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Efford market report PL3, Plymouth
The PL3 (Efford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 18,607 registered sales in PL3 (Plymouth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in PL3 (Plymouth) sold for £265,000 in 2026, the median of 176 registered sales, up 20% on five years earlier. The mean was £278,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,650 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 18,607 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PL3 is the postcode district covering Efford, Hartley, Laira in Plymouth. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where PL3 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 buyers actually paid in PL3
In the PL3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £265,000, from 176 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £278,100, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in PL3
By floor space, homes in PL3 have sold for about £2,650 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PL3 sits 7% below the national market.
A typical PL3 home, priced year by year (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 | £265,000 | £265,000 | 176 |
| 2025 | £258,000 | £264,170 | 509 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 470 |
| 2023 | £236,500 | £259,856 | 424 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 516 |
| 2021 | £220,000 | £278,548 | 646 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 433 |
| 2019 | £200,000 | £262,152 | 509 |
| 2018 | £195,000 | £259,939 | 500 |
| 2017 | £185,000 | £252,321 | 540 |
| 2016 | £182,900 | £255,879 | 558 |
| 2015 | £180,000 | £254,340 | 567 |
| 2014 | £181,200 | £257,064 | 505 |
| 2013 | £167,000 | £240,296 | 461 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 407 |
| 2011 | £162,500 | £245,313 | 394 |
| 2010 | £159,500 | £250,137 | 435 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 433 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 390 |
| 2007 | £169,000 | £286,671 | 779 |
| 2006 | £159,200 | £276,351 | 862 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 613 |
| 2004 | £134,500 | £244,278 | 764 |
| 2003 | £116,000 | £213,700 | 772 |
| 2002 | £88,000 | £165,571 | 824 |
| 2001 | £77,000 | £148,029 | 888 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 829 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 779 |
| 1998 | £53,000 | £106,984 | 706 |
| 1997 | £51,900 | £106,436 | 694 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 669 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 555 |
In cash terms the typical PL3 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £265,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 144%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PL3 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 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−5.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £355,000 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, PL3
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 | £355,000 | 11 | 1,586 |
| Semi-detached | £300,000 | 52 | 4,922 |
| Terraced | £272,500 | 90 | 9,653 |
| Flats | £150,000 | 23 | 2,446 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +2.7% | +0.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.8% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
PL3 recorded 385 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 791 sales a year before the financial crisis and 419 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.
The rental side of PL3
For renting purposes PL3 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.
Set against the £265,000 median sold price, £994 a month is £11,928 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.
Common questions on PL3 (Efford)
Are property prices falling in PL3 (Efford)?
Is PL3 (Efford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL3 (Efford)?
Where do PL3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
PL3's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PL3 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 189 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 17% below the PL3 median sold price.
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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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
PL3 ranks 5 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.
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.
Inside PL3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL3 4 | £295,000 | 65 |
| PL3 5 | £306,800 | 54 |
| PL3 6 | £203,000 | 57 |
How PL3 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 (this report) | £265,000 | +20% |
| PL25 | £260,000 | +6% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL26 | £256,800 | +7% |
| PL35 | £255,000 | -23% |
| PL18 | £249,300 | -8% |
Selling a home in PL3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in PL3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PL3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL3 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.