About £207,000 for the typical house, which is the sort of number that makes people from the rest of the county check whether the postcode is real. A flat here goes for less than six figures. A detached house costs what a terrace costs in the prettier bits of Cornwall. Eighty homes changed hands. This is not a market with a velvet rope on it.
The detail from the Land Registry's last twelve months, in the year to May 2026, breaks down cleanly by type. Flats sold at around £97,000. Terraces at around £180,000. Semi-detached at around £227,000, and detached at around £268,000. Eighty sales in total, with the semis the busiest at 29 and the flats the thinnest at eight. What stands out is how narrow the ladder is: the gap between a terrace and a detached house is smaller here than the gap between two flats in most seaside towns, which means trading up is a real option rather than a fantasy you discuss on the drive home.
The published index, which covers the wider area rather than the streets themselves, has the average price at around £280,000 as of May 2026, up 4% over twelve months and essentially flat over the last month. Flats went the other way by a fraction of a percent over the year, which is a rounding wobble rather than a story. Over five years the same index is up about 11%. None of that is a forecast, and anyone selling you one should be ignored on principle.
Council tax is where the affordability really shows up. Band B is the most common, and around 59% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. A band D bill runs at about £2,590 a year, which is the figure most people can hold against their own, and the point is that comparatively few households here are paying it.
Renting is only published at the county level, so read it as a Cornwall-wide typical rather than a St Blazey one. The Office for National Statistics puts the average private rent across the Cornwall area at about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, up roughly 5% over the year. By size that is around £689 for a one-bedroom, £882 for a two, £1,078 for a three and £1,509 for four or more. Those are means from the index rather than the middle of a list of adverts, so treat them as the shape of the market rather than a quote.
Against income, the sums are unusually kind. Modelled gross household income for the area, before tax, ran at about £45,000 in the financial year to March 2023, which is the most recent year available and not a live figure. Set that beside a typical sale price around £207,000 and you have a market where a household on ordinary local money can buy an ordinary local house without a family loan, a lottery win, or a decade of saving in a rented room. That is not the normal Cornish arrangement and it is worth saying plainly.
By floor area, of the sales we can measure, which is around 75% of them matched to an energy certificate, the median works out at about £2,885 per square metre on a typical floor area of 74 square metres. That is a proper house rather than a clever conversion, and the per-metre figure is doing an honest job because the stock is honest.
The bedroom mix, from the 2021 census, tells you what you will actually be viewing. Half the homes have three bedrooms, around 28% have two, about 16% have four or more, and only 6% have one. This is three-bed country. If you want a studio, the search will be short and disappointing.
Cost is the thing St Blazey does best. You get a house, with rooms, for money that buys a flat and an argument thirty miles along the coast.