Fore Street, Penzance house prices are built from 346 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 18 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £167,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -2.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -29.0%.
Median price paid
£167,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-2.0%
Change in real terms
-29.0%
Median per m²
£1,987
HM Land Registry346 sales15 with floor areaLatest sale 18 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Fore Street, Penzance prices moved
The chart tracks the median Fore Street, Penzance house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 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 | 5 | £50,000 | £111,024 |
| 2000s | 10 | £162,000 | £295,116 |
| 2010s | 9 | £187,500 | £264,375 |
| 2020s | 6 | £225,000 | £229,891 |
The highest yearly median on record for Fore Street, Penzance is £340,000 in 2023; the lowest is £45,500 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £50,000 to £209,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £111,024, so the real change over the whole record is +92.6% — about +2.21% 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: -2.0% in cash against -29.0% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £215,000 | £215,000 |
| 22 | 4 Jun 2026 | Detached | £290,000 | £290,000 |
| The Old Chapel | 23 Feb 2026 | Detached | £418,500 | £418,500 |
| 86 | 18 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| Melrose Cottage | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £216,000 | £220,696 |
| 3 Harbour Lights | 1 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| Flat 1 Dolphin Court | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £127,717 |
| Anbenolva | 29 Aug 2025 | Detached | £777,500 | £794,402 |
| 34 | 8 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 6 Mount View Cottages | 27 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £202,500 | £206,902 |
| Vauge Cottage | 10 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £342,500 | £349,946 |
| Sun Cottage | 25 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £150,000 | £157,836 |
| Eventide | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £225,000 | £236,754 |
| 8 | 19 Jul 2024 | Terraced | £265,000 | £278,843 |
| Flat 2 Trillium | 8 Apr 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £186,000 | £195,716 |
| Flat 2 Dolphin Court | 22 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £179,000 | £188,351 |
| 23 | 20 Mar 2024 | Terraced | £230,000 | £242,015 |
| Flat 3 Dolphin Court | 18 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £152,575 |
| Myrtle Cottage, 4 | 8 Mar 2024 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £284,104 |
| Vauge Cottage | 7 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| Sea Glimpses | 6 Feb 2024 | Terraced | £457,500 | £481,399 |
| Primrose Cottage | 22 Jan 2024 | Detached | £418,000 | £439,836 |
| 2 | 17 Nov 2023 | Terraced | £216,000 | £233,379 |
| 8 | 1 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £485,000 | £524,023 |
| Glebe Cottage | 18 Aug 2023 | Terraced | £295,000 | £318,736 |
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 Fore Street, Penzance values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Fore Street | £131,000 (2005) | £215,000 (2026) | +2.4% | -0.5% |
| 22 Fore Street | £50,000 (1998) | £290,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.7% |
| THE OLD CHAPEL Fore Street | £72,500 (1996) | £418,500 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 86 Fore Street | £85,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2025) | +2.5% | -0.2% |
| 3 HARBOUR LIGHTS Fore Street | £101,000 (2009) | £180,000 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.6% |
| ANBENOLVA Fore Street | £325,000 (2002) | £777,500 (2025) | +3.9% | +1.0% |
| 34 Fore Street | £71,000 (2000) | £285,000 (2025) | +5.7% | +2.9% |
| 6 MOUNT VIEW COTTAGES Fore Street | £120,000 (2003) | £202,500 (2025) | +2.4% | -0.4% |
| VAUGE COTTAGE Fore Street | £190,000 (2024) | £342,500 (2025) | +80.3% | +75.0% |
| EVENTIDE Fore Street | £170,000 (2016) | £225,000 (2024) | +3.6% | 0.0% |
| 8 Fore Street | £55,000 (1995) | £265,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| FLAT 2 TRILLIUM Fore Street | £26,750 (1998) | £186,000 (2024) | +7.7% | +5.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Fore Street, Penzance 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 209 | 60.4% | £160,000 | £19,000 – £485,000 |
| Detached | 67 | 19.4% | £259,950 | £45,500 – £1,496,500 |
| Semi-detached | 42 | 12.1% | £179,000 | £33,000 – £425,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 28 | 8.1% | £133,000 | £26,750 – £265,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Fore Street, Penzance
25 of the sales on record are leasehold and 321 freehold — 7.2% 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 £139,500 and the median freehold sale £173,000 — a gap of +24.0%. 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 | 25 | 7.2% | £139,500 |
| Freehold | 321 | 92.8% | £173,000 |
| New build | 2 | 0.6% | £104,750 |
| Existing home | 344 | 99.4% | £167,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -37.5%. 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 13 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 Fore Street, Penzance compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Fore Street, Penzance sits above that national figure — +6.3%.
Within Penzance the street ranks 395 of 749 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £163,000 (+2.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,987 per square metre, across 15 of the 346 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 £19,000 to £1,496,500. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Talveneth£97,000 median
- Queen Street£109,000 median
- Cape Cornwall Street£126,000 median
- Carn Bosavern£137,475 median
- Trungle£273,750 median
- Princess Street£130,000 median
- Regent Terrace£207,500 median
- Sunny Corner Lane£318,498 median
- Stennack Parc£78,000 median
- Bosorne Road£135,250 median
- Levant Road£173,000 median
- Boscaswell Village£164,000 median
- Boscaswell Downs£223,000 median
- Church Road£168,500 median
- Botallack£172,500 median
- The Valley£150,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 2, TRILLIUM Fore Street9 sales
- 20 Fore Street7 sales
- 22 Fore Street6 sales
- 8 Fore Street6 sales
- 10 Fore Street6 sales
- 7 Fore Street6 sales
- 5 Fore Street6 sales
- 19 Fore Street5 sales
- 1 Fore Street5 sales
- 17 Fore Street5 sales
- TRILLIUM COTTAGE Fore Street5 sales
- 6 Fore Street5 sales
- ROSEVEAN Fore Street5 sales
- 26 Fore Street5 sales
- 3, HARBOUR LIGHTS Fore Street4 sales
- 2 Fore Street4 sales
- BLUE ELVIN Fore Street4 sales
- 15 Fore Street4 sales
- 68 Fore Street4 sales
- VELLENOWETH Fore Street4 sales
- 39A Fore Street4 sales
- 25 Fore Street4 sales
- EASTHOLME Fore Street4 sales
- FLAT 1, TRILLIUM Fore Street4 sales
Back to Penzance house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Fore Street, Penzance?
The median price paid in Fore Street, Penzance across every sale on the register is £167,500. 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 Fore Street, Penzance?
346 sales are on record for Fore Street, Penzance, the most recent completing on 18 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Fore Street, Penzance house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -2.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -29.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Fore Street, Penzance house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £340,000, 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 Fore Street, Penzance?
£1,987 per square metre, from the 15 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 18 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, “Fore Street, Penzance 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.