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St Austell market report PL25, St. Austell
The PL25 (St Austell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 15,281 HM Land Registry entries for PL25 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical PL25 (St. Austell) home changed hands for £260,000 in 2026 (median of 172 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier), with the mean at £285,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,040 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 15,281 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district PL25 covering St Austell, Carlyon Bay, Charlestown sits in St. Austell. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PL25 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 homes really sell for
The PL25 median stands at £260,000 for 2026, built from 172 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £285,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PL25
Per square metre, PL25 homes have averaged around £3,040 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so PL25 trades 9% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical PL25 home, 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 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 172 |
| 2025 | £255,000 | £261,098 | 406 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 410 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 403 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 556 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 586 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 409 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 470 |
| 2018 | £192,000 | £255,940 | 476 |
| 2017 | £190,000 | £259,141 | 531 |
| 2016 | £185,000 | £258,817 | 545 |
| 2015 | £174,000 | £245,862 | 543 |
| 2014 | £176,000 | £249,687 | 458 |
| 2013 | £164,400 | £236,555 | 460 |
| 2012 | £162,500 | £239,180 | 373 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 381 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 343 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 317 |
| 2008 | £172,000 | £281,944 | 345 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 622 |
| 2006 | £174,000 | £302,042 | 693 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 516 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 595 |
| 2003 | £140,500 | £258,835 | 590 |
| 2002 | £116,000 | £218,253 | 675 |
| 2001 | £84,000 | £161,486 | 660 |
| 2000 | £72,500 | £142,281 | 525 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 544 |
| 1998 | £56,500 | £114,049 | 430 |
| 1997 | £52,800 | £108,282 | 502 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 434 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 311 |
In cash terms the typical PL25 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 160%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL25 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 (+38.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.0%). 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, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £330,000 against £122,000 for a flat, 2.7 times the price.
Median by property type, PL25
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 | £330,000 | 72 | 6,037 |
| Semi-detached | £239,000 | 51 | 4,187 |
| Terraced | £211,200 | 36 | 3,565 |
| Flats | £122,000 | 13 | 1,492 |
What PL25 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.0% | −0.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 337 PL25 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 610 sales a year before the financial crisis and 389 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 tenants pay around PL25
PL25 falls under Cornwall, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,003 a month (£12,036 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
Common questions on PL25 (St Austell)
Are property prices falling in PL25 (St Austell)?
Is PL25 (St Austell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL25 (St Austell)?
Are PL25 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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
Everything above is what homes in PL25 sold for. The live side of the market holds 94 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% above the PL25 median sold price.
29% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
What another bedroom costs in PL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
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
PL25 ranks 19 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.
Winners and losers across the PL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PL25, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL25 3 | £270,300 | 86 |
| PL25 4 | £240,000 | 62 |
| PL25 5 | £258,800 | 24 |
How PL25 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 | £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 (this report) | £260,000 | +6% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL26 | £256,800 | +7% |
| PL35 | £255,000 | -23% |
| PL18 | £249,300 | -8% |
Thinking of selling in PL25? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL25's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PL25.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL25 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual PL25 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.