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Cyfarthfa market report CF48 2, Merthyr Tydfil
The standing CF48 2 (Cyfarthfa) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,147 HM Land Registry entries for CF48 2 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in CF48 2 (Merthyr Tydfil) came in at £140,000, out of 23 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £169,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,920 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,147 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CF48 2 is one sector of CF48 (Merthyr Tydfil): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CF48 2 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.
CF48 2 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 23 registered 2026 sales in CF48 2 and the middle price, the median, is £140,000. The mean lands at £169,100, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in CF48 2
Per square metre, CF48 2 homes have averaged around £1,920 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving CF48 2 51% below the national figure.
The price of a typical CF48 2 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 75 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 68 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 59 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 75 |
| 2021 | £137,000 | £173,460 | 76 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 49 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 56 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 71 |
| 2017 | £104,000 | £141,846 | 83 |
| 2016 | £103,000 | £144,098 | 71 |
| 2015 | £115,000 | £162,495 | 63 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 65 |
| 2013 | £88,800 | £127,774 | 36 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 45 |
| 2011 | £95,000 | £143,413 | 41 |
| 2010 | £98,000 | £153,689 | 59 |
| 2009 | £93,800 | £150,784 | 42 |
| 2008 | £88,000 | £144,251 | 45 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 75 |
| 2006 | £90,000 | £156,229 | 83 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 83 |
| 2004 | £70,000 | £127,134 | 85 |
| 2003 | £47,500 | £87,507 | 83 |
| 2002 | £41,500 | £78,082 | 104 |
| 2001 | £47,500 | £91,316 | 100 |
| 2000 | £52,500 | £103,031 | 102 |
| 1999 | £60,000 | £119,577 | 79 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 59 |
| 1997 | £35,000 | £71,778 | 65 |
| 1996 | £34,000 | £71,704 | 58 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 69 |
In cash terms the typical CF48 2 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 3.9 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 79%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 34% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CF48 2 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 1999 (+50.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−17.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −15.2% | −17.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 23 CF48 2 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 89 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 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.
How CF48 2 trades
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CF48 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around CF48 2
The local authority for CF48 2 is Merthyr Tydfil, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £754 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £553 a month here against £1,092 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Merthyr Tydfil
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£754 a month is £9,048 a year, which against the £140,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people ask about CF48 2 (Cyfarthfa)
Are property prices falling in CF48 2 (Cyfarthfa)?
Is CF48 2 (Cyfarthfa) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF48 2 (Cyfarthfa)?
Where do CF48 2 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
31% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
The price of an extra bedroom in CF
What homes of each size actually sold for across the CF area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. 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.
CF area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CF48
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CF48's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF48 1 | £189,000 | 25 |
| 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 a home in CF48 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF48 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF48 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF48 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim CF48 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CF48 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
See every individual CF48 2 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.