Around £365,000 for the middle of the market, which buys you a view and not much else. Detached costs meaningfully more. Flats cost a lot less. Barely anything changes hands in a given year. You are not buying into a market here so much as waiting for one to appear.
The Land Registry recorded a median sale of £365,000 in the year to March 2026, across 17 transactions. By type: detached homes came in at a median of about £446,000, terraces at £375,000, semis at £365,000 and flats at £280,000. Terraces outselling semis is the detail worth pausing on, because it means the premium in Marazion attaches to where a house sits rather than how much air surrounds it. Seventeen sales in twelve months also means a buyer waiting for the right house may be waiting a while, and a seller with a good one has room to be patient.
On direction, the published house-price index for the area recorded a rise of around 4% over the twelve months to May 2026, with the average price at roughly £280,000 and a five-year change of about 11%. Flats went the other way by around half a percent over the same year, which is small enough that it means flats held steady rather than fell. Neither figure is Marazion's own market, and neither is a forecast.
Council tax is the part of the bill that does not punish you. Band C is the most common here, and about 40% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D property costs roughly £2,591 a year, with band A at about £1,727 and band H at around £5,182. For a coastal town where the houses cost what they cost, that is a genuinely light annual charge.
Renting is harder to pin down at street level, because the figure available is the typical private rent across the Cornwall area rather than Marazion's own, and it is a mean from the Office for National Statistics price index rather than a median of what is advertised. That figure is about £1,000 a month, up around 5% over the year to April 2026. By size: roughly £689 for a one-bedroom, £882 for two, £1,078 for three and £1,509 for four or more. Given how much of the local commercial stock is holiday lets, long-term rental supply in the town itself is a thin market wearing a county-wide average as a disguise.
Set that £365,000 median against local earnings and the strain becomes obvious. Modelled gross household income before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, was about £44,600, with net household income around £35,800. Those are older figures describing that year rather than this one, but the shape of the problem does not move much. The people already in these houses largely bought them before the price did what it did, which is why so many of them own outright and why the incomers tend to arrive with proceeds from somewhere else rather than a local salary.
On size, the housing is family-shaped even where the families have moved on. Around 39% of households have three bedrooms and roughly 34% have two, with about 15% at four or more and around 12% at one. A three-bedroom house is the default unit here, which is worth knowing if you are searching for a one-bed and wondering why the results page keeps refreshing empty.
Marazion is middling on cost and honest about it: the asking prices are what a postcard view costs anywhere in west Cornwall, the running costs are gentler than most, and the gap between the two is filled by everyone quietly hoping the market stays as thin as it is.