Smithy Lane, Wrexham house prices are built from 107 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 10 Apr 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £158,000. Across the 15 years from 2008 to 2023 the median moved +57.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.4%.
Median price paid
£158,000
Change in cash, 2008–2023
+57.5%
Change in real terms
+1.4%
Median per m²
£1,713
HM Land Registry107 sales14 with floor areaLatest sale 10 Apr 2026
Section 01
How Smithy Lane, Wrexham prices moved
The chart tracks the median Smithy Lane, Wrexham house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3 | £57,000 | £126,567 |
| 2000s | 5 | £136,500 | £248,663 |
| 2020s | 2 | £215,000 | £219,674 |
The highest yearly median on record for Smithy Lane, Wrexham is £261,000 in 2021; the lowest is £50,000 in 1997. Across the full 28-year record the cash median has moved from £57,000 to £215,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £123,646, so the real change over the whole record is +87.9% — about +2.36% 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: +57.5% in cash against +1.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 10 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £262,500 | £262,500 |
| 82 | 2 Apr 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 91 | 30 Oct 2025 | Detached | £250,000 | £255,435 |
| 25 | 21 Jun 2024 | Detached | £280,000 | £294,627 |
| 78 | 8 Dec 2023 | Semi-detached | £275,000 | £297,126 |
| 77 | 17 Nov 2023 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| Aelwyd Brys | 8 Sep 2023 | Detached | £325,000 | £351,149 |
| 8 | 28 Jul 2023 | Semi-detached | £215,000 | £232,299 |
| Tegfan | 25 May 2023 | Detached | £375,000 | £405,172 |
| 24 | 12 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £208,000 | £224,736 |
| 12 | 12 Jan 2023 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £205,287 |
| 18 | 31 Oct 2022 | Semi-detached | £174,000 | £201,594 |
| 89 | 23 Sep 2022 | Semi-detached | £310,000 | £359,162 |
| 60 | 18 Feb 2022 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £214,339 |
| 90 | 5 Nov 2021 | Detached | £300,000 | £379,032 |
| 68 | 29 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £261,000 | £329,758 |
| 54 | 14 Oct 2021 | Semi-detached | £245,000 | £309,543 |
| Dorice | 24 Sep 2021 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £214,785 |
| 26 | 30 Apr 2021 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £195,833 |
| 88 | 16 Apr 2021 | Detached | £289,000 | £365,134 |
| Smithy Cottages | 31 Mar 2021 | Detached | £325,000 | £410,618 |
| 50 | 27 Nov 2020 | Semi-detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 78 | 14 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £198,000 | £256,364 |
| 46 | 4 Aug 2020 | Semi-detached | £175,000 | £226,584 |
| 13 | 14 Feb 2020 | Semi-detached | £189,000 | £244,711 |
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 Smithy Lane, Wrexham values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 Smithy Lane | £97,000 (2002) | £262,500 (2026) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
| 82 Smithy Lane | £120,000 (2004) | £240,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.3% |
| 25 Smithy Lane | £190,000 (2008) | £280,000 (2024) | +2.5% | -0.5% |
| 78 Smithy Lane | £198,000 (2020) | £275,000 (2023) | +11.6% | +5.0% |
| 77 Smithy Lane | £54,000 (1997) | £215,000 (2023) | +5.5% | +2.8% |
| AELWYD BRYS Smithy Lane | £160,000 (2003) | £325,000 (2023) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
| 8 Smithy Lane | £127,000 (2017) | £215,000 (2023) | +9.2% | +5.1% |
| 12 Smithy Lane | £39,000 (1998) | £190,000 (2023) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 24 Smithy Lane | £59,950 (2000) | £208,000 (2023) | +5.6% | +2.8% |
| 89 Smithy Lane | £188,000 (2005) | £310,000 (2022) | +3.0% | +0.3% |
| 60 Smithy Lane | £45,000 (1995) | £185,000 (2022) | +5.4% | +2.9% |
| 90 Smithy Lane | £115,000 (2010) | £300,000 (2021) | +9.1% | +6.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Smithy Lane, Wrexham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Semi-detached | 66 | 61.7% | £137,500 | £25,000 – £310,000 |
| Detached | 36 | 33.6% | £185,000 | £11,000 – £375,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5 | 4.7% | £81,500 | £33,000 – £105,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Smithy Lane, Wrexham
5 of the sales on record are leasehold and 102 freehold — 4.7% 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 £81,500 and the median freehold sale £160,000 — a gap of +96.3%. 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 | 5 | 4.7% | £81,500 |
| Freehold | 102 | 95.3% | £160,000 |
| New build | 2 | 1.9% | £120,000 |
