Barry house prices are built from 35,740 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £122,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +53.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +9.8%.
Median price paid
£122,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+53.3%
Change in real terms
+9.8%
Median per m²
£1,410
HM Land Registry35,740 sales6,781 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Barry prices moved
The chart tracks the median Barry house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £46,500 | £103,252 |
| 2000s | 10 | £116,500 | £212,229 |
| 2010s | 10 | £140,000 | £197,400 |
| 2020s | 7 | £225,500 | £230,402 |
The highest yearly median on record for Barry is £233,000 in 2025; the lowest is £42,998 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £42,998 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,475, so the real change over the whole record is +140.9% — about +2.88% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +53.3% in cash against +9.8% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72A Cardiff Road | 24 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 15 Jenkin Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 40 Gileston Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| 71 Dobbins Road | 18 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £179,000 | £179,000 |
| 5 Cory Way | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 43 Salisbury Road | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 10 Phyllis Street | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £198,000 | £198,000 |
| 56 Picton Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 83 Lydstep Road | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £242,500 | £242,500 |
| FLAT 9 GLAN Y DWR Y Rhodfa | 8 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £151,000 | £151,000 |
| 108 Colcot Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £415,000 | £415,000 |
| 122 Heol Ty Draw | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £305,000 | £305,000 |
| 35 Kenilworth Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £217,500 | £217,500 |
| 63 Clos Y Rheilffordd | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 23 Barrians Way | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 67 Mariners Walk | 4 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £272,000 | £272,000 |
| 54 Murlande Way | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 48 Cilgant Y Meillion | 1 Jun 2026 | Detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 65 High Street | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 42 Lombard Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 6 Greenmeadow Way | 28 May 2026 | Detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| 54 Merthyr Dyfan Road | 28 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 1 the NURSERIES Fontygary Road | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 12 Glyn Y Gog | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £438,000 | £438,000 |
| 84 Fonmon Park Road | 27 May 2026 | Detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Barry values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72A Cardiff Road | £96,500 (2007) | £160,000 (2026) | +2.7% | -0.2% |
| 15 Jenkin Street | £39,500 (1997) | £195,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +3.0% |
| 40 Gileston Road | £79,950 (2003) | £185,000 (2026) | +3.7% | +0.9% |
| 71 Dobbins Road | £80,000 (2020) | £179,000 (2026) | +14.4% | +9.5% |
| 5 Cory Way | £258,995 (2023) | £285,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.6% |
| 43 Salisbury Road | £124,000 (2014) | £255,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.0% |
| 10 Phyllis Street | £107,500 (2015) | £198,000 (2026) | +5.7% | +2.5% |
| 56 Picton Road | £62,500 (1995) | £260,000 (2026) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| FLAT 9 GLAN Y DWR Y Rhodfa | £250,000 (2001) | £151,000 (2026) | -2.0% | -4.6% |
| 83 Lydstep Road | £46,000 (2000) | £242,500 (2026) | +6.6% | +3.8% |
| 23 Barrians Way | £42,000 (1998) | £80,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.3% |
| 35 Kenilworth Road | £39,000 (2000) | £217,500 (2026) | +6.8% | +4.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Barry is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 15,156 | 42.4% | £104,950 | £146 – £790,000 |
| Semi-detached | 9,884 | 27.7% | £127,950 | £250 – £760,000 |
| Detached | 7,527 | 21.1% | £199,000 | £10,250 – £2,550,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3,173 | 8.9% | £100,000 | £8,756 – £485,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Barry
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 8,089 certificates cover Barry, and their median floor area is 80 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +5.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 80 m² | about 861 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 61 m² | about 657 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 98 m² | about 1,055 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 23.6% | 1,912 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.4% | 352 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Barry
5,195 of the sales on record are leasehold and 30,545 freehold — 14.5% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £95,000 and the median freehold sale £127,500 — a gap of +34.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 5,195 | 14.5% | £95,000 |
| Freehold | 30,545 | 85.5% | £127,500 |
| New build | 5,022 | 14.1% | £145,000 |
| Existing home | 30,718 | 85.9% | £119,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +21.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 1,599 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Barry
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Vale of Glamorgan, 46.0% of 63,615 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 576 | 0.9% |
| B | 8,073 | 12.7% |
| C | 20,598 | 32.4% |
| D | 23,546 | 37.0% |
| E | 8,216 | 12.9% |
| F | 2,038 | 3.2% |
| G | 568 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Vale of Glamorgan at £985 a month as of Jun 2026 — £729 for a one-bedroom home and £999 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £122,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.69% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of CF62, 24 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 7 violent, 1 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 3 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 7.0 times quieter.
Against the 131,939 residents the 2021 census counted in Vale of Glamorgan, that is 0.18 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Barry
The 2021 census counted 131,939 residents in Vale of Glamorgan across 57,449 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Barry Island Rail Station | Rail | 3.0 km |
| Rhoose Rail Station | Rail | 3.2 km |
| Barry Docks Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Barry compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Barry sits below that national figure — -22.5%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,410 per square metre, across 6,781 of the 35,740 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £146 to £2,550,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Barry sits in Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Vale of Glamorgan at 7.9 times median local earnings of £35,204 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Barry
- Barry Road372 sales
- Gladstone Road333 sales
- Greenacres314 sales
- Porthkerry Road287 sales
- Woodlands Road263 sales
- Queen Street262 sales
- Y Rhodfa249 sales
- Fonmon Park Road247 sales
- Court Road245 sales
- Holton Road237 sales
- White Farm225 sales
- Pontypridd Road219 sales
- Westward Rise214 sales
- Phyllis Street197 sales
- Park Road191 sales
- Glenbrook Drive189 sales
- Romilly Road187 sales
- Murlande Way185 sales
- Salisbury Road185 sales
- Picton Road178 sales
- Colcot Road175 sales
- Scott Close173 sales
- Llanmead Gardens170 sales
- Merthyr Street168 sales
- Jenner Road167 sales
- Port Road East166 sales
- Rhodfar Gwagenni165 sales
- Clive Road160 sales
- Railway Road160 sales
- Blackberry Drive159 sales
- Brookfield Avenue155 sales
- High Street154 sales
- Rhodfa Sweldon152 sales
- Meadow Vale148 sales
- Princes Street147 sales
- Fontygary Road145 sales
- Trinity Street145 sales
- Woodham Park145 sales
- Enfield Drive144 sales
- Castleland Street143 sales
- Church Road142 sales
- Kingsland Crescent141 sales
- Eagle Road139 sales
- Broad Street138 sales
- Lydstep Road136 sales
- Portland Drive135 sales
- Everard Street133 sales
- The Wheate Close133 sales
- Ffordd Y Mileniwm132 sales
- Glanfa Dafydd132 sales
- Churchfields131 sales
- The Pastures127 sales
- Ffordd Y Dociau124 sales
- Afal sur122 sales
- Clos Mancheldowne122 sales
- George Street122 sales
- Clos Yr Wylan120 sales
- Dock View Road119 sales
- Buttrills Road118 sales
- Castle Street117 sales
Postcode districts covering Barry
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Barry?
The median price paid in Barry across every sale on the register is £122,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Barry?
35,740 sales are on record for Barry, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Barry house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +53.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +9.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Barry house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £233,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Barry?
£1,410 per square metre, from the 6,781 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Barry house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.