Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil house prices are built from 82 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 2006 and the most recent on 17 May 2024. The median price paid across the whole record is £62,473. Across the 17 years from 2006 to 2023 the median moved +59.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.3%.
Median price paid
£62,473
Change in cash, 2006–2023
+59.3%
Change in real terms
-3.3%
Median per m²
£1,656
HM Land Registry82 sales3 with floor areaLatest sale 17 May 2024
Section 01
How Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil prices moved
The chart tracks the median Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 2006 to 2023. 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 | 1 | £80,000 | £145,736 |
| 2010s | 1 | £55,250 | £77,903 |
| 2020s | 2 | £88,000 | £89,913 |
The highest yearly median on record for Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil is £127,475 in 2023; the lowest is £55,250 in 2014. Across the full 18-year record the cash median has moved from £80,000 to £127,475.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £142,424, so the real change over the whole record is -3.3% — about -0.20% 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: +59.3% in cash against -3.3% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | 17 May 2024 | Detached | £239,000 | £251,485 |
| 54 | 7 Sep 2023 | Terraced | £108,000 | £116,690 |
| Uplands | 6 Sep 2023 | Detached | £290,000 | £313,333 |
| 35 | 14 Jul 2023 | Terraced | £119,950 | £129,601 |
| 44 | 26 May 2023 | Terraced | £100,000 | £108,046 |
| 37 | 28 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £145,000 | £156,667 |
| 45 | 23 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £135,000 | £145,862 |
| 32 | 4 Nov 2022 | Terraced | £120,000 | £139,030 |
| 38 | 25 Mar 2022 | Terraced | £72,000 | £83,418 |
| 67 | 12 Jan 2022 | Detached | £230,000 | £266,475 |
| 1a | 3 Dec 2021 | Detached | £150,000 | £189,516 |
| 44 | 20 Jul 2021 | Terraced | £87,000 | £109,919 |
| 64 | 8 Jun 2021 | Terraced | £87,500 | £110,551 |
| 53 | 27 May 2021 | Terraced | £88,000 | £111,183 |
| Uplands | 14 May 2021 | Detached | £255,000 | £322,177 |
| 30 | 9 Oct 2020 | Terraced | £80,000 | £103,581 |
| 64 | 26 Jun 2020 | Terraced | £50,250 | £65,062 |
| 38 | 13 Jan 2020 | Terraced | £59,750 | £77,362 |
| 36 | 26 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £58,000 | £75,863 |
| 39 | 23 Jul 2019 | Terraced | £48,000 | £62,783 |
| 35 | 15 Mar 2019 | Terraced | £80,000 | £104,638 |
| 29 | 21 Sep 2018 | Terraced | £85,000 | £113,280 |
| 1a | 1 Mar 2018 | Detached | £70,500 | £93,956 |
| 44 | 15 Dec 2017 | Terraced | £69,000 | £93,909 |
| 52 | 6 Nov 2017 | Terraced | £71,500 | £97,312 |
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 Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 Balaclava Road | £230,000 (2022) | £239,000 (2024) | +1.9% | -2.9% |
| 54 Balaclava Road | £87,000 (2006) | £108,000 (2023) | +1.3% | -1.7% |
| UPLANDS Balaclava Road | £97,000 (2014) | £290,000 (2023) | +12.9% | +9.4% |
| 35 Balaclava Road | £22,000 (1995) | £119,950 (2023) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 44 Balaclava Road | £18,000 (2003) | £100,000 (2023) | +9.0% | +5.9% |
| 37 Balaclava Road | £55,000 (2012) | £145,000 (2023) | +9.2% | +6.0% |
| 32 Balaclava Road | £33,500 (1998) | £120,000 (2022) | +5.5% | +2.9% |
| 38 Balaclava Road | £15,000 (1998) | £72,000 (2022) | +6.8% | +4.2% |
| 1A Balaclava Road | £67,500 (2013) | £150,000 (2021) | +10.5% | +8.5% |
| 64 Balaclava Road | £7,000 (1997) | £87,500 (2021) | +11.1% | +8.7% |
| 53 Balaclava Road | £81,000 (2006) | £88,000 (2021) | +0.6% | -1.7% |
| 30 Balaclava Road | £42,500 (2014) | £80,000 (2020) | +11.1% | +9.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 68 | 82.9% | £56,500 | £7,000 – £145,000 |
| Detached | 10 | 12.2% | £150,000 | £57,000 – £290,000 |
| Semi-detached | 4 | 4.9% | £27,000 | £18,000 – £75,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 82 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 82 | 100.0% | £62,473 |
A further 10 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 Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil
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 £62,473 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.27% 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 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merthyr Tydfil Rail Station | Rail | 0.5 km |
| Pentre-Bach Rail Station | Rail | 2.0 km |
| Troed-y-Rhiw Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
| Cwmbach Rail Station | Rail | 5.3 km |
Section 09
How Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil sits below that national figure — -60.3%.
Within Merthyr Tydfil the street ranks 435 of 678 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £76,000 (-17.8%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,656 per square metre, across 3 of the 82 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 £7,000 to £290,000. 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.
Balaclava Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- High Street£57,000 median
- Beacon Heights£95,000 median
- Bryntaf£55,000 median
- Cardiff Road£41,250 median
- Heolgerrig£92,500 median
- Brecon Rise£129,975 median
- Gwladys Street£68,000 median
- Mount Pleasant£60,000 median
- Sweet Water Park£138,000 median
- Cyfarthfa Gardens£102,475 median
- Harlech Drive£86,000 median
- Pen Y Dyffryn£170,000 median
- Nightingale Street£53,000 median
- Station Terrace£50,250 median
- Penderyn Close£128,000 median
- Dennithorne Close£87,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 35 Balaclava Road6 sales
- 44 Balaclava Road6 sales
- 29 Balaclava Road5 sales
- 47 Balaclava Road5 sales
- 38 Balaclava Road4 sales
- 64 Balaclava Road4 sales
- 28A Balaclava Road4 sales
- UPLANDS Balaclava Road3 sales
- 1A Balaclava Road3 sales
- 39 Balaclava Road3 sales
- 52 Balaclava Road3 sales
- 67 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 54 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 37 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 32 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 53 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 30 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 50 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 31 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 26 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 24 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 34 Balaclava Road2 sales
- 61 Balaclava Road2 sales
Back to Merthyr Tydfil house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil?
The median price paid in Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil across every sale on the register is £62,473. 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 Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil?
82 sales are on record for Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil, the most recent completing on 17 May 2024. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +59.3% between 2006 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £127,475, set in 2023. 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 Balaclava Road, Merthyr Tydfil?
£1,656 per square metre, from the 3 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 17 May 2024. 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, “Balaclava Road, 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.