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Efford market report PL3 6, Plymouth
The PL3 6 (Efford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,238 HM Land Registry entries for PL3 6 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in PL3 6 (Plymouth) sold for £203,000 in 2026, the median of 57 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £216,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,550 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 6,238 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PL3 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PL3 (Plymouth). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where PL3 6 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 PL3 6 sells for
The PL3 6 median stands at £203,000 for 2026, built from 57 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £216,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in PL3 6
Per square metre, PL3 6 homes have averaged around £2,550 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PL3 6 29% below the national figure.
The price of a typical PL3 6 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £203,000 | £203,000 | 57 |
| 2025 | £208,500 | £213,486 | 160 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 182 |
| 2023 | £195,000 | £214,257 | 137 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 166 |
| 2021 | £175,000 | £221,573 | 205 |
| 2020 | £154,000 | £199,818 | 141 |
| 2019 | £154,000 | £201,857 | 169 |
| 2018 | £150,000 | £199,953 | 173 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 198 |
| 2016 | £135,000 | £188,866 | 180 |
| 2015 | £133,100 | £188,070 | 194 |
| 2014 | £138,000 | £195,777 | 183 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 163 |
| 2012 | £124,000 | £182,513 | 132 |
| 2011 | £117,000 | £176,625 | 115 |
| 2010 | £118,500 | £185,839 | 139 |
| 2009 | £121,000 | £194,509 | 138 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 106 |
| 2007 | £127,500 | £216,276 | 256 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 301 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 208 |
| 2004 | £102,000 | £185,252 | 290 |
| 2003 | £79,100 | £145,721 | 284 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 304 |
| 2001 | £54,000 | £103,812 | 291 |
| 2000 | £43,000 | £84,388 | 303 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 247 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 211 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 205 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 213 |
| 1995 | £41,000 | £89,128 | 187 |
In cash terms the typical PL3 6 home went from £41,000 in 1995 to £203,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 9% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL3 6 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 (+29.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−3.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL3 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.6% | −4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
PL3 6 recorded 57 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 280 sales a year before the financial crisis and 140 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.
What kind of market PL3 6 is
This is a thin market: 57 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. Within PL3, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Rents around PL3 6
For renting purposes PL3 6 sits in Plymouth. The ONS average private rent there is £994 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £698 a month here against £1,479 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Plymouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £203,000 median sold price, £994 a month is £11,928 a year, a gross yield of 5.9%: 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.
Asked and answered: PL3 6 (Efford)
Is PL3 6 (Efford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL3 6 (Efford)?
Are property prices falling in PL3 6 (Efford)?
What happens to PL3 6 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Edgar Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, PL4
- Elim Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, PL3
- Greystoke Avenue, Plymouth, Devon, PL6
"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 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
Real sold prices by size across the PL area, straight 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
The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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 4 | £295,000 | 65 |
| PL3 5 | £306,800 | 54 |
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 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL3 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL3 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL3 6 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 6.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PL3 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every PL3 6 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.