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Bolventor market report PL15 8, Launceston
The PL15 8 (Bolventor) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,425 registered sales in PL15 8 (Launceston) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the PL15 8 (Launceston) median at £190,000, down 22% on five years earlier, with a mean of £269,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,425 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PL15 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PL15 (Launceston). 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 PL15 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 PL15 8 prices, from the sold record
The PL15 8 median stands at £190,000 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £269,000, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
PL15 8 prices by floor area
A square metre of PL15 8 home has cost about £2,830 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PL15 8 runs 33% below it.
A typical PL15 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 77 |
| 2024 | £266,500 | £283,344 | 68 |
| 2023 | £202,000 | £221,949 | 63 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 103 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 135 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 95 |
| 2019 | £235,000 | £308,029 | 102 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 83 |
| 2017 | £219,000 | £298,694 | 107 |
| 2016 | £202,000 | £282,600 | 106 |
| 2015 | £188,000 | £265,644 | 87 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 111 |
| 2013 | £199,500 | £287,061 | 92 |
| 2012 | £193,500 | £284,808 | 76 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 83 |
| 2010 | £215,000 | £337,175 | 87 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 71 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 69 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 135 |
| 2006 | £171,000 | £296,834 | 136 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 112 |
| 2004 | £148,000 | £268,797 | 153 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 159 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 159 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 161 |
| 2000 | £73,400 | £144,048 | 131 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 146 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 137 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 127 |
| 1996 | £44,500 | £93,849 | 106 |
| 1995 | £55,200 | £119,996 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical PL15 8 home went from £55,200 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 3.4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 58%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 44% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL15 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 (+33.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−34.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL15 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −34.5% | −36.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −5.0% | −9.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.6% | −3.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.5% | −2.2% |
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.
Sales activity in PL15 8
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in PL15 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 143 sales a year before the financial crisis and 70 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 homes rent for around PL15 8
The local authority for PL15 8 is Cornwall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £691 a month here against £1,510 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Cornwall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, a gross yield of 6.3%: 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.
Reading the PL15 8 market
This is a thin market: 40 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. 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. Within PL15, this sector trades 17% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
PL15 8 (Bolventor): the questions that come up
Is PL15 8 (Bolventor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL15 8 (Bolventor)?
Are property prices falling in PL15 8 (Bolventor)?
Where do PL15 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 22% over five years in cash but down 39% 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.
PL15's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 61 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL15 district, not just PL15 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 PL15 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in PL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, 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 | — | £295,000 | £396,000 (+34%) | £575,000 (+45%) | £775,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £199,750 | £237,500 (+19%) | £283,500 (+19%) | £370,000 (+31%) | £487,500 (+32%) |
| Terraced | £179,000 | £200,000 (+12%) | £230,000 (+15%) | £274,750 (+19%) | £358,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £152,000 (+27%) | £260,000 (+71%) | £445,000 (+71%) | — |
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 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.
Other sectors in PL15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PL15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL15 7 | £262,500 | 36 |
| PL15 9 | £211,200 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full PL15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in PL15 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL15 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 PL15 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PL15 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL15 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL15 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.