That is the middle of 131 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 7 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.
131 homes sold in three years: 59 detached houses, 17 semi-detached houses, 31 terraced houses and 24 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£540K
median sale · 59 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£420K–£860K
Last 12 months
£545K18 sold
Semi-detached houses£262K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£348K
Terraced houses£360K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£235K–£595K
Last 12 months
£400K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes£276K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£207K–£490K
Last 12 months
£245K5 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: 45% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses45%
Semi-detached houses13%
Terraced houses24%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Fowey’s homes sold for between £265K and £660K
One sale in ten was under £205K and one in ten over £950K. 23% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £435,000, sits in the £400–500K band
131 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £72,500 in 1995 to £506,750 in the last 12 months (£297,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
35 sales in the last 12 months, against 106 in 2002, the busiest year, and 37 in 2023. Sales fell by 43% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 20%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 36% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Fowey costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Fowey, 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
£102K
£137K
£376K
£310K
£283K
£449K
£545K
Terraced houses
£63K
£109K
£206K
£305K
£236K
£300K
£400K
Flats and maisonettes
£85K
£84K
£175K
£283K
£240K
£388K
£245K
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
291 new homes have been sold in Fowey since 1995; the share peaked at 38% 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
19% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.8% sold leasehold in Fowey. 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
Hill Hay Close is Fowey’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
9 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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
Hill Hay Close
PL23
19
£245,000
Mixed
2
Esplanade
PL23
8
£870,375
Mixed
3
Station Road
PL23
8
£327,500
Mostly flats
4
Briarfield
PL23
8
£220,500
Mixed
5
Vicarage Meadow
PL23
6
£477,500
Mostly detached houses
6
Du Maurier Drive
PL23
6
£372,500
Mostly detached houses
7
Pentreath Close
PL23
6
£317,500
Mixed
8
Hanson Drive
PL23
5
£860,000
Mostly detached houses
9
Lankelly Lane
PL23
5
£760,000
Mostly detached houses
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.
Fowey’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Tywardreath, St Blazey and Lostwithiel.
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 Fowey
What is the average house price in Fowey?
The median home in Fowey sold for £435,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 131 standard sales (£506,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £540,000, semi-detached houses £262,000, terraced houses £360,000 and flats and maisonettes £276,000.
Are house prices going up in Fowey?
The median was £439,000 in 2025, up 20% on 2024 (£365,000), and £506,750 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 Fowey each year?
35 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 62 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Fowey?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Esplanade (PL23, £870,375), Hanson Drive (PL23, £860,000) and Lankelly Lane (PL23, £760,000).
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.