Marlborough Road, Cardiff house prices are built from 314 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 £206,500. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved -8.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -33.3%.
Median price paid
£206,500
Change in cash, 2015–2025
-8.0%
Change in real terms
-33.3%
Median per m²
£3,583
HM Land Registry314 sales70 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How Marlborough Road, Cardiff prices moved
The chart tracks the median Marlborough Road, Cardiff house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £72,000 | £159,874 |
| 2000s | 7 | £200,000 | £364,341 |
| 2010s | 7 | £223,250 | £314,783 |
| 2020s | 6 | £230,000 | £235,000 |
The highest yearly median on record for Marlborough Road, Cardiff is £287,500 in 2024; the lowest is £41,950 in 1996. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £55,000 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £122,126, so the real change over the whole record is +92.4% — about +2.21% 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: -8.0% in cash against -33.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat 22 Thomas Court | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| Flat 54 Thomas Court | 23 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 150 | 30 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £480,000 | £480,000 |
| 124 | 7 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £555,000 | £555,000 |
| Flat 50 Thomas Court | 17 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| Flat 1 Thomas Court | 11 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 140a | 11 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Flat 11 Thomas Court | 10 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £235,000 |
| 148 | 12 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £505,000 | £515,978 |
| 57 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £546,000 | £557,870 |
| Flat 15 Thomas Court | 19 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £260,000 | £265,652 |
| Apartment 6 Marlborough House, 44 – 46 | 14 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Flat 46 Thomas Court | 13 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| Flat 2 Thomas Court | 25 Jul 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| Flat 48 Thomas Court | 23 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| Flat 35 Thomas Court | 9 May 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| Flat 28 Thomas Court | 4 Apr 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| Flat 19 Thomas Court | 26 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| Flat 2 Petlan Court | 5 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £206,000 | £210,478 |
| Flat 42 Thomas Court | 3 Mar 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £198,000 | £202,304 |
| Flat 31 Thomas Court | 14 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £310,000 | £316,739 |
| Apartment 4 Marlborough House, 44 – 46 | 4 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £235,000 | £240,109 |
| Flat 32 Thomas Court | 31 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £199,239 |
| Flat 3 Thomas Court | 31 Jan 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £194,000 | £198,217 |
| 156 | 30 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £415,000 | £424,022 |
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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLAT 22 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £199,950 (2016) | £195,000 (2026) | -0.3% | -3.5% |
| FLAT 54 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £203,500 (2024) | £195,000 (2026) | -2.1% | -4.6% |
| 150 Marlborough Road | £245,000 (2007) | £480,000 (2026) | +3.6% | +0.6% |
| FLAT 50 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £284,950 (2013) | £285,000 (2025) | +0.0% | -2.9% |
| FLAT 1 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £209,000 (2017) | £185,000 (2025) | -1.5% | -5.0% |
| 140A Marlborough Road | £38,750 (1996) | £235,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.7% |
| FLAT 11 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £299,950 (2014) | £230,000 (2025) | -2.4% | -5.3% |
| 148 Marlborough Road | £325,000 (2016) | £505,000 (2025) | +5.0% | +1.4% |
| 57 Marlborough Road | £228,000 (2006) | £546,000 (2025) | +4.7% | +1.7% |
| FLAT 15 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £300,000 (2014) | £260,000 (2025) | -1.3% | -4.3% |
| APARTMENT 6 MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 44 – 46 Marlborough Road | £211,000 (2018) | £235,000 (2025) | +1.6% | -2.2% |
| FLAT 46 THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road | £265,000 (2013) | £280,000 (2025) | +0.5% | -2.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Marlborough Road, Cardiff 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flat or maisonette | 192 | 61.1% | £198,000 | £1,800 – £435,000 |
| Terraced | 97 | 30.9% | £269,950 | £38,750 – £630,000 |
| Semi-detached | 19 | 6.1% | £237,000 | £50,000 – £570,000 |
| Detached | 6 | 1.9% | £163,000 | £105,000 – £260,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Marlborough Road, Cardiff
193 of the sales on record are leasehold and 121 freehold — 61.5% 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 £198,000 and the median freehold sale £250,000 — a gap of +26.3%. 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 | 193 | 61.5% | £198,000 |
| Freehold | 121 | 38.5% | £250,000 |
| New build | 5 | 1.6% | £43,950 |
| Existing home | 309 | 98.4% | £207,500 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -78.8%. 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 13 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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Cardiff, 49.0% of 194,365 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.4% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,385 | 0.7% |
| B | 21,101 | 10.9% |
| C | 72,665 | 37.4% |
| D | 72,274 | 37.2% |
| E | 22,286 | 11.5% |
| F | 3,644 | 1.9% |
| G | 1,010 | 0.5% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Cardiff at £1,162 a month as of Jun 2026 — £897 for a one-bedroom home and £1,194 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £206,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.75% 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 CF23, 142 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 61 violent, 3 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is about typical.
Against the 362,308 residents the 2021 census counted in Cardiff, that is 0.39 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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff
The 2021 census counted 362,308 residents in Cardiff across 147,333 households. 58.3% of those households own their home and 41.4% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Heath High Level Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Heath Low Level Rail Station | Rail | 1.8 km |
| Llanishen Rail Station | Rail | 2.7 km |
| Ty Glas Rail Station | Rail | 2.9 km |
Section 09
How Marlborough Road, Cardiff compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Marlborough Road, Cardiff sits above that national figure — +31.1%.
Within Cardiff the street ranks 1012 of 3205 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £149,000 (+38.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,583 per square metre, across 70 of the 314 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 £1,800 to £630,000. 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.
Marlborough Road, Cardiff sits in Cardiff, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Cardiff at 7.0 times median local earnings of £38,225 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
- Wyncliffe Gardens£155,000 median
- The Hawthorns£99,950 median
- Cyncoed Road£392,500 median
- Coed Edeyrn£70,000 median
- Coed Y Gores£97,750 median
- Lascelles Drive£119,998 median
- Chapel Wood£104,000 median
- Glyn Eiddew£130,000 median
- Pennsylvania£102,000 median
- Ffordd Nowell£185,000 median
- Kimberley Road£250,000 median
- Clonakilty Way£125,000 median
- Ninian Road£180,000 median
- Brynfedw£95,975 median
- Hill Rise£135,000 median
- Acorn Grove£118,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- FLAT 1, 11 Marlborough Road5 sales
- 140A Marlborough Road4 sales
- FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 96 Marlborough Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 10 Marlborough Road4 sales
- FLAT 3, 8 Marlborough Road4 sales
- 150 Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 11, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 48, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 35, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 28, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 19, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 2, PETLAN COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 31, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 4, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 44 – 46 Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 3, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 32, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- 71 Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 51, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- APARTMENT 7, MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 44 – 46 Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 44, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 25, THOMAS COURT Marlborough Road3 sales
- FLAT 1, 6 Marlborough Road3 sales
Back to Cardiff house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Marlborough Road, Cardiff?
The median price paid in Marlborough Road, Cardiff across every sale on the register is £206,500. 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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff?
314 sales are on record for Marlborough Road, Cardiff, 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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose -8.0% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -33.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Marlborough Road, Cardiff house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £287,500, set in 2024. 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 Marlborough Road, Cardiff?
£3,583 per square metre, from the 70 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, “Marlborough Road, Cardiff 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.