The cheapest and most expensive places to buy a home in Cambridgeshire

The PE1 postcode area is the cheapest place to buy a home in Cambridgeshire. Homes in the area - which covers Peterborough, Eastfield, Eastgate, Dogsthorpe, Fengate, Newark and Parnwell - sold for £199,061.50 each on average in the 12 months to the end of April.

That’s according to exclusive CambridgeshireLive analysis of the latest price paid data from the Land Registry. That’s the lowest average sale price of any postcode area of Cambridgeshire.

The PE13 postcode area - which covers Wisbech, Guyhirn, Murrow, Parson Drove, Tydd St. Giles and Wisbech St. Mary - is next with an average sale price of £233,467. That’s followed by PE16 (Chatteris and Swingbrow) with an average of £240,469, PE4 (Gunthorpe, Paston, Walton and Werrington) with an average of £241,248, and PE2 (Alwalton, Fletton, The Ortons, Stanground and Woodston) with an average of £247,123.

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At the other end of the scale is the CB3 postcode area. Houses there - which covers north west Cambridge and Girton - sold for an average of £939,777 each in the year to the end of April.

CB2 - west Cambridge - is next with an average of £702,093. That’s followed by PE5 (Ailsworth, Castor and Sutton) with an average of £610,577, CB22 (Babraham, Sawston, Pampisford and many other areas) with an average of £604,571, and CB1 (Cambridge central and south, andTeversham) with an average of £581,005.

You can search for the average house price in your postcode area by using our interactive map:

Middlesbrough is the cheapest place to buy a home in England and Wales. Homes in the TS1 postcode area, which cover’s the town’s centre, sold for an average of £69,157 each in the 12 months to the end of April.

That’s less than any postcode area in the country with at least 50 sales over the last year. Grimsby is the next cheapest place in the country to buy a home.

Houses sold for £77,951 each on average in the DN31 postcode area. In SR1 - Sunderland city centre - the average home sold for £79,908. There were just 19 sales in the area though.

In TS3 - Brambles Farm - the average home sold for £86,190, in BD1 - Bradford city centre - they sold for an average of £87,653, and in HU2 - Hull - they sold for an average of £87,955. You can find the average sale price for every postcode area in the country using our interactive map here:

Belgravia has the highest average sale price of any postcode area in England and Wales to have had at least 50 sales over the last 12 months. Houses sold for an average of £4.26 million in the SW1X postcode area.

Four other postcode areas had higher averages, but all had fewer than 50 sales - W1J (Mayfair) at £6.12 million, SW1A (Whitehall) at £5.84 million, W1S (Hanover Square) at £5.66 million, and W1K (Mayfair) at £5.378 million.