That is the middle of 397 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 6.3 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.
397 homes sold in three years: 98 detached houses, 84 semi-detached houses, 134 terraced houses and 81 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£405K
median sale · 98 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£498K
Last 12 months
£415K29 sold
Semi-detached houses£287K
median sale · 84 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£360K
Last 12 months
£297K26 sold
Terraced houses£251K
median sale · 134 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£295K
Last 12 months
£260K42 sold
Flats and maisonettes£175K
median sale · 81 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£210K
Last 12 months
£170K21 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 34% of sales
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses21%
Terraced houses34%
Flats and maisonettes20%
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 Penryn’s homes sold for between £205K and £359K
One sale in ten was under £165K and one in ten over £449K. 43% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £264,000, sits in the £250–300K band
397 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.3 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £43,000 in 1995 to £270,250 in the last 12 months (£225,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
118 sales in the last 12 months, against 279 in 1999, the busiest year, and 132 in 2009. Sales fell by 47% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 6%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 34% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Penryn costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Penryn, 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
£65K
£90K
£250K
£240K
£293K
£300K
£415K
Semi-detached houses
£48K
£65K
£175K
£170K
£203K
£239K
£297K
Terraced houses
£41K
£60K
£149K
£160K
£175K
£178K
£260K
Flats and maisonettes
£31K
£45K
£142K
£130K
£162K
£151K
£170K
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
486 new homes have been sold in Penryn since 1995; the share peaked at 29% in 2012.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
20% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.6% sold leasehold in Penryn. 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
Trelowen Drive is Penryn’s busiest street, with 20 sales in three years
27 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 7 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
Trelowen Drive
TR10
20
£303,500
Mixed
2
West Street
TR10
18
£196,975
Mostly terraced houses
3
Little Oaks
TR10
14
£250,250
Mixed
4
Helston Road
TR10
14
£225,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
College Hill
TR10
13
£170,000
Mostly flats
6
Kernick Road
TR10
11
£365,000
Mixed
7
Summerheath
TR10
11
£250,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
Alderwood Parc
TR10
9
£233,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Higher Market Street
TR10
9
£206,000
Mostly flats
10
Calver Close
TR10
9
£167,000
Mostly flats
11
Chandler Park
TR10
8
£418,500
Mostly detached houses
12
College Green
TR10
8
£377,500
Mostly terraced houses
13
Cunningham Park
TR10
8
£325,000
Mostly detached houses
14
Kingston Way
TR10
8
£299,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Vinery Meadow
TR10
7
£315,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Highcross Drive: £765,000
Penryn median£264K
Highcross Drive£765K
Polsethow£513K
Old Well Gardens£423K
Chandler Park£419K
College Green£378K
Cheapest streets
The Terrace: £160,000
Penryn median£264K
The Terrace£160K
Calver Close£167K
College Hill£170K
Poltair Meadow£187K
West Street£197K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 4.8 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
Penryn is the 17th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
Penryn 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 Penryn
What is the average house price in Penryn?
The median home in Penryn sold for £264,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 397 standard sales (£270,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £404,750, semi-detached houses £286,500, terraced houses £251,250 and flats and maisonettes £175,000.
Are house prices going up in Penryn?
The median was £268,500 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£270,000), and £270,250 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 Penryn each year?
118 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 176 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Penryn?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Highcross Drive (TR10, £765,000), Polsethow (TR10, £512,500) and Old Well Gardens (TR10, £422,500).
Is Penryn expensive for Cornwall?
Penryn is the 17th 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.