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East Portholland market report PL26, St. Austell
The PL26 (East Portholland) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 14,179 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL26 (St. Austell) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for PL26 (St. Austell) is £256,800, from 142 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £317,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,130 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 14,179 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PL26 is a postcode district covering East Portholland, Foxhole, Gorran Haven in St. Austell. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PL26 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 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 142 registered 2026 sales in PL26 and the middle price, the median, is £256,800. The mean lands at £317,300, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in PL26
Per square metre, PL26 homes have averaged around £3,130 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, PL26 runs 10% below it.
A typical PL26 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 | £256,800 | £256,800 | 142 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 387 |
| 2024 | £250,000 | £265,801 | 361 |
| 2023 | £277,500 | £304,905 | 361 |
| 2022 | £262,800 | £308,163 | 432 |
| 2021 | £240,000 | £303,871 | 562 |
| 2020 | £207,500 | £269,236 | 353 |
| 2019 | £188,000 | £246,423 | 460 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 437 |
| 2017 | £177,000 | £241,410 | 448 |
| 2016 | £176,000 | £246,226 | 444 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 479 |
| 2014 | £172,200 | £244,296 | 402 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 357 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 331 |
| 2011 | £165,100 | £249,238 | 348 |
| 2010 | £167,800 | £263,154 | 370 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 336 |
| 2008 | £173,000 | £283,584 | 291 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 616 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 611 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 398 |
| 2004 | £154,000 | £279,694 | 531 |
| 2003 | £132,500 | £244,097 | 511 |
| 2002 | £92,500 | £174,038 | 671 |
| 2001 | £73,800 | £141,877 | 604 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 555 |
| 1999 | £53,500 | £106,623 | 551 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 509 |
| 1997 | £50,000 | £102,540 | 533 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 425 |
| 1995 | £42,500 | £92,388 | 363 |
In cash terms the typical PL26 home went from £42,500 in 1995 to £256,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 178%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 17% 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 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 (+43.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−9.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL26 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 43% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £437,500 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, PL26
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 | £437,500 | 62 | 6,150 |
| Semi-detached | £209,000 | 34 | 3,534 |
| Terraced | £195,000 | 35 | 3,720 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 11 | 775 |
How many homes change hands in PL26
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 310 sales completed in PL26. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 562 sales a year before the financial crisis and 337 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 rental side of PL26
For renting purposes PL26 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 £256,800 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.
What people ask about PL26 (East Portholland)
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What happens to PL26 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What is for sale in PL26 right now
Everything above is what homes in PL26 sold for. The live side of the market holds 118 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 27% above the PL26 median sold price.
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.
- Creakavose Park, St. Stephen, St. Aus...
- 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 →
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.
Moving up a bedroom in PL: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
PL26 ranks 18 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.
PL area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PL26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PL26 6 | £438,500 | 40 |
| PL26 7 | £226,000 | 37 |
| PL26 8 | £230,000 | 65 |
How PL26 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 | £260,000 | +6% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL26 (this report) | £256,800 | +7% |
| PL35 | £255,000 | -23% |
| PL18 | £249,300 | -8% |
Selling in PL26? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL26'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PL26.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL26 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL26 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.