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Ailsworth market report PE5, Peterborough
The PE5 (Ailsworth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 713 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PE5 (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 April 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 6 registered 2026 sales put the PE5 (Peterborough) median at £700,200, up 64% on five years earlier, with a mean of £699,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 713 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PE5 is a postcode district covering Ailsworth, Castor, Sutton in Peterborough. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PE5 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 PE5 homes really sell for
Take the 6 registered 2026 sales in PE5 and the middle price, the median, is £700,200. The mean lands at £699,700, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in PE5
A square metre of PE5 home has cost about £3,790 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PE5 146% above the national figure.
PE5'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 | £700,200 | £700,200 | 6 |
| 2025 | £490,000 | £501,717 | 17 |
| 2024 | £422,500 | £449,204 | 22 |
| 2023 | £520,000 | £571,353 | 15 |
| 2022 | £482,500 | £565,786 | 12 |
| 2021 | £428,000 | £541,903 | 21 |
| 2020 | £320,000 | £415,207 | 19 |
| 2019 | £363,800 | £476,855 | 26 |
| 2018 | £430,000 | £573,198 | 17 |
| 2017 | £430,000 | £586,477 | 17 |
| 2016 | £412,500 | £577,092 | 29 |
| 2015 | £385,000 | £544,005 | 25 |
| 2014 | £380,000 | £539,096 | 21 |
| 2013 | £242,500 | £348,933 | 15 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 21 |
| 2011 | £473,800 | £715,256 | 28 |
| 2010 | £250,000 | £392,064 | 15 |
| 2009 | £245,000 | £393,840 | 15 |
| 2008 | £270,000 | £442,587 | 32 |
| 2007 | £268,000 | £454,603 | 32 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 24 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 21 |
| 2004 | £177,000 | £321,467 | 26 |
| 2003 | £237,500 | £437,533 | 20 |
| 2002 | £173,100 | £325,686 | 24 |
| 2001 | £167,500 | £322,010 | 28 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 30 |
| 1999 | £104,000 | £207,267 | 28 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 28 |
| 1997 | £87,800 | £180,060 | 32 |
| 1996 | £73,600 | £155,219 | 28 |
| 1995 | £80,000 | £173,908 | 19 |
In cash terms the typical PE5 home went from £80,000 in 1995 to £700,200 in 2026, roughly 9 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 303%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the PE5 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 2011 (+89.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−51.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PE5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +42.9% | +39.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +10.3% | +5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.4% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +5.4% | +2.5% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 72% of the typed total.
Median by property type, PE5
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 | £700,200 | 6 | 462 |
| Semi-detached | £307,000 (2024) | – | 113 |
| Terraced | £210,000 (2015) | – | 65 |
Sales activity in PE5
The year-by-year sales count
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
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 26 sales completed in PE5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 26 sales a year before the financial crisis and 14 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.
What tenants pay around PE5
For renting purposes PE5 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.
£981 a month is £11,772 a year, which against the £700,200 median sold price makes a gross yield of 1.7%. 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.
What kind of market PE5 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PE5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. PE5 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Common questions on PE5 (Ailsworth)
How much did a house sell for in PE5 (Ailsworth)?
Are property prices falling in PE5 (Ailsworth)?
Is PE5 (Ailsworth) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to PE5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 64% over five years in cash and up 29% 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.
On the market in PE5 today
Everything above is what homes in PE5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the PE5 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every PE5 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: PE prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the PE area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
PE5 ranks 1 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.
PE area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PE5, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PE5 7 | £700,200 | 6 |
How PE5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PE5 (this report) | £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% |
| PE2 | £230,000 | +10% |
Selling in PE5? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PE5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PE5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PE5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PE5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PE5 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.