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Birchgrove market report CF14 3, Cardiff
The standing CF14 3 (Birchgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,950 HM Land Registry entries for CF14 3 (Cardiff), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical CF14 3 (Cardiff) home changed hands for £305,000 in 2026 (median of 43 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £311,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,120 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,950 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CF14 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CF14 (Cardiff). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where CF14 3 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What CF14 3 homes really sell for
43 sales were registered in CF14 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £305,000. The mean works out at £311,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
CF14 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CF14 3 sales average about £3,120 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CF14 3 7% above the country at large.
A typical CF14 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 93 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 84 |
| 2023 | £295,000 | £324,133 | 87 |
| 2022 | £282,500 | £331,263 | 98 |
| 2021 | £273,700 | £346,540 | 111 |
| 2020 | £261,000 | £338,653 | 90 |
| 2019 | £238,300 | £312,354 | 94 |
| 2018 | £248,300 | £330,989 | 96 |
| 2017 | £238,600 | £325,426 | 112 |
| 2016 | £220,000 | £307,782 | 115 |
| 2015 | £195,000 | £275,535 | 127 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 137 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 122 |
| 2012 | £167,200 | £246,098 | 98 |
| 2011 | £161,000 | £243,048 | 99 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 97 |
| 2009 | £166,500 | £267,650 | 87 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 82 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 165 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 174 |
| 2005 | £173,500 | £308,760 | 128 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 173 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 181 |
| 2002 | £114,000 | £214,490 | 191 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 215 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 174 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 119 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 121 |
| 1997 | £63,500 | £130,226 | 173 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 147 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 117 |
In cash terms the typical CF14 3 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 142%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CF14 3 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+31.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−5.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What CF14 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.2% | −2.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in CF14 3
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 43 CF14 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 175 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of CF14 3
CF14 3 falls under Cardiff, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,157 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £894 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,677 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Cardiff
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £305,000 median sold price, £1,157 a month is £13,884 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market CF14 3 is
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CF14 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the CF14 district median, CF14 3 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
CF14 3 (Birchgrove): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in CF14 3 (Birchgrove)?
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What happens to CF14 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
CF14's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 220 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF14 district, not just CF14 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Bader Close, Llanishen, CARDIFF
- Old Mill Road, Lisvane, Cardiff
- Galahad Close, Thornhill, Cardiff, CF14, Cardiff
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every CF14 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in CF: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the CF area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £275,000 | £367,000 (+33%) | £550,000 (+50%) | £790,000 (+44%) |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | £217,000 (+14%) | £260,000 (+20%) | £380,000 (+46%) | £530,000 (+39%) |
| Terraced | £169,000 | £149,000 (-12%) | £190,000 (+28%) | £300,000 (+58%) | £452,500 (+51%) |
| Flat | £140,000 | £180,000 (+29%) | £275,000 (+53%) | £417,500 (+52%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the CF area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the CF area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CF14
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CF14's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF14 0 | £550,000 | 30 |
| CF14 1 | £350,000 | 64 |
| CF14 2 | £304,500 | 46 |
| CF14 4 | £370,000 | 51 |
| CF14 5 | £285,000 | 49 |
| CF14 6 | £405,000 | 37 |
| CF14 7 | £333,800 | 20 |
| CF14 9 | £315,000 | 53 |
Zoom out to the full CF14 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CF14 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CF14 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CF14 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CF14 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CF14 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working CF14 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF14 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CF14 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CF14 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.