South Road, Penarth house prices are built from 155 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £249,959. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +48.4% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.9%.
Median price paid
£249,959
Change in cash, 2014–2024
+48.4%
Change in real terms
+8.9%
Median per m²
£2,467
HM Land Registry155 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How South Road, Penarth prices moved
The chart tracks the median South Road, Penarth house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2024. 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 | 3 | £84,975 | £188,685 |
| 2000s | 5 | £237,500 | £432,655 |
| 2010s | 5 | £285,000 | £401,850 |
| 2020s | 1 | £420,000 | £429,130 |
The highest yearly median on record for South Road, Penarth is £462,000 in 2018; the lowest is £81,000 in 1996. Across the full 29-year record the cash median has moved from £81,000 to £420,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £175,708, so the real change over the whole record is +151.5% — about +3.35% 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: +48.4% in cash against +8.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | 1 May 2026 | Detached | £570,000 | £570,000 |
| 126 | 11 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 83 | 15 May 2025 | Detached | £600,000 | £613,043 |
| 118 | 16 Apr 2025 | Detached | £440,000 | £449,565 |
| 134 | 24 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 81 | 13 Dec 2024 | Detached | £560,000 | £589,254 |
| 7 | 29 Nov 2024 | Semi-detached | £365,000 | £384,067 |
| 136 | 20 Sep 2024 | Detached | £475,000 | £499,813 |
| Flat 3 Craig Y Mor Court, 41 – 43 | 30 Jul 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £185,000 | £194,664 |
| 26 | 24 Jun 2024 | Semi-detached | £555,000 | £583,993 |
| 103 | 23 Mar 2024 | Detached | £360,000 | £378,806 |
| 62 | 15 Dec 2023 | Detached | £590,000 | £637,471 |
| 76 | 26 Oct 2023 | Detached | £650,000 | £702,299 |
| 66 | 6 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £760,000 | £821,149 |
| 32 | 24 Nov 2021 | Detached | £580,000 | £732,796 |
| 80 | 21 Oct 2021 | Detached | £480,000 | £606,452 |
| 101 | 2 Aug 2021 | Detached | £165,000 | £208,468 |
| Field View | 23 Dec 2020 | Detached | £365,000 | £472,590 |
| Well Field | 17 Nov 2020 | Detached | £360,000 | £466,116 |
| 44a | 12 Nov 2020 | Detached | £570,000 | £738,017 |
| 89 | 6 Dec 2019 | Terraced | £390,000 | £510,111 |
| 15 | 29 Nov 2019 | Detached | £505,000 | £660,529 |
| 40 | 22 Mar 2019 | Semi-detached | £448,000 | £585,974 |
| 110 | 1 Feb 2019 | Detached | £420,000 | £549,351 |
| 56 | 18 Jan 2019 | Detached | £445,000 | £582,050 |
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 South Road, Penarth values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 South Road | £445,000 (2019) | £570,000 (2026) | +3.6% | -0.3% |
| 83 South Road | £225,000 (2003) | £600,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 62 South Road | £285,000 (2015) | £590,000 (2023) | +9.5% | +5.9% |
| 76 South Road | £208,000 (2002) | £650,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 66 South Road | £46,000 (1996) | £760,000 (2023) | +10.9% | +8.1% |
| 89 South Road | £97,000 (1997) | £390,000 (2019) | +6.5% | +4.2% |
| 40 South Road | £275,000 (2016) | £448,000 (2019) | +17.7% | +15.1% |
| 110 South Road | £160,000 (1999) | £420,000 (2019) | +4.9% | +2.6% |
| THE CROFT South Road | £275,000 (2001) | £650,000 (2018) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 96 South Road | £80,000 (1999) | £489,000 (2018) | +10.0% | +7.6% |
| 21 South Road | £87,000 (1996) | £435,000 (2018) | +7.6% | +5.2% |
| 142 South Road | £228,150 (2010) | £270,000 (2018) | +2.1% | -0.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. South Road, Penarth 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 | 92 | 59.4% | £283,000 | £10,000 – £750,000 |
| Semi-detached | 37 | 23.9% | £250,000 | £25,000 – £760,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 23 | 14.8% | £95,250 | £45,000 – £185,000 |
| Terraced | 3 | 1.9% | £312,750 | £97,000 – £390,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in South Road, Penarth
23 of the sales on record are leasehold and 132 freehold — 14.8% 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 £95,250 and the median freehold sale £275,000 — a gap of +188.7%. 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 | 14.8% | £95,250 |
| Freehold | 132 | 85.2% | £275,000 |
