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Crownhill market report PL5, Plymouth
The PL5 (Crownhill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 19,119 registered sales in PL5 (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 August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 272 registered 2026 sales put the PL5 (Plymouth) median at £198,500, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £212,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,520 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 19,119 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district PL5 covering Crownhill, Ernesettle, Honicknowle 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 PL5 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 PL5
In the PL5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £198,500, from 272 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £212,800, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PL5
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PL5 sales average about £2,520 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PL5 runs 30% below it.
A typical PL5 home, priced year by year (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 | £198,500 | £198,500 | 272 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 540 |
| 2024 | £187,500 | £199,351 | 507 |
| 2023 | £189,500 | £208,214 | 518 |
| 2022 | £184,200 | £215,996 | 580 |
| 2021 | £164,000 | £207,645 | 577 |
| 2020 | £158,500 | £205,657 | 441 |
| 2019 | £150,000 | £196,614 | 591 |
| 2018 | £143,000 | £190,622 | 586 |
| 2017 | £140,000 | £190,946 | 535 |
| 2016 | £136,000 | £190,265 | 569 |
| 2015 | £130,000 | £183,690 | 530 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 545 |
| 2013 | £119,000 | £171,229 | 493 |
| 2012 | £117,500 | £172,945 | 423 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 404 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 389 |
| 2009 | £113,200 | £181,970 | 400 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 400 |
| 2007 | £129,000 | £218,820 | 859 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 920 |
| 2005 | £114,000 | £202,874 | 735 |
| 2004 | £98,000 | £177,987 | 832 |
| 2003 | £85,000 | £156,591 | 1,050 |
| 2002 | £71,000 | £133,586 | 927 |
| 2001 | £52,700 | £101,313 | 1,036 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 941 |
| 1999 | £40,500 | £80,714 | 687 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 500 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 507 |
| 1996 | £37,500 | £79,086 | 456 |
| 1995 | £38,500 | £83,693 | 369 |
In cash terms the typical PL5 home went from £38,500 in 1995 to £198,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 137%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. 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 PL5 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 (+34.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−9.4%). 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, 48% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,500 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.0 times the price.
Median by property type, PL5
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 | £370,500 | 14 | 1,141 |
| Semi-detached | £222,500 | 96 | 6,807 |
| Terraced | £191,000 | 141 | 9,096 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 21 | 2,075 |
What PL5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.8% | −0.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.8% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in PL5
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 455 PL5 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 913 sales a year before the financial crisis and 483 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.
The shape of the PL5 market
Among the 35 measurable districts of its area, PL5 ranks 33 by median price: towards the affordable end.
The rental side of PL5
For renting purposes PL5 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.
Against the £198,500 median purchase price, a rent of £994 a month (£11,928 a year) works out at a 6.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on PL5 (Crownhill)
Are property prices falling in PL5 (Crownhill)?
Is PL5 (Crownhill) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL5 (Crownhill)?
Are PL5 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in PL5 today
Everything above is what homes in PL5 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 14 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the PL5 median sold price.
Set against 455 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 14 homes on the market here are roughly 2 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
Of everything listed here, 7% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 PL5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Month by month: when PL5 sells
Take the 2,722 PL5 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.0% of the total, May trails with 6.7%. With so little between the busiest and quietest months, PL5 sells year round; the calendar is a weaker lever than price.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 218 | 8.0% |
| February | 217 | 8.0% |
| March | 272 | 10.0% |
| April | 196 | 7.2% |
| May | 182 | 6.7% |
| June | 231 | 8.5% |
| July | 236 | 8.7% |
| August | 224 | 8.2% |
| September | 229 | 8.4% |
| October | 224 | 8.2% |
| November | 251 | 9.2% |
| December | 242 | 8.9% |
The price of an extra bedroom in PL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, 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 | £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%) |
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
PL5 ranks 4 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside PL5, 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 PL5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the PL area, and PL5 itself, which ranks 33 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% |
| PL5 (this report) | £198,500 | +21% |
Selling a home in PL5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in PL5, open the average prices map and zoom from the PL5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded PL5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual PL5 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.