Around £293,000 buys the typical house here, which in Cornwall terms is close to a clerical error. Semis go for about the same as the village median. Detached costs a third more. Terraces come in cheapest. For a place within a short drive of Falmouth's water, the numbers are politer than the postcode suggests.
The Land Registry recorded 23 sales in the year to April 2026, with a median of £293,000. Split by type, the five detached sales ran to a median of about £355,000, the eleven semis to £293,000, and the six terraces to about £248,000. Twenty-three sales is a small pool, so a run of larger houses in one quarter moves the headline more than it would in a town. Read the type figures rather than the median if you want the honest shape of it.
The published house-price index for the area stood at about £280,000 as of May 2026, up about 4% over the preceding twelve months. Flats were the exception, effectively unchanged over the same year, down by less than half a percent. That gap is not a trend anyone should build a plan around, but it does say which end of the market has the buyers.
Council tax sits low. Band B is the most common band, and about 45% of dwellings fall into band A or B. A band D home in this part of Cornwall carries an annual bill of roughly £2,590, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay.
Renting is measured at Cornwall level rather than village level, so the numbers describe the wider area. Typical private rent across Cornwall is about £1,000 a month, calculated as a mean from the official private rents index rather than a middle value of what is advertised. By size, a one-bedroom averages about £690, a two-bedroom about £880, a three-bedroom about £1,080 and anything with four or more about £1,510. Student demand from the Penryn Campus sits in the same postcode district, which is not a thing the county-wide average knows about you.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for this area in the financial year to March 2023 was about £49,900, before any tax comes off it. Against a £293,000 median that is a stretch rather than a wall. It is the kind of gap that a second income or a decent deposit closes and a single salary does not, and it is a good deal kinder than most of the coastal Cornish places within the same half-hour drive.
Measured by floor space, the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate came out at about £3,870 per square metre, covering roughly 87% of transactions in the period. The typical matched home ran to about 76 square metres, which buys a comfortable three-bedroom bungalow footprint and not much of a hallway to spare.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains why: about 40% of households have three bedrooms and about 31% have two, with roughly 21% at four or more and about 8% at one. This is a three-bedroom village with a two-bedroom fallback, and very little at either extreme.
Value here is decent without being a bargain of the sort people drive down from Bristol to find. The prices are reasonable for the location, the council tax is genuinely cheap, and the ceiling on what you can buy is low enough that anyone wanting a large period house will be looking somewhere else within a fortnight.