Watergate Road, Newquay house prices

Watergate Road, Newquay house prices are built from 173 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1999 and the most recent on 17 Nov 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £157,250. Across the 12 years from 2009 to 2021 the median moved +0.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.8%.

HM Land Registry173 sales31 with floor areaLatest sale 17 Nov 2025

The chart tracks the median Watergate Road, Newquay house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1999 to 2021. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Watergate Road, Newquay is £350,000 in 2020; the lowest is £52,000 in 1999. Across the full 23-year record the cash median has moved from £52,000 to £283,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £105,954, so the real change over the whole record is +238.4% — about +5.70% 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: +0.4% in cash against -22.8% 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.

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.

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 Watergate Road, Newquay values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Watergate Road, Newquay is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

166 of the sales on record are leasehold and 7 freehold — 96.0% 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 £155,000 and the median freehold sale £172,000 — a gap of +11.0%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +20.9%. 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 12 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.

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.

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 £157,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.67% 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 TR7, 195 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 73 violent, 7 burglary, 6 vehicle-related and 30 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.

Against the 570,305 residents the 2021 census counted in Cornwall, that is 0.34 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.

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.

7 state and independent schools have a TR7 postcode: 5 primary, 2 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Watergate Road, Newquay sits below that national figure — -0.2%.

Within Newquay the street ranks 332 of 445 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £185,000 (-15.0%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,653 per square metre, across 31 of the 173 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 £897,500. 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.

Watergate Road, Newquay 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.

Streets nearby

• Pentire Avenue£235,000 median
• Mount Wise£176,000 median
• Henver Road£152,000 median
• Penmere Drive£189,475 median
• Polwhele Road£142,500 median
• Bedowan Meadows£217,750 median
• Tower Road£209,000 median
• Headland Road£285,000 median
• Meadowside£151,250 median
• Edgcumbe Avenue£120,000 median
• Pentire Crescent£165,500 median
• Esplanade Road£248,250 median
• Church Street£154,000 median
• Dale Road£130,000 median
• Windsor Court£103,950 median
• Pydar Close£133,500 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• FLAT 30, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road6 sales
• FLAT 17, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road5 sales
• FLAT 1, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road4 sales
• 1, SPINDRIFT FLATS Watergate Road4 sales
• FLAT 22, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road4 sales
• FLAT 8, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road4 sales
• FLAT 18, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road4 sales
• FLAT 2, SPINDRIFT Watergate Road4 sales
• FLAT 5, ISLAND POINT Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 10, HIGH ATLANTIC Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 7, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 3, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 21, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 28, COASTLINE COURT Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 3, HIGH ATLANTIC Watergate Road3 sales
• FLAT 9, ISLAND POINT Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 5, SPINDRIFT Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 25, ZENITH Watergate Road2 sales
• BRAMBLE HOUSE Watergate Road2 sales
• HAWTHORN HOUSE Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 2, ISLAND POINT Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 18, ZENITH Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 8A, ZENITH Watergate Road2 sales
• FLAT 22, ZENITH Watergate Road2 sales

Back to Newquay house prices.

What is the average house price in Watergate Road, Newquay?

The median price paid in Watergate Road, Newquay across every sale on the register is £157,250. 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 Watergate Road, Newquay?

173 sales are on record for Watergate Road, Newquay, the most recent completing on 17 Nov 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Watergate Road, Newquay house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +0.4% between 2009 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Watergate Road, Newquay house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £350,000, 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 Watergate Road, Newquay?

£2,653 per square metre, from the 31 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 17 Nov 2025. 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, “Watergate Road, Newquay 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.