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Beacon Park market report PL2 1, Plymouth
The PL2 1 (Beacon Park) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,808 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL2 1 (Plymouth) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PL2 1 (Plymouth) came in at £180,000, out of 63 registered, up 16% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £186,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,930 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,808 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PL2 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PL2 (Plymouth). 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 PL2 1 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.
What a home in PL2 1 sells for
The 2026 median for PL2 1 is £180,000, taken from 63 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £186,200, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
Price per square metre in PL2 1
Per square metre, PL2 1 homes have averaged around £1,930 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PL2 1 37% below the national figure.
PL2 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £180,000 | £180,000 | 63 |
| 2025 | £177,500 | £181,745 | 177 |
| 2024 | £177,000 | £188,187 | 179 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 158 |
| 2022 | £170,000 | £199,344 | 186 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 200 |
| 2020 | £142,500 | £184,897 | 144 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 181 |
| 2018 | £137,000 | £182,624 | 167 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 199 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 180 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 205 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 184 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 154 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 141 |
| 2011 | £109,700 | £165,605 | 124 |
| 2010 | £114,900 | £180,193 | 124 |
| 2009 | £112,500 | £180,845 | 105 |
| 2008 | £120,200 | £197,033 | 154 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 322 |
| 2006 | £117,000 | £203,097 | 402 |
| 2005 | £97,700 | £173,867 | 368 |
| 2004 | £95,000 | £172,539 | 310 |
| 2003 | £79,000 | £145,537 | 331 |
| 2002 | £65,000 | £122,297 | 378 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 318 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 314 |
| 1999 | £36,000 | £71,746 | 238 |
| 1998 | £35,000 | £70,650 | 231 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 208 |
| 1996 | £33,000 | £69,596 | 189 |
| 1995 | £32,000 | £69,563 | 174 |
In cash terms the typical PL2 1 home went from £32,000 in 1995 to £180,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL2 1 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 (+38.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL2 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.4% | −1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 63 sales completed in PL2 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 343 sales a year before the financial crisis and 153 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.
The rental side of PL2 1
For renting purposes PL2 1 sits in Plymouth. The ONS average private rent there is £994 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £698 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,479 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Plymouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £180,000 median purchase price, a rent of £994 a month (£11,928 a year) works out at a 6.6% 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.
How PL2 1 trades
Within PL2, this sector trades 14% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about PL2 1 (Beacon Park)
Are property prices falling in PL2 1 (Beacon Park)?
Is PL2 1 (Beacon Park) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL2 1 (Beacon Park)?
What happens to PL2 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 PL2 today
The live side of the market holds 185 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL2 district, not just PL2 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Clarence Place, Plymouth, PL2, Plymouth
- Halcyon Road, Plymouth, PL2
- Merrivale Road, Beacon Park, Plymouth, Devon, PL2
"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 PL2 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PL area. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PL2
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PL2, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL2 2 | £200,000 | 71 |
| PL2 3 | £230,000 | 85 |
Zoom out to the full PL2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in PL2 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL2 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL2 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL2 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PL2 1.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PL2 1. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL2 1 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.