House prices in CB6 (Littleport)

Price per square metre data and charts to help you understand the housing market in CB6 - stats were last calculated on 01 December 2025.

Defining 'CB6'

This analysis is limited to properties whose postcode starts with "CB6", this is also called the postcode district. There are no official postcode district names so I've just labelled it CB6, Littleport. It is shown in red on the map below.

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Price per square metre

Knowing the average house price in CB6 is not much use. However, knowing average price per square metre can be quite useful. Price per sqm allows some comparison between properties of different size. We define price per square metre as the sold price divided by the internal area of a property:

£ per sqm = price ÷ internal area

For example in October 2025, 36, Northwold, Littleport, CB6 1BG sold for £450,000. Given the internal area of 73 square metres recorded on the EPC, the price per sqm is £450,000 ÷ 73 sqm = £6,164.

England & Wales have been officially metric since 1965. However house price per square foot is prefered by some estate agents and those of sufficiently advanced age ;-). It is a huge pain to code the automatic conversion for square meters to square feet for all the graphs and charts on CB6 and elsewhere. All the conditionals turn my tidy code for into spaghetti. I will get around to it at some point, but for now you can just divide everything by 10 in your head, move a decimal place and you'll be close enough. If you want to be more precise 1 sqm = 10.76391 sqft.

Distribution of £ per sqm for houses vs flats in CB6

The chart above is called a histogram, it helps you see the distribution of house price per sqm in CB6 To make this chart we put all the sales data into a series of £ per sqm 'buckets' (e.g. £3,350 to £3,500, £3,500 to £3,650, £3,650 to £3,800 etc...) we then count the number of sales with within in each bucket and plot the results. The histogram is based on 1,140 sales that took place in CB6, in the last 24 months.

Generate a custom histogram like the one above but based on your own criteria.

You can see the spread of prices above. This is because although internal area is a key factor in determining valuation, it is not the only factor. Many factors other than size affect desirability; these factors could be condition, aspect, garden size, negotiating power of the vendor etc.

The spread of prices will give you a feel of the typical range to expect in CB6, Littleport. Notably, only 25% of properties that sold recently were valued at more than £4,000 sqm. For anything to be valued more than this means it has to be more desireable than the clear majority of CB6 homes.

Box plot of £ per sqm for CB6

Tip: click on the chart to see the values.

The chart above is called a boxplot (or a box-and-whisker plot). Box plots, like histograms, are used to graphically represent the distribution of data, showing the central tendency, spread of the distribution. In the context of £ per square metre property price distributions, box plots represent the variation in property prices within a geographic area e.g. Littleport. The chart above shows a boxplot for 'CB6' as well as the 'CB' postcode area.

  • Median: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median (£ per square meter). This is the midpoint of the data, meaning 50% of the prices are below this value, and 50% are above. The middle price per square metre in 'CB6' is £3,480.
  • Interquartile Range (IQR): The box spans from the 25th percentile (Q1) to the 75th percentile (Q3). This is the range where the middle 50% of the data lies, giving a good indication of the typical price spread. Of the 1,140 transactions in CB6, Littleport half were sold for between £3,040 and £4,000 per square metre.
  • Whiskers: In our case, the whiskers extend from the 9th percentile (at the lower end) to the 91st percentile (at the upper end), This provides a slightly broader view of the distribution by including the middle 82% of records. The whiskers capture most of the variation but exclude extreme outliers caused by data errors in recording sold house prices or internal area.
  • 'n=' is the number of property transactions the box plot is based on; 1,140 for CB6, Littleport.

    • Property price map for Littleport

    Have a look at the interactive price map I created for myself. Use it to explore 'CB6' house prices all the way down to individual property plots.

    Property price heatmap for Littleport
    House price map for Littleport

    Will CB6 house prices drop in 2025?

    House prices in CB6 grew 0.6% in the last year, -3.2% after inflation. Whether or not this trend will continue depends on many factors, such as wage growth, net migration, interest rates and the level of house building. No one can predict these things with certainty however we can plot the historic trends in house prices in CB6 (Littleport) compared with the wider postcode area 'CB'.You can extrapolate from this based on your own views.

    House price index for CB6

    Tip: click on the legend items to show/hide different lines

    Download house price index as CSV (premium users only).

    The chart above shows changes in 'CB6' property prices over the last 20 years. The index is calculated from the average price paid per sqm for property in CB6 and is set to 100 in 2004. The chart compares trends for CB6, Littleport against those of the broader postcode area 'CB'. What is more interesting is to look at the difference between flats and houses, even those in the same area follow a very different trend, to get a robust enough sample size to see this we need to zoom out and look at house price trends for the entire East Cambridgeshire local authority.

