That is the middle of 898 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 5.3 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.
898 homes sold in three years: 324 detached houses, 253 semi-detached houses, 220 terraced houses and 101 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.9 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£307K
median sale · 324 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£265K–£368K
Last 12 months
£289K100 sold
New build
£340K
Semi-detached houses£235K
median sale · 253 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£195K–£270K
Last 12 months
£240K82 sold
Terraced houses£205K
median sale · 220 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£168K–£240K
Last 12 months
£199K64 sold
Flats and maisonettes£105K
median sale · 101 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£80K–£145K
Last 12 months
£110K29 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses28%
Terraced houses24%
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 St Austell’s homes sold for between £180K and £300K
One sale in ten was under £123K and one in ten over £380K. 53% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £240,000, sits in the £200–250K band
898 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.3 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £44,975 in 1995 to £240,000 in the last 12 months (£185,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
275 sales in the last 12 months, against 637 in 2006, the busiest year, and 279 in 2009. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 64% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
St Austell costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: St Austell, 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
£61K
£90K
£208K
£200K
£215K
£260K
£289K
Semi-detached houses
£43K
£66K
£159K
£156K
£160K
£197K
£240K
Terraced houses
£37K
£55K
£139K
£150K
£145K
£165K
£199K
Flats and maisonettes
£37K
£50K
£127K
£97K
£119K
£99K
£110K
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
1,980 new homes have been sold in St Austell since 1995; the share peaked at 28% in 2011.
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 £340,000
against £240,000 for a home sold on, 42% 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.
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.9% sold leasehold in St Austell. 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
Larcombe Road is St Austell’s busiest street, with 20 sales in three years
64 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 13 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
Larcombe Road
PL25
20
£220,000
Mixed
2
Longpark Way
PL25
16
£190,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Retallick Meadows
PL25
14
£376,250
Mostly detached houses
4
Park Way
PL25
14
£245,000
Mixed
5
Killyvarder Way
PL25
13
£233,500
Mixed
6
Bethel Road
PL25
13
£230,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Treverbyn Road
PL25
12
£238,000
Mixed
8
Trenarren View
PL25
11
£186,000
Mostly terraced houses
9
Trevarrick Road
PL25
11
£145,000
Mixed
10
Charlestown Road
PL25
10
£395,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Century Close
PL25
10
£280,000
Mostly detached houses
12
Margaret Avenue
PL25
10
£225,000
Mostly detached houses
13
Chisholme Close
PL25
10
£118,750
Mostly flats
14
Southbourne Road
PL25
9
£338,500
Mixed
15
Alexandra Road
PL25
9
£225,000
Mixed
Dearest streets
Penhaligon Way: £438,000
St Austell median£240K
Penhaligon Way£438K
Charlestown Road£395K
Porthmeor Road£390K
Retallick Meadows£376K
St Pirans Close£350K
Cheapest streets
Bridge Road: £59,950
St Austell median£240K
Bridge Road£60K
Trevarthian Road£90K
Sandy Hill£94K
Landrew Road£112K
Carlyon Road£112K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 7.3 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
St Austell is the 27th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
St Austell 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 St Austell
What is the average house price in St Austell?
The median home in St Austell sold for £240,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 898 standard sales (£240,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £306,500, semi-detached houses £235,000, terraced houses £205,000 and flats and maisonettes £105,000.
Are house prices going up in St Austell?
The median was £235,000 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£247,500), and £240,000 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 St Austell each year?
275 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 398 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in St Austell?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Penhaligon Way (PL25, £438,000), Charlestown Road (PL25, £395,000) and Porthmeor Road (PL25, £390,000).
How much does a new build cost in St Austell?
New homes sold for a median £340,000 over three years, against £240,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 0.9% of sales.
Is St Austell expensive for Cornwall?
St Austell is the 27th 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.