| New build | 3 | 1.9% | £220,000 |
| Existing home | 152 | 98.1% | £249,977 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -12.0%. 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 3 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 South Road, Penarth
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Vale of Glamorgan, 46.0% of 63,615 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 4.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 576 | 0.9% |
| B | 8,073 | 12.7% |
| C | 20,598 | 32.4% |
| D | 23,546 | 37.0% |
| E | 8,216 | 12.9% |
| F | 2,038 | 3.2% |
| G | 568 | 0.9% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Vale of Glamorgan at £985 a month as of Jun 2026 — £729 for a one-bedroom home and £999 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £249,959 here, that rent is a gross yield of 4.73% 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 CF64, 107 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 40 violent, 4 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 10 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times quieter.
Against the 131,939 residents the 2021 census counted in Vale of Glamorgan, that is 0.81 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 South Road, Penarth
The 2021 census counted 131,939 residents in Vale of Glamorgan across 57,449 households. 72.1% of those households own their home and 27.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Eastbrook Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Dingle Road Rail Station | Rail | 1.2 km |
| Penarth Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Cogan Rail Station | Rail | 1.5 km |
Section 09
How South Road, Penarth compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. South Road, Penarth sits above that national figure — +58.7%.
Within Penarth the street ranks 128 of 381 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £179,000 (+39.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,467 per square metre, across 1 of the 155 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 £10,000 to £760,000. 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.
South Road, Penarth sits in Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Vale of Glamorgan at 7.9 times median local earnings of £35,204 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
- Plymouth Road£168,000 median
- Stanwell Road£139,950 median
- Hayes Road£149,000 median
- Windsor Road£135,000 median
- Westbourne Road£366,250 median
- Redlands Road£215,000 median
- Bradford Place£110,000 median
- Plassey Street£155,500 median
- Andrew Road£123,000 median
- Arlington Road£106,000 median
- Cornerswell Road£245,000 median
- Lavernock Road£317,500 median
- Chandlers Way£205,000 median
- Queens Road£145,000 median
- Marconi Avenue£200,000 median
- Cardiff Road£190,000 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 66 South Road5 sales
- FLAT 1, 41 – 43 South Road5 sales
- FLAT 7, CRAIG Y MOR COURT, 41 – 43 South Road5 sales
- 21 South Road4 sales
- FLAT 6, 41 – 43 South Road4 sales
- 83 South Road3 sales
- 76 South Road3 sales
- 11 South Road3 sales
- 100 South Road3 sales
- FLAT 4, 41 – 43 South Road3 sales
- 56 South Road2 sales
- 62 South Road2 sales
- 89 South Road2 sales
- 40 South Road2 sales
- 110 South Road2 sales
- THE CROFT South Road2 sales
- 96 South Road2 sales
- 142 South Road2 sales
- 97 South Road2 sales
- 42 South Road2 sales
- 117 South Road2 sales
- 95 South Road2 sales
- 92 South Road2 sales
- SUNNY BANK South Road2 sales
Back to Penarth house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in South Road, Penarth?
The median price paid in South Road, Penarth across every sale on the register is £249,959. 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 South Road, Penarth?
155 sales are on record for South Road, Penarth, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have South Road, Penarth house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +48.4% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.9%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were South Road, Penarth house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £462,000, set in 2018. 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 South Road, Penarth?
£2,467 per square metre, from the 1 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 1 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, “South Road, Penarth 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.