    The dashed lines show nominal house price changes, the solid lines show the same data adjusted for inflation. Economists call this the 'real' price change. You have to take inflation into account when comparing prices over time. It's calculated using the formula:

    Real Rate of Return = (1 + Nominal Rate) ÷ (1 + Inflation Rate) – 1
    In this formula, the nominal rate is the rate of change before any adjustments, and the inflation rate is taken from the Consumer Price Index. The real rate of return is a more accurate measure of change in value, because £1 today does not have the same buying power as £1 in the past. For example, if a savings account pays an interest rate of 3% per year and the inflation rate is 5% per year, the real rate of return is -2%. This means that the investment's value is shrinking by 2% each year.

    Historic returns for CB6
    CB area CB6 district
    Nominal Real Nominal Real
    20 yr per annum 3.5% 0.7% 3.4% 0.6%
    20 yr total 97.1% 14.2% 95.4% 13.3%
    10 yr per annum 2.7% -0.4% 3.4% 0.2%
    10 yr total 30.7% -4.0% 39.4% 2.3%
    5 yr per annum 3.1% -1.4% 3.9% -0.6%
    5 yr total 16.2% -6.8% 21.0% -3.0%
    1 yr per annum 0.4% -3.4% 0.6% -3.2%
    1 yr total 0.4% -3.4% 0.6% -3.2%

    This table complements the house price index chart above, presenting the data in a more detailed format. It breaks down the information into 20-year, 10-year, 5-year, and 1-year periods, further categorized by property type. For each period, we display both a per annum rate of change and a total rate of change.

    The total rate of change represents the overall change over the entire period. The formula for total return is:

    Total return = (Index at end of period ÷ Index at start of period) - 1

    The per annum rate of change is the annualized rate of change over the period. This is equivalent to the annual bank savings rate you would need to achieve the same total return over the given period. This annualized return is also known as the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). The formula for CAGR is:

    CAGR = (1 + Total return) ^ (1 ÷ Number of years) - 1

    Some specific examples:

    • Over the past 20 years, CB area have seen a 0.7% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of 14.2% in real terms.
    • Over the past 5 years, CB area have seen a -1.4% annual change when adjusted for inflation. This translates to a total change of -6.8% in real terms.

    Most recent CB6 sales

    For the most recent sales activity, rather than a summarized average, it is better to see the underlying data. This is shown in the chart below, where blue dots represent individual sales, click on them to see details. If there is an obvious trend you should be able to spot it here amid the noise from outliers.

    Tip: hover over dots to see details

    Street level data

    Street Avg size Avg £sqm Recent sales
    Ovins Rise, , CB6 3L 125 sqm £3,469 32
    Beresford Road, , CB6 3W 102 sqm £4,051 23
    Columbine Road, , CB6 3W 91 sqm £4,076 22
    Lynn Road, , CB6 1D 104 sqm £4,207 22
    Wisbech Road, , CB6 1J 93 sqm £2,937 21
    Brooke Grove, , CB6 3W 94 sqm £3,821 17
    The Row, , CB6 2P 125 sqm £3,454 16
    West End, , CB6 3T 104 sqm £3,662 14

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    Nearby geographies

    The table below shows how 'CB6' compares to the other postcode districts nearby 'CB6'.

    District Lower quartile Median Upper quartile Sales in last 2yr
    PE38 Downham Market £2,530 sqm £2,960 sqm £3,480 sqm 510
    PE28 Sawtry £3,070 sqm £3,470 sqm £3,880 sqm 1,467
    PE16 Chatteris £2,380 sqm £2,800 sqm £3,220 sqm 359
    PE15 March £2,310 sqm £2,670 sqm £3,120 sqm 846
    PE14 Upwell £2,140 sqm £2,550 sqm £3,010 sqm 565
    CB9 Haverhill £2,800 sqm £3,350 sqm £3,800 sqm 860
    CB8 Newmarket £2,990 sqm £3,500 sqm £4,010 sqm 994
    CB7 Soham £2,980 sqm £3,480 sqm £3,990 sqm 807
    CB6 Littleport £3,040 sqm £3,480 sqm £4,000 sqm 1,140
    CB5 Cambridge £4,660 sqm £5,530 sqm £6,080 sqm 297

    Raw data

    Our analysis of CB6 is derived from what is essentially a big table of sold prices from Land Registry with added property size information. Below are three rows from this table to give you an idea.

    Address Paid sqm £/sqm
    36, Northwold, £450,000
    Oct-2025
    		 73 6,164
    25, Laurel Close, £212,000
    Oct-2025
    		 60 3,533
    25, Feast Green, £347,500
    Oct-2025
    		 126 2,757

    See the entire list of all sales in CB6 here.

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