Sword Hill, Caerphilly house prices are built from 97 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2007 and the most recent on 30 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £209,000. Across the 13 years from 2008 to 2021 the median moved +9.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -17.9%.
Median price paid
£209,000
Change in cash, 2008–2021
+9.1%
Change in real terms
-17.9%
Median per m²
£2,138
HM Land Registry97 sales17 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Sword Hill, Caerphilly prices moved
The chart tracks the median Sword Hill, Caerphilly house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2007 to 2021. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2 | £205,000 | £373,450 |
| 2010s | 1 | £225,000 | £317,250 |
| 2020s | 1 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Sword Hill, Caerphilly is £230,000 in 2021; the lowest is £205,000 in 2007. Across the full 15-year record the cash median has moved from £205,000 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £356,412, so the real change over the whole record is -18.5% — about -1.45% 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: +9.1% in cash against -17.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 30 Apr 2026 | Detached | £402,500 | £402,500 |
| Flat B 1 | 12 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| Flat C 1 | 29 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| Flat J 1 | 31 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £143,000 | £146,109 |
| 43 | 30 Aug 2024 | Detached | £335,000 | £352,500 |
| 38 | 15 Aug 2024 | Detached | £320,000 | £336,716 |
| Flat G 1 | 25 Jun 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £125,000 | £131,530 |
| Flat H 1 | 29 Feb 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £113,000 | £118,903 |
| 19 | 6 Oct 2023 | Detached | £455,000 | £491,609 |
| Flat A 1 | 2 Dec 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £135,000 | £156,409 |
| Flat U 1 | 18 Nov 2022 | Flat or maisonette | £133,000 | £154,092 |
| 11 | 28 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £318,611 |
| Flat B 1 | 25 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £123,000 | £155,403 |
| Flat G 1 | 24 Nov 2021 | Flat or maisonette | £109,500 | £138,347 |
| 23 | 21 Jun 2021 | Detached | £284,000 | £358,817 |
| 22 | 8 Jun 2021 | Detached | £288,000 | £363,871 |
| 39 | 22 Mar 2021 | Detached | £230,000 | £290,591 |
| 14 | 11 Dec 2020 | Detached | £280,000 | £362,534 |
| Flat E 1 | 9 Oct 2020 | Flat or maisonette | £127,500 | £165,083 |
| 21 | 14 Aug 2020 | Detached | £295,000 | £381,956 |
| 19 | 9 Dec 2019 | Detached | £325,000 | £425,093 |
| 6 | 26 Oct 2018 | Detached | £253,000 | £337,174 |
| 35 | 10 Aug 2018 | Detached | £265,000 | £353,166 |
| 23 | 30 May 2018 | Detached | £249,500 | £332,509 |
| Flat E 1 | 16 Mar 2018 | Flat or maisonette | £108,000 | £143,932 |
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 Sword Hill, Caerphilly values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35 Sword Hill | £239,995 (2007) | £402,500 (2026) | +2.8% | -0.2% |
| FLAT B 1 Sword Hill | £125,000 (2007) | £145,000 (2025) | +0.8% | -2.1% |
| 38 Sword Hill | £204,000 (2007) | £320,000 (2024) | +2.7% | -0.3% |
| FLAT G 1 Sword Hill | £101,000 (2007) | £125,000 (2024) | +1.3% | -1.7% |
| 19 Sword Hill | £300,000 (2007) | £455,000 (2023) | +2.6% | -0.4% |
| FLAT A 1 Sword Hill | £124,000 (2007) | £135,000 (2022) | +0.6% | -2.1% |
| 11 Sword Hill | £190,000 (2008) | £275,000 (2022) | +2.7% | 0.0% |
| 23 Sword Hill | £219,000 (2008) | £284,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| 22 Sword Hill | £222,500 (2008) | £288,000 (2021) | +2.0% | -0.2% |
| 39 Sword Hill | £185,000 (2007) | £230,000 (2021) | +1.6% | -0.7% |
| 14 Sword Hill | £210,000 (2007) | £280,000 (2020) | +2.2% | -0.1% |
| FLAT E 1 Sword Hill | £108,000 (2018) | £127,500 (2020) | +8.7% | +7.1% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Sword Hill, Caerphilly 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 | 59 | 60.8% | £240,000 | £179,000 – £455,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 23 | 23.7% | £123,000 | £88,500 – £145,000 |
| Semi-detached | 15 | 15.5% | £190,000 | £157,000 – £275,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Sword Hill, Caerphilly
23 of the sales on record are leasehold and 74 freehold — 23.7% 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 £123,000 and the median freehold sale £229,000 — a gap of +86.2%. 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 | 23 | 23.7% | £123,000 |
