That is the middle of 148 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 6.6 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.
A third of Lostwithiel’s sales are terraced houses
148 homes sold in three years: 39 detached houses, 35 semi-detached houses, 53 terraced houses and 21 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 1.8 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£430K
median sale · 39 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£535K
Last 12 months
£430K14 sold
Semi-detached houses£238K
median sale · 35 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£198K–£295K
Last 12 months
£250K13 sold
Terraced houses£238K
median sale · 53 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£310K
Last 12 months
£235K21 sold
Flats and maisonettes£240K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£175K–£365K
New build
£365K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses24%
Terraced houses36%
Flats and maisonettes14%
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 Lostwithiel’s homes sold for between £210K and £420K
One sale in ten was under £150K and one in ten over £505K. 41% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £282,500, sits in the £250–300K band
148 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £40,000 in 1995 to £265,000 in the last 12 months (£230,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
52 sales in the last 12 months, against 106 in 2000, the busiest year, and 31 in 2008. Sales fell by 35% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 34% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Lostwithiel costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Lostwithiel, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£56K
£131K
£269K
£278K
£240K
£363K
£430K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£56K
£193K
£186K
£198K
£270K
£250K
Terraced houses
£34K
£62K
£174K
£140K
£180K
£206K
£235K
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: 1.9% of sales in the last 12 months
257 new homes have been sold in Lostwithiel since 1995; the share peaked at 33% in 2013.
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 £365,000
against £280,000 for a home sold on, 30% 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.
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.6% sold leasehold in Lostwithiel. 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
Grenville Road is Lostwithiel’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
6 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
Grenville Road
PL22
13
£246,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Pendour Park
PL22
10
£203,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
The Yard
PL22
9
£325,000
Mostly flats · new builds
4
Rose Hill
PL22
6
£452,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Brunel Quays
PL22
6
£355,000
Mostly flats
6
Summers Street
PL22
5
£280,000
Mostly terraced 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.
Across Cornwall
Lostwithiel is the 15th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
Lostwithiel 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 Lostwithiel
What is the average house price in Lostwithiel?
The median home in Lostwithiel sold for £282,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 148 standard sales (£265,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £430,000, semi-detached houses £238,000, terraced houses £237,500 and flats and maisonettes £240,000.
Are house prices going up in Lostwithiel?
The median was £275,000 in 2025, down 13% on 2024 (£315,000), and £265,000 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 Lostwithiel each year?
52 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 63 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Lostwithiel?
New homes sold for a median £365,000 over three years, against £280,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 4.1% of sales.
Is Lostwithiel expensive for Cornwall?
Lostwithiel is the 15th 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.