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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/wales

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House prices in Wales

Homes in Wales sold for a median of £217,500 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 73,382 standard sales.

That makes Wales the third cheapest of the nine English regions and Wales, 26% below the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£217,50073,382 standard sales
Middle half of prices£156,000 to £303,000
Change since 2016+46%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Monmouthshire, at £320,000, and the cheapest was Blaenau Gwent, at £140,000. The dearest median is 2.3 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, and the next cheapest Merthyr Tydfil, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Neath Port Talbot.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

10 of the 22 council areas had a median above £217,500, the figure for Wales as a whole. The most sales were in Cardiff (8,224), Rhondda Cynon Taf (5,557), Swansea (5,377), Carmarthenshire (4,249) and Caerphilly (4,046).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Monmouthshire2,459 sales£320,000£3,239−2%
  2. Vale of Glamorgan3,657 sales£285,000£3,246+2%
  3. Cardiff8,224 sales£270,000£3,269+2%
  4. Powys2,763 sales£250,000£2,674+3%
  5. Newport4,042 sales£235,000£2,760+4%
  6. Ceredigion1,617 sales£234,000£2,581−5%
  7. Isle of Anglesey1,514 sales£225,000£2,483+1%
  8. Pembrokeshire3,041 sales£225,000£2,437−1%
  9. Conwy3,513 sales£218,000£2,722+1%
  10. Bridgend3,698 sales£218,000£2,613+2%
  11. Flintshire3,864 sales£215,500£2,687+7%
  12. Denbighshire2,429 sales£200,000£2,648+5%
  13. Swansea5,377 sales£200,000£2,604+8%
  14. Torfaen1,952 sales£200,000£2,342+3%
  15. Wrexham2,942 sales£200,000£2,661+3%
  16. Carmarthenshire4,249 sales£197,500£2,148+7%
  17. Caerphilly4,046 sales£195,000£2,452+3%
  18. Gwynedd2,792 sales£195,000£2,367+3%
  19. Neath Port Talbot3,225 sales£165,000£1,905+5%
  20. Rhondda Cynon Taf5,557 sales£165,000£2,018+6%
  21. Merthyr Tydfil1,077 sales£145,000£1,828+1%
  22. Blaenau Gwent1,344 sales£140,000£1,916+4%

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

From 2024 to 2025, the median rose most in Swansea, up 8%, and fell most in Ceredigion, down 5%.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in Wales, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached21,878£330,000£260,000 to £420,000£3,009/m²from 844 sales
Semi-detached22,364£215,000£170,000 to £267,000£2,604/m²from 865 sales
Terraced24,013£165,000£128,000 to £219,000£2,059/m²from 817 sales
Flats and maisonettes5,127£145,000£110,000 to £188,000£2,414/m²from 145 sales

Terraced houses and semi-detached houses sold in similar numbers in Wales, at 33% and 31% of sales.

Leasehold is less common here: 9% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 46%, from £149,000 in 2016 to £218,000 in 2025, more than the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Blaenau Gwent, up 76%, and least in Ceredigion, up 30%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in Wales

About these figures

The 73,382 standard sales behind these figures are placed in Wales by each home's postcode, and 2,671 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.