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Efford market report PL3 4, Plymouth
The standing PL3 4 (Efford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,014 HM Land Registry entries for PL3 4 (Plymouth), 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 PL3 4 (Plymouth) came in at £295,000, out of 65 registered, up 21% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £290,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,530 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 7,014 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 PL3 4 is a single group of streets within PL3 (Plymouth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where PL3 4 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 PL3 4 homes really sell for
Across 65 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) PL3 4 home went for £295,000. The mean is £290,700, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in PL3 4
By floor space, homes in PL3 4 have sold for about £2,530 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PL3 4 4% above the country at large.
PL3 4's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 65 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 183 |
| 2024 | £278,800 | £296,422 | 150 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 151 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 209 |
| 2021 | £243,000 | £307,669 | 239 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 160 |
| 2019 | £220,000 | £288,367 | 175 |
| 2018 | £222,000 | £295,930 | 171 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 185 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 237 |
| 2015 | £197,000 | £278,361 | 221 |
| 2014 | £189,000 | £268,130 | 173 |
| 2013 | £184,500 | £265,477 | 163 |
| 2012 | £177,200 | £260,816 | 146 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 157 |
| 2010 | £175,200 | £274,759 | 190 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 173 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 164 |
| 2007 | £183,000 | £310,419 | 305 |
| 2006 | £177,500 | £308,117 | 356 |
| 2005 | £166,200 | £295,769 | 242 |
| 2004 | £154,700 | £280,965 | 292 |
| 2003 | £130,500 | £240,413 | 290 |
| 2002 | £98,000 | £184,386 | 294 |
| 2001 | £82,000 | £157,641 | 313 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 303 |
| 1999 | £58,500 | £116,587 | 338 |
| 1998 | £56,000 | £113,040 | 281 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 269 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 214 |
| 1995 | £48,000 | £104,345 | 205 |
In cash terms the typical PL3 4 home went from £48,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 183%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 5% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL3 4 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 (+33.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.3% | +5.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in PL3 4
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.
PL3 4 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 299 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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 homes rent for around PL3 4
PL3 4 falls under Plymouth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £994 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £698 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,479, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Plymouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £295,000 median sold price, £994 a month is £11,928 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: 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 PL3 4 market
Against the PL3 district median, PL3 4 sits 11% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: PL3 4 (Efford)
Is PL3 4 (Efford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL3 4 (Efford)?
Are property prices falling in PL3 4 (Efford)?
Where do PL3 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 PL3 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 189 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL3 district, not just PL3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 36% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Edgar Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, PL4
- Elim Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, PL3
- Greystoke Avenue, Plymouth, Devon, PL6
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 PL3 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PL area. 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. 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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PL3
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of PL3, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL3 5 | £306,800 | 54 |
| PL3 6 | £203,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full PL3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PL3 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PL3 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL3 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL3 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working PL3 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim PL3 4.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PL3 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL3 4 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.