That is the middle of 104 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 6.1 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 Bere Alston’s sales are detached houses
104 homes sold in three years: 34 detached houses, 33 semi-detached houses, 34 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£345K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£440K
Last 12 months
£367K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£240K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£213K–£261K
Last 12 months
£260K7 sold
Terraced houses£204K
median sale · 34 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£171K–£258K
Last 12 months
£203K13 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 33% of sales
Detached houses33%
Semi-detached houses32%
Terraced houses33%
Flats and maisonettes3%
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 Bere Alston’s homes sold for between £200K and £310K
One sale in ten was under £167K and one in ten over £397K. 44% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £255,000, sits in the £250–300K band
104 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.1 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,000 in 1995 to £257,500 in the last 12 months (£188,725 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 81 in 1999, the busiest year, and 19 in 2012. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 26% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bere Alston costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bere Alston, 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
£38K
£82K
£208K
£240K
£230K
£288K
£367K
Semi-detached houses
£47K
£68K
£160K
£173K
£158K
—
£260K
Terraced houses
£39K
£55K
£136K
£140K
£130K
£153K
£203K
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
87 new homes have been sold in Bere Alston since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
2% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Bere Alston. 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
Bedford Street is Bere Alston’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
8 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
Bedford Street
PL20
11
£250,000
Mixed
2
Broad Park Road
PL20
8
£442,500
Mostly detached houses
3
Maynard Park
PL20
7
£240,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Station Road
PL20
6
£297,500
Mixed
5
Pilgrim Drive
PL20
6
£255,000
Mixed
6
Cornwall Street
PL20
6
£197,500
Mostly terraced houses
7
Park Lane
PL20
5
£235,000
Mostly detached houses
8
Fore Street
PL20
5
£190,000
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.
Bere Alston’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Bere Alston
What is the average house price in Bere Alston?
The median home in Bere Alston sold for £255,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 104 standard sales (£257,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £345,000, semi-detached houses £240,000 and terraced houses £204,275.
Are house prices going up in Bere Alston?
The median was £263,000 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£250,000), and £257,500 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 Bere Alston each year?
31 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 40 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bere Alston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Broad Park Road (PL20, £442,500), Station Road (PL20, £297,500) and Pilgrim Drive (PL20, £255,000).
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.