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Truro is a cathedral city in Cornwall, in south-west England. Across Cornwall the average sold price is £275,395 on the HM Land Registry House Price Index, 5.0% below England's £289,946 and 8.5% below the South West's £300,849. That county-wide figure hides Truro's own position: asking prices across its four postcodes average £461,749, held up by TR2, TR3 and TR4, where homes list from £427,088 to £547,268. Cornwall's population grew 7.2% to 570,305 between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, faster than England and Wales as a whole.

Only one of Truro's four postcodes carries reliable rental data. TR1, the city centre, lists at £361,959 with rents around £1,307 a month, a 4.3% gross yield. TR2, TR3 and TR4 have too few rental listings to read a yield, and their asking prices sit well above TR1, so on the numbers they behave as owner-occupier and second-home markets rather than rental ones. Truro is Cornwall's only city and the county's administrative and commercial hub, but it is a thin market for a buy-to-let investor.

This guide covers all four Truro postcodes, TR1 to TR4, under the Cornwall unitary authority (ONS code E06000052). Population, sold prices and earnings are reported at the Cornwall level, since the Land Registry and ONS publish those figures for the whole unitary authority, while the asking-price, rent and growth tables are specific to each postcode. Investors weighing up the wider South West may also look at Plymouth or Exeter. Browse all our best places to invest in buy-to-let.

Article updated: July 2026

Why Invest in Truro?

Truro is Cornwall's only city and the service centre for a county of 570,305 people. Cornwall Council, the Royal Cornwall Hospital and the county's main professional-services firms are based here. For a place its size, Truro carries the administrative, retail and legal weight for England's most south-westerly county, which gives it a working population that most Cornish towns do not have.

The Royal Cornwall Hospital at Treliske, on the western edge of the city, is the county's main acute hospital and one of Truro's largest employers. Its shift-working staff need to live close by, and that is the demand that keeps TR1 rentable year-round while the coastal postcodes lean on holidaymakers and second-home owners. Falmouth University's Penryn campus is around ten miles south in the TR10 area, drawing students into the wider region rather than into Truro itself for now.

Between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, Cornwall's population rose from 532,273 to 570,305, a gain of 7.2%. A good share of that came from people moving in rather than being born there, with retirees and remote workers relocating from London and the South East before and after the pandemic. That inflow lifts demand, but it also pushes prices up faster than local pay can follow, and that gap is the defining feature of the Truro market.

Median pay in Cornwall runs below both the region and the country. The typical resident earns £35,002 a year, against £37,544 across the South West and £39,125 for Great Britain. Truro's asking prices, averaging £461,749, are being set by buyers bringing money in from elsewhere, not by what hospital porters, retail staff or council officers earn locally. For a landlord, that means rents are anchored to local wages while prices are not, which is exactly why yields here are thin.

Cornwall's economy still leans on tourism, agriculture and public services, and all three carry a seasonal or low-wage character. The growth of Falmouth University, the Spaceport Cornwall venture at Newquay and a small but growing tech base are slowly broadening the mix. For a landlord, though, the hospital and the council are the two payrolls that produce the steady, non-seasonal tenants worth building around.

Truro Economic Summary

• Population: 570,305 (2021 Census, Cornwall). Growth of 7.2% from 2011.
• Median annual salary: £35,002 (Cornwall), £37,544 (South West), £39,125 (Great Britain)
• Employment rate: 78.6% (Cornwall)
• Unemployment rate: 3.1% (Cornwall)
• Key employment sectors: Healthcare, public administration, tourism, higher education, agriculture

Source: ONS Census 2021, Nomis Labour Market Profile (ASHE 2025, Employment Oct 2024-Sep 2025)

Cornwall's employment rate of 78.6% and unemployment rate of 3.1% both read healthier than the headline figures suggest, because tourism smooths out a lot of seasonal churn that annual averages never show. Summer fills bar, hotel and holiday-let jobs that empty out by November. For a landlord, that seasonality is the reason the hospital and council payrolls matter so much: they pay the same in February as in August, and that is the base a year-round tenancy needs.

Regeneration and Investment in Truro

Over £180 million of confirmed investment is aimed at Truro's city centre and waterfront, and the largest scheme would create a rental market the city does not currently have. The projects below tackle housing supply and lean the local economy away from pure tourism.

