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St Austell market report PL25 5, St. Austell
The PL25 5 (St Austell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,215 HM Land Registry entries for PL25 5 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for PL25 5 (St. Austell) is £258,800, from 24 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £253,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,790 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,215 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PL25 5 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 5 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 PL25 5 sells for
The PL25 5 median stands at £258,800 for 2026, built from 24 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £253,400, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in PL25 5
Per square metre, PL25 5 homes have averaged around £2,790 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PL25 5 runs 9% below it.
A typical PL25 5 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £258,800 | £258,800 | 24 |
| 2025 | £257,000 | £263,146 | 99 |
| 2024 | £273,400 | £290,680 | 110 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 93 |
| 2022 | £228,000 | £267,356 | 157 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 106 |
| 2020 | £218,000 | £282,860 | 75 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 102 |
| 2018 | £164,000 | £218,615 | 130 |
| 2017 | £176,500 | £240,728 | 114 |
| 2016 | £176,200 | £246,506 | 96 |
| 2015 | £163,600 | £231,167 | 90 |
| 2014 | £167,700 | £237,912 | 78 |
| 2013 | £145,000 | £208,641 | 88 |
| 2012 | £156,000 | £229,613 | 75 |
| 2011 | £157,500 | £237,764 | 70 |
| 2010 | £163,000 | £255,626 | 69 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 46 |
| 2008 | £165,000 | £270,470 | 64 |
| 2007 | £179,000 | £303,634 | 113 |
| 2006 | £171,500 | £297,702 | 140 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 92 |
| 2004 | £163,500 | £296,948 | 126 |
| 2003 | £132,000 | £243,176 | 113 |
| 2002 | £108,500 | £204,142 | 120 |
| 2001 | £80,700 | £155,142 | 170 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 127 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 111 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 126 |
| 1997 | £49,000 | £100,489 | 120 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 96 |
| 1995 | £52,500 | £114,127 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical PL25 5 home went from £52,500 in 1995 to £258,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 127%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PL25 5 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 (+34.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−10.5%). 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) | +0.7% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 24 PL25 5 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 125 sales a year before the financial crisis and 97 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What kind of market PL25 5 is
This is a thin market: 24 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Rents around PL25 5
For renting purposes PL25 5 sits in Cornwall. The ONS average private rent there is £1,003 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £691 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,510 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £258,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
Common questions on PL25 5 (St Austell)
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What happens to PL25 5 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in PL25 today
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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
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. 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%) | — |
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the PL area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £270,300 | 86 |
| PL25 4 | £240,000 | 62 |
Zoom out to the full PL25 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL25 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in PL25 5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL25 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL25 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL25 5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PL25 5.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual PL25 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.