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Cyfarthfa market report CF48 3, Merthyr Tydfil
The CF48 3 (Cyfarthfa) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,800 HM Land Registry entries for CF48 3 (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: a typical CF48 3 (Merthyr Tydfil) home changed hands for £125,000 in 2026 (median of 17 registered sales, up 40% on five years earlier), with the mean at £135,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,530 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 1,800 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CF48 3 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 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 a home in CF48 3 sells for
The CF48 3 median stands at £125,000 for 2026, built from 17 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £135,900, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
CF48 3 prices by floor area
Per square metre, CF48 3 homes have averaged around £1,530 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CF48 3 56% below the country at large.
The price of a typical CF48 3 home, 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 | £125,000 | £125,000 | 17 |
| 2025 | £120,000 | £122,870 | 49 |
| 2024 | £107,000 | £113,763 | 33 |
| 2023 | £110,000 | £120,863 | 45 |
| 2022 | £107,000 | £125,470 | 57 |
| 2021 | £89,000 | £112,685 | 49 |
| 2020 | £87,000 | £112,884 | 35 |
| 2019 | £80,000 | £104,861 | 55 |
| 2018 | £72,000 | £95,977 | 37 |
| 2017 | £71,500 | £97,519 | 43 |
| 2016 | £65,000 | £90,936 | 59 |
| 2015 | £55,000 | £77,715 | 41 |
| 2014 | £76,000 | £107,819 | 45 |
| 2013 | £60,500 | £87,053 | 38 |
| 2012 | £61,000 | £89,784 | 22 |
| 2011 | £52,500 | £79,255 | 32 |
| 2010 | £70,800 | £111,033 | 24 |
| 2009 | £69,800 | £112,204 | 22 |
| 2008 | £78,500 | £128,678 | 37 |
| 2007 | £76,500 | £129,765 | 83 |
| 2006 | £75,000 | £130,190 | 94 |
| 2005 | £64,000 | £113,894 | 83 |
| 2004 | £50,000 | £90,810 | 92 |
| 2003 | £38,000 | £70,005 | 97 |
| 2002 | £28,700 | £53,999 | 108 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 105 |
| 2000 | £33,500 | £65,744 | 99 |
| 1999 | £30,000 | £59,788 | 91 |
| 1998 | £27,500 | £55,511 | 65 |
| 1997 | £28,000 | £57,422 | 57 |
| 1996 | £29,000 | £61,160 | 47 |
| 1995 | £29,000 | £63,042 | 39 |
In cash terms the typical CF48 3 home went from £29,000 in 1995 to £125,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 98%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 4% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CF48 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 (+32.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−27.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +7.0% | +2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.8% | +3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CF48 3
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CF48 3 recorded 17 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 95 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 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 shape of the CF48 3 market
Only 17 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CF48 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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 3 sits 14% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
The rental side of CF48 3
CF48 3 falls under Merthyr Tydfil, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £754 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £553 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,092, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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 £125,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.2%. 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.
Asked and answered: CF48 3 (Cyfarthfa)
Are property prices falling in CF48 3 (Cyfarthfa)?
Is CF48 3 (Cyfarthfa) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF48 3 (Cyfarthfa)?
Will CF48 3 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 40% over five years in cash and up 11% 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.
CF48's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 32 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF48 district, not just CF48 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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
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 CF48 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: CF prices by size
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, CF area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in CF48
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CF48, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF48 1 | £189,000 | 25 |
| CF48 2 | £140,000 | 23 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CF48 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF48 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF48 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF48 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working CF48 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF48 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CF48 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CF48 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.
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.