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Cyfarthfa market report CF48 1, Merthyr Tydfil
The CF48 1 (Cyfarthfa) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,312 HM Land Registry entries for CF48 1 (Merthyr Tydfil), 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: the typical home in CF48 1 (Merthyr Tydfil) sold for £189,000 in 2026, the median of 25 registered sales, up 28% on five years earlier. The mean was £192,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,160 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,312 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CF48 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CF48 (Merthyr Tydfil). 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 CF48 1 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.
Today's CF48 1 prices, from the sold record
Across 25 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CF48 1 home went for £189,000. The mean is £192,600, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in CF48 1
A square metre of CF48 1 home has cost about £2,160 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CF48 1 trades 34% below the country as a whole.
A typical CF48 1 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 | £189,000 | £189,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 87 |
| 2024 | £186,200 | £197,969 | 66 |
| 2023 | £191,200 | £210,082 | 72 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 126 |
| 2021 | £148,000 | £187,387 | 120 |
| 2020 | £160,000 | £207,603 | 94 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 135 |
| 2018 | £134,000 | £178,625 | 107 |
| 2017 | £141,000 | £192,310 | 119 |
| 2016 | £117,800 | £164,803 | 104 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 91 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 103 |
| 2013 | £140,000 | £201,446 | 139 |
| 2012 | £135,000 | £198,703 | 97 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 61 |
| 2010 | £95,500 | £149,769 | 80 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 124 |
| 2008 | £125,000 | £204,901 | 135 |
| 2007 | £130,000 | £220,516 | 206 |
| 2006 | £97,000 | £168,380 | 115 |
| 2005 | £82,000 | £145,927 | 93 |
| 2004 | £72,000 | £130,766 | 113 |
| 2003 | £58,000 | £106,850 | 119 |
| 2002 | £46,100 | £86,737 | 134 |
| 2001 | £46,700 | £89,778 | 126 |
| 2000 | £42,500 | £83,406 | 90 |
| 1999 | £44,000 | £87,690 | 110 |
| 1998 | £40,800 | £82,358 | 79 |
| 1997 | £39,600 | £81,212 | 87 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 95 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 60 |
In cash terms the typical CF48 1 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £189,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 89%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CF48 1 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 2007 (+34.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−20.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.1% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.0% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 25 CF48 1 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 125 sales a year before the financial crisis and 75 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the CF48 1 market
This is a thin market: 25 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the CF48 district median, CF48 1 sits 30% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around CF48 1
The local authority for CF48 1 is Merthyr Tydfil, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £754 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £553 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,092 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Merthyr Tydfil
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £189,000 median purchase price, a rent of £754 a month (£9,048 a year) works out at a 4.8% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What people ask about CF48 1 (Cyfarthfa)
How much did a house sell for in CF48 1 (Cyfarthfa)?
Are property prices falling in CF48 1 (Cyfarthfa)?
Is CF48 1 (Cyfarthfa) a good place to buy a house?
Will CF48 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 28% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in CF48 now
Turning to what is actually available: 32 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF48 district, not just CF48 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- High Street, Dowlais Top, Merthyr Tydfil
- Heol Bryn Selu, Swansea Road, Swansea Road
- Heol Tai Mawr, Merthyr Tydfil
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every CF48 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.
What another bedroom costs in CF
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the CF area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 CF48
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of CF48, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF48 2 | £140,000 | 23 |
| CF48 3 | £125,000 | 17 |
| CF48 4 | £142,500 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full CF48 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CF48 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in CF48 1? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CF48 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CF48 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CF48 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CF48 1.
Take it further
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See every individual CF48 1 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.