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Brownston market report PL21, Ivybridge
The standing PL21 (Brownston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 11,857 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PL21 (Ivybridge) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in PL21 (Ivybridge) sold for £305,000 in 2026, the median of 124 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £330,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 11,857 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PL21 is a postcode district covering Ivybridge, Brownston, Cornwood in Ivybridge. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PL21 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 buyers actually paid in PL21
The PL21 median stands at £305,000 for 2026, built from 124 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £330,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in PL21
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PL21 sales average about £3,550 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PL21 7% above the country at large.
A typical PL21 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 124 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 350 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 361 |
| 2023 | £307,000 | £337,318 | 303 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 328 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 434 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 378 |
| 2019 | £236,000 | £309,340 | 355 |
| 2018 | £242,000 | £322,591 | 393 |
| 2017 | £229,000 | £312,333 | 367 |
| 2016 | £219,000 | £306,383 | 305 |
| 2015 | £206,000 | £291,078 | 288 |
| 2014 | £205,000 | £290,828 | 343 |
| 2013 | £182,000 | £261,880 | 319 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 274 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 237 |
| 2010 | £179,500 | £281,502 | 226 |
| 2009 | £174,000 | £279,706 | 244 |
| 2008 | £193,500 | £317,187 | 202 |
| 2007 | £195,000 | £330,774 | 437 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 462 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 379 |
| 2004 | £162,500 | £295,132 | 375 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 400 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 495 |
| 2001 | £93,000 | £178,788 | 460 |
| 2000 | £78,700 | £154,449 | 490 |
| 1999 | £71,400 | £142,296 | 608 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 503 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 535 |
| 1996 | £57,500 | £121,265 | 471 |
| 1995 | £58,500 | £127,170 | 411 |
In cash terms the typical PL21 home went from £58,500 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PL21 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £412,000 against £144,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, PL21
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 | £412,000 | 45 | 4,093 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 41 | 3,377 |
| Terraced | £232,500 | 30 | 3,663 |
| Flats | £144,000 | 8 | 724 |
What PL21 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in PL21
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.
The last five years, month by month
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, 249 sales completed in PL21. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 437 sales a year before the financial crisis and 293 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.
What homes rent for around PL21
PL21 falls under South Hams, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,000 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £728 a month here against £1,613 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Hams
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,000 a month is £12,000 a year, which against the £305,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
PL21 (Brownston): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PL21 (Brownston)?
Is PL21 (Brownston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL21 (Brownston)?
What happens to PL21 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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.
PL21's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PL21 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 107 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 15% above the PL21 median sold price.
23% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Belmont Villas, Western Road, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21
- Church Meadow, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21
- Cleeve Drive, Ivybridge, Devon, PL21
"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 PL21 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
PL21 ranks 17 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.
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.
Inside PL21, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PL21 0 | £315,000 | 67 |
| PL21 9 | £285,000 | 57 |
How PL21 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 | £322,600 | -3% |
| PL10 | £308,500 | +16% |
| PL21 (this report) | £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% |
Thinking of selling in PL21? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL21, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL21 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL21 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working PL21: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PL21.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL21 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL21 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.
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.