Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,125 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL16 (Lifton) 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 May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
PL16 is the postcode district covering Lifton, Broadwoodwidger, Marystow in Lifton. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where PL16 sits
Click the map to open PL16 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£320,100median sold price, 2026
-7%five-year change (cash)
42sales in the last 12 months
3.1%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in PL16 sells for
The 2026 median in PL16 is £320,100, from 8 registered sales; the mean, £415,300, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so PL16 trades 17% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical PL16 home, 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£320,100
£320,100
8
2025
£322,500
£322,500
34
2024
£275,000
£285,553
26
2023
£305,100
£327,401
35
2022
£320,000
£366,473
57
2021
£345,000
£426,613
54
2020
£310,000
£392,837
41
2019
£277,000
£354,601
42
2018
£252,500
£328,726
44
2017
£214,500
£285,724
38
2016
£227,500
£310,842
39
2015
£208,000
£287,040
24
2014
£197,000
£272,952
39
2013
£173,500
£243,819
22
2012
£175,000
£251,563
27
2011
£170,000
£250,641
31
2010
£152,000
£232,808
17
2009
£243,800
£382,758
23
2008
£230,000
£368,213
22
2007
£186,500
£308,968
34
2006
£226,200
£383,484
56
2005
£180,000
£312,846
37
2004
£165,000
£292,674
57
2003
£146,000
£262,686
62
2002
£137,500
£252,663
35
2001
£105,000
£197,143
37
2000
£89,800
£172,117
36
1999
£73,100
£142,282
39
1998
£53,700
£105,866
32
1997
£55,000
£110,160
25
1996
£66,500
£136,970
28
1995
£54,500
£115,708
24
In cash terms the typical PL16 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £320,100 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 177%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 25% 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 PL16 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 1999 (+36.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−37.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
Period
Cash, per year
Real terms, per year
1 years (since 2025)
−0.7%
−0.7%
5 years (since 2021)
−1.5%
−5.6%
10 years (since 2016)
+3.5%
+0.3%
20 years (since 2006)
+1.8%
−0.9%
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.
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
PL16 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 44 sales a year before the financial crisis and 32 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.
What homes rent for around PL16
PL16 falls under West Devon, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £839 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £598 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,342, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, West Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £320,100 median sold price, £839 a month is £10,068 a year, a gross yield of 3.1%: 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.
Will PL16 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 25% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
PL16 ranks 29 of 35 in the PL 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, PL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PL16, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.