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What do houses cost in Trevone?

For anyone buying or renting in Trevone.

About £785,000 for a typical house, which is not a village price by any measure. Five of the six sales in a year were detached. Three-bedroom and four-bedroom homes make up most of the stock. Renting across the county runs to about a thousand a month. Trevone does not really have a housing market. It has a waiting list with a sea view.

The Land Registry recorded six sales in Trevone in the year to January 2026, with a median of £785,000. Five of those were detached houses, at a median of £770,000. Six sales is a thin market, thin enough that a single unusual house moves the whole figure, so read it as the shape of the place rather than a valuation of your own. What it tells you plainly is that the homes changing hands here are the big ones, and the terraces and bungalows that make up most of the village mostly stay in the family or stay let.

The wider index tells a calmer story than the village does. The published house price index puts the average for the index area at roughly £280,000 as of May 2026, up around 4% over twelve months. Flats over the same period were effectively unchanged, a fraction of a percent lower. That index covers a far bigger area than one bay in north Cornwall, so treat it as the weather rather than the forecast for your street.

Council tax lands where you would expect for stock this size. The most common band is E, and about 36% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, which is the older and smaller end of the village doing its quiet thing behind the headline sales. A band D home pays roughly £2,590 a year. If your current bill is meaningfully under that, budget accordingly before the first bill arrives and ruins a good week.

Rent is harder to pin to Trevone itself, because the published figure is a Cornwall-wide mean from the national rent index rather than a count of what is actually advertised in the village. Typical private rent across the Cornwall area is about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, up around 5% over the year. By size, a one-bedroom runs to roughly £690, a two-bedroom about £880, a three-bedroom around £1,080, and four or more bedrooms about £1,510. Those are county averages. In a bay where most of the property is either owned outright or earning its keep in July, expect the local reality to sit above them and expect very little choice.

Against local earnings, none of this adds up, and everyone here knows it. Modelled gross household income for the area was about £45,200 for the financial year to March 2023, or roughly £36,400 after tax. A median sale price near £785,000 is not something a household on that income buys with a mortgage and a bit of determination. It is bought with equity from somewhere else, usually a house that has already done the appreciating. Local wages set the cost of the coffee, not the cost of the cottage.

The bedroom mix explains why there is no cheap way in. At the 2021 census, about 41% of households had three bedrooms and roughly 38% had four or more. Two-bedroom homes accounted for around 18%, and one-bedroom homes about 3%. There is essentially no starter stock. The village skipped that rung of the ladder entirely and nobody has been back to fit it.

On price and value, Trevone is comfortably the worst thing about living here. You are paying a resort premium for a village with no shops of its own, and the only buyers who find it good value are the ones who already made their money on a different street.

Sources: HM Land Registry · UK House Price Index · Valuation Office Agency · ONS Census 2021 · Office for National Statistics

Data to January 2026 · Figures checked 28 August 2026 (what this means)