Property prices in Plymouth

The Plymouth average comes from land registry records rather than listings, and appears here once the last twelve months hold enough sales.

We publish the five year comparison wherever the price series holds enough sales to make it fair.

Plymouth serves a naval base, a large hospital and a university inside one compact city. Sea views and the university district pull rents in different directions street by street.

The table below is the price series our data supplier holds for the area, one row a year, with the movement across each year beside it. It is the same series the valuation on your own report is anchored against, which is why a report can say what your home is worth today from what it sold for years ago.

A trend is a description of the past, not a promise. What it is genuinely useful for is a sanity check: if the price you are being asked to pay assumes a rise the last five years never delivered, you are buying someone else's optimism.

A landlord buying in Plymouth is choosing a type as much as a place, so the sold averages are split by type below. The number of sales behind each figure is shown beside it, so you can see how firm it is before you lean on it.

Gross yield sits before management, certificates, insurance and repairs, and your own report works yours out from your figures.

Gross yield is not what you keep. Out of it come management, safety certificates, insurance, repairs and any empty weeks between tenants. The report on your own address sets the rent it can achieve against what the home is worth, so you are looking at your property rather than an area.

If you already own here and want the running of it taken off your hands, the management page for Plymouth sets out what a high street agent charges on the area's real average rent against what Caso charges for the same work.

District matters twice over for a landlord: it sets what you pay and it sets what you can charge. The districts below are the Plymouth postcode areas with enough homes advertised to give a fair rental average, which is the side of the sum most buyers guess at.

Put the two halves together before you buy: the rent a district actually achieves against the price a district actually commands. That is the yield, and it is the only number that tells you whether a purchase works.