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East Portholland market report PL26 6, St. Austell

The standing PL26 6 (East Portholland) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 3,443 registered sales in PL26 6 (St. Austell) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.

In short: a typical PL26 6 (St. Austell) home changed hands for £438,500 in 2026 (median of 40 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier), with the mean at £450,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,080 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,443 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.

A postcode sector like PL26 6 is a single group of streets within PL26 (St. Austell), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.

What a home in PL26 6 sells for

The 2026 median for PL26 6 is £438,500, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £450,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.

PL26 6 prices by floor area

Per square metre, PL26 6 homes have averaged around £4,080 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.

England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PL26 6 54% above the national figure.

In cash terms the typical PL26 6 home went from £57,000 in 1995 to £438,500 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 254%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+32.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Annualised returns

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.

How many homes change hands in PL26 6

The register shows 40 PL26 6 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 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 PL26 6

The local authority for PL26 6 is Cornwall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £691 a month here against £1,510 for four or more bedrooms.

Set against the £438,500 median sold price, £1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, a gross yield of 2.7%: 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.

The shape of the PL26 6 market

This is a thin market: 40 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within PL26, this sector trades 71% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Common questions on PL26 6 (East Portholland)

Will PL26 6 prices rise from here?

No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.

What you could buy in PL26 now

Moving up a bedroom in PL: the cost

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in PL26

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PL26's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full PL26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL26 compares with its neighbours.

Selling in PL26 6? Start from the sold record

Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PL26 6. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual PL26 6 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.