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Dunmere market report PL31, Bodmin
The standing PL31 (Dunmere) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 8,613 registered sales in PL31 (Bodmin) 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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PL31 (Bodmin) came in at £235,500, out of 96 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £233,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,730 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,613 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district PL31 covering Bodmin, Dunmere sits in Bodmin. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where PL31 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 PL31
In the PL31 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £235,500, from 96 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £233,100, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
PL31 prices by floor area
A square metre of PL31 home has cost about £2,730 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PL31 sits 17% below the national market.
PL31's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £235,500 | £235,500 | 96 |
| 2025 | £235,000 | £240,620 | 242 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 227 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 184 |
| 2022 | £230,000 | £269,701 | 249 |
| 2021 | £214,800 | £271,965 | 366 |
| 2020 | £189,500 | £245,880 | 270 |
| 2019 | £183,500 | £240,525 | 287 |
| 2018 | £171,000 | £227,946 | 246 |
| 2017 | £165,000 | £225,043 | 330 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 311 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 249 |
| 2014 | £154,000 | £218,476 | 232 |
| 2013 | £147,000 | £211,518 | 200 |
| 2012 | £159,000 | £234,028 | 171 |
| 2011 | £147,500 | £222,668 | 167 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 182 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £228,266 | 179 |
| 2008 | £147,500 | £241,784 | 194 |
| 2007 | £159,000 | £269,708 | 356 |
| 2006 | £146,500 | £254,305 | 357 |
| 2005 | £145,000 | £258,042 | 254 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 370 |
| 2003 | £117,000 | £215,542 | 384 |
| 2002 | £91,500 | £172,156 | 441 |
| 2001 | £74,000 | £142,261 | 385 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 375 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 325 |
| 1998 | £43,000 | £86,799 | 284 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 309 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 211 |
| 1995 | £36,500 | £79,345 | 180 |
In cash terms the typical PL31 home went from £36,500 in 1995 to £235,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 197%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 13% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL31 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 (+27.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−10.6%). 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, 36% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £312,500 against £165,800 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, PL31
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 | £312,500 | 29 | 2,581 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 | 29 | 2,043 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 32 | 3,114 |
| Flats | £165,800 | 6 | 875 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +0.2% | −2.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.7% | −0.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 179 PL31 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 365 sales a year before the financial crisis and 200 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 PL31
The local authority for PL31 is Cornwall, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,003 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £691 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,510, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cornwall
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £235,500 median sold price, £1,003 a month is £12,036 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
Reading the PL31 market
Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, PL31 ranks 28 by median price: towards the affordable end.
Common questions on PL31 (Dunmere)
How much did a house sell for in PL31 (Dunmere)?
Are property prices falling in PL31 (Dunmere)?
Is PL31 (Dunmere) a good place to buy a house?
Will PL31 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
When homes in PL31 change hands
Across the 1,268 sales completed in PL31 from 2021 to 2025, September was the busiest month for completions (10.7% of the total) and October the quietest (6.5%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 91 | 7.2% |
| February | 100 | 7.9% |
| March | 117 | 9.2% |
| April | 91 | 7.2% |
| May | 98 | 7.7% |
| June | 120 | 9.5% |
| July | 95 | 7.5% |
| August | 122 | 9.6% |
| September | 136 | 10.7% |
| October | 83 | 6.5% |
| November | 95 | 7.5% |
| December | 120 | 9.5% |
Moving up a bedroom in PL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the PL area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £262,625 | £300,000 (+14%) | £347,000 (+16%) | £435,000 (+25%) | £584,500 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £180,000 | £220,000 (+22%) | £242,000 (+10%) | £280,000 (+16%) | £332,500 (+19%) |
| Terraced | £162,500 | £190,000 (+17%) | £210,000 (+11%) | £260,000 (+24%) | £283,000 (+9%) |
| Flat | £112,750 | £137,500 (+22%) | £165,000 (+20%) | £249,000 (+51%) | £317,500 (+28%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
PL31 ranks 13 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside PL31, 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.
How PL31 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PL area, and PL31 itself, which ranks 28 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PL28 | £525,000 | +9% |
| PL23 | £470,000 | +21% |
| PL8 | £422,500 | -9% |
| PL34 | £350,000 | +21% |
| PL29 | £340,000 | -39% |
| PL30 | £330,000 | -10% |
| PL27 | £320,200 | +0% |
| PL21 | £310,500 | +9% |
| PL16 | £310,000 | -7% |
| PL20 | £305,000 | -1% |
| PL9 | £300,000 | +11% |
| PL22 | £300,000 | +0% |
| PL10 | £298,500 | +13% |
| PL13 | £295,000 | +2% |
| PL12 | £277,000 | +13% |
| PL3 | £270,000 | +23% |
| PL17 | £270,000 | +4% |
| PL35 | £266,500 | -19% |
| PL7 | £266,000 | +16% |
| PL26 | £265,000 | +10% |
| PL19 | £263,800 | -14% |
| PL25 | £258,200 | +5% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL31 (this report) | £235,500 | +10% |
Selling a home in PL31? 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 PL31, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL31's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL31 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PL31. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual PL31 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.