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East Portholland market report PL26 8, St. Austell
The PL26 8 (East Portholland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 5,880 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PL26 8 (St. Austell) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
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 8 (St. Austell) came in at £230,000, out of 65 registered, up 12% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £258,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,750 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,880 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like PL26 8 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.
Where PL26 8 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.
PL26 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The PL26 8 median stands at £230,000 for 2026, built from 65 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £258,700, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PL26 8
The last five years of sales put PL26 8 at roughly £2,750 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PL26 8 19% below the national figure.
A typical PL26 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £220,000 | £225,261 | 160 |
| 2024 | £221,800 | £235,819 | 172 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 153 |
| 2022 | £239,000 | £280,255 | 192 |
| 2021 | £205,000 | £259,556 | 241 |
| 2020 | £171,500 | £222,525 | 151 |
| 2019 | £165,000 | £216,276 | 197 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 193 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 190 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 180 |
| 2015 | £137,000 | £193,581 | 167 |
| 2014 | £141,000 | £200,033 | 168 |
| 2013 | £139,000 | £200,007 | 147 |
| 2012 | £139,800 | £205,768 | 134 |
| 2011 | £135,000 | £203,798 | 117 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 134 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 139 |
| 2008 | £153,000 | £250,799 | 131 |
| 2007 | £158,500 | £268,860 | 287 |
| 2006 | £144,800 | £251,354 | 250 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 167 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 239 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 187 |
| 2002 | £86,000 | £161,808 | 279 |
| 2001 | £65,500 | £125,920 | 274 |
| 2000 | £53,000 | £104,013 | 239 |
| 1999 | £46,500 | £92,672 | 215 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 199 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 200 |
| 1996 | £41,000 | £86,467 | 165 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 148 |
In cash terms the typical PL26 8 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 178%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PL26 8 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 (+39.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.5%). 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) | +4.5% | +2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.3% | −2.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in PL26 8
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.
PL26 8 recorded 65 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 240 sales a year before the financial crisis and 148 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.
The shape of the PL26 8 market
Within PL26, this sector trades 10% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What tenants pay around PL26 8
For renting purposes PL26 8 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 £230,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.2%. 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.
Asked and answered: PL26 8 (East Portholland)
Is PL26 8 (East Portholland) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL26 8 (East Portholland)?
Are property prices falling in PL26 8 (East Portholland)?
Are PL26 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 12% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
PL26's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 118 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL26 district, not just PL26 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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- Gorran, St. Austell, Cornwall, PL26
- Tregarth, Penwithick, St. Austell
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 PL26 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: PL prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PL area. 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
The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PL area districts: five years of change
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 7 | £226,000 | 37 |
Zoom out to the full PL26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL26 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in PL26 8? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL26 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL26 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL26 8 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 PL26 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PL26 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual PL26 8 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.