CB7 5FH
Last sold £650,000 in September 2020
5, The Birches, Ely
- Property type
- Detached
- Bedrooms
- 8 (est.)
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Floor area
- 3,154 sq ft / 293 sq m
- EPC rating
- D
- Elevation
- About 8m — higher than about 30% of homes in Ely
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Price history in context
- Sep 2020 — £650,000
What this home might be worth today
£789,000
Estimate range £749,000–£828,000
+21.3% since September 2020 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 12 nearby sales within a year · 8-bed (est.) detached within 1 km
The life around it
- Soham Village College 1.8km
- The Shade Primary School 22-min walk crosses a major road
- Soham station 20-min walk
- Marmers Wood 17.8km
- The coast (coastline) 15.4km
- Lake 854m
- Pond 548m
- Canal 6.4km
- Soham Lode 528m
- Public Park 197m
- Play Area 147m
- Soham Shopper 479m
- Golden Boar (Adj) 8.2km
Broadband
- Gigabit 1 Gbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Ultrafast 100 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
- Superfast 30 Mbit/s or more 100% of premises
Ofcom figures for every home in this postcode — about fifteen addresses — not a measurement of this one. They say what can be ordered here, not the speed you would get: that depends on the package you buy. Ofcom Connected Nations, July 2024. About this data
Commute by train
From Soham, 1.1km away
- 46 min Cambridge
- 102 min London
Train only, station to station, at the weekday morning peak — getting to the station is not included, because we don't know whether you'd walk, drive or take a bus. The distance to the platform is above so you can judge that yourself.
Schools nearby
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3 Soham Village College · Secondary 1.1 miles State Ofsted Outstanding Attainment 8: 53.0 — top 20% nationally (2023)
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: outside every mapped risk area. Check the current map
Sunshine and hills
Sunshine: about 1,570 hours a year — sunnier than 50% of homes in England and Wales. Met Office average for this square kilometre, 1991–2020.
Hills: no hills shade it. Buildings and trees are not counted.
Crime
Around average for England & Wales — 117 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: exact
Nearby sold homes
- 6, The Birches, Ely £340,000 · 1999
- 18, Gadwall Way, Ely £255,000 · 2021
- 19, Gadwall Way, Ely £115,000 · 2016
- 14, Redshank Close, Ely £229,995 · 2018
- 20, Gadwall Way, Ely £121,875 · 2020
- 14, Gadwall Way, Ely £143,000 · 2015
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Loft conversion, insertion of two dormers and roof lights, garage conversion and… Jun 2026 source
- Permitted Two storey extension to the rear of the property May 2026 source
- Undecided To discharge Conditions 4 (Biodiversity Improvements) and 5 d. (Final Archaeological… Apr 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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