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Brixton market report PL8 2, Plymouth
The PL8 2 (Brixton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 1,777 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in PL8 2 (Plymouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in PL8 2 (Plymouth) sold for £344,500 in 2026, the median of 20 registered sales, up 0% on five years earlier. The mean was £345,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,777 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PL8 2 is one sector of PL8 (Plymouth): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where PL8 2 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.
PL8 2 sold prices: where the market stands
20 sales were registered in PL8 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £344,500. The mean works out at £345,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
What a square metre costs in PL8 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PL8 2 sales average about £3,630 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, PL8 2 sits 21% above the national market.
A typical PL8 2 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £344,500 | £344,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £360,000 | £368,609 | 52 |
| 2024 | £366,200 | £389,346 | 52 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 53 |
| 2022 | £395,000 | £463,183 | 78 |
| 2021 | £345,000 | £436,815 | 69 |
| 2020 | £360,800 | £468,145 | 54 |
| 2019 | £292,800 | £383,791 | 57 |
| 2018 | £304,500 | £405,904 | 60 |
| 2017 | £313,500 | £427,583 | 66 |
| 2016 | £284,000 | £397,319 | 48 |
| 2015 | £286,500 | £404,825 | 86 |
| 2014 | £282,500 | £400,776 | 64 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 63 |
| 2012 | £235,000 | £345,891 | 29 |
| 2011 | £240,000 | £362,308 | 37 |
| 2010 | £242,500 | £380,302 | 36 |
| 2009 | £201,500 | £323,913 | 46 |
| 2008 | £272,500 | £446,685 | 23 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 59 |
| 2006 | £236,500 | £410,534 | 60 |
| 2005 | £206,000 | £366,597 | 40 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 63 |
| 2003 | £188,200 | £346,710 | 64 |
| 2002 | £145,800 | £274,321 | 56 |
| 2001 | £127,800 | £245,689 | 60 |
| 2000 | £100,800 | £197,820 | 82 |
| 1999 | £87,500 | £174,383 | 71 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 71 |
| 1997 | £82,400 | £168,986 | 60 |
| 1996 | £62,000 | £130,755 | 52 |
| 1995 | £76,500 | £166,299 | 46 |
In cash terms the typical PL8 2 home went from £76,500 in 1995 to £344,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 107%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2020. The market now sits about 26% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL8 2 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 1997 (+32.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−26.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What PL8 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.3% | −6.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.8% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.9% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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.
PL8 2 recorded 20 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 51 sales a year recently, against 61 a year before 2008. 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 PL8 2
The local authority for PL8 2 is South Hams, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,000 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £728 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,613, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, South Hams
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £344,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,000 a month (£12,000 a year) works out at a 3.5% 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.
What kind of market PL8 2 is
Only 20 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PL8 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within PL8, this sector trades 18% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on PL8 2 (Brixton)
Is PL8 2 (Brixton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL8 2 (Brixton)?
Are property prices falling in PL8 2 (Brixton)?
Are PL8 2 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What another bedroom costs in PL
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%) |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the PL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in PL8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PL8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL8 1 | £607,500 | 14 |
Zoom out to the full PL8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PL8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in PL8 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL8 2'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.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with PL8 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PL8 2 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.