| Existing home | 105 | 98.1% | £158,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -24.1%. 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 2 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 Smithy Lane, Wrexham
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Flintshire, 42.6% of 69,330 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 819 | 1.2% |
| B | 8,268 | 11.9% |
| C | 20,457 | 29.5% |
| D | 24,859 | 35.9% |
| E | 9,994 | 14.4% |
| F | 3,531 | 5.1% |
| G | 1,402 | 2.0% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Flintshire at £798 a month as of Jun 2026 — £584 for a one-bedroom home and £876 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £158,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 6.06% 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 LL12, 35 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 21 violent, 2 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 4 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 4.8 times quieter.
Against the 154,962 residents the 2021 census counted in Flintshire, that is 0.23 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 Smithy Lane, Wrexham
The 2021 census counted 154,962 residents in Flintshire across 66,911 households. 72.2% of those households own their home and 27.7% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Gwersyllt Rail Station | Rail | 2.6 km |
| Cefn-y-Bedd Rail Station | Rail | 3.1 km |
| Caergwrle Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
| Hope (Flintshire) Rail Station | Rail | 4.6 km |
Section 09
How Smithy Lane, Wrexham compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Smithy Lane, Wrexham sits above that national figure — +0.3%.
Within Wrexham the street ranks 514 of 1844 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £122,000 (+29.5%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,713 per square metre, across 14 of the 107 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 £11,000 to £375,000. 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.
Smithy Lane, Wrexham sits in Flintshire, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Flintshire at 5.4 times median local earnings of £39,426 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£97,000 median
- Chester Road£160,000 median
- Hawarden Road£125,000 median
- Mold Road£117,000 median
- Herbert Jennings Avenue£122,750 median
- Derby Road£125,000 median
- Castle Street£114,500 median
- Vicarage Lane£135,000 median
- Acton Hall Walks£161,248 median
- Norfolk Road£151,000 median
- Carlton Meadows£284,995 median
- Borras Road£140,000 median
- Pant Lane£191,000 median
- Box Lane£180,000 median
- Hillock Lane£165,000 median
- Oakdrive£110,750 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 12 Smithy Lane4 sales
- 25 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 60 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 90 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 26 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 13 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 7A Smithy Lane3 sales
- SANDYWAYS Smithy Lane3 sales
- 76 Smithy Lane3 sales
- 72 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 82 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 78 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 77 Smithy Lane2 sales
- AELWYD BRYS Smithy Lane2 sales
- 8 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 24 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 89 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 68 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 54 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 88 Smithy Lane2 sales
- SMITHY COTTAGES Smithy Lane2 sales
- 93 Smithy Lane2 sales
- 1, OFFA HOUSE Smithy Lane2 sales
- 5A Smithy Lane2 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Smithy Lane, Wrexham?
The median price paid in Smithy Lane, Wrexham across every sale on the register is £158,000. 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 Smithy Lane, Wrexham?
107 sales are on record for Smithy Lane, Wrexham, the most recent completing on 10 Apr 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Smithy Lane, Wrexham house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +57.5% between 2008 and 2023. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.4%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Smithy Lane, Wrexham house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £261,000, 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 Smithy Lane, Wrexham?
£1,713 per square metre, from the 14 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 10 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, “Smithy Lane, Wrexham 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.