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Plymouth market report PL
The PL (Plymouth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 314,110 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in the PL postcode area (Plymouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in the PL postcode area (Plymouth) came in at £250,000, out of 3,819 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £286,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,050 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 314,110 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The figures for PL centred on Plymouth run across 35 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where PL 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 PL prices, from the sold record
Take the 3,819 registered 2026 sales in PL and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £286,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PL
By floor space, homes in PL have sold for about £3,050 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PL 12% below the country at large.
The price of a typical PL home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 3,819 |
| 2025 | £252,000 | £258,026 | 8,697 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 8,158 |
| 2023 | £246,000 | £270,294 | 7,665 |
| 2022 | £248,000 | £290,808 | 9,881 |
| 2021 | £232,200 | £293,995 | 11,483 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 8,423 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 9,526 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 9,635 |
| 2017 | £189,500 | £258,459 | 10,103 |
| 2016 | £181,000 | £253,221 | 10,033 |
| 2015 | £177,500 | £250,808 | 9,802 |
| 2014 | £172,000 | £244,012 | 9,606 |
| 2013 | £164,500 | £236,699 | 8,237 |
| 2012 | £162,000 | £238,444 | 7,053 |
| 2011 | £158,000 | £238,519 | 7,024 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 7,223 |
| 2009 | £158,000 | £253,986 | 7,196 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 6,785 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 12,448 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 13,658 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 10,689 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 12,342 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 12,738 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 13,933 |
| 2001 | £75,500 | £145,145 | 13,398 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 12,607 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 12,723 |
| 1998 | £55,000 | £111,021 | 10,703 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 11,198 |
| 1996 | £49,500 | £104,393 | 9,631 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 7,693 |
In cash terms the typical PL home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PL 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 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.2%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £395,000 against £138,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, PL
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 | £395,000 | 987 | 84,967 |
| Semi-detached | £260,000 | 1,019 | 76,319 |
| Terraced | £214,500 | 1,330 | 112,764 |
| Flats | £138,000 | 483 | 40,060 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −0.8% | −3.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.2% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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, 6,787 sales completed in PL. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 12,727 sales a year before the financial crisis and 7,644 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.
What tenants pay around PL
PL falls under Cornwall, the local authority covering most of the PL area (parts fall under Plymouth and West Devon, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £691 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,510 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cornwall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £250,000 median sold price, £1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Common questions on PL (Plymouth)
How much did a house sell for in PL (Plymouth)?
Are property prices falling in PL (Plymouth)?
Is PL (Plymouth) a good place to buy a house?
Will PL prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 PL today
Everything above is what homes in PL sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 245 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 6% above the PL median sold price.
PL registered 6,787 sales in the last twelve months; the 245 homes listed now would take about 2 weeks to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger. Supply that short favours the seller; a sensibly priced home here does not sit for long.
12% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- School Road, Landrake, PL12, Landrake
- Clarence Place, Plymouth, PL2, Plymouth
- Adelaide Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth
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 PL 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.
When homes in PL change hands
Take the 45,884 PL sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.3% of the total, April trails with 6.9%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 3,162 | 6.9% |
| February | 3,604 | 7.9% |
| March | 4,741 | 10.3% |
| April | 3,152 | 6.9% |
| May | 3,328 | 7.3% |
| June | 4,414 | 9.6% |
| July | 3,610 | 7.9% |
| August | 3,853 | 8.4% |
| September | 4,662 | 10.2% |
| October | 3,680 | 8.0% |
| November | 3,758 | 8.2% |
| December | 3,920 | 8.5% |
Bedroom by bedroom: PL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the PL 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 | £262,625 | £300,000 (+14%) | £347,000 (+16%) | £435,000 (+25%) | £584,500 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £220,000 (+22%) | £242,000 (+10%) | £280,000 (+16%) | £332,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £162,500 | £190,000 (+17%) | £210,000 (+11%) | £260,000 (+24%) | £283,000 (+9%) |
| Flat | £112,750 | £137,500 (+22%) | £165,000 (+20%) | £249,000 (+51%) | £317,500 (+28%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, PL area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every PL district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| PL28 Padstow, Crugmeer | £525,000 | +9% | 27 |
| PL23 Fowey, Bodinnick | £470,000 | +21% | 29 |
| PL8 Brixton, Newton Ferrers | £422,500 | -9% | 34 |
| PL34 Tintagel, Bossiney | £350,000 | +21% | 11 |
| PL29 Port Isaac, Port Gaverne | £340,000 | -39% | 5 |
| PL30 Blisland, Lanivet | £330,000 | -10% | 55 |
| PL27 Wadebridge, Little Petherick | £320,200 | +0% | 106 |
| PL21 Ivybridge, Brownston | £310,500 | +9% | 160 |
| PL16 Lifton, Broadwoodwidger | £310,000 | -7% | 9 |
| PL20 Yelverton, Bellever | £305,000 | -1% | 79 |
| PL9 Plymstock, Heybrook Bay | £300,000 | +11% | 230 |
| PL22 Lostwithiel, Boconnoc | £300,000 | +0% | 34 |
| PL10 Cawsand, Cremyll | £298,500 | +13% | 26 |
| PL13 Looe, Lansallos | £295,000 | +2% | 80 |
| PL12 Saltash, Hatt | £277,000 | +13% | 167 |
| PL3 Efford, Hartley | £270,000 | +23% | 212 |
| PL17 Callington, Ashton | £270,000 | +4% | 73 |
| PL35 Boscastle, Lesnewth | £266,500 | -19% | 10 |
| PL7 Plympton, Sparkwell | £266,000 | +16% | 249 |
| PL26 East Portholland, Foxhole | £265,000 | +10% | 161 |
| PL19 Tavistock, Bradstone | £263,800 | -14% | 110 |
| PL25 St Austell, Carlyon Bay | £258,200 | +5% | 202 |
| PL33 Delabole, Trebarwith | £257,500 | +5% | 20 |
| PL14 Liskeard, Dobwalls | £250,000 | +8% | 161 |
| PL18 Gunnislake, Calstock | £249,600 | -8% | 36 |
| PL11 Torpoint, Antony | £239,000 | +2% | 68 |
| PL32 Camelford, Davidstow | £236,500 | -7% | 23 |
| PL31 Bodmin, Dunmere | £235,500 | +10% | 96 |
| PL6 Derriford, Eggbuckland | £235,000 | +12% | 282 |
| PL15 Launceston, Bolventor | £230,000 | -6% | 127 |
| PL24 Par, Polkerris | £230,000 | +10% | 62 |
| PL2 Beacon Park, Ford | £210,000 | +24% | 244 |
| PL5 Crownhill, Ernesettle | £198,500 | +21% | 272 |
| PL4 Lipson, Mount Gould | £190,000 | +10% | 200 |
| PL1 Plymouth City Centre, Barbican | £165,000 | -12% | 159 |
Thinking of selling in PL? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PL. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual PL 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.