That is the middle of 105 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 7.5 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.
105 homes sold in three years: 27 detached houses, 21 semi-detached houses, 46 terraced houses and 11 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£775K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£480K–£1.1M
Last 12 months
£675K7 sold
Semi-detached houses£326K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£275K–£450K
Last 12 months
£336K6 sold
Terraced houses£353K
median sale · 46 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£252K–£480K
Last 12 months
£295K8 sold
Flats and maisonettes£400K
median sale · 11 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£350K–£755K
The mix
A terraced town: 44% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses26%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses44%
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 Padstow’s homes sold for between £295K and £725K
One sale in ten was under £225K and one in ten over £1.1M. 13% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £400,000, sits in the £400–500K band
105 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 7.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £52,500 in 1995 to £395,000 in the last 12 months (£395,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
23 sales in the last 12 months, against 110 in 1997, the busiest year, and 22 in 2008. Sales fell by 44% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 49% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Padstow costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Padstow, 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
£100K
£196K
£330K
£360K
£445K
£560K
£675K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£136K
£224K
—
£255K
£265K
£336K
Terraced houses
£48K
£83K
£195K
£249K
£273K
£350K
£295K
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: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 28% in 2016
113 new homes have been sold in Padstow since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 2016.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
15% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 5.3% sold leasehold in Padstow. 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
Boyd Avenue is Padstow’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
5 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
Boyd Avenue
PL28
11
£247,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Station Road
PL28
6
£755,000
Mostly flats
3
Treverbyn Road
PL28
5
£1,275,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Dennis Road
PL28
5
£1,145,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Polpennic Drive
PL28
5
£327,000
Mixed
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.
Padstow’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Wadebridge, St Columb Major and Newquay.
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 Padstow
What is the average house price in Padstow?
The median home in Padstow sold for £400,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 105 standard sales (£395,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £775,000, semi-detached houses £326,000, terraced houses £352,500 and flats and maisonettes £400,000.
Are house prices going up in Padstow?
The median was £379,000 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£400,000), and £395,000 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 Padstow each year?
23 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 54 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.