Builth Wells house prices are built from 2,226 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £142,750. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +35.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -2.9%.
Median price paid
£142,750
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+35.6%
Change in real terms
-2.9%
Median per m²
£1,568
HM Land Registry2,226 sales307 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Builth Wells prices moved
The chart tracks the median Builth Wells 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 | £55,100 | £122,348 |
| 2000s | 10 | £129,000 | £235,000 |
| 2010s | 10 | £168,500 | £237,585 |
| 2020s | 7 | £217,000 | £221,717 |
The highest yearly median on record for Builth Wells is £275,000 in 2025; the lowest is £51,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £217,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +91.6% — about +2.12% 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: +35.6% in cash against -2.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Smithfield Row | 29 May 2026 | Detached | £158,000 | £158,000 |
| 3 Railway Terrace | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 2 Bank Square | 8 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £132,500 | £132,500 |
| Clettwr Cottage | 8 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £82,250 | £82,250 |
| 7 Daffodil Wood | 6 Apr 2026 | Detached | £255,000 | £255,000 |
| 3 Wool Row | 20 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £177,500 | £177,500 |
| 28 Wye View | 13 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £163,000 | £163,000 |
| DOLEGLWYS Golf Links Road | 6 Mar 2026 | Detached | £460,000 | £460,000 |
| 24 Cae Castell | 6 Mar 2026 | Detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 2 Pleasant View | 6 Mar 2026 | Semi-detached | £212,000 | £212,000 |
| 5 Irfon Bridge Close | 23 Jan 2026 | Detached | £420,000 | £420,000 |
| 7 Park Road | 21 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 23 Troed Y Bryn | 21 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £222,000 | £222,000 |
| WYE VALE, 22 Broadway | 6 Jan 2026 | Detached | £275,000 | £275,000 |
| Ty Bryn | 15 Dec 2025 | Detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 1 Ynysview | 8 Dec 2025 | Detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| Broomfield | 5 Dec 2025 | Detached | £240,000 | £245,217 |
| 7 Edw Crescent | 2 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 28 Glandwr Park | 25 Nov 2025 | Detached | £327,500 | £334,620 |
| 10 Glandwr Park | 25 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £280,978 |
| 6 Railway Terrace | 25 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £179,950 | £183,862 |
| Cefn Yr Allt | 24 Nov 2025 | Detached | £380,000 | £388,261 |
| 28 Hill View Estate | 19 Nov 2025 | Detached | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| 1 Maesydderwen | 7 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| THE FIRS Hay Road | 31 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £210,000 | £214,565 |
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 Builth Wells values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Smithfield Row | £84,000 (2004) | £158,000 (2026) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
| 3 Railway Terrace | £33,250 (2001) | £180,000 (2026) | +7.0% | +4.1% |
| 2 Bank Square | £13,000 (1996) | £132,500 (2026) | +8.0% | +5.3% |
| 3 Wool Row | £53,000 (2000) | £177,500 (2026) | +4.8% | +2.0% |
| 2 Pleasant View | £132,500 (2017) | £212,000 (2026) | +5.4% | +1.8% |
| DOLEGLWYS Golf Links Road | £245,000 (2011) | £460,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.4% |
| 24 Cae Castell | £185,000 (2003) | £385,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 5 Irfon Bridge Close | £295,000 (2007) | £420,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 23 Troed Y Bryn | £165,250 (2017) | £222,000 (2026) | +3.3% | -0.1% |
| 7 Park Road | £72,000 (2001) | £320,000 (2026) | +6.1% | +3.3% |
| 6 Railway Terrace | £33,250 (2000) | £179,950 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.2% |
| 28 Glandwr Park | £45,000 (2000) | £327,500 (2025) | +8.3% | +5.4% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Builth Wells 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 990 | 44.5% | £199,950 | £10,000 – £850,000 |
| Semi-detached | 601 | 27.0% | £138,000 | £15,000 – £445,000 |
| Terraced | 561 | 25.2% | £102,000 | £1,000 – £383,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 74 | 3.3% | £75,000 | £16,000 – £130,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in Builth Wells
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 563 certificates cover Builth Wells, and their median floor area is 105 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +38.2%. 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 | 105 m² | about 1,130 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 77 m² | about 829 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 152 m² | about 1,631 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 11.2% | 63 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 25.8% | 145 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Builth Wells
79 of the sales on record are leasehold and 2,147 freehold — 3.5% 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 £75,000 and the median freehold sale £147,000 — a gap of +96.0%. 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 | 79 | 3.5% | £75,000 |
| Freehold | 2,147 | 96.5% | £147,000 |
| New build | 79 | 3.5% | £74,950 |
| Existing home | 2,147 | 96.5% | £145,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -48.3%. 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 187 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 09
How Builth Wells compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Builth Wells sits below that national figure — -9.4%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,568 per square metre, across 307 of the 2,226 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 £1,000 to £850,000. 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets in Builth Wells
- Garth Road94 sales
- Market Street86 sales
- Oaklands86 sales
- Tai Ar Y Bryn75 sales
- Brecon Road72 sales
- Daffodil Wood69 sales
- Troed Y Bryn65 sales
- Parc Yr Irfon62 sales
- Castle Street55 sales
- Irfon Road45 sales
- Park Road44 sales
- Cae Castell39 sales
- Castle Road39 sales
- Hospital Road39 sales
- Newry Road37 sales
- Pendre36 sales
- High Street32 sales
- Penybryn32 sales
- Railway Terrace30 sales
- Glandwr Park28 sales
- Hay Road28 sales
- West Street28 sales
- Western Grove28 sales
- Church Street26 sales
- Hill View Estate26 sales
- North Road26 sales
- Tyle Heulog26 sales
- Oaklands Crescent25 sales
- Broadway23 sales
- Parc Y Castell19 sales
- Cae Llewelyn18 sales
- Castle Meadow18 sales
- Golf Links Road17 sales
- Irfon Bridge Road17 sales
- Edw Crescent16 sales
- Broad Street15 sales
- Rock Terrace15 sales
- Spring Gardens15 sales
- Bank Square13 sales
- Cefn Llewelyn13 sales
- Danyrallt13 sales
- Golf Club Lane12 sales
- Maesydderwen11 sales
- Oakwood Close10 sales
- Wool Row10 sales
- Glanwye View9 sales
- Herman Villas9 sales
- Llanelwedd Terrace8 sales
- The Strand8 sales
- Grove Villas7 sales
- Llechrhyd Terrace7 sales
- Plas Newydd7 sales
- The Holmes7 sales
- Irfon Bridge Close6 sales
- Pleasant View6 sales
- Begwyns View5 sales
- Castle Cottage5 sales
- Crossway Cottage5 sales
- King Street5 sales
- Smithfield Row5 sales
Postcode districts covering Builth Wells
- LD2£142,750 median
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Builth Wells?
The median price paid in Builth Wells across every sale on the register is £142,750. 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 Builth Wells?
2,226 sales are on record for Builth Wells, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Builth Wells house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +35.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -2.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Builth Wells house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £275,000, 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 Builth Wells?
£1,568 per square metre, from the 307 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 29 May 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, “Builth Wells 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.