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Brixton market report PL8, Plymouth
The PL8 (Brixton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,086 registered sales in PL8 (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.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in PL8 (Plymouth) sold for £392,500 in 2026, the median of 28 registered sales, down 16% on five years earlier. The mean was £422,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,350 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,086 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
PL8 is a postcode district covering Brixton, Newton Ferrers, Noss Mayo in Plymouth. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where PL8 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 PL8
The PL8 median stands at £392,500 for 2026, built from 28 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £422,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in PL8
The last five years of sales put PL8 at roughly £4,350 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, PL8 runs 38% above it.
PL8's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £392,500 | £392,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £465,000 | £476,120 | 89 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 86 |
| 2023 | £475,000 | £521,909 | 74 |
| 2022 | £446,200 | £523,220 | 108 |
| 2021 | £465,000 | £588,750 | 137 |
| 2020 | £440,000 | £570,909 | 105 |
| 2019 | £379,000 | £496,778 | 102 |
| 2018 | £365,000 | £486,552 | 100 |
| 2017 | £356,000 | £485,548 | 104 |
| 2016 | £376,800 | £527,147 | 90 |
| 2015 | £360,000 | £508,680 | 139 |
| 2014 | £321,200 | £455,678 | 100 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 99 |
| 2012 | £310,000 | £456,281 | 69 |
| 2011 | £320,000 | £483,077 | 83 |
| 2010 | £296,500 | £464,988 | 71 |
| 2009 | £240,000 | £385,802 | 77 |
| 2008 | £323,000 | £529,465 | 49 |
| 2007 | £322,500 | £547,050 | 110 |
| 2006 | £282,000 | £489,516 | 113 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 75 |
| 2004 | £245,000 | £444,968 | 94 |
| 2003 | £236,000 | £434,769 | 111 |
| 2002 | £187,000 | £351,839 | 111 |
| 2001 | £152,100 | £292,404 | 92 |
| 2000 | £129,500 | £254,144 | 125 |
| 1999 | £120,000 | £239,154 | 140 |
| 1998 | £100,000 | £201,857 | 111 |
| 1997 | £112,000 | £229,689 | 108 |
| 1996 | £84,900 | £179,050 | 96 |
| 1995 | £96,500 | £209,776 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical PL8 home went from £96,500 in 1995 to £392,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 87%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 33% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the PL8 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 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.7%). 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) | −15.6% | −17.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.3% | −7.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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 detached houses dominate the record here, 52% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £498,800 against £145,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, PL8
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 | £498,800 | 12 | 1,609 |
| Semi-detached | £305,000 (2025) | – | 634 |
| Terraced | £352,500 | 8 | 616 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 6 | 208 |
Sales activity in PL8
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 65 sales completed in PL8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 104 sales a year before the financial crisis and 77 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 tenants pay around PL8
PL8 falls under South Hams, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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 £392,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,000 a month (£12,000 a year) works out at a 3.1% 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.
Reading the PL8 market
Only 65 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes PL8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. PL8 sits 3 of 35 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about PL8 (Brixton)
Is PL8 (Brixton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PL8 (Brixton)?
Are property prices falling in PL8 (Brixton)?
Are PL8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 16% over five years in cash but down 33% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in PL8 right now
Everything above is what homes in PL8 sold for. The live side of the market holds 104 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 40% above the PL8 median sold price.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 13 Perches Close, Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, Devon
- Masons Yard, Holbeton, Plymouth
- Brent Hill, Holbeton
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 PL8 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the PL area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
PL8 ranks 33 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside PL8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PL8 1 | £651,500 | 8 |
| PL8 2 | £327,000 | 20 |
How PL8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the PL area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| PL28 | £525,000 | +9% |
| PL23 | £506,800 | +30% |
| PL8 (this report) | £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% |
| PL18 | £249,300 | -8% |
Thinking of selling in PL8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PL8'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 PL8.
Keep digging
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Two maps carry on from here: every PL8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.