Porthallow, Helston house prices are built from 108 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 16 Feb 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £225,000. Across the 14 years from 2011 to 2025 the median moved +55.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +3.6%.
Median price paid
£225,000
Change in cash, 2011–2025
+55.4%
Change in real terms
+3.6%
Median per m²
£3,378
HM Land Registry108 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 16 Feb 2026
Section 01
How Porthallow, Helston prices moved
The chart tracks the median Porthallow, Helston house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2025. 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 | 1 | £73,500 | £163,205 |
| 2000s | 5 | £249,950 | £455,335 |
| 2010s | 2 | £243,750 | £343,688 |
| 2020s | 3 | £378,750 | £386,984 |
The highest yearly median on record for Porthallow, Helston is £385,000 in 2020; the lowest is £73,500 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £73,500 to £378,750.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £159,438, so the real change over the whole record is +142.7% — about +3.10% 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: +55.4% in cash against +3.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 1 Gallen Treath | 16 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| Clifton Cottage | 14 Nov 2025 | Detached | £215,000 | £219,674 |
| Gwel Teg | 17 Oct 2025 | Detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| Tredenny | 12 Jun 2025 | Detached | £470,000 | £480,217 |
| Rutherglen | 20 May 2025 | Detached | £355,000 | £362,717 |
| Merrow Down | 28 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £250,326 |
| Willow Cottage | 27 Jan 2025 | Detached | £402,500 | £411,250 |
| Pednatiere | 6 Sep 2024 | Detached | £380,000 | £399,851 |
| Cove Cottage | 29 May 2024 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £420,896 |
| School Hill House | 8 Mar 2024 | Detached | £604,200 | £635,763 |
| Wreckers Corner | 4 Aug 2023 | Semi-detached | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| The Haven | 16 Sep 2022 | Terraced | £525,000 | £608,258 |
| April Cottage | 22 Apr 2022 | Semi-detached | £366,100 | £424,159 |
| Flat 4 Gallen Treath | 4 Oct 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £265,323 |
| The Old Stable | 19 Mar 2021 | Detached | £128,500 | £162,352 |
| Willow Cottage | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £455,000 | £574,866 |
| The Old Chapel | 12 Mar 2021 | Detached | £375,000 | £473,790 |
| Rutherglen | 8 Feb 2021 | Detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| Merrow Down | 11 Dec 2020 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| Gwel Teg | 3 Nov 2020 | Detached | £385,000 | £498,485 |
| Ruff Bank | 23 Oct 2020 | Detached | £435,000 | £563,223 |
| Sunny Corner | 6 Oct 2020 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £317,218 |
| Oceanside | 19 Jun 2020 | Detached | £660,000 | £854,545 |
| Bass Cottage | 1 Nov 2019 | Terraced | £287,500 | £376,044 |
| Post Office | 22 Aug 2019 | Detached | £174,000 | £227,588 |
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 Porthallow, Helston values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLIFTON COTTAGE Porthallow | £56,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2025) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| GWEL TEG Porthallow | £78,000 (1996) | £435,000 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.4% |
| TREDENNY Porthallow | £69,000 (1996) | £470,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +4.1% |
| RUTHERGLEN Porthallow | £28,000 (1995) | £355,000 (2025) | +8.8% | +6.1% |
| MERROW DOWN Porthallow | £200,000 (2020) | £245,000 (2025) | +4.1% | -0.7% |
| WILLOW COTTAGE Porthallow | £67,500 (1996) | £402,500 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.6% |
| PEDNATIERE Porthallow | £110,000 (1999) | £380,000 (2024) | +5.1% | +2.3% |
| COVE COTTAGE Porthallow | £60,000 (1998) | £400,000 (2024) | +7.6% | +4.8% |
| SCHOOL HILL HOUSE Porthallow | £480,000 (2012) | £604,200 (2024) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| THE HAVEN Porthallow | £480,000 (2016) | £525,000 (2022) | +1.5% | -1.6% |
| THE OLD STABLE Porthallow | £72,500 (2013) | £128,500 (2021) | +7.4% | +5.5% |
| THE OLD CHAPEL Porthallow | £150,000 (2001) | £375,000 (2021) | +4.7% | +2.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Porthallow, Helston 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 | 77 | 71.3% | £235,000 | £28,000 – £660,000 |
| Terraced | 14 | 13.0% | £220,000 | £25,000 – £525,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 9 | 8.3% | £119,000 | £75,000 – £210,000 |
| Semi-detached | 8 | 7.4% | £245,000 | £60,000 – £485,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Porthallow, Helston
9 of the sales on record are leasehold and 99 freehold — 8.3% 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 £119,000 and the median freehold sale £237,500 — a gap of +99.6%. 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 | 9 | 8.3% | £119,000 |
| Freehold | 99 | 91.7% | £237,500 |
| New build | 4 | 3.7% | £118,375 |
| Existing home | 104 | 96.3% | £235,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -49.6%. 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 4 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 09
How Porthallow, Helston compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Porthallow, Helston sits above that national figure — +42.9%.
Within Helston the street ranks 140 of 445 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £177,350 (+26.9%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,378 per square metre, across 3 of the 108 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 £25,000 to £660,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Laflouder Fields£285,000 median
- Churchtown£200,750 median
- Tregellas Road£155,000 median
- Cadgwith£312,500 median
- Croft Parc£180,000 median
- Trembel Road£149,500 median
- North Corner£475,000 median
- Gibbons Fields£155,000 median
- Gillan£395,000 median
- Nansmellyon Road£219,500 median
- Meneth£232,500 median
- Mundys Field£220,000 median
- Newtown£189,500 median
- Penmenner Road£280,000 median
- Trewoon Road£197,250 median
- Chymbloth Way£350,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- CLIFTON COTTAGE Porthallow5 sales
- RUTHERGLEN Porthallow5 sales
- WILLOW COTTAGE Porthallow5 sales
- PEDNATIERE Porthallow5 sales
- RESPRYN Porthallow5 sales
- LITTLE PENGARROCK Porthallow4 sales
- SCOL GARTH Porthallow4 sales
- GWEL TEG Porthallow3 sales
- BASS COTTAGE Porthallow3 sales
- TOL PEG Porthallow3 sales
- MYRTLE COTTAGE Porthallow3 sales
- HEADLAND COTTAGE Porthallow3 sales
- TREDENNY Porthallow2 sales
- MERROW DOWN Porthallow2 sales
- COVE COTTAGE Porthallow2 sales
- SCHOOL HILL HOUSE Porthallow2 sales
- THE HAVEN Porthallow2 sales
- THE OLD STABLE Porthallow2 sales
- THE OLD CHAPEL Porthallow2 sales
- SUNNY CORNER Porthallow2 sales
- POST OFFICE Porthallow2 sales
- BEACH HOUSE Porthallow2 sales
- GLENVALE Porthallow2 sales
- MILLSTONE Porthallow2 sales
Back to Helston house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Porthallow, Helston?
The median price paid in Porthallow, Helston across every sale on the register is £225,000. 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 Porthallow, Helston?
108 sales are on record for Porthallow, Helston, the most recent completing on 16 Feb 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Porthallow, Helston house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +55.4% between 2011 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +3.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Porthallow, Helston house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £385,000, set in 2020. 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 Porthallow, Helston?
£3,378 per square metre, from the 3 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 16 Feb 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, “Porthallow, Helston 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.