• Pydar Regeneration (underway, over £170m): Cornwall Council's largest regeneration project will redevelop a city-centre site into up to 320 homes, purpose-built student accommodation, and a new campus for Falmouth University, which has signed as the anchor tenant to bring around 750 students and staff into TR1. The student housing is the part that matters most for landlords, because Truro currently has no large-scale student market, so this creates a rental segment from scratch in the city centre. Demolition is underway ahead of construction. Updates at Cornwall Council and Falmouth University.
• Truro Waterside (underway, £11.7m): A harbour and quay improvement programme funded through the Government's £23.6m Towns Fund allocation for Truro, with work at Lemon Quay starting in January 2026. The scheme covers public realm, event space and access improvements designed to strengthen the city centre as a destination rather than add housing directly. Updates at Truro City Council.
• Treyew Road Housing (planning approved, up to 116 homes): Treveth, Cornwall Council's housing company, secured consent for up to 116 homes on the former council offices site near the railway station, with the first 53-home phase due to start on site in 2026. The scheme mixes open-market, shared-ownership and affordable-rent homes, adding to a city with tight supply. Updates at Treveth.

Source: Office for National Statistics - Population for Cornwall

Truro Property Market Analysis

Cornwall property prices have risen 502.9% since January 1995, from £45,680 to £275,395, but the county is 10.0% below its November 2022 peak and still easing. Truro sits within the Cornwall unitary authority, so every sold-price figure from the HM Land Registry House Price Index is reported at Cornwall level. The sections below trace that cycle, then drill into current postcode data for asking prices, price per square foot, growth and transaction volumes.

When Was the Last House Price Crash in Truro?

Cornwall's sharpest fall came out of the 2008 financial crisis. The index runs from January 1995 to March 2026, and within it the county has been through one full boom-and-bust plus a pandemic surge that it is still unwinding.

• 1995 to 2000, lifestyle discovery: Cornwall opened 1995 at £45,680 and reached £67,129 by January 2000, with annual growth hitting the low teens as lifestyle buyers began finding the coast. Prices stayed well below national levels throughout.
• 2000 to 2007, the boom: The county caught the full UK housing boom. Prices more than tripled from £67,129 in January 2000 to a peak of £209,501 in November 2007, driven by cheap credit and a fast-growing second-home market that pushed values far past local wages.
• 2007 to 2009, the financial crisis: From the November 2007 peak of £209,501 to the trough of £173,660 in February 2009, Cornwall shed 17.1% in 15 months. The worst annual reading was -15.7% in February 2009. The fall was even across property types: detached down 16.7%, semi-detached 17.0%, terraced 17.3% and flats 17.6%.
• 2009 to 2013, slow recovery: Cornwall bounced off the trough but then stalled. Prices recovered to around £190,000 by late 2010, drifted sideways for three years, and reached £186,367 by December 2013, still roughly 11% below the pre-crash peak.
• 2014 to 2017, recovery: Modest 3% to 5% annual growth slowly closed the gap. Prices finally passed the November 2007 peak in July 2017 at £210,216, a recovery that took nearly ten years, slower than London and the South East, which had cleared their pre-crash levels years earlier.
• 2017 to 2020, steady growth: Prices climbed gently from £210,216 in July 2017 to £228,403 by March 2020, growing at 2% to 4% a year without the volatility of the boom, propped up by continued lifestyle demand.
• 2020 to 2022, pandemic surge: The stamp-duty holiday and the shift to remote working transformed Cornwall. Prices jumped from £228,403 in March 2020 to an all-time high of £306,045 in November 2022, a rise of 34.0% in under three years, as buyers relocated from London and the South East in numbers.
• 2023 to 2026, correction: Higher mortgage rates and the end of the stamp-duty holiday hit Cornwall harder than most, because so much of the surge had come from discretionary lifestyle buyers. Prices eased from the £306,045 peak to £275,395 by March 2026, a fall of 10.0%, and the annual reading still sits at -2.4%.

Long-Term Property Value Growth in Cornwall

• 5 years (2021-2026): +9.1% (£252,401 to £275,395)
• 10 years (2016-2026): +33.8% (£205,766 to £275,395)
• 15 years (2011-2026): +47.2% (£187,066 to £275,395)
• 20 years (2006-2026): +52.9% (£180,090 to £275,395)
• 30 years (1995-2026): +502.9% (£45,680 to £275,395)

The 2008 crash is the reference point for Cornwall investors gauging downside. A 17.1% fall took nearly ten years to recover, longer than the national average, because the county's dependence on discretionary lifestyle buyers left it slow to rebuild once confidence went. The five-year figure of 9.1% shows how much of the pandemic gain has since drained away, with prices now £30,650 below their 2022 high.

