 27 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 17 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, “West Fen Road, 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.