About £525,000, and there is no budget version of that sentence. Every home that changed hands in the past year was detached. Eleven sales in twelve months. Nothing smaller, nothing cheaper, nothing that could be described as a first rung. This is not a market with an entry level. It is a market with a door policy.
The Land Registry's figure for the year to March 2026 puts the median sale at £525,000, across 11 recorded transactions, all of them detached houses. That is the entire evidence base, and it is worth saying plainly rather than dressing it up: eleven sales is a sample small enough that one unusual house near the harbour can move the median for everyone. There is no separate figure for a terrace, a semi or a flat here, because in that twelve months none of them sold. Anyone waiting for the cheap end of Gorran Haven to appear in the numbers is waiting for stock that does not come to market.
For direction of travel, the published house price index for the Cornwall area recorded an average of about £280,000 as of May 2026, up 4% over twelve months and about 11% across five years. Flats in the index area sat at roughly £147,000 and barely moved over the year, down by less than one percent. Both of those are Cornwall-wide figures rather than the village's own, and the distance between the county average and what a house in Gorran Haven actually fetches is the most useful thing on this page.
Council tax lands more gently than the sale prices. Band D is the most common band in the area, about 16% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, and a band D bill comes to roughly £2,590 a year. That is one of the few costs here that will not surprise someone arriving from elsewhere.
Renting is measured across the whole of Cornwall rather than street by street, and the figure is a mean from the national rent index rather than a median of advertised listings, so treat it as an area typical. As of April 2026 that mean was about £1,000 a month, up around 5% over the year. One bedroom runs to roughly £690, two to about £880, three to about £1,080, and four or more to about £1,510. Studio and room rents are not published at this level, so anyone quoting you one has made it up.
On affordability, gross household income before tax, modelled for the financial year to March 2023, came to roughly £46,200. Set that beside a median sale of £525,000 and the arithmetic answers itself. Local earnings are not what is buying these houses. Equity from somewhere else is, and the market has arranged itself accordingly.
The bedroom mix explains why. Around 47% of households have three bedrooms and about 32% have four or more, against 16% with two and 5% with one, on the 2021 Census count. That is a village built for families and downsizers who arrived with a house already sold, not for anyone starting out. The search filter most first-time buyers use returns almost nothing.
As value for money, Gorran Haven is poor, and it does not pretend otherwise. What the price buys is a cliff, a harbour and a postcode that almost never comes up for sale, which is a genuine thing to want and an expensive thing to insist on.