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Bretton market report PE3, Peterborough
The standing PE3 (Bretton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 12,728 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PE3 (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 July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for PE3 (Peterborough) is £213,500, from 86 registered sales, down 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £257,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 12,728 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district PE3 covering Peterborough, Bretton, Longthorpe sits in Peterborough. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PE3 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 a home in PE3 sells for
Across 86 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PE3 home went for £213,500. The mean is £257,300, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in PE3
The last five years of sales put PE3 at roughly £2,690 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PE3 trades 25% below the country as a whole.
A typical PE3 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 | £213,500 | £213,500 | 86 |
| 2025 | £230,000 | £235,500 | 258 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 251 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 270 |
| 2022 | £217,000 | £254,457 | 356 |
| 2021 | £241,200 | £305,390 | 362 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 255 |
| 2019 | £181,500 | £237,903 | 308 |
| 2018 | £188,700 | £251,541 | 338 |
| 2017 | £172,000 | £234,591 | 370 |
| 2016 | £147,800 | £206,774 | 294 |
| 2015 | £138,700 | £195,983 | 400 |
| 2014 | £141,200 | £200,317 | 374 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 318 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 262 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 251 |
| 2010 | £123,500 | £193,680 | 260 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 229 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 312 |
| 2007 | £124,000 | £210,339 | 625 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 663 |
| 2005 | £106,000 | £188,637 | 525 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 630 |
| 2003 | £81,000 | £149,222 | 612 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 718 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 597 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 536 |
| 1999 | £45,000 | £89,683 | 564 |
| 1998 | £40,900 | £82,560 | 450 |
| 1997 | £42,500 | £87,159 | 467 |
| 1996 | £39,500 | £83,304 | 420 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 367 |
In cash terms the typical PE3 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £213,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PE3 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 2021 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−10.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £320,000 against £116,500 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, PE3
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 | £320,000 | 23 | 3,302 |
| Semi-detached | £227,500 | 27 | 2,745 |
| Terraced | £176,000 | 26 | 5,429 |
| Flats | £116,500 | 10 | 1,252 |
What PE3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −7.2% | −9.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 199 PE3 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 613 sales a year before the financial crisis and 244 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.
The shape of the PE3 market
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. In its area's price order PE3 comes 30 of 35, towards the cheaper end of the table.
What tenants pay around PE3
For renting purposes PE3 sits in Peterborough. The ONS average private rent there is £981 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £687 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,509, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Peterborough
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £213,500 median sold price, £981 a month is £11,772 a year, a gross yield of 5.5%: 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.
PE3 (Bretton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PE3 (Bretton)?
Is PE3 (Bretton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PE3 (Bretton)?
Are PE3 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 11% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in PE3 today
Everything above is what homes in PE3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 121 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the PE3 median sold price.
34% 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.
- Bradwell Road, Peterborough, Cambridg...
- Grafton Avenue, Netherton, Peterborough
- Benland, Bretton, Peterborough, PE3, Peterborough
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in PE: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PE area. 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
PE3 ranks 35 of 35 in the PE area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, PE area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PE3, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PE3 6 | £317,500 | 18 |
| PE3 7 | £175,000 | 15 |
| PE3 8 | £188,500 | 19 |
| PE3 9 | £259,000 | 34 |
How PE3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PE area, and PE3 itself, which ranks 30 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PE5 | £700,200 | +64% |
| PE8 | £336,200 | -2% |
| PE9 | £335,000 | +2% |
| PE28 | £330,000 | -6% |
| PE31 | £325,000 | +5% |
| PE36 | £322,000 | +2% |
| PE19 | £310,000 | +3% |
| PE27 | £310,000 | +8% |
| PE26 | £300,000 | +10% |
| PE32 | £291,200 | -1% |
| PE29 | £285,000 | +4% |
| PE33 | £282,500 | +20% |
| PE6 | £280,000 | +10% |
| PE34 | £277,000 | +9% |
| PE14 | £263,000 | +2% |
| PE10 | £260,000 | +10% |
| PE38 | £260,000 | +13% |
| PE37 | £258,000 | +5% |
| PE7 | £250,000 | +4% |
| PE4 | £245,000 | +17% |
| PE12 | £245,000 | +9% |
| PE15 | £235,500 | +2% |
| PE20 | £232,500 | +8% |
| PE3 (this report) | £213,500 | -11% |
Before you sell in PE3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PE3, open the average prices map and zoom from the PE3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PE3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PE3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PE3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PE3 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.