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Broadwoodwidger market report PL16, Lifton
The standing PL16 (Broadwoodwidger) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 1,036 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL16 (Lifton) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for PL16 (Lifton) is £322,600, from 8 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £429,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,240 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,036 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district PL16 covering Lifton, Broadwoodwidger, Marystow sits in Lifton. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PL16 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 PL16 prices, from the sold record
Across 8 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PL16 home went for £322,600. The mean is £429,000, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
PL16 prices by floor area
A square metre of PL16 home has cost about £3,240 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, PL16 runs 13% above it.
PL16's median sold price, 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 | £322,600 | £322,600 | 8 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 29 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 16 |
| 2023 | £363,000 | £398,848 | 24 |
| 2022 | £342,500 | £401,620 | 42 |
| 2021 | £332,500 | £420,988 | 40 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 33 |
| 2019 | £268,000 | £351,284 | 33 |
| 2018 | £239,200 | £318,858 | 40 |
| 2017 | £197,000 | £268,688 | 31 |
| 2016 | £233,000 | £325,969 | 37 |
| 2015 | £208,000 | £293,904 | 24 |
| 2014 | £203,000 | £287,991 | 35 |
| 2013 | £173,500 | £249,649 | 22 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 27 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 31 |
| 2010 | £152,000 | £238,375 | 17 |
| 2009 | £243,800 | £391,911 | 23 |
| 2008 | £230,000 | £377,019 | 22 |
| 2007 | £186,500 | £316,356 | 34 |
| 2006 | £226,200 | £392,654 | 56 |
| 2005 | £180,000 | £320,327 | 37 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 57 |
| 2003 | £146,000 | £268,967 | 62 |
| 2002 | £137,500 | £258,705 | 35 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 37 |
| 2000 | £89,800 | £176,233 | 36 |
| 1999 | £73,100 | £145,684 | 39 |
| 1998 | £53,700 | £108,397 | 32 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 25 |
| 1996 | £66,500 | £140,246 | 28 |
| 1995 | £54,500 | £118,475 | 24 |
In cash terms the typical PL16 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £322,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 172%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.4% | 0.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.6% | −5.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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, 56% of the typed total.
Median by property type, PL16
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 | £335,200 | 5 | 541 |
| Semi-detached | £251,200 (2025) | – | 267 |
| Terraced | £239,000 (2023) | – | 166 |
Sales activity in PL16
How many homes change hands
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
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 21 sales completed in PL16. 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 24 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.
The rental side of PL16
The local authority for PL16 is West Devon, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £839 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £598 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,342 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, West Devon
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £322,600 median purchase price, a rent of £839 a month (£10,068 a year) works out at a 3.1% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the PL16 market
This is a thin market: 21 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. 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. Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, PL16 ranks 9 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Common questions on PL16 (Broadwoodwidger)
Are property prices falling in PL16 (Broadwoodwidger)?
Is PL16 (Broadwoodwidger) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL16 (Broadwoodwidger)?
Are PL16 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 23% 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 PL16 today
Everything above is what homes in PL16 sold for. The live side of the market holds 22 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 84% above the PL16 median sold price.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every PL16 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: PL prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the PL 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PL16 ranks 26 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PL16, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL16 0 | £322,600 | 8 |
How PL16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PL28 | £525,000 | +9% |
| PL23 | £506,800 | +30% |
| PL8 | £392,500 | -16% |
| PL34 | £370,000 | +28% |
| PL30 | £367,500 | +1% |
| PL29 | £340,000 | -39% |
| PL27 | £332,500 | +4% |
| PL20 | £323,500 | +5% |
| PL16 (this report) | £322,600 | -3% |
| PL10 | £308,500 | +16% |
| PL21 | £305,000 | +7% |
| PL9 | £300,000 | +11% |
| PL13 | £300,000 | +3% |
| PL17 | £294,400 | +13% |
| PL12 | £278,500 | +14% |
| PL22 | £270,000 | -10% |
| PL19 | £267,200 | -12% |
| PL7 | £265,500 | +15% |
| PL3 | £265,000 | +20% |
| PL25 | £260,000 | +6% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL26 | £256,800 | +7% |
| PL35 | £255,000 | -23% |
| PL18 | £249,300 | -8% |
Before you sell in PL16: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PL16, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL16's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL16 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PL16: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PL16.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual PL16 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.