About £252,000 for a typical house, which in Cornwall is close to getting away with something. Detached stock runs to the high three hundreds. Terraces sit a good deal under the middle of the market. Half the homes here have three bedrooms, so the median is describing the thing most people actually want rather than some statistical ghost. This is a market where the ordinary house is still the ordinary price.
The Land Registry recorded 68 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of £252,000. The type split is where the real information sits. Detached homes came in at a median of £375,000 across 22 sales, semi-detached at about £234,000 across 22, and terraces at £220,000 across 21. That is an unusually even spread of sales across three types, which means all three markets are live rather than one carrying the place. Flats are the exception and barely register: three sold all year, at a median of £115,000, a sample small enough that the number is a curiosity rather than a guide.
For direction, the published house price index for the area put the average property at about £280,000 as of May 2026, up around 4% over twelve months. Flats moved differently, down about 0.4% over the same period, which is a fraction of a percent and should be read as flat rather than falling. Nothing here is behaving dramatically, which is its own kind of recommendation.
Council tax is genuinely cheap, and it is one of the things buyers moving from up-country notice first. Band B is the most common band, and about 67% of dwellings fall into bands A or B combined. For comparison against your own bill, the band D charge for the area works out at roughly £2,590 a year. The bands are low because the houses were valued as what they are, which is to say nobody was pretending this was a harbour village.
Renting is measured more coarsely. The Office for National Statistics puts typical private rent across the Cornwall area at about £1,000 a month, which is a mean across the whole county rather than a median of local listings, and covers everything from farm cottages to town flats. By size, that county figure breaks down to about £690 a month for one bedroom, about £880 for two, about £1,080 for three, and about £1,510 for four or more. Treat those as the surrounding market rather than a quote for any particular street.
On affordability, modelled household income for the area was around £43,000 gross in the financial year to March 2023, before any tax comes off it and not a current figure. Set that against a £252,000 median and the arithmetic is tight but not absurd, particularly for the terraced and semi-detached end where the bulk of the sales happen. A household on that income is not being laughed out of this market, which is more than can be said for most of the county's coastal postcodes.
Measured by floor space, the median works out at roughly £3,100 per square metre across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 59% of them. The typical matched home came in at around 76 square metres. That is a modest footprint by rural standards, and it is worth remembering before you fall for a picture of the garden.
The bedroom mix explains most of the rest. According to the 2021 Census, about 50% of households here have three bedrooms, about 28% have two, about 16% have four or more, and about 6% have one. This is three-bedroom country, and the market prices accordingly: search outside that band and you are competing for a much thinner slice of stock.
Cost is one of the genuine strengths of this place. A three-bedroom house within reach of a local income, on a council tax band most of the country would envy, is not a compromise buyers should have to talk themselves into.