• All property types
• Detached
• Semi-detached
• Terraced
• Flats

Source: HM Land Registry House Price Index

• All property types
• Detached
• Semi-detached
• Terraced
• Flats

Source: HM Land Registry House Price Index

Source: HM Land Registry House Price Index for Cornwall, January 1995 to March 2026.

Sold House Prices in Truro

The latest sold-price index from the Land Registry covers Cornwall as a whole. The headline sold price of £275,395 is 5.0% below England's £289,946 and 8.5% below the South West's £300,849. That county-wide discount is modest, but it flattens out a wide gap between property types.

Detached houses in Cornwall average £419,895, a 10.8% discount to England's £470,492. That gap is narrower than you might expect for a rural county, because Cornwall's detached stock includes a large share of period and coastal homes that carry a lifestyle premium and pull the average up towards the national figure. In Truro these are the homes filling TR2 and TR3, where detached houses make up over 60% of the stock.

Semi-detached houses show the narrowest discount at 3.8%, averaging £277,095 against England's £288,185. Cornwall's semis sit close to the national figure because demand from families and owner-occupiers in the county's residential towns holds them up. In Truro, semi-detached stock in TR1 and TR4 forms the core of any family-rental proposition.

Terraced houses average £228,274, a 6.4% discount to England's £243,788. Truro's terraced stock is concentrated in the city centre and older residential streets of TR1, and these are the homes most likely to work as a standard let. Older terraces needing updating are where many investors start, and for how to source them see our guide to finding renovation properties.

Flats and maisonettes average £144,858, a 32.5% discount to England's £214,563, the widest gap in the county. Cornwall lacks the dense, new-build apartment market that inflates flat prices in cities like Bristol or Exeter. Its flat stock is thinner, older, and clustered in coastal towns, which is why the discount is so wide, and why flats are the one property type in Cornwall that regularly lists below £150,000.

Price Per Square Foot in Truro

Truro's price per square foot runs from £318 in TR1 to £378 in TR3, a spread of just £60 across four postcodes. That is remarkably tight. Price per square foot measures what buyers pay for floor space once you strip out how big a home is, so a narrow spread means you are paying close to the same rate for space wherever you buy in the Truro area. The large gaps in asking prices between postcodes are therefore about property size, not underlying land value.

TR1 at £318 per square foot is the cheapest space in the Truro area. This is the city-centre postcode, where smaller terraced houses and older stock keep the per-foot rate down. TR1 is also the only postcode with a readable yield, at 4.3%, so the cheapest space and the best rental return line up in the same place.

TR3 at £378 is the most expensive per square foot. The Feock and Playing Place area south of the city commands higher rates for its coastal proximity and larger plots. TR2 on the Roseland Peninsula, at £357, includes some of Cornwall's most sought-after rural and coastal villages, where lifestyle premiums push the per-foot rate above the city centre despite far lower transaction volumes.

Figures reflect averages across all property types and ages. Individual values depend on condition, location within the postcode, and building age.

For Sale Asking Prices in Truro

Truro's asking prices run from £361,959 in TR1 to £547,268 in TR2, a spread of £185,000 across four postcodes. TR1 is the only one below £400,000, and TR2 and TR3 both list above £500,000, firmly in the territory where owner-occupiers and second-home buyers, not landlords, set the pace. These are asking prices from live listings; with three of the four postcodes showing negative or flat annual growth, some of these may sit above what eventually sells.

TR1 is the only postcode below £400,000. The city centre's smaller, older housing stock keeps it more accessible than the surrounding areas. At £361,959, TR1 needs a 30% deposit of £108,588, still a six-figure entry, which puts Truro in a different league from Plymouth, where deposits start well below that.

TR2 and TR3 both list above £500,000 and serve different buyers. TR2 covers the Roseland Peninsula, where homes are large, rural and traded rarely, at nine sales a month with no rental data at all. TR3 runs south of the city through Feock and Playing Place, coastal commuter country where asking prices of £510,682 sit against no readable rent. TR4 at £427,088 reaches out towards the Redruth and Camborne fringe, the more workaday end of the Truro postcodes.

The mean asking price across all four Truro postcodes is £461,749, a figure that reappears in the comparison section, where Truro is measured against Plymouth, Exeter, Bournemouth and Bath.

House Price Growth in Truro

Growth data shows where prices have moved over one, three and five years. Three of Truro's four postcodes are down over one year, all four are down over three, and three of the four hold positive five-year growth. That is the signature of a market working off the pandemic surge: the five-year window still captures the run-up, while the shorter windows show the correction that followed.

