Local market reports › PE
Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 570,970 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the PE postcode area (Peterborough) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
PE is the postcode area centred on Peterborough, taking in 35 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Click the map to open PE on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
The 2026 median in PE is £250,000, from 3,540 registered sales; the mean, £281,500, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so PE trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 3,540 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 16,249 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £259,594 | 16,614 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £268,274 | 15,162 |
| 2022 | £250,000 | £286,307 | 19,622 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £290,591 | 24,186 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £278,788 | 16,018 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £268,831 | 18,286 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £260,377 | 18,750 |
| 2017 | £192,000 | £255,753 | 19,472 |
| 2016 | £179,000 | £244,574 | 19,451 |
| 2015 | £167,000 | £230,460 | 18,322 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £221,687 | 18,464 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £210,794 | 15,030 |
| 2012 | £148,500 | £213,469 | 12,021 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £213,782 | 12,245 |
| 2010 | £150,000 | £229,745 | 11,462 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £222,935 | 11,483 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £240,139 | 11,484 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £256,783 | 22,736 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £247,518 | 23,897 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £243,325 | 18,802 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £237,686 | 22,553 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £208,709 | 22,453 |
| 2002 | £93,000 | £170,892 | 25,566 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £140,816 | 23,423 |
| 2000 | £66,000 | £126,500 | 21,148 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £114,838 | 22,576 |
| 1998 | £54,500 | £107,443 | 19,389 |
| 1997 | £51,500 | £103,149 | 19,450 |
| 1996 | £48,200 | £99,278 | 17,115 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £99,785 | 14,001 |
In cash terms the typical PE home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 14% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
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.
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
PE recorded 12,508 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 22,572 sales a year before the financial crisis and 14,237 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
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.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £935 a month is £11,220 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
The spread across the PE area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every PE district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| PE5 Ailsworth, Castor | £700,200 | +60% | 6 |
| PE8 Achurch, Apethorpe | £342,500 | +1% | 44 |
| PE36 Hunstanton, Holme | £336,200 | +11% | 40 |
| PE31 Brancaster, Burnham Thorpe | £330,000 | +7% | 85 |
| PE9 Stamford, Ashton | £327,500 | -1% | 118 |
| PE28 Huntingdon (outskirts), Abbots Ripton | £325,000 | -6% | 206 |
| PE26 Ramsey, Bury | £315,000 | +19% | 45 |
| PE27 St Ives, Holywell | £311,000 | +7% | 71 |
| PE19 St Neots, Abbotsley | £297,500 | -1% | 209 |
| PE32 East Lexham, East Winch | £292,500 | +1% | 57 |
| PE29 Huntingdon (most of), Godmanchester | £286,200 | +8% | 124 |
| PE34 Clenchwarton, Islington | £285,000 | +14% | 45 |
| PE14 Wisbech (outskirts), Elm | £281,000 | +10% | 78 |
| PE33 Barton Bendish, Fincham | £280,000 | +22% | 61 |
| PE6 Baston, Crowland | £272,500 | +9% | 139 |
| PE10 Bourne, Bulby | £260,000 | +13% | 126 |
| PE37 Swaffham, Beachamwell | £259,000 | +6% | 62 |
| PE38 Downham Market, Salters Lode | £248,000 | +9% | 74 |
| PE7 Alwalton, Chesterton | £245,000 | +4% | 210 |
| PE12 Spalding (eastern outskirts), Cowbit | £245,000 | +9% | 172 |
| PE22 Benington, Butterwick | £236,000 | +9% | 89 |
| PE15 March, Benwick | £231,000 | +1% | 132 |
| PE4 Gunthorpe, Paston | £230,000 | +15% | 100 |
| PE20 Algarkirk, Amber Hill | £230,000 | +11% | 57 |
| PE23 Spilsby, Asgarby | £214,800 | -10% | 30 |
| PE30 King's Lynn, North Wootton | £211,200 | +11% | 148 |
| PE24 Addlethorpe, Anderby | £211,000 | +14% | 52 |
| PE16 Chatteris, Swingbrow | £207,500 | +5% | 56 |
| PE2 Alwalton, Fletton | £205,000 | +0% | 173 |
| PE11 Spalding (most of), Deeping St. Nicholas | £200,000 | -1% | 223 |
| PE13 Wisbech (most of), Guyhirn | £197,500 | -1% | 109 |
| PE3 Peterborough, Bretton | £195,000 | -12% | 71 |
| PE25 Skegness, Croft | £188,500 | +8% | 80 |
| PE1 Peterborough, Dogsthorpe | £183,000 | +5% | 108 |
| PE21 Boston, Fishtoft | £149,500 | -8% | 140 |
See every individual PE sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference PE price page. 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.