About £310,000 for the middle of the market, which in Cornish terms is neither a bargain nor a punishment. Detached is what most people are buying. Semi-detached costs a good deal less. Barely a dozen and a half homes changed hands all year. You are not choosing from a shortlist here, you are waiting for one.
The Land Registry recorded 17 sales in the year to late January 2026, at a median of £310,000. Twelve of those were detached, at a median of £321,000. Four were semi-detached, at £210,000. That is the whole village market in three numbers, and the gap between the two types is the gap between the two kinds of house Polgooth actually has. Seventeen sales across twelve months means the thing you want may simply not come up in the year you are looking, and when it does there will be somebody else in the queue.
On direction, the published house-price index for the area put the average at about £280,000 as of May 2026, up 4% over the preceding twelve months and up 11% over five years. Flats went the other way over the year, down by a fraction of a percent, which on that small a movement is closer to flat than to falling. Those are recorded changes for the index area rather than a forecast for any particular house.
Council tax puts most dwellings in band D, with 31% sitting in bands A or B. The band D bill runs to about £2,590 a year, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay, since it is the band the majority of homes here land in.
Renting is a different question and the honest answer is that the reliable figure is not the village's own. Typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month, which is a mean from the Office for National Statistics rent index rather than a middle-of-the-listings figure. By size, that breaks down to roughly £690 for a one-bedroom, £880 for two, £1,080 for three and about £1,510 for four or more. In a village where most homes are owner-occupied, what actually appears to rent is whatever happens to come free.
Against income, the sums are tight but not absurd. Modelled gross household income before tax for the area was about £46,200 in the financial year to March 2023, which is the most recent modelled year available rather than a live figure. Set that beside a £310,000 median and you get the standard Cornish arithmetic: a household on a single ordinary local salary is not buying a detached house here, and a couple with two incomes and a deposit probably is. The semi-detached end of the market is where that changes from theory to practice.
Per square metre, of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is 41% of them, the median works out at about £3,380. The typical matched home behind that number is around 73 square metres, so the measurable end of the market is modest floorspace at a rate that reflects the location rather than the building.
On size, the Census in 2021 found 36% of homes with three bedrooms and 28% with four or more, with 30% at two bedrooms and 6% at one. That is a village weighted toward family houses, and it explains why the market is thin: people buy a three-bedroom home with a garden here and then stop moving.
What houses cost in Polgooth is middling, in the specific sense that nothing about the price is remarkable in either direction. You pay Cornwall money for a Cornwall house, and the constraint that will actually shape your search is not the price but how rarely anything comes up.