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Efford market report PL3 5, Plymouth
The PL3 5 (Efford) 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: 5,355 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL3 5 (Plymouth) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for PL3 5 (Plymouth) is £306,800, from 54 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £328,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,355 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PL3 5 is one sector of PL3 (Plymouth): 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 PL3 5 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.
The going rate for a home in PL3 5
54 sales were registered in PL3 5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £306,800. The mean works out at £328,700, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in PL3 5
A square metre of PL3 5 home has cost about £2,930 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PL3 5 runs 8% above it.
PL3 5's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £306,800 | £306,800 | 54 |
| 2025 | £313,800 | £321,304 | 166 |
| 2024 | £343,500 | £365,211 | 138 |
| 2023 | £308,800 | £339,296 | 136 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 141 |
| 2021 | £290,000 | £367,177 | 202 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 132 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 165 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 156 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 157 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 141 |
| 2015 | £228,500 | £322,871 | 152 |
| 2014 | £217,500 | £308,562 | 149 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 135 |
| 2012 | £199,600 | £293,786 | 129 |
| 2011 | £208,500 | £314,755 | 122 |
| 2010 | £202,500 | £317,572 | 106 |
| 2009 | £187,500 | £301,408 | 122 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 120 |
| 2007 | £216,200 | £366,735 | 218 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 205 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 163 |
| 2004 | £165,800 | £301,125 | 182 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 198 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 226 |
| 2001 | £93,800 | £180,326 | 284 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 223 |
| 1999 | £72,500 | £144,489 | 194 |
| 1998 | £68,800 | £138,878 | 214 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 220 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 242 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical PL3 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £306,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 135%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL3 5 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 2006 (+30.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−19.1%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in PL3 5
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 54 sales completed in PL3 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 212 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 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.
Reading the PL3 5 market
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PL3 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 PL3, this sector trades 16% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
The rental side of PL3 5
For renting purposes PL3 5 sits in Plymouth. The ONS average private rent there is £994 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £698 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,479 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Plymouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£994 a month is £11,928 a year, which against the £306,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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: PL3 5 (Efford)
Are property prices falling in PL3 5 (Efford)?
Is PL3 5 (Efford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL3 5 (Efford)?
Where do PL3 5 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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 PL3 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 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
What another bedroom costs in PL
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. 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 PL3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of PL3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL3 4 | £295,000 | 65 |
| 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.
Selling in PL3 5? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL3 5, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL3 5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL3 5 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 PL3 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about PL3 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL3 5 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.