About £437,500 for a typical house, which is the answer most people were hoping was wrong. Detached houses take nearly all of the money. The few terraces that come up sell for a lot less. Barely more than one sale a month happens at all. Lelant charges the price of a place where almost nothing changes hands and almost nothing changes.
The Land Registry recorded 18 sales in the year to April 2026, at a median of about £437,500. Detached houses accounted for twelve of those, at a median near £522,500, while four terraced sales came in around £315,000. With numbers that small, the median is only ever a description of who happened to sell, and in Lelant that means whoever put a detached house on the market. A single well-sited property can move the village's headline figure more than a year of actual conditions.
The published house price index tells the calmer version. Across the wider index area, the average price sits around £280,000 as of May 2026, up 4% over the preceding twelve months and around 11% over five years. Flats were essentially unchanged over the same year, a fraction of a percent lower, which is a difference worth noting rather than dramatising. Neither figure is a forecast, and neither is the village's own.
Council tax mostly lands in band D, where the annual bill runs around £2,590. About 31% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, so the cheaper end of the valuation list is better represented here than the price of a detached house would lead you to expect.
Renting is priced at the county scale rather than the village one. The typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month, up roughly 5% in the year to April 2026. By size, that breaks down to around £690 for a one-bedroom home, £880 for two bedrooms, £1,080 for three and £1,510 for four or more. Those are mean figures from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a median of what is advertised locally, and Lelant's own supply is too thin to move them.
Against local earnings, the arithmetic is unkind. Modelled household income for the area was about £48,300 gross, before tax, in the financial year to March 2023. Set that beside a median sale price of £437,500 and the village stops being a place people move up into and starts being a place people arrive at with money made somewhere else. That is not a moral failing of Lelant. It is simply who the price list is addressed to.
By floor space, the median works out at about £4,350 per square metre across the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is 61% of the sales we can measure. The typical matched property runs to around 107 square metres, so the money here is buying a decent-sized house rather than a compact one at a premium.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains why the entry point is so high. Three-bedroom homes make up 41% of households and four-or-more take another 34%, with two-bedroom homes at 23% and one-bedroom at 2%. There is essentially no small-unit market. Downsizing within the village is less a plan than a vacancy you wait for.
On cost, Lelant is one of the weakest parts of its own argument: prices set by detached houses, a market too thin to negotiate against, and local incomes that were never the buyers being courted. The place is worth the money to the right person. It is just rarely the person who already lives nearby.