CB4 1BJ
Last sold £268,995 in December 1997
8, Capstan Close, Cambridge
- Property type
- Detached
- Tenure
- Freehold
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Price history in context
- Dec 1997 — £268,995
What this home might be worth today
£1,221,000
Estimate range £1,160,000–£1,282,000
+353.9% since December 1997 — last sale carried forward by the UK House Price Index to April 2026.
paid well above the local norm at the time
vs 41 nearby sales within a year · detached within 1 km
The life around it
- St Matthew's Primary School 844m
- Brunswick Nursery School 565m
- Cambridge station 2.0km
- Madingley Wood 5.9km
- The coast (coastline) 16.4km
- Lake 70m
- Pond 60m
- Canal 45m
- River Cam 83m
- Logan's Meadow 140m
- Play Area 222m
- Casa Maramureseana 392m
- Dennis Terrace (Opp) 16.4km
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 Cambridge, 2.0km away
- 55 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
Flood risk
Environment Agency flood risk from rivers and sea: Medium. Check the current map
Noise
Road noise here is mapped at 55–59 dB (Lden, DEFRA 2022) — audible traffic.
Modelled annual average at this point, not a measurement on the doorstep. Below 55 dB is not mapped.
Crime
Above average for England & Wales — 137 crimes recorded nearby last year. About this data
Map
Location: approximate (postcode)
Nearby sold homes
- 2, Capstan Close, Cambridge £490,000 · 2006
- 7, Capstan Close, Cambridge £790,000 · 2013
- 9, Capstan Close, Cambridge £1,650,000 · 2021
- 10, Capstan Close, Cambridge £1,540,000 · 2023
- 12, Capstan Close, Cambridge £1,307,100 · 2022
- 6, Capstan Close, Cambridge £645,000 · 2006
Planning activity nearby
- Permitted Fell and remove mature willow tree. Feb 2026 source
- Permitted Fell and remove mature willow tree. Feb 2026 source
- Permitted Change of Use from 5-BedroomHMO to 7-Bedroom (7 Person) HMO. Jun 2026 source
- Permitted T1 - Silver Birch - Crown reduction 2m Mar 2026 source
- Permitted G1 - 2x Fig trees - Reduce by 3m all round Reason - Trees gets very overgrown causing… Mar 2026 source
Planning data via PlanIt (planit.org.uk), from local planning authority registers.
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