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St Austell market report PL25 3, St. Austell
The PL25 3 (St Austell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 7,542 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL25 3 (St. Austell) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 86 registered 2026 sales put the PL25 3 (St. Austell) median at £270,300, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £321,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,390 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,542 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PL25 3 is one sector of PL25 (St. Austell): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where PL25 3 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 PL25 3
Across 86 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PL25 3 home went for £270,300. The mean is £321,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in PL25 3
Per square metre, PL25 3 homes have averaged around £3,390 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PL25 3 sits 5% below the national market.
A typical PL25 3 home, priced year by year (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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,300 | £270,300 | 86 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 183 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 199 |
| 2023 | £272,500 | £299,411 | 190 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 265 |
| 2021 | £256,800 | £325,142 | 284 |
| 2020 | £234,400 | £304,139 | 190 |
| 2019 | £212,000 | £277,881 | 204 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 193 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 230 |
| 2016 | £188,000 | £263,014 | 268 |
| 2015 | £183,500 | £259,286 | 268 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 215 |
| 2013 | £173,900 | £250,225 | 211 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 199 |
| 2011 | £169,000 | £255,125 | 233 |
| 2010 | £175,500 | £275,229 | 198 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 190 |
| 2008 | £179,000 | £293,419 | 172 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 299 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 350 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 287 |
| 2004 | £170,500 | £309,661 | 278 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 334 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 396 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 339 |
| 2000 | £77,500 | £152,094 | 255 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 277 |
| 1998 | £59,500 | £120,105 | 181 |
| 1997 | £56,100 | £115,050 | 228 |
| 1996 | £48,800 | £102,917 | 208 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 132 |
In cash terms the typical PL25 3 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £270,300 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 146%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL25 3 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 (+42.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.7% | −4.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 86 PL25 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 317 sales a year before the financial crisis and 185 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 PL25 3
PL25 3 falls under Cornwall, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Average monthly rent by size, Cornwall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £270,300 median sold price, £1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Asked and answered: PL25 3 (St Austell)
Is PL25 3 (St Austell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL25 3 (St Austell)?
Are property prices falling in PL25 3 (St Austell)?
Are PL25 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
What is for sale in PL25 right now
The live side of the market holds 94 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL25 district, not just PL25 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 PL25 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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 PL25
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PL25, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL25 4 | £240,000 | 62 |
| PL25 5 | £258,800 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full PL25 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL25 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PL25 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL25 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL25 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL25 3 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 PL25 3.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PL25 3. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL25 3 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.