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Bretton market report PE3 8, Peterborough
The standing PE3 8 (Bretton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,076 HM Land Registry entries for PE3 8 (Peterborough), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PE3 8 (Peterborough) came in at £188,500, out of 19 registered, up 11% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £189,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,076 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PE3 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PE3 (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 PE3 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.
Today's PE3 8 prices, from the sold record
Across 19 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PE3 8 home went for £188,500. The mean is £189,100, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in PE3 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PE3 8 sales average about £2,280 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PE3 8 trades 34% below the country as a whole.
PE3 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £188,500 | £188,500 | 19 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 53 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 48 |
| 2023 | £196,000 | £215,356 | 51 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 60 |
| 2021 | £170,000 | £215,242 | 61 |
| 2020 | £149,500 | £193,979 | 48 |
| 2019 | £158,000 | £207,100 | 61 |
| 2018 | £148,800 | £198,353 | 62 |
| 2017 | £141,500 | £192,992 | 72 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 70 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 90 |
| 2014 | £110,000 | £156,054 | 95 |
| 2013 | £105,200 | £151,372 | 52 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 57 |
| 2011 | £95,600 | £144,319 | 52 |
| 2010 | £102,500 | £160,746 | 54 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 51 |
| 2008 | £117,800 | £193,099 | 72 |
| 2007 | £116,000 | £196,768 | 185 |
| 2006 | £103,500 | £179,663 | 161 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 148 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 170 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 184 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 207 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 166 |
| 2000 | £40,000 | £78,500 | 161 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 155 |
| 1998 | £34,100 | £68,833 | 126 |
| 1997 | £33,500 | £68,702 | 103 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 93 |
| 1995 | £34,000 | £73,911 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical PE3 8 home went from £34,000 in 1995 to £188,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 155%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PE3 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.1%). 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) | −3.3% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in PE3 8
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 19 PE3 8 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 173 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
Reading the PE3 8 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. Within PE3, this sector trades 12% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of PE3 8
PE3 8 falls under Peterborough, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £981 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £188,500 median sold price, £981 a month is £11,772 a year, a gross yield of 6.2%: 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.
Asked and answered: PE3 8 (Bretton)
Are property prices falling in PE3 8 (Bretton)?
Is PE3 8 (Bretton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE3 8 (Bretton)?
What happens to PE3 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
PE3's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 121 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PE3 district, not just PE3 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 34% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Benland, Bretton, Peterborough, PE3, 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 PE3 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in PE
Real sold prices by size across the PE area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PE3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PE3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PE3 6 | £317,500 | 18 |
| PE3 7 | £175,000 | 15 |
| PE3 9 | £259,000 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full PE3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PE3 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PE3 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PE3 8'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.
Estate agents working PE3 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PE3 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PE3 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PE3 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.
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.