TR4 leads on five-year growth at 15.8%, the strongest of the four. Most of that came in the early part of the window, before the correction, and the postcode has since held up better than the others: it is one of only two Truro postcodes positive over one year, at 0.5%. The Redruth and Camborne fringe, historically Cornwall's more affordable corridor, has absorbed the post-pandemic dip more quietly than the premium coastal postcodes.

TR3 shows the widest split between its windows, up 11.2% over five years but down 11.9% over three. That tells you the gains were front-loaded into the surge and have unwound since. An investor who bought in TR3 five years ago is ahead; one who bought three years ago, at the top, is behind.

TR1 has fallen 5.0% over one year, the steepest in the area. The city centre, the one postcode with a rental market, has taken the sharpest short-term hit, though it holds a positive 5.1% over five years. TR2 on the Roseland Peninsula is the flattest over five years at -0.2%, a low-volume market where a handful of high-value sales, or their absence, swings the average around. In a falling market, repossessed houses occasionally surface below the averages shown here.

Monthly Property Sales in Truro

Transaction volume tells you how easily you could sell again. Truro's four postcodes manage 55 sales a month between them, with TR1 the busiest at 22 and TR2 the quietest at nine. That is a thin market for Cornwall's only city, and it is worth knowing before you buy, because a home that is slow to sell is also slow to exit.

TR1 at 22 sales a month is the most active postcode, on 7% turnover. Turnover is the share of local housing stock that changes hands in a year, so 7% means most homes sit tight and only a small slice comes to market. That is typical of a city centre where owner-occupiers and long-term landlords hold on. For a buyer, it means enough activity to transact, but not a fast market on exit.

TR2 at nine sales a month and 4% turnover is the thinnest market of the four. The Roseland Peninsula has a small stock of high-value rural homes that rarely trade, which is exactly what you would expect from a second-home and lifestyle area. Combined with asking prices above £547,000 and no rental data, TR2 is the least suited to a buy-to-let approach of any Truro postcode.

Truro Rental Market Analysis

For anyone weighing up whether buy-to-let is worth it in Truro, the honest starting point is coverage: rents can be read in only one of the four postcodes. The section below sets out what the data shows for TR1, and why the other three are silent.

Rental data is available for TR1 only. TR2, TR3 and TR4 have too few current lettings listings to produce a reliable rent or yield, which is itself a signal: these are markets where homes are bought to live in or to holiday in, not to let. If you are looking to build a property portfolio in the South West on rental income, Truro gives you one workable postcode, and its yield sits below the regional norm.

Average Rent & Gross Rental Yields in Truro

TR1 is the one Truro postcode with a readable yield, at 4.3%, where rents of around £1,307 a month meet an asking price of £361,959. Most cities in our guides have at least one postcode above 5%; Truro's single data point sits below that, because even the city's cheapest postcode carries a Cornwall-sized price tag against a local wage. The other three postcodes are shown for completeness, but their rents cannot be read.

TR1 at 4.3% is the one postcode where the rental numbers hold together. It pairs the area's lowest asking price with rents around £1,307 a month, and the tenant base is the steadiest in the city: hospital workers at Treliske, council staff, and eventually the Falmouth University students the Pydar campus will bring into the centre. For an investor who needs a property to cover its costs, TR1 is the only Truro postcode where the arithmetic starts from a sensible place.

The absence of rent data in TR2, TR3 and TR4 is not a gap to work around, it is the finding. These postcodes have so few homes advertised to let at any one time that no reliable rent can be drawn, because the demand there is for buying, holidaying and second homes rather than renting. On asking prices of £427,088 to £547,268, any yield they did produce would sit below TR1's in any case.

Is Truro Rent High?

The median gross weekly salary in Cornwall is £673.10, which works out at £2,917 a month or £35,002 a year. That is below the South West median of £722.00 a week and the Great Britain median of £752.40. Data from the Nomis Labour Market Profile (ASHE 2025).

TR1's rent of £1,307 a month takes 44.8% of the local median monthly income, well above the 30% affordability benchmark. That does not mean tenants cannot pay it. It means the rent depends on households earning above the county median, which is exactly the hospital, council and professional workforce clustered around the city centre. Seasonal and retail workers on the median wage would be stretched by it. With rent readable in only one postcode, this affordability picture applies to TR1 alone.

What Type of Property Is Most Common in Truro?

