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Achurch market report PE8, Peterborough
The standing PE8 (Achurch) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 9,262 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PE8 (Peterborough) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in PE8 (Peterborough) sold for £336,200 in 2026, the median of 78 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier. The mean was £411,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,420 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 9,262 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PE8 is a postcode district covering Achurch, Apethorpe, Armston 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 PE8 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 PE8 sells for
The PE8 median stands at £336,200 for 2026, built from 78 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £411,100, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
PE8 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PE8 sales average about £3,420 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PE8 runs 18% above it.
A typical PE8 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £336,200 | £336,200 | 78 |
| 2025 | £368,500 | £377,312 | 296 |
| 2024 | £351,800 | £374,036 | 260 |
| 2023 | £342,000 | £375,774 | 226 |
| 2022 | £355,000 | £416,278 | 273 |
| 2021 | £342,500 | £433,649 | 380 |
| 2020 | £327,500 | £424,938 | 229 |
| 2019 | £286,000 | £374,878 | 238 |
| 2018 | £300,000 | £399,906 | 249 |
| 2017 | £299,000 | £407,806 | 291 |
| 2016 | £285,000 | £398,718 | 344 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 332 |
| 2014 | £243,800 | £345,873 | 360 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 293 |
| 2012 | £245,000 | £360,609 | 199 |
| 2011 | £228,500 | £344,947 | 206 |
| 2010 | £248,700 | £390,026 | 192 |
| 2009 | £237,500 | £381,783 | 162 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 188 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 376 |
| 2006 | £224,500 | £389,703 | 378 |
| 2005 | £214,000 | £380,834 | 299 |
| 2004 | £179,000 | £325,099 | 341 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 371 |
| 2002 | £156,000 | £293,513 | 358 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 502 |
| 2000 | £110,000 | £215,875 | 377 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 427 |
| 1998 | £89,000 | £179,653 | 303 |
| 1997 | £85,000 | £174,318 | 308 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 228 |
| 1995 | £78,000 | £169,560 | 198 |
In cash terms the typical PE8 home went from £78,000 in 1995 to £336,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PE8 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 (+95.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2001 (−27.3%). 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) | −8.8% | −10.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 49% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £493,500 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, PE8
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 | £475,200 | 38 | 4,505 |
| Semi-detached | £320,000 | 18 | 1,988 |
| Terraced | £231,000 | 18 | 2,518 |
| Flats | £180,000 (2025) | – | 235 |
How many homes change hands in PE8
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 202 PE8 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 375 sales a year before the financial crisis and 227 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.
Rents around PE8
The local authority for PE8 is North Northamptonshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £984 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,518 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, North Northamptonshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £336,200 median sold price, £984 a month is £11,808 a year, a gross yield of 3.5%: 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.
The shape of the PE8 market
Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, PE8 ranks 2 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Asked and answered: PE8 (Achurch)
How much did a house sell for in PE8 (Achurch)?
Are property prices falling in PE8 (Achurch)?
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What happens to PE8 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 22% 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 PE8 right now
Everything above is what homes in PE8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 109 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% above the PE8 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Monson Way, Oundle, Peterborough
- Springfield Road, Oundle, Peterborough
- Victoria Road, Oundle, Peterborough, Northamptonshire, PE8
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 PE8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in PE: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PE area, 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
PE8 ranks 32 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PE8, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PE8 4 | £305,000 | 27 |
| PE8 5 | £516,500 | 16 |
| PE8 6 | £310,000 | 35 |
How PE8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PE area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PE5 | £700,200 | +64% |
| PE8 (this report) | £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 a home in PE8? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PE8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PE8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PE8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PE8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PE8.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PE8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual PE8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.