About £280,000, and the kind of house barely shifts the number. Detached, terraced and semi all land within a few thousand pounds of each other. Nineteen homes changed hands in a year. Band B is the standard council tax band. This is Cornwall pricing with the postcard tax removed.
The Land Registry's transactions for the year to May 2026 put the median sale in Lanner at £280,000 across 19 sales. Detached homes ran to a median of £305,000 on seven sales, terraces about £278,000 on eight, and semis about £273,000 on four. In most of the county the word detached adds a storey to the price. Here it adds barely more than a terrace costs, which tells you the terraces are decent and the detached stock is not showing off. Nineteen sales is a thin year's trading, so a couple of unusual houses can move these medians more than they would in a town.
On the published house price index for the area, the average price was up 4% over the twelve months to May 2026. Flats went the other way by a fraction of a percent across the same period, which on a village with almost no flats in it is a statistic about the wider index rather than about Lanner. Four percent over a year is steady rather than dramatic, and nobody should read it as a forecast.
Council tax is where the running costs stay friendly. Band B is the most common band and roughly 55% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. For the benchmark most people can check against their own bill, band D in this area runs to about £2,590 a year, and the majority of Lanner households are paying below that.
Renting is only measurable at county scale. The typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, which is a mean from the national rent index rather than a middle figure plucked from advertised listings. By size, that breaks down to roughly £690 for a one-bedroom, £880 for two, £1,080 for three and £1,510 for four or more. Those cover the whole of Cornwall, resort stock included, so treat them as the weather rather than the forecast for one village.
Set against earnings, the sums are less punishing than the county's reputation suggests. Modelled household income here ran to about £44,600 gross, before tax, in the financial year to March 2023. That is an older figure than the prices, so the comparison is indicative rather than exact, but a £280,000 median against that kind of income is a stretch of the ordinary sort rather than the coastal-Cornwall sort where locals have quietly stopped doing the arithmetic.
By floor area, the sales we can measure work out at roughly £3,770 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 71 square metres. That covers around 74% of sales, being the ones matchable to an energy certificate, so it is a good guide rather than a complete one. Seventy-one square metres is a real family house in most of the country and a garden flat in the parts of England people move here from.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 census explains what is actually for sale. About 43% of homes have three bedrooms, 31% have two, 20% have four or more, and 5% have one. Three-bedroom houses are the market here, and anyone hunting a one-bedroom bolthole is fishing in a very small pond.
Cost is one of the strongest things Lanner has going for it: a proper house, a modest council tax band, and a price that does not assume you are buying a holiday. The catch is choice rather than money, because a thin year of sales means waiting for the right one.