That is the middle of 348 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 7.1 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.
348 homes sold in three years: 107 detached houses, 79 semi-detached houses, 124 terraced houses and 38 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£380K
median sale · 107 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£310K–£470K
Last 12 months
£353K42 sold
Semi-detached houses£285K
median sale · 79 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£340K
Last 12 months
£269K24 sold
New build
£285K
Terraced houses£250K
median sale · 124 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£300K
Last 12 months
£260K27 sold
Flats and maisonettes£152K
median sale · 38 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£193K
Last 12 months
£135K11 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses23%
Terraced houses36%
Flats and maisonettes11%
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 Hayle’s homes sold for between £217K and £358K
One sale in ten was under £158K and one in ten over £437K. 35% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £285,000, sits in the £250–300K band
348 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £40,750 in 1995 to £287,500 in the last 12 months (£234,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
104 sales in the last 12 months, against 225 in 1997, the busiest year, and 94 in 2011. Sales fell by 26% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 19%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 31% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Hayle costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Hayle, 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
£65K
£99K
£227K
£236K
£269K
£295K
£353K
Semi-detached houses
£39K
£75K
£163K
£167K
£193K
£260K
£269K
Terraced houses
£39K
£56K
£154K
£169K
£165K
£200K
£260K
Flats and maisonettes
£23K
£39K
£95K
£118K
£89K
£125K
£135K
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
521 new homes have been sold in Hayle since 1995; the share peaked at 37% in 2009.
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 £315,000
against £283,000 for a home sold on, 11% 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.
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in Hayle. 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
Cricket Field Crescent is Hayle’s busiest street, with 17 sales in three years
21 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Cricket Field Crescent
TR27
17
£285,000
Mostly semi-detached houses · new builds
2
St Johns Street
TR27
14
£192,500
Mostly terraced houses
3
Long Croft Crescent
TR27
9
£325,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Mount Pleasant
TR27
8
£280,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
Penpol Terrace
TR27
8
£219,750
Mostly flats
6
Sea Lane
TR27
8
£182,500
Mixed
7
Bodriggy Street
TR27
7
£290,000
Mostly terraced houses
8
Madison Close
TR27
7
£285,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
St Georges Road
TR27
6
£363,500
Mostly detached houses
10
Ventonleague Hill
TR27
6
£328,750
Mixed
11
Glebe Row
TR27
6
£317,500
Mixed
12
Commercial Road
TR27
6
£296,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Caroline Row
TR27
6
£229,000
Mostly terraced houses
14
Trelissick Road
TR27
5
£545,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Foundry Hill
TR27
5
£360,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Trelissick Road: £545,000
Hayle median£285K
Trelissick Road£545K
St Georges Road£364K
Foundry Hill£360K
Ventonleague Hill£329K
Long Croft Crescent£325K
Cheapest streets
Sea Lane: £182,500
Hayle median£285K
Sea Lane£183K
St Johns Street£193K
Penpol Terrace£220K
Caroline Row£229K
Hayle Terrace£240K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 3 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
Hayle is the 14th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
Hayle is in the middle of Cornwall’s 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 Hayle
What is the average house price in Hayle?
The median home in Hayle sold for £285,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 348 standard sales (£287,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £379,750, semi-detached houses £285,000, terraced houses £250,000 and flats and maisonettes £151,500.
Are house prices going up in Hayle?
The median was £280,000 in 2025, down 4% on 2024 (£292,500), and £287,500 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 Hayle each year?
104 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 152 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Hayle?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Trelissick Road (TR27, £545,000), St Georges Road (TR27, £363,500) and Foundry Hill (TR27, £360,000).
How much does a new build cost in Hayle?
New homes sold for a median £315,000 over three years, against £283,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.3% of sales.
Is Hayle expensive for Cornwall?
Hayle is the 13th 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.