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Lipson market report PL4, Plymouth
The PL4 (Lipson) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 21,032 HM Land Registry entries for PL4 (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 data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for PL4 (Plymouth) is £195,000, from 176 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £193,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,160 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,032 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district PL4 covering Lipson, Mount Gould, Mutley sits in Plymouth. 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 PL4 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 PL4
In the PL4 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £195,000, from 176 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £193,400, sitting practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
PL4 prices by floor area
Per square metre, PL4 homes have averaged around £2,160 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts PL4 32% below the country at large.
PL4's median sold price, 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 | £195,000 | £195,000 | 176 |
| 2025 | £198,000 | £202,735 | 436 |
| 2024 | £187,800 | £199,670 | 412 |
| 2023 | £177,000 | £194,480 | 436 |
| 2022 | £178,500 | £209,312 | 582 |
| 2021 | £172,500 | £218,407 | 539 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 352 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 460 |
| 2018 | £155,500 | £207,284 | 490 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 536 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 562 |
| 2015 | £142,000 | £200,646 | 580 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 541 |
| 2013 | £125,000 | £179,863 | 437 |
| 2012 | £130,000 | £191,344 | 406 |
| 2011 | £128,200 | £193,533 | 440 |
| 2010 | £136,000 | £213,283 | 447 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 465 |
| 2008 | £134,200 | £219,982 | 642 |
| 2007 | £146,900 | £249,183 | 1,070 |
| 2006 | £135,500 | £235,211 | 1,191 |
| 2005 | £127,500 | £226,899 | 931 |
| 2004 | £110,000 | £199,781 | 1,141 |
| 2003 | £88,500 | £163,038 | 1,185 |
| 2002 | £75,700 | £142,429 | 1,122 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 1,136 |
| 2000 | £49,000 | £96,163 | 907 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 870 |
| 1998 | £41,000 | £82,761 | 704 |
| 1997 | £37,500 | £76,905 | 718 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 597 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 521 |
In cash terms the typical PL4 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £195,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 142%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL4 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 2002 (+26.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.5% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 58% of the typed total. In 2020, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £225,000 against £97,500 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, PL4
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 | £225,000 (2020) | – | 97 |
| Semi-detached | £236,000 | 5 | 1,098 |
| Terraced | £215,000 | 110 | 12,269 |
| Flats | £131,000 | 60 | 7,522 |
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 362 PL4 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 1,085 sales a year before the financial crisis and 408 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.
Rents around PL4
PL4 falls under Plymouth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £994 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £195,000 median sold price, £994 a month is £11,928 a year, a gross yield of 6.1%: 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.
How PL4 trades
Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, PL4 ranks 34 by median price: towards the affordable end.
PL4 (Lipson): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in PL4 (Lipson)?
Is PL4 (Lipson) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL4 (Lipson)?
Where do PL4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
PL4's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in PL4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 219 homes on the market right now, from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 8% below the PL4 median sold price.
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
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 PL4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: PL prices by size
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
PL4 ranks 10 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 PL4, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL4 0 | £165,000 | 22 |
| PL4 6 | £180,000 | 27 |
| PL4 7 | £200,000 | 49 |
| PL4 8 | £173,800 | 42 |
| PL4 9 | £205,000 | 36 |
How PL4 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PL area, and PL4 itself, which ranks 34 of 35 by median price:
| 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 | £265,000 | +20% |
| PL25 | £260,000 | +6% |
| PL33 | £257,500 | +5% |
| PL26 | £256,800 | +7% |
| PL35 | £255,000 | -23% |
| PL4 (this report) | £195,000 | +13% |
Selling a home in PL4? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL4's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PL4.
Dig further
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The live map plots every individual PL4 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.
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.