UK Property Check

UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/cornwall

Council areaSouth West, England

House prices in Cornwall

Homes in Cornwall sold for a median of £287,500 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 15,662 standard sales.

That makes it the eighth cheapest of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 sales. The median across the region was £310,000.

Median sale price£287,50015,662 standard sales
Middle half of prices£215,000 to £400,000
Change since 2016+37%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Postcode districts in Cornwall

The dearest district was PL28 (Padstow), at £480,000, and the cheapest were PL24 (Par), PL31 (Bodmin) and TR14 (Camborne), all at £230,000. The dearest median is 2.1 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were TR5 (St Agnes) and PL23 (Fowey), and the next cheapest PL11 (Torpoint) and TR15 (Redruth).

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Each dot is a postcode district in Cornwall, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The list below gives the same figures.

Post towns in Cornwall, by number of sales: Truro (TR1, TR2, TR3, TR4), St Austell (PL25, PL26), Newquay (TR7, TR8), Penzance (TR18, TR19, TR20), Redruth (TR15, TR16), Falmouth (TR11), Helston (TR12, TR13), Camborne (TR14), and 26 more.

Districts with at least 100 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. PL28Padstow, 128 sales£480,000Too few
  2. TR5St Agnes, 121 sales£450,000Too few
  3. PL23Fowey, 136 sales£437,000Too few
  4. TR3Truro, 337 sales£400,000+1%
  5. TR6Perranporth, 122 sales£377,500Too few
  6. TR26St Ives, 368 sales£370,500−6%
  7. TR12Helston, 238 sales£362,500−6%
  8. PL30Bodmin, 232 sales£357,500−3%
  9. EX23Bude, 476 sales£353,000−4%
  10. PL27Wadebridge, 412 sales£350,000−4%
  11. TR11Falmouth, 935 sales£350,000−2%
  12. TR20Penzance, 218 sales£350,000−3%
  13. TR8Newquay, 499 sales£337,000−3%
  14. TR2Truro, 241 sales£335,000+1%
  15. TR4Truro, 301 sales£330,000+8%
  16. TR7Newquay, 794 sales£315,000−8%
  17. PL22Lostwithiel, 112 sales£295,000Too few
  18. TR1Truro, 659 sales£295,000−4%
  19. TR19Penzance, 223 sales£295,000−6%
  20. PL13Looe, 296 sales£292,500+11%
  21. TR27Hayle, 426 sales£290,000−1%
  22. TR13Helston, 573 sales£287,000−3%
  23. TR16Redruth, 378 sales£285,000−4%
  24. PL12Saltash, 653 sales£275,000+4%
  25. PL17Callington, 299 sales£275,000−3%
  26. PL18Gunnislake, 168 sales£271,000Too few
  27. TR10Penryn, 276 sales£270,000−1%
  28. PL26St Austell, 680 sales£265,000+8%
  29. TR9St Columb, 221 sales£260,000Too few
  30. TR18Penzance, 510 sales£260,000−4%
  31. PL25St Austell, 774 sales£257,500−7%
  32. PL15Launceston, 524 sales£255,000−3%
  33. PL32Camelford, 100 sales£249,500Too few
  34. PL14Liskeard, 658 sales£240,000−4%
  35. TR15Redruth, 572 sales£239,0000%
  36. PL11Torpoint, 300 sales£235,0000%
  37. PL24Par, 287 sales£230,0000%
  38. PL31Bodmin, 429 sales£230,000+2%
  39. TR14Camborne, 689 sales£230,000−1%

Fewer than 100 sales, not ranked: PL10 £300k (91 sales), PL29 £423k (30 sales), PL33 £250k (55 sales), PL34 £370k (49 sales), PL35 £325k (36 sales), TR17 £315k (27 sales).

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in PL13 (Looe), up 11%, and fell most in TR7 (Newquay), down 8%.

Streets with the most standard sales in the districts listed above, September 2024 to August 2026:

  • Longfield Avenue, Carkeel (PL12)37 sales
  • Bay View Drive, Falmouth (TR11)33 sales
  • Manor View, Par (PL24)30 sales
  • Longfield, Falmouth (TR11)28 sales
  • Cliff Road, Falmouth (TR11)27 sales
  • Boscarnek, St Erth (TR27)26 sales
  • Copper Road, Helston (TR13)22 sales
  • Mount Wise, Newquay (TR7)22 sales

Of the streets with at least 10 sales, the dearest by median price were Kingswood View, Trewhiddle (PL26, detached houses, £602,500), Sea Road, Carlyon Bay (PL25, £570,000) and Chyvounder Fields, Goonhavern (TR4, detached houses, £532,500).

The cheapest were Atlantic Reach, Newquay (TR8, terraced houses, £62,500), Windsor Court, Newquay (TR7, flats, £108,000) and Trevithick Road, Camborne (TR14, flats, £120,000).

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Cornwall, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached5,948£400,000£315,000 to £535,000£3,671/m²from 260 sales
Semi-detached3,561£270,000£220,000 to £330,000£3,398/m²from 146 sales
Terraced4,535£235,000£185,000 to £295,000£3,020/m²from 154 sales
Flats and maisonettes1,618£173,500£121,000 to £250,000£2,905/m²from 48 sales

Detached houses were the most common type sold in Cornwall, at 38% of sales, ahead of terraced houses at 29%.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 37%, from £210,000 in 2016 to £288,000 in 2025, close to the 36% rise across the South West as a whole.

Living in Cornwall

Crime

64 crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to August 2026

Lower than 64 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 84.

The rate counts every crime recorded in an area against the people who live there, so shops, stations and nightlife push it up.

Gigabit broadband

68% of homes can get it

Lower than 96 in 100 council areas. England and Wales: 89%.

Radon

Almost every postcode is in a 1 km square that includes a radon Affected Area

Higher than 96 in 100 council areas.

In a radon Affected Area, UKHSA recommends a radon test. A UKradon report gives the result for an exact address.

Council tax

Band D is £2,591 a year in Cornwall for 2026 to 2027

Higher than 86 in 100 council areas. England: £2,392.

Band D includes every charge on the bill, such as police, fire and any county, parish or town council.

The free check gives these for a single home, with the nearest schools and road and rail noise (how we work them out).

Crime: data.police.uk, with Census 2021 population from the Office for National Statistics. Broadband: Ofcom Connected Nations, January 2026. Radon: the British Geological Survey and UKHSA. Council tax: the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Council areas in the South West

Median sale price of the 26 council areas in the South West with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026, dearest first. Cornwall and the 14 council areas nearest it in the ranking are shown.

  1. North Somerset£320,000
  2. Wiltshire£320,000
  3. Exeter£300,000
  4. Teignbridge£300,000
  5. Mid Devon£295,000
  6. West Devon£295,000
  7. North Devon£293,000
  8. Cornwall£287,500
  9. Somerset£285,000
  10. Swindon£280,000
  11. Forest of Dean£275,000
  12. Torridge£275,000
  13. Gloucester£255,000
  14. Torbay£250,000
  15. Plymouth£225,000
All 26 council areas in the South West, ranked

About these figures

Cornwall's figures come from 15,662 standard sales, each placed in the council area by its own postcode (how we build council pages).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.