About £290,000 for a typical house, which buys you a legend you cannot live in and a village you can. Sixteen homes changed hands in a year. Most of them were detached. The Atlantic view is free, the heating is not. Tintagel is not cheap for Cornwall, and it is not the trophy price the castle might lead you to expect.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to March 2026 put the median sale at £290,000 across 16 transactions. Twelve of those were detached houses, also at a median of £290,000. The three semi-detached sales landed slightly higher at £312,000, which is the kind of order-reversal a sixteen-sale market throws up and which nobody should build a theory on. When a whole year of a village's market fits in a single page of a spreadsheet, individual houses move the median.
The wider house price index for this area put the average at around £280,000 as of May 2026, up 4% over twelve months and down 0.1% over the month, which is close enough to flat to be treated as noise. Flats went the other way, down 0.4% over the same twelve months. Over five years the index is up around 11%. None of that is a forecast, and none of it tells you what the house you are looking at will do.
Council tax is the part of this that comes as a relief. Band C is the most common, about 43% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, and a band D bill runs to roughly £2,590 a year. For a village with a castle in it, the valuation list is remarkably unglamorous.
Renting is thinner ground. The typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month, which is a mean from the national rent index for the whole authority rather than anything Tintagel publishes for itself. By size, that authority-wide picture runs to roughly £690 for a one-bedroom, £880 for two, £1,080 for three and £1,510 for four or more. In a village with a substantial holiday-letting economy, the number of long-term rentals actually on offer is a different question from what they cost.
Against local earnings, £290,000 is a stretch. Modelled household income for the area in the financial year to March 2023 came to around £41,150 gross, before tax. That is the arithmetic behind why so many of the buyers here arrive with money made somewhere else, and why the market runs on retirement, downsizing and equity rather than on local wages.
Measured by floor space, the median comes out at roughly £4,100 per square metre across the sales we can measure, which is about 31% of them, matched to an energy certificate's recorded floor area. The typical measured home behind that figure is around 76 square metres. Small, in other words, and priced by the postcode rather than by the square footage.
On bedrooms, the 2021 census puts about 39% of households in three-bedroom homes and roughly 28% in two-bedroom ones. Four or more accounts for around 22%, and one-bedroom homes for about 11%. The three-bedroom bungalow is the default unit of currency here, and the buyer pool for it is deeper than the sixteen-sale market suggests.
Value here is middling, which is an honest place to land. You are not being fleeced and you are not getting a bargain: you are paying a coastal Cornwall price for a small house with a large view and an energy bill that will remind you where you live every February.