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Peterborough market report PE
The PE (Peterborough) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 544,942 registered sales in the PE postcode area (Peterborough) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the PE postcode area (Peterborough) came in at £257,000, out of 5,967 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £287,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,920 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 544,942 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The PE postcode area centred on Peterborough covers 35 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where PE sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What buyers actually paid in PE
In the PE property market, the 2026 median sale price is £257,000, from 5,967 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £287,800, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in PE
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in PE costs about £2,920 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PE sits 10% below the national market.
The price of a typical PE home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £257,000 | £257,000 | 5,967 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 14,825 |
| 2024 | £260,000 | £276,433 | 13,914 |
| 2023 | £257,500 | £282,930 | 12,810 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 16,895 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 20,759 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 13,513 |
| 2019 | £215,000 | £281,814 | 15,511 |
| 2018 | £205,000 | £273,269 | 16,091 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 16,833 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 17,325 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 16,709 |
| 2014 | £161,000 | £228,407 | 17,305 |
| 2013 | £151,000 | £217,274 | 14,683 |
| 2012 | £148,500 | £218,573 | 12,016 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 12,240 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £235,239 | 11,462 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £228,266 | 11,480 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 11,483 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 22,733 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 23,900 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 18,803 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 22,553 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 22,455 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £174,979 | 25,565 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 23,425 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £129,525 | 21,151 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 22,576 |
| 1998 | £54,500 | £110,012 | 19,390 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £105,616 | 19,453 |
| 1996 | £48,200 | £101,652 | 17,116 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 14,001 |
In cash terms the typical PE home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £257,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 152%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PE median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PE has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −1.2% | −3.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.2% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £325,000 against £130,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, PE
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £325,000 | 2,739 | 237,325 |
| Semi-detached | £232,000 | 1,679 | 151,419 |
| Terraced | £197,500 | 1,199 | 121,859 |
| Flats | £130,000 | 350 | 34,339 |
How many homes change hands in PE
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 10,755 PE sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 22,573 sales a year before the financial crisis and 12,882 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of PE
PE falls under King's Lynn and West Norfolk, the local authority covering most of the PE area (parts fall under Peterborough and Huntingdonshire, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £935 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £646 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,502, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £257,000 median purchase price, a rent of £935 a month (£11,220 a year) works out at a 4.4% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the PE market
PE is a liquid market by any standard, with 10,755 sales in the last twelve months of data. Figures built on that many transactions move because the market moves, and for no other reason. This is detached-house territory: 46% of last year's sales were detached, which props the overall median well above the flat and terrace market underneath it.
PE (Peterborough): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in PE (Peterborough)?
Are property prices falling in PE (Peterborough)?
Is PE (Peterborough) a good place to buy a house?
Will PE prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in PE right now
Everything above is what homes in PE sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 1,587 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% above the PE median sold price.
Set against 10,755 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 1,587 homes on the market here are roughly 8 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
Of everything listed here, 13% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Magazine Close, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
- Roman Bank, Skegness, PE25, Skegness
- Chapel Street, Alconbury, Huntingdon, Alconbury
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every PE home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What is for sale against what sells in PE
What is for sale in PE looks much like what sells: no type differs by more than 4 points between the two columns.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 48% | 47% |
| Semi-detached | 26% | 29% |
| Terraced | 17% | 18% |
| Flats | 10% | 6% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (199 here).
The PE sales calendar
March is when PE changes hands most (10.6% of the 79,203 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.6%. With so little between the busiest and quietest months, PE sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 5,217 | 6.6% |
| February | 6,184 | 7.8% |
| March | 8,365 | 10.6% |
| April | 5,414 | 6.8% |
| May | 5,942 | 7.5% |
| June | 7,785 | 9.8% |
| July | 6,122 | 7.7% |
| August | 6,913 | 8.7% |
| September | 7,879 | 9.9% |
| October | 6,515 | 8.2% |
| November | 6,484 | 8.2% |
| December | 6,383 | 8.1% |
Bedroom by bedroom: PE prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PE area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £212,000 | £240,000 (+13%) | £291,000 (+21%) | £379,995 (+31%) | £485,000 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £178,000 | £202,000 (+13%) | £237,000 (+17%) | £285,000 (+20%) | £350,000 (+23%) |
| Terraced | £147,000 | £184,000 (+25%) | £210,000 (+14%) | £260,000 (+24%) | £330,000 (+27%) |
| Flat | £113,000 | £142,000 (+26%) | £190,000 (+34%) | £270,000 (+42%) | £265,000 (-2%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PE area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable PE district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE5 Ailsworth, Castor | £635,000 | +48% | 8 |
| PE9 Stamford, Ashton | £347,500 | +6% | 229 |
| PE8 Achurch, Apethorpe | £345,000 | +1% | 99 |
| PE28 Huntingdon (outskirts), Abbots Ripton | £332,300 | -5% | 370 |
| PE36 Hunstanton, Holme | £331,200 | +5% | 72 |
| PE31 Brancaster, Burnham Thorpe | £325,000 | +5% | 159 |
| PE19 St Neots, Abbotsley | £315,000 | +5% | 374 |
| PE27 St Ives, Holywell | £310,000 | +8% | 132 |
| PE26 Ramsey, Bury | £300,000 | +10% | 77 |
| PE32 East Lexham, East Winch | £293,000 | -1% | 85 |
| PE29 Huntingdon (most of), Godmanchester | £283,000 | +4% | 207 |
| PE33 Barton Bendish, Fincham | £282,500 | +20% | 100 |
| PE6 Baston, Crowland | £280,000 | +10% | 238 |
| PE34 Clenchwarton, Islington | £277,000 | +9% | 79 |
| PE14 Wisbech (outskirts), Elm | £271,000 | +5% | 130 |
| PE38 Downham Market, Salters Lode | £267,500 | +16% | 149 |
| PE10 Bourne, Bulby | £260,000 | +10% | 247 |
| PE7 Alwalton, Chesterton | £250,500 | +4% | 365 |
| PE12 Spalding (eastern outskirts), Cowbit | £246,200 | +9% | 304 |
| PE4 Gunthorpe, Paston | £245,000 | +17% | 170 |
| PE37 Swaffham, Beachamwell | £245,000 | +0% | 111 |
| PE20 Algarkirk, Amber Hill | £235,000 | +10% | 100 |
| PE2 Alwalton, Fletton | £230,000 | +10% | 252 |
| PE15 March, Benwick | £230,000 | +0% | 229 |
| PE23 Spilsby, Asgarby | £230,000 | -3% | 45 |
| PE16 Chatteris, Swingbrow | £225,000 | +13% | 90 |
| PE11 Spalding (most of), Deeping St. Nicholas | £220,000 | +5% | 341 |
| PE22 Benington, Butterwick | £220,000 | +2% | 92 |
| PE3 Peterborough, Bretton | £212,000 | -12% | 101 |
| PE30 King's Lynn, North Wootton | £211,800 | +9% | 240 |
| PE13 Wisbech (most of), Guyhirn | £208,200 | -1% | 184 |
| PE1 Peterborough, Dogsthorpe | £200,000 | +8% | 149 |
| PE24 Addlethorpe, Anderby | £200,000 | +5% | 85 |
| PE25 Skegness, Croft | £185,000 | +6% | 129 |
| PE21 Boston, Fishtoft | £170,000 | -1% | 225 |
Thinking of selling in PE? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PE's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PE. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual PE sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.