| Freehold | 74 | 76.3% | £229,000 |
| New build | 24 | 24.7% | £192,500 |
| Existing home | 73 | 75.3% | £215,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -10.5%. 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 4 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 Sword Hill, Caerphilly
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Caerphilly, 42.8% of 78,115 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.2% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 571 | 0.7% |
| B | 5,144 | 6.6% |
| C | 27,738 | 35.5% |
| D | 31,010 | 39.7% |
| E | 11,119 | 14.2% |
| F | 2,043 | 2.6% |
| G | 490 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Caerphilly at £743 a month as of Jun 2026 — £548 for a one-bedroom home and £772 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £209,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.27% 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 CF83, 271 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 97 violent, 4 burglary, 17 vehicle-related and 61 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 175,952 residents the 2021 census counted in Caerphilly, that is 1.54 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 Sword Hill, Caerphilly
The 2021 census counted 175,952 residents in Caerphilly across 76,255 households. 67.8% of those households own their home and 32.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Energlyn & Churchill Park Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Aber Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
| Caerphilly Rail Station | Rail | 1.7 km |
| Llanbradach Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
Section 09
How Sword Hill, Caerphilly compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Sword Hill, Caerphilly sits above that national figure — +32.7%.
Within Caerphilly the street ranks 70 of 653 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £112,000 (+86.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,138 per square metre, across 17 of the 97 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 £88,500 to £455,000. 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.
Sword Hill, Caerphilly sits in Caerphilly, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Caerphilly at 5.8 times median local earnings of £33,137 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 nearby
- Thomas Street£76,500 median
- Nantgarw Road£99,950 median
- High Street£71,000 median
- Cwrt Nant Y Felin£77,500 median
- Bedwas Road£112,750 median
- Van Road£117,000 median
- Caerphilly Road£74,998 median
- Pontygwindy Road£115,500 median
- Dol Y Pandy£114,725 median
- Pen Y Cae£76,475 median
- Pandy Road£148,000 median
- Heol Ysgubor£117,000 median
- Commercial Street£75,000 median
- School Street£82,000 median
- Heol Y Ddol£89,975 median
- Heol Ynys Ddu£94,625 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 19 Sword Hill4 sales
- 35 Sword Hill3 sales
- FLAT B, 1 Sword Hill3 sales
- 38 Sword Hill3 sales
- FLAT G, 1 Sword Hill3 sales
- 11 Sword Hill3 sales
- 23 Sword Hill3 sales
- 22 Sword Hill3 sales
- 6 Sword Hill3 sales
- 42 Sword Hill3 sales
- FLAT A, 1 Sword Hill2 sales
- 39 Sword Hill2 sales
- 14 Sword Hill2 sales
- FLAT E, 1 Sword Hill2 sales
- 21 Sword Hill2 sales
- 10 Sword Hill2 sales
- 30 Sword Hill2 sales
- 40 Sword Hill2 sales
- 13 Sword Hill2 sales
- 41 Sword Hill2 sales
- 9 Sword Hill2 sales
- 4 Sword Hill2 sales
- 5 Sword Hill2 sales
- FLAT N, 1 Sword Hill2 sales
Back to Caerphilly house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Sword Hill, Caerphilly?
The median price paid in Sword Hill, Caerphilly across every sale on the register is £209,000. 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 Sword Hill, Caerphilly?
97 sales are on record for Sword Hill, Caerphilly, the most recent completing on 30 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Sword Hill, Caerphilly house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +9.1% between 2008 and 2021. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -17.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Sword Hill, Caerphilly house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £230,000, set in 2021. 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 Sword Hill, Caerphilly?
£2,138 per square metre, from the 17 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 30 Apr 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, “Sword Hill, Caerphilly 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.