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St Ives market report PE27 5, St. Ives
The PE27 5 (St Ives) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,719 HM Land Registry entries for PE27 5 (St. Ives), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 31 registered 2026 sales put the PE27 5 (St. Ives) median at £280,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £306,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,720 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,719 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like PE27 5 is a single group of streets within PE27 (St. Ives), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PE27 5 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 PE27 5
The PE27 5 median stands at £280,000 for 2026, built from 31 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £306,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in PE27 5
Per square metre, PE27 5 homes have averaged around £3,720 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PE27 5 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
A typical PE27 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £319,000 | £326,628 | 80 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 85 |
| 2023 | £304,000 | £334,022 | 80 |
| 2022 | £294,000 | £344,749 | 104 |
| 2021 | £256,200 | £324,382 | 138 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 61 |
| 2019 | £272,000 | £356,527 | 98 |
| 2018 | £288,000 | £383,909 | 80 |
| 2017 | £271,000 | £369,617 | 104 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 111 |
| 2015 | £224,000 | £316,512 | 127 |
| 2014 | £218,200 | £309,555 | 143 |
| 2013 | £205,000 | £294,975 | 147 |
| 2012 | £192,000 | £282,600 | 99 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 131 |
| 2010 | £181,200 | £284,168 | 88 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 103 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 87 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 135 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 158 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 125 |
| 2004 | £147,000 | £266,981 | 130 |
| 2003 | £164,000 | £302,128 | 118 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 176 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 177 |
| 2000 | £94,200 | £184,868 | 148 |
| 1999 | £84,000 | £167,408 | 178 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 131 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 148 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 97 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 101 |
In cash terms the typical PE27 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2018. The market now sits about 27% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PE27 5 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 (+36.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PE27 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.2% | −14.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in PE27 5
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 31 PE27 5 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 146 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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 shape of the PE27 5 market
This is a thin market: 31 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Against the PE27 district median, PE27 5 sits 10% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Rents around PE27 5
PE27 5 falls under Huntingdonshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,047 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £737 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,684 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Huntingdonshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,047 a month is £12,564 a year, which against the £280,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
Searches like rental property valuation in st ives
reach this page too. It offers no valuations, and that is deliberate: what it has is the record valuers themselves anchor on. Take the £280,000 2026 median above, then zoom the average prices map down to the sold homes on the street in question.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Common questions on PE27 5 (St Ives)
Are property prices falling in PE27 5 (St Ives)?
Is PE27 5 (St Ives) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE27 5 (St Ives)?
Will PE27 5 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in PE27 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PE27 district, not just PE27 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
33% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every PE27 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
Real sold prices by size across the PE area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, PE area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PE27
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PE27, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PE27 3 | £288,000 | 47 |
| PE27 4 | £396,000 | 10 |
| PE27 6 | £352,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full PE27 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PE27 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in PE27 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PE27 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the PE27 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PE27 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working PE27 5: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PE27 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PE27 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PE27 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.