About £225,000 for a typical one, which in Cornwall is the sound of nobody bidding against you from London. A terrace goes for a fair bit less than that. A detached house goes for a fair bit more. Barely a dozen properties changed hands all year. Lanivet is cheap by Cornish standards for the oldest reason in the county: nobody is buying it for the view of the sea, because there isn't one.
The Land Registry recorded eleven sales in the village in the twelve months to early December 2025, at a median of £225,000. Eleven is not a market, it is a sample, and it deserves reading as one. Within it, seven terraced sales came in at a median of £210,000 and three detached at £320,000. That gap is the whole shape of Lanivet's price range in two numbers, and there is very little between the two ends because there is very little in the village that isn't one or the other.
For direction, the published house-price index for the area was at an average of £279,722 in May 2026, up 4% over the twelve months and down 0.1% on the month. Over five years the index is up 11%. Flats have gone the other way, down 0.4% on the year, though flats are close to irrelevant here. The monthly movement is small enough not to mean anything on its own.
Council tax is genuinely low. Band A is the most common band in the village, and 36% of all dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D bill in this area runs to about £2,591 a year, which is the figure most people can hold against their own bill, and most Lanivet households are paying below it. Band A comes in at around £1,727.
Renting is where the data thins out. There is no Lanivet-specific rent figure, because a village this size does not generate enough advertised lettings to build one. What exists is the typical private rent across the Cornwall area, running at about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, up 5% over the year. That is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a median of listings, so treat it accordingly. By size across the same area: around £689 for a one-bed, £882 for a two-bed, £1,078 for a three-bed and about £1,509 for four or more.
On affordability, the modelled gross household income for the area was about £45,153 a year before tax in the financial year to March 2023, which is a few years old now and should be read as the picture then rather than the picture today. Set that against a £225,000 median and the arithmetic is friendlier than most of Cornwall manages, particularly the coastal parts where the same money buys a shed with a sea glimpse. It is not effortless. It is not the ordeal that the county's reputation implies either.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is 73% of them, the median works out at about £2,683 per square metre, on a typical floor area of 79 square metres. That is a real house rather than a flat conversion, which is worth knowing when the per-square-metre figure looks unremarkable.
The bedroom mix explains who the village is built for. Across 529 households at the 2021 census, 43% have three bedrooms and 29% have four or more. Two-bed homes account for 22%, and one-beds for 6%. If you are hunting for a small starter flat, this is the wrong village. If you want a three-bed with somewhere to put a car, it is most of the housing stock.
Lanivet's pricing is one of its stronger cards, and it earns that without any of the usual Cornish caveats about caravan neighbours or a summer surcharge. What holds it back from being remarkable is depth: eleven sales a year means you wait for the right house rather than choose between three of them.