That is the middle of 640 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 6.4 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
640 homes sold in three years: 216 detached houses, 157 semi-detached houses, 203 terraced houses and 64 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£350K
median sale · 216 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£415K
Last 12 months
£333K68 sold
New build
£363K
Semi-detached houses£235K
median sale · 157 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£260K
Last 12 months
£230K47 sold
New build
£298K
Terraced houses£180K
median sale · 203 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£219K
Last 12 months
£176K58 sold
Flats and maisonettes£119K
median sale · 64 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£148K
Last 12 months
£122K13 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses34%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses32%
Flats and maisonettes10%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Bodmin’s homes sold for between £167K and £315K
One sale in ten was under £118K and one in ten over £400K. 56% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £235,000, sits in the £200–250K band
640 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £37,000 in 1995 to £235,500 in the last 12 months (£185,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
186 sales in the last 12 months, against 444 in 2002, the busiest year, and 169 in 2011. Sales fell by 50% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 37% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bodmin costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bodmin, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£60K
£93K
£225K
£240K
£240K
£293K
£333K
Semi-detached houses
£40K
£58K
£152K
£149K
£155K
£195K
£230K
Terraced houses
£35K
£48K
£132K
£134K
£146K
£153K
£176K
Flats and maisonettes
£24K
£32K
£117K
£109K
£121K
£100K
£122K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 2% of sales in the last 12 months, after 31% in 2020
1,446 new homes have been sold in Bodmin since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 2020.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £342,500
against £220,000 for a home sold on, 56% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 4.3% sold leasehold in Bodmin. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Oakwood Drive is Bodmin’s busiest street, with 21 sales in three years
38 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 12 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Oakwood Drive
PL31
21
£350,000
Mostly detached houses · new builds
2
St Marys Road
PL31
18
£186,000
Mixed
3
Grass Valley Park
PL31
14
£278,000
Mixed
4
Queens Crescent
PL31
14
£242,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Boxwell Park
PL31
13
£320,000
Mostly detached houses
6
Higher Bore Street
PL31
12
£150,750
Mostly terraced houses
7
Gilbert Road
PL31
11
£252,000
Mixed
8
Kew Vara
PL31
11
£90,000
Mixed
9
Country Park Road
PL31
10
£407,495
Mostly detached houses · new builds
10
Highfield Park
PL31
10
£296,250
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
11
Kestell Parc
PL31
10
£265,000
Mixed
12
Helman Tor View
PL31
10
£217,000
Mixed
13
Scarletts Well Park
PL31
9
£368,500
Mostly detached houses
14
Tanners Road
PL31
9
£195,500
Mixed
15
Berrycoombe Road
PL31
9
£150,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Halgavor Park: £412,500
Bodmin median£235K
Halgavor Park£413K
Athelstan Park£408K
Country Park Road£407K
Bramley Park£400K
Scarletts Well Park£369K
Cheapest streets
Kew Vara: £90,000
Bodmin median£235K
Kew Vara£90K
Lower Bore Street£105K
Castle Hill Court£118K
Fore Street£120K
Royffe Way£125K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.6 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Cornwall
Bodmin is the 29th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
Bodmin is one of Cornwall’s cheapest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Bodmin
What is the average house price in Bodmin?
The median home in Bodmin sold for £235,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 640 standard sales (£235,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £350,000, semi-detached houses £235,000, terraced houses £180,000 and flats and maisonettes £119,000.
Are house prices going up in Bodmin?
The median was £237,500 in 2025, up 3% on 2024 (£230,000), and £235,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Bodmin each year?
186 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 272 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bodmin?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Halgavor Park (PL31, £412,500), Athelstan Park (PL31, £407,500) and Country Park Road (PL31, £407,495).
How much does a new build cost in Bodmin?
New homes sold for a median £342,500 over three years, against £220,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 7.8% of sales.
Is Bodmin expensive for Cornwall?
Bodmin is the 29th most expensive of 35 towns of 2,500 or more in Cornwall by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.