That is the middle of 266 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 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.
266 homes sold in three years: 44 detached houses, 34 semi-detached houses, 116 terraced houses and 72 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 1.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£443K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£375K–£620K
Last 12 months
£399K17 sold
Semi-detached houses£290K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£428K
Last 12 months
£260K14 sold
Terraced houses£350K
median sale · 116 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£270K–£555K
Last 12 months
£334K36 sold
Flats and maisonettes£295K
median sale · 72 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£390K
Last 12 months
£280K15 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 44% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses17%
Semi-detached houses13%
Terraced houses44%
Flats and maisonettes27%
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 Ives’s homes sold for between £265K and £475K
One sale in ten was under £210K and one in ten over £653K. 19% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £350,000, sits in the £300–400K band
266 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 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £301,000 in the last 12 months (£330,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
82 sales in the last 12 months, against 234 in 2007, the busiest year, and 79 in 2024. Sales fell by 38% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 4%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 40% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
St Ives costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: St Ives, 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
£70K
£123K
£357K
£334K
£468K
£565K
£399K
Semi-detached houses
£40K
£85K
£182K
£280K
£248K
£345K
£260K
Terraced houses
£50K
£85K
£225K
£303K
£310K
£355K
£334K
Flats and maisonettes
£43K
£66K
£201K
£220K
£228K
£298K
£280K
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
281 new homes have been sold in St Ives since 1995; the share peaked at 20% in 2008.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
27% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 2.1% sold leasehold in St Ives. 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
Back Road East is St Ives’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Back Road East
TR26
9
£390,000
Mixed
2
Talland Road
TR26
8
£365,975
Mostly flats
3
The Terrace
TR26
7
£443,000
Mixed
4
The Carracks
TR26
7
£320,000
Mixed
5
Porthia Road
TR26
6
£260,000
Mostly terraced houses
6
Trelawney Avenue
TR26
5
£255,000
Mostly semi-detached 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
St Ives is the 4th most expensive of 35 towns in Cornwall
St Ives is one of Cornwall’s dearest 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 Ives
What is the average house price in St Ives?
The median home in St Ives sold for £350,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 266 standard sales (£301,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £442,590, semi-detached houses £290,000, terraced houses £350,000 and flats and maisonettes £294,750.
Are house prices going up in St Ives?
The median was £331,500 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£350,000), and £301,000 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 Ives each year?
82 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 128 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is St Ives expensive for Cornwall?
St Ives is the 4th 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.