A typical house in Cam sells for about £311,000. For that money the buyer gets the walls, the garden and a three-bed layout, and doesn't have to share a stairwell with anyone. Detached homes cost around £420,000. A semi comes in a little under £300,000, and terraces cost less again. This is a market for buying a family house, and it prices one as a family house, without a Cotswold mark-up on top.
Over the Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026, 110 homes sold in Cam at a median of about £311,000. The type of house drives the price. There were 43 detached sales at a median of £420,000, 39 semis at about £295,000, 20 terraces at about £265,000, and eight flats at about £136,000. With only 20 terrace sales and eight flat sales, one unusual sale can shift either median, so those two figures are less firm than the detached and semi ones.
Prices have been moving gently. The official house price index for the area rose about 4% in the twelve months to May 2026, and the average price it gives is about £349,000. Flats did their own thing and stayed level, down by a fraction of a percent over the same year. A 4% rise is solid. Nobody is retiring on it.
Council tax is modest for houses this size. Band C is the most common band on the valuation list, and a third of homes are in bands A and B. A band D bill in the Stroud district comes to about £2,490 a year. Ask the seller which band the house is in and check it on the valuation list. Two homes on the same road can be a band apart, and you pay that difference every year you own the place.
Across the Stroud district, the Office for National Statistics puts the typical private rent at about £1,040 a month as of April 2026. That figure is an average across the whole district, not a median of Cam's own listings. By size, it comes to about £740 for a one-bed, £960 for a two-bed, £1,170 for a three-bed and £1,660 for four bedrooms or more. District rents rose about 7% over the year, faster than the house price index. Landlords got the better twelve months of the two.
Measured against income, buying here is within reach without being easy. The Office for National Statistics models gross household income in Cam at about £56,000 a year, averaged across the area, for the financial year to March 2023. That is income before tax, and it is three years old. Two earners can buy a semi at that income. One earner will mostly be looking at the terraces.
Measured by space, a typical home here costs about £3,500 per square metre, across homes with a median floor area of about 86 square metres. That covers the 92 sales the Land Registry could match to an energy certificate's floor area, about 84% of the year's sales. The rest were not measured.
The bedroom count settles who the town was built for. The 2021 Census puts 43% of homes at three bedrooms and 25% at four or more. Two-bed homes make up 24%, and one-bed homes just 8%. The three-bed is the standard home here, and the one-bed is close to a rounding error.
House prices are one of Cam's stronger points. A buyer pays a fair price for a family house with no premium for a postcard view, and anyone shopping for something smaller will find the town wasn't built with them in mind.