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East Portholland market report PL26 7, St. Austell
The PL26 7 (East Portholland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,856 HM Land Registry entries for PL26 7 (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 middle 2026 sale in PL26 7 (St. Austell) came in at £226,000, out of 37 registered, up 8% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £276,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,990 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,856 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PL26 7 is one sector of PL26 (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 PL26 7 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 PL26 7 sells for
The 2026 median for PL26 7 is £226,000, taken from 37 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £276,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in PL26 7
A square metre of PL26 7 home has cost about £2,990 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 PL26 7 21% below the national figure.
PL26 7's median sold price, 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 | £226,000 | £226,000 | 37 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 147 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 123 |
| 2023 | £269,000 | £295,565 | 116 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 131 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 173 |
| 2020 | £202,500 | £262,748 | 108 |
| 2019 | £193,800 | £254,025 | 146 |
| 2018 | £182,500 | £243,276 | 144 |
| 2017 | £179,200 | £244,411 | 146 |
| 2016 | £165,500 | £231,536 | 145 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 138 |
| 2014 | £172,000 | £244,012 | 118 |
| 2013 | £135,000 | £194,252 | 121 |
| 2012 | £165,000 | £242,859 | 97 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 112 |
| 2010 | £161,000 | £252,489 | 118 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 79 |
| 2008 | £161,000 | £263,913 | 99 |
| 2007 | £166,500 | £282,430 | 210 |
| 2006 | £167,500 | £290,759 | 224 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 143 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 181 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 214 |
| 2002 | £89,000 | £167,453 | 265 |
| 2001 | £69,500 | £133,610 | 218 |
| 2000 | £62,800 | £123,245 | 188 |
| 1999 | £52,200 | £104,032 | 206 |
| 1998 | £49,000 | £98,910 | 214 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 195 |
| 1996 | £49,100 | £103,550 | 156 |
| 1995 | £46,100 | £100,214 | 144 |
In cash terms the typical PL26 7 home went from £46,100 in 1995 to £226,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 126%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2004. The market now sits about 25% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL26 7 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 2004 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL26 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −14.7% | −16.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.5% | −3.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 37 PL26 7 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 205 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
The rental side of PL26 7
For renting purposes PL26 7 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 £226,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
Reading the PL26 7 market
This is a thin market: 37 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. Against the PL26 district median, PL26 7 sits 12% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: PL26 7 (East Portholland)
Is PL26 7 (East Portholland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL26 7 (East Portholland)?
Are property prices falling in PL26 7 (East Portholland)?
Where do PL26 7 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 you could buy in PL26 now
The live side of the market holds 118 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL26 district, not just PL26 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- Tregarth, Penwithick, St. Austell
"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 PL26 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: PL prices by size
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
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 PL26
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PL26, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL26 6 | £438,500 | 40 |
| PL26 8 | £230,000 | 65 |
Zoom out to the full PL26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL26 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in PL26 7? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PL26 7, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL26 7's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL26 7 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PL26 7.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL26 7 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL26 7 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.