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Lipson market report PL4 8, Plymouth
The PL4 8 (Lipson) 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: 5,279 sales registered with HM Land Registry in PL4 8 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for PL4 8 (Plymouth) is £173,800, from 42 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £193,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,020 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,279 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
PL4 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside PL4 (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 PL4 8 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 PL4 8
The 2026 median for PL4 8 is £173,800, taken from 42 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £193,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in PL4 8
By floor space, homes in PL4 8 have sold for about £2,020 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 PL4 8 39% below the country at large.
PL4 8'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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £173,800 | £173,800 | 42 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 111 |
| 2024 | £165,000 | £175,429 | 111 |
| 2023 | £172,500 | £189,535 | 97 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 137 |
| 2021 | £178,000 | £225,371 | 131 |
| 2020 | £175,000 | £227,066 | 84 |
| 2019 | £160,500 | £210,377 | 102 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 124 |
| 2017 | £158,100 | £215,633 | 104 |
| 2016 | £140,500 | £196,561 | 138 |
| 2015 | £147,000 | £207,711 | 146 |
| 2014 | £139,700 | £198,189 | 138 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 103 |
| 2012 | £120,500 | £177,361 | 91 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 99 |
| 2010 | £152,400 | £239,002 | 93 |
| 2009 | £115,500 | £185,667 | 103 |
| 2008 | £136,000 | £222,933 | 143 |
| 2007 | £145,500 | £246,809 | 268 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 367 |
| 2005 | £127,000 | £226,009 | 237 |
| 2004 | £100,000 | £181,620 | 313 |
| 2003 | £95,000 | £175,013 | 269 |
| 2002 | £74,000 | £139,230 | 259 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 297 |
| 2000 | £48,000 | £94,200 | 256 |
| 1999 | £40,500 | £80,714 | 250 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 178 |
| 1997 | £37,700 | £77,315 | 181 |
| 1996 | £35,800 | £75,501 | 158 |
| 1995 | £34,500 | £74,998 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical PL4 8 home went from £34,500 in 1995 to £173,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 132%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the PL4 8 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 2010 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−15.1%). 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) | −0.7% | −3.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.5% | −5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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
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.
PL4 8 recorded 42 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 283 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 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 PL4 8
For renting purposes PL4 8 sits in Plymouth. The ONS average private rent there is £994 a month (May 2026). 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.
£994 a month is £11,928 a year, which against the £173,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.9%. 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.
Reading the PL4 8 market
This is a thin market: 42 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. Against the PL4 district median, PL4 8 sits 11% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
PL4 8 (Lipson): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PL4 8 (Lipson)?
Is PL4 8 (Lipson) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL4 8 (Lipson)?
Are PL4 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
PL4's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 219 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PL4 district, not just PL4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Glynn Valley Lane, Plymouth, Devon, PL9
- Ladysmith Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL4
- Ladysmith Road, PLYMOUTH
"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 PL4 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in PL4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PL4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL4 0 | £165,000 | 22 |
| PL4 6 | £180,000 | 27 |
| PL4 7 | £200,000 | 49 |
| PL4 9 | £205,000 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full PL4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL4 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in PL4 8? 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 PL4 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from PL4 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded PL4 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim PL4 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PL4 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual PL4 8 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.