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St Austell market report PL25 4, St. Austell
The standing PL25 4 (St Austell) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,524 HM Land Registry entries for PL25 4 (St. Austell), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 62 registered 2026 sales put the PL25 4 (St. Austell) median at £240,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £247,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,670 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,524 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
PL25 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PL25 (St. Austell). 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 PL25 4 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 PL25 4 homes really sell for
Across 62 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PL25 4 home went for £240,000. The mean is £247,100, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in PL25 4
A square metre of PL25 4 home has cost about £2,670 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PL25 4 16% below the national figure.
PL25 4's median sold price, 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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 62 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 124 |
| 2024 | £252,500 | £268,459 | 101 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 120 |
| 2022 | £237,500 | £278,496 | 134 |
| 2021 | £217,700 | £275,636 | 196 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 144 |
| 2019 | £190,000 | £249,045 | 164 |
| 2018 | £188,000 | £250,608 | 153 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 187 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 181 |
| 2015 | £163,500 | £231,026 | 185 |
| 2014 | £166,100 | £235,642 | 165 |
| 2013 | £157,000 | £225,907 | 161 |
| 2012 | £156,000 | £229,613 | 99 |
| 2011 | £142,000 | £214,365 | 78 |
| 2010 | £139,800 | £219,242 | 76 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 81 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 109 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 210 |
| 2006 | £164,000 | £284,683 | 203 |
| 2005 | £156,000 | £277,617 | 137 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 191 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 143 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 159 |
| 2001 | £77,500 | £148,990 | 151 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 143 |
| 1999 | £59,500 | £118,580 | 156 |
| 1998 | £52,500 | £105,975 | 123 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 154 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 130 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 104 |
In cash terms the typical PL25 4 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 176%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PL25 4 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 2003 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.1% | +6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in PL25 4
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 62 sales completed in PL25 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 167 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 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.
Rents around PL25 4
PL25 4 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.
£1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, which against the £240,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
The shape of the PL25 4 market
Within PL25, this sector trades 8% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Asked and answered: PL25 4 (St Austell)
How much did a house sell for in PL25 4 (St Austell)?
Are property prices falling in PL25 4 (St Austell)?
Is PL25 4 (St Austell) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to PL25 4 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in PL25 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 94 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL25 district, not just PL25 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in PL
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PL area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, PL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in PL25
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PL25, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL25 3 | £270,300 | 86 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in PL25 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PL25 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL25 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL25 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PL25 4.
Keep digging
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See every individual PL25 4 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.
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.