Detached houses dominate three of Truro's four postcodes, and only TR1 has a meaningful share of the flats and terraces that usually suit buy-to-let. The stock mix explains a lot of what the price and rent tables show: where the housing is large and detached, the market is owner-occupier and second-home; where it is smaller and denser, a rental market can form.

TR1 is the only postcode where terraces and flats add up to a real share, at 23.1% and 16.2% between them. That is the smaller, denser stock a rental market runs on, and it lines up with TR1 carrying the lowest asking price and the only readable yield in Truro. City-centre flats suit single professionals and couples, and the terraces work as lower-cost family lets.

TR2, TR3 and TR4 are all more than 60% detached, with flats down around 4%. Detached and semi-detached houses together account for over 80% of the stock in each, which matches their premium asking prices and their absence of rental data. This is family and second-home housing, not the smaller-unit stock that produces rental income at volume.

Flats combine purpose-built and converted units. A small share of mobile and temporary dwellings is not shown, so rows may not total 100%.

Truro Buy-to-Let Considerations

How Big Is Truro's Private Rented Sector?

The private rented sector is largest on paper in TR2 at 26.9% of households, but that is the postcode with no lettings market to read, while TR1's 20.3% sits alongside the city's only readable rent. The share of homes already rented privately shows the size of the established tenant pool, a different signal from yield. The table below sets out household tenure by postcode.

The private rented shares are close across all four postcodes, between 19.7% and 26.9%, which masks a real difference in what those rentals are. TR2's high 26.9% reflects a coastal area with a large stock of holiday lets and second homes counted as private rentals, not a working long-let market, which is why its lettings listings are too thin to price. TR1's 20.3% is the more useful number for a landlord, because it sits alongside the city's hospital and council workforce and the one readable rent in Truro. TR1 also carries the highest social-rented share at 12.8%, in keeping with a city centre that holds more of the county's affordable housing.

How Long Does It Take to Sell in Truro?

Homes in Truro take a long time to find a buyer, from around 380 days in TR1 to 761 days in TR2, and all four postcodes read as buyers' markets. Selling time matters at both ends of a hold: it shapes how long your capital is tied up on the way out, and a slow market gives a buyer more room to negotiate on the way in. The table below shows the average days on market and how many months of unsold stock each postcode is carrying.

TR1 is the quickest to sell, and even there the average home takes over a year. Months of unsold stock counts how long it would take to clear everything currently for sale at the present rate of sales, and TR1's 12.5 months already points to a market where supply outweighs demand. For a buyer this is the useful side of a slow market: sellers have time working against them, which is where offers below asking find traction.

TR2 stands out at 761 days and 25 months of stock, the slowest market of the four by a wide margin. That is the Roseland Peninsula's high-value, low-volume stock taking its time to trade, and it underlines why the postcode reads as a second-home market rather than a rental one. Anyone buying at the premium end of Truro should plan for a long runway on exit.

Local Housing Allowance Rates in Truro

All four Truro postcodes fall within the Kernow West Broad Rental Market Area, where Local Housing Allowance runs from £90.33 a week for a shared room to £253.15 a week for a four-bedroom home. Local Housing Allowance sets the maximum housing support a tenant on benefits can receive, so for that part of the market it acts as a floor under the rent a landlord can expect. The rates below apply right across Truro. To check the current rate for a specific address, use the government's official Local Housing Allowance calculator.

The two-bedroom rate of £159.95 a week works out at about £693 a month, roughly half of TR1's open-market rent of £1,307. A benefit-backed tenancy at the LHA rate therefore sits well under Truro's market rents, and the stock that fits within these rates is concentrated in TR1, where both asking prices and rents are lowest. The rates are identical across every Truro postcode because they are set for the whole Kernow West market area.

Are Truro House Prices High? Price-to-Earnings Ratios

Buying in Truro takes between 10.3 and 15.6 times the county's median salary of £35,002. The national benchmark is 7.4x, England's average sold price of £289,946 against Great Britain's median salary of £39,125. Not one Truro postcode comes close to it. Data from the Nomis Labour Market Profile for Cornwall.

TR1 at 10.3x is the most accessible, and it is still 39% above the national benchmark. This is the defining feature of the Truro market: prices are set by wealth coming in from outside Cornwall, not by what local workers earn. Even the city's cheapest postcode asks more than ten years of the median local salary.

