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Alwalton market report PE2 8, Peterborough
The PE2 8 (Alwalton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 10,320 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PE2 8 (Peterborough) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for PE2 8 (Peterborough) is £230,000, from 88 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £233,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,820 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 10,320 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PE2 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PE2 (Peterborough). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where PE2 8 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 PE2 8 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for PE2 8 is £230,000, taken from 88 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £233,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in PE2 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PE2 8 sales average about £2,820 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PE2 8 19% below the national figure.
A typical PE2 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 88 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 263 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 233 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 213 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 363 |
| 2021 | £215,000 | £272,218 | 456 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 375 |
| 2019 | £210,000 | £275,260 | 491 |
| 2018 | £201,000 | £267,937 | 360 |
| 2017 | £186,000 | £253,685 | 387 |
| 2016 | £171,200 | £239,510 | 433 |
| 2015 | £170,000 | £240,210 | 409 |
| 2014 | £155,000 | £219,895 | 421 |
| 2013 | £150,400 | £216,411 | 323 |
| 2012 | £150,000 | £220,781 | 280 |
| 2011 | £136,000 | £205,308 | 227 |
| 2010 | £127,000 | £199,169 | 177 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 137 |
| 2008 | £137,200 | £224,900 | 158 |
| 2007 | £137,000 | £232,390 | 336 |
| 2006 | £126,000 | £218,720 | 381 |
| 2005 | £124,000 | £220,670 | 265 |
| 2004 | £122,200 | £221,939 | 398 |
| 2003 | £105,000 | £193,435 | 296 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 381 |
| 2001 | £71,500 | £137,455 | 356 |
| 2000 | £66,800 | £131,095 | 390 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 466 |
| 1998 | £56,400 | £113,847 | 408 |
| 1997 | £52,000 | £106,642 | 389 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 292 |
| 1995 | £42,000 | £91,302 | 168 |
In cash terms the typical PE2 8 home went from £42,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 152%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PE2 8 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 2002 (+23.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.2% | −6.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 88 sales completed in PE2 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 350 sales a year before the financial crisis and 232 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The rental side of PE2 8
For renting purposes PE2 8 sits in Peterborough. The ONS average private rent there is £981 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £687 a month here against £1,509 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Peterborough
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£981 a month is £11,772 a year, which against the £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: PE2 8 (Alwalton)
Is PE2 8 (Alwalton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE2 8 (Alwalton)?
Are property prices falling in PE2 8 (Alwalton)?
Will PE2 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
On the market in PE2 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 241 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PE2 district, not just PE2 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Oundle Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
- Stagshaw Drive, Fletton, Peterborough, PE2, Peterborough
- Fletton Avenue, Peterborough
"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 PE2 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
The price of an extra bedroom in PE
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 | — | £245,000 | £338,000 (+38%) | £482,750 (+43%) | £645,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £187,000 | £220,000 (+18%) | £257,500 (+17%) | £340,000 (+32%) | £455,000 (+34%) |
| Terraced | £170,000 | £195,000 (+15%) | £225,000 (+15%) | £300,000 (+33%) | £465,000 (+55%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £155,500 (+30%) | £230,000 (+48%) | — | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Winners and losers across the PE area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PE2
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PE2, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PE2 5 | £197,500 | 43 |
| PE2 6 | £275,200 | 24 |
| PE2 7 | £272,500 | 9 |
| PE2 9 | £225,000 | 44 |
Zoom out to the full PE2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PE2 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PE2 8: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PE2 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PE2 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PE2 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PE2 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PE2 8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PE2 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PE2 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.