Merthyr Tydfil house prices

Merthyr Tydfil house prices are built from 17,763 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 30 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £76,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +69.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +21.1%.

HM Land Registry17,763 sales1,921 with floor areaLatest sale 30 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Merthyr Tydfil 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 Merthyr Tydfil is £147,750 in 2025; the lowest is £32,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £32,000 to £143,750.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £71,055, so the real change over the whole record is +102.3% — about +2.30% 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: +69.1% in cash against +21.1% 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 Merthyr Tydfil values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Merthyr Tydfil 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. 6,179 certificates cover Merthyr Tydfil, 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.

766 of the sales on record are leasehold and 16,997 freehold — 4.3% 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 £55,000 and the median freehold sale £78,000 — a gap of +41.8%. 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 — +72.9%. 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 1,592 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 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.

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 £76,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.73% 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 CF48, 200 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 61 violent, 7 burglary, 8 vehicle-related and 21 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.2 times busier.

Against the 175,952 residents the 2021 census counted in Caerphilly, that is 1.14 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 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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Merthyr Tydfil sits below that national figure — -51.7%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,000 per square metre, across 1,921 of the 17,763 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 £480 to £2,020,000. 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.

Merthyr Tydfil 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.

Streets in Merthyr Tydfil

• High Street331 sales
• Beacon Heights259 sales
• Bryntaf179 sales
• Church Street170 sales
• Cardiff Road138 sales
• Heolgerrig125 sales
• Brecon Rise124 sales
• Gilfach Cynon109 sales
• Gwladys Street109 sales
• Trevithick Gardens107 sales
• Mount Pleasant106 sales
• Sweet Water Park99 sales
• Cyfarthfa Gardens94 sales
• Harlech Drive92 sales
• Pen Y Dyffryn92 sales
• Trevethick Street92 sales
• Nightingale Street91 sales
• Penyfan View90 sales
• Station Terrace90 sales
• Clos Cwm Golau89 sales
• Cwrt Bevan87 sales
• Penderyn Close87 sales
• Dennithorne Close86 sales
• Monmouth Drive86 sales
• Brynhyfryd Street85 sales
• Kingfisher Crescent83 sales
• Victoria Street83 sales
• Balaclava Road82 sales
• Dan Y Parc View81 sales
• Cyfarthfa Mews79 sales
• Aberfan Road78 sales
• Woodland Walk77 sales
• Lower Thomas Street75 sales
• Heritage Court74 sales
• Penybryn View74 sales
• Chapel Street73 sales
• Blaen Dowlais72 sales
• Clare Street70 sales
• Parc Cwm Pant Bach70 sales
• Ernest Street69 sales
• Haydn Terrace69 sales
• Yew Street69 sales
• Moy Road68 sales
• Lakeside Gardens67 sales
• The Hawthorns67 sales
• Glynmil Close66 sales
• Park Place66 sales
• Darren View65 sales
• Brondeg64 sales
• Brynteg Terrace64 sales
• Cromwell Street64 sales
• Edward Street64 sales
• Francis Street64 sales
• Garden City64 sales
• Oak Tree Rise63 sales
• Winifred Street63 sales
• Glyn Teg62 sales
• Pen Cerrig Rise62 sales
• Kidwelly Grove61 sales
• North Street61 sales

Postcode districts covering Merthyr Tydfil

• CF48£77,000 median
• CF47£75,000 median

What is the average house price in Merthyr Tydfil?

The median price paid in Merthyr Tydfil across every sale on the register is £76,000. 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

17,763 sales are on record for Merthyr Tydfil, the most recent completing on 30 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Merthyr Tydfil house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +69.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +21.1%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Merthyr Tydfil house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £147,750, 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

£1,000 per square metre, from the 1,921 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 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, “Merthyr Tydfil 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.