PL26 house prices are built from 14,123 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £147,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.8%.
Median price paid
£147,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+42.1%
Change in real terms
+1.8%
Median per m²
£2,093
HM Land Registry14,123 sales197 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026
Section 01
How PL26 prices moved
The chart tracks the median PL26 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £49,950 | £110,913 |
| 2000s | 10 | £149,975 | £273,210 |
| 2010s | 10 | £172,000 | £242,520 |
| 2020s | 7 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for PL26 is £278,748 in 2023; the lowest is £42,500 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,500 to £250,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £94,370, so the real change over the whole record is +164.9% — about +3.19% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +42.1% in cash against +1.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 Roche Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 2 Roche Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £350,000 |
| Mellvue | 15 Jun 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 20 Woodland View | 12 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 9 Cleavers Way | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £114,729 | £114,729 |
| 38 Hillside Meadows | 10 Jun 2026 | Detached | £249,950 | £249,950 |
| 15 Boscawen Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| FERNDALE Fore Street | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £186,500 | £186,500 |
| 4 Jubilee Terrace | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 7 Turnpike Drive | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| TRESCO, 2 Pentewan Hill | 2 Jun 2026 | Detached | £615,000 | £615,000 |
| Trudys Cottage | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £256,000 | £256,000 |
| 32 Fore Street | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| TANGLEWOOD Portheast Way | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £751,000 | £751,000 |
| 5 Polkirt Hill | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| 2 Springfield Way | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £242,000 | £242,000 |
| 35 Wellington Road | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £172,500 | £172,500 |
| TAMSIN COTTAGE Modus Lane | 26 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £300,000 | £300,000 |
| 7 Trerice Terrace | 26 May 2026 | Terraced | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| Mount Pleasant House | 19 May 2026 | Detached | £600,000 | £600,000 |
| 33 Fore Street | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 22 Fore Street | 11 May 2026 | Terraced | £106,660 | £106,660 |
| 1 Treverbyn Road | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 114 Penwithick Park | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 53 Barton Road | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £172,000 | £172,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to PL26 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39 Roche Road | £87,500 (2025) | £180,000 (2026) | +105.7% | +101.3% |
| 2 Roche Road | £70,000 (2000) | £350,000 (2026) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| 20 Woodland View | £149,995 (2011) | £180,000 (2026) | +1.2% | -1.6% |
| 9 Cleavers Way | £75,572 (2011) | £114,729 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.1% |
| 38 Hillside Meadows | £115,000 (2003) | £249,950 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
| 15 Boscawen Road | £145,000 (2017) | £195,000 (2026) | +3.3% | -0.1% |
| FERNDALE Fore Street | £156,000 (2010) | £186,500 (2026) | +1.1% | -1.8% |
| 4 Jubilee Terrace | £22,000 (1998) | £250,000 (2026) | +9.1% | +6.3% |
| 7 Turnpike Drive | £380,000 (2024) | £425,000 (2026) | +5.8% | +3.1% |
| 32 Fore Street | £36,600 (2001) | £140,000 (2026) | +5.5% | +2.7% |
| 5 Polkirt Hill | £42,000 (1997) | £275,000 (2026) | +6.7% | +4.0% |
| 35 Wellington Road | £38,000 (2001) | £172,500 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. PL26 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 6,118 | 43.3% | £200,000 | £3,000 – £3,000,000 |
| Terraced | 3,709 | 26.3% | £120,000 | £7,500 – £950,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3,523 | 24.9% | £131,000 | £5,000 – £1,075,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 773 | 5.5% | £125,000 | £10,000 – £735,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in PL26
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,127 certificates cover PL26, and their median floor area is 80 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 80 m² | about 861 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 64 m² | about 689 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 104 m² | about 1,119 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 19.7% | 811 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 8.8% | 364 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in PL26
832 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13,291 freehold — 5.9% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £117,250 and the median freehold sale £149,000 — a gap of +27.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 832 | 5.9% | £117,250 |
| Freehold | 13,291 | 94.1% | £149,000 |
| New build | 1,279 | 9.1% | £135,000 |
| Existing home | 12,844 | 90.9% | £149,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -9.4%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 866 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in PL26
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cornwall, 37.4% of 321,040 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 14.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 3,287 | 1.0% |
| B | 36,937 | 11.5% |
| C | 79,827 | 24.9% |
| D | 92,894 | 28.9% |
| E | 62,653 | 19.5% |
| F | 32,170 | 10.0% |
| G | 13,272 | 4.1% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cornwall at £1,005 a month as of Jun 2026 — £692 for a one-bedroom home and £1,082 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £147,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.18% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of PL26, 7 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 4 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 23.9 times quieter.
Against the 570,305 residents the 2021 census counted in Cornwall, that is 0.01 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around PL26
The 2021 census counted 570,305 residents in Cornwall across 250,533 households. 67.4% of those households own their home and 32.5% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
13 state and independent schools have a PL26 postcode: 12 primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brannel School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 888 |
| St Mewan Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 441 |
| St Stephen Churchtown Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 284 |
| Treverbyn Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 214 |
| Roche Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 200 |
| St Dennis Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 187 |
| Bugle School | Primary | Academy converter | 167 |
| Mevagissey Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 160 |
| Sky Primary and Eden Project Nursery | Primary | Free schools | 118 |
| Whitemoor Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 108 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| St Austell Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Bugle Rail Station | Rail | 6.5 km |
| Luxulyan Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
| Roche Rail Station | Rail | 8.1 km |
Section 09
How PL26 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. PL26 sits below that national figure — -6.3%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,093 per square metre, across 197 of the 14,123 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £3,000 to £3,000,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
PL26 sits in Cornwall, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cornwall at 8.6 times median local earnings of £33,889 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside PL26
The closest districts
- PL253.3 km · £158,000
- TR816.4 km · £218,000
- TR118.6 km · £190,000
- TR719.1 km · £175,000
- TR1128.6 km · £205,000
- PL1428.7 km · £145,000
- TR1531.8 km · £135,000
- TR1436.6 km · £133,300
This district mostly covers St Austell.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in PL26?
The median price paid in PL26 across every sale on the register is £147,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in PL26?
14,123 sales are on record for PL26, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have PL26 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +42.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were PL26 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £278,748, set in 2023. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in PL26?
£2,093 per square metre, from the 197 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “PL26 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.