Aberdare house prices

Aberdare house prices are built from 17,514 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £77,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +66.7% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +19.4%.

HM Land Registry17,514 sales2,766 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Aberdare 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.

The highest yearly median on record for Aberdare is £156,000 in 2025; the lowest is £30,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £31,000 to £150,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £68,835, so the real change over the whole record is +117.9% — about +2.54% 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: +66.7% in cash against +19.4% 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.

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.

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 Aberdare values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Aberdare is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,064 certificates cover Aberdare, and their median floor area is 78 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +2.6%. 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.

462 of the sales on record are leasehold and 17,052 freehold — 2.6% 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 £49,000 and the median freehold sale £78,000 — a gap of +59.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +104.1%. 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 1,280 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.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Merthyr Tydfil, 43.2% of 33,227 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.3% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Merthyr Tydfil at £754 a month as of Jun 2026 — £552 for a one-bedroom home and £722 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £77,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.75% 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 CF44, 143 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 57 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 31 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.

Against the 58,836 residents the 2021 census counted in Merthyr Tydfil, that is 2.43 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.

The 2021 census counted 58,836 residents in Merthyr Tydfil across 25,783 households. 62.6% of those households own their home and 37.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Aberdare sits below that national figure — -51.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £986 per square metre, across 2,766 of the 17,514 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 £760 to £815,000. 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.

Aberdare sits in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Merthyr Tydfil at 4.6 times median local earnings of £30,636 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.

Streets in Aberdare

• Cardiff Road402 sales
• The Ridings258 sales
• Springfield Gardens234 sales
• Brynmair Road207 sales
• Greenways172 sales
• John Street165 sales
• Brook Street147 sales
• Fforchaman Road143 sales
• Bwllfa Road133 sales
• Park View Terrace131 sales
• Harriet Street127 sales
• Wind Street122 sales
• Jenkin Street118 sales
• Brecon Road116 sales
• Ynysllwyd Street116 sales
• Regent Street115 sales
• Jubilee Road114 sales
• Oxford Street114 sales
• Heol Y Deri110 sales
• Glas Y Gors109 sales
• Glan Road107 sales
• Tan Y Bryn Gardens106 sales
• Cemetery Road104 sales
• Pinecroft Avenue104 sales
• Llys Cynon102 sales
• Hirwaun Road100 sales
• Tir Founder Fields100 sales
• Glanaman Road95 sales
• Cae Felin Parc90 sales
• Llangorse Road90 sales
• Mill Street90 sales
• Parc Aberaman90 sales
• The Rise90 sales
• Brynderwen88 sales
• Potters Field87 sales
• Monk Street85 sales
• Briar Way83 sales
• Pembroke Street83 sales
• Merthyr Road81 sales
• Gadlys Street80 sales
• Llewelyn Street80 sales
• Broniestyn Terrace79 sales
• Gadlys Road79 sales
• Y Dolydd79 sales
• King Street77 sales
• Bell Street76 sales
• Station Road76 sales
• Fothergill Street75 sales
• Tre Ifor75 sales
• Heol Ty Aberaman74 sales
• Margaret Street74 sales
• Sunnybank Street74 sales
• Craig Y Darren73 sales
• Maesgwyn73 sales
• Cwmaman Road71 sales
• Seymour Street71 sales
• Bronallt Terrace70 sales
• Ynyscynon Street69 sales
• Coniston Rise68 sales
• Windsor Street68 sales

Postcode districts covering Aberdare

• CF44£77,000 median

What is the average house price in Aberdare?

The median price paid in Aberdare across every sale on the register is £77,000. 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 Aberdare?

17,514 sales are on record for Aberdare, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Aberdare house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +66.7% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +19.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Aberdare house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £156,000, 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 Aberdare?

£986 per square metre, from the 2,766 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 26 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, “Aberdare 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.