That is the middle of 49 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 5.6 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.
49 homes sold in three years: 20 detached houses, 7 semi-detached houses, 17 terraced houses and 5 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£428K
median sale · 20 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£320K–£489K
Last 12 months
£426K5 sold
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£199K–£285K
Last 12 months
£267K6 sold
Fewer sales
Semi-detached houses: 7 sold, median £345K Flats and maisonettes: 5 sold, median £150K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 41% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses41%
Semi-detached houses14%
Terraced houses35%
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 Boscastle’s homes sold for between £240K and £435K
One sale in ten was under £155K and one in ten over £525K. 29% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £320,000, sits in the £300–400K band
49 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.6 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,500 in 1995 to £255,000 in the last 12 months (£252,250 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
15 sales in the last 12 months, against 44 in 1997, the busiest year, and 7 in 2023. Sales fell by 48% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 80% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Boscastle costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Boscastle, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£115K
£280K
£318K
£267K
£450K
£426K
Terraced houses
£37K
£66K
£129K
£160K
£195K
£257K
£267K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
31 new homes have been sold in Boscastle since 1995; the share peaked at 26% in 2000.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
6% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Boscastle. 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
Potters Lane is Boscastle’s busiest street, with 5 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Potters Lane
PL35
5
£320,000
Mostly detached houses
2
Clover Lane Close
PL35
5
£226,500
Mostly terraced houses
3
High Street
PL35
5
£155,000
Mostly 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.
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 Boscastle
What is the average house price in Boscastle?
The median home in Boscastle sold for £320,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 49 standard sales (£255,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £427,975, semi-detached houses £345,000, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £150,000.
Are house prices going up in Boscastle?
The median was £282,500 in 2025, down 20% on 2024 (£352,500), and £255,000 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 Boscastle each year?
15 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 22 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.