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Calstock market report PL18, Gunnislake

The standing PL18 (Calstock) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,093 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PL18 (Gunnislake) 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 2026 median for PL18 (Gunnislake) is £249,300, from 21 registered sales, down 8% on five years earlier; the mean is £270,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,100 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,093 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 PL18 covering Gunnislake, Calstock sits in Gunnislake. 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.

What PL18 homes really sell for

In the PL18 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £249,300, from 21 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £270,300, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.

Price per square metre in PL18

A square metre of PL18 home has cost about £3,100 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PL18 13% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical PL18 home went from £54,500 in 1995 to £249,300 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 110%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 29% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+40.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2005 (−17.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 45% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £377,500 against £152,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.

The turnover behind the prices

Over the last twelve months of data, 61 sales completed in PL18. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 112 sales a year before the financial crisis and 73 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.

How PL18 trades

This is a thin market: 61 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.

Rents around PL18

The local authority for PL18 is Cornwall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £691 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,510, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.

£1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, which against the £249,300 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.

PL18 (Calstock): the questions that come up

Where do PL18 prices go next?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 8% over five years in cash but down 27% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

What you could buy in PL18 now

Bedroom by bedroom: PL prices by size

The risers and the fallers

PL18 ranks 28 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.

Inside PL18, 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.

How PL18 compares nearby

Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PL area, dearest first:

Before you sell in PL18: what the record supports

Go deeper

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL18 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual PL18 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.

Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.