TR2 and TR3 at 15.6x and 14.6x are more than double the national benchmark. These are lifestyle-driven markets where local pay has almost no bearing on prices, filled by buyers relocating from higher-value regions who are not depending on Cornish wages. For a landlord, a high price-to-earnings ratio is a direct warning that yields will be compressed, because rents are anchored to what local tenants can pay while prices answer to a different buyer pool entirely. TR4 at 12.2x sits between them, kept lower by the more affordable Redruth and Camborne fringe.

Deposit Requirements in Truro

Every Truro postcode needs a six-figure deposit at 30%, from £108,588 in TR1 to £164,180 in TR2. The table uses 30% rather than the typical 25% minimum, because the better mortgage rates on offer at 70% loan-to-value matter more in a low-yield market where cash flow is tight. TR1's £108,588 is already the lowest way into the city, and it is comfortably above where Plymouth's cheaper postcodes start.

The gap between TR1 and the rest is real. TR1's £108,588 deposit is nearly £20,000 below TR4 and over £55,000 below TR2. For an investor set on the Cornwall market, TR1 is the lowest capital requirement, and it is also the only postcode with a readable yield and the most active resale market, so the three factors that matter most line up in the same place.

TR2 and TR3 both need deposits above £150,000. At that level the same capital could secure two properties in cities like Plymouth, Sunderland or Stoke, each with rental data and higher yields. Whether the Cornwall lifestyle premium justifies the higher entry cost is the investor's call, but with no readable rent in either postcode, the case there rests on capital and lifestyle appeal rather than income.

Deposit is only part of the upfront cost. Budget for stamp duty (our stamp duty calculator gives an accurate figure), legal fees and a survey. For the full picture, see our guide to buy-to-let running costs. If six-figure deposits are out of reach, our guide to investing in property with no deposit covers the alternatives.

What the Truro Data Tells Buy-to-Let Investors

Truro is a one-postcode market for anyone buying on rental income. TR1 at 4.3% is the only postcode with a readable yield, and it also has the lowest asking price (£361,959), the lowest deposit (£108,588), the cheapest space per square foot (£318) and the most active resale market (22 sales a month). If you are buying an investment property in Truro to let, the numbers point to one postcode and no other.

TR2, TR3 and TR4 have no readable rent, asking prices from £427,088 to £547,268, and stock that is more than 60% detached. These are owner-occupier and second-home postcodes, and the data says so plainly: too few lettings to price, deposits above £128,000, and price-to-earnings ratios of 12x to 16x. An investor looking at buy-to-let homes for sale in those postcodes is buying into a lifestyle and second-home market, not a rental one.

Growth across Truro is soft in the short term. Three of four postcodes are down over one year and all four are down over three, while three hold positive five-year figures because the pandemic surge was large enough to cushion the correction. TR4's 15.8% over five years is the strongest, TR2's -0.2% the weakest. The county as a whole sits 10.0% below its 2022 high, so recent buyers may be underwater while longer-term owners are ahead.

Cornwall does not run a selective licensing scheme, so most standard lets need no licence, though shared houses of five or more people fall under mandatory HMO licensing set out on Cornwall Council's HMO licensing pages. The county also applies a council-tax premium of up to 100% on second homes, introduced in April 2025, which changes the sums for anyone weighing a holiday let against a standard tenancy in the coastal postcodes.

How Truro Buy-to-Let Compares to Nearby Areas

Truro is the second most expensive of five South West locations here at £461,749, yet its top yield of 4.3% is the lowest of the group. The table compares mean asking prices, mean monthly rents and the top single-postcode gross yield across the five, sorted from cheapest to dearest.

Only Bath asks more than Truro, and every other location in the group delivers a higher top yield. Truro's 4.3% sits 1.9 percentage points below Plymouth's 6.2% and 3.1 points below Bournemouth's 7.4%. Bath is dearer still at £478,576, but even Bath's top yield of 4.4% edges Truro's, so Truro combines the second-highest entry cost with the weakest income return on the table.

Plymouth offers the friendliest numbers for a yield-focused investor. Its mean asking price of £286,818 is £175,000 below Truro's, with a higher top yield and a far deeper market. Exeter sits in the middle, dearer than Plymouth but with a 5.0% top yield that clears Truro's, while Bournemouth pairs the group's highest yield at 7.4% with an asking price well below Truro's.

Truro's position on this table is the Cornwall lifestyle premium in numbers. Buyers here are paying for location and quality of life, not rental income. For anyone comparing the best places to invest in buy-to-let across the South West on yield and affordability, the data favours the other four, and Truro's one workable postcode narrows the field further. Investors chasing value can also look at off-market property in Cornwall, where sellers in a slow market may take offers below asking.

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