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Cyfarthfa market report CF48 4, Merthyr Tydfil
The standing CF48 4 (Cyfarthfa) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 3,086 HM Land Registry entries for CF48 4 (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 middle 2026 sale in CF48 4 (Merthyr Tydfil) came in at £142,500, out of 30 registered, up 27% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £161,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,570 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,086 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like CF48 4 is a single group of streets within CF48 (Merthyr Tydfil), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CF48 4 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 4 sells for
Take the 30 registered 2026 sales in CF48 4 and the middle price, the median, is £142,500. The mean lands at £161,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in CF48 4
Per square metre, CF48 4 homes have averaged around £1,570 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 4 50% below the country at large.
A typical CF48 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £142,500 | £142,500 | 30 |
| 2025 | £130,000 | £133,109 | 82 |
| 2024 | £115,000 | £122,269 | 85 |
| 2023 | £118,000 | £129,653 | 79 |
| 2022 | £111,200 | £130,395 | 116 |
| 2021 | £112,500 | £142,440 | 146 |
| 2020 | £100,000 | £129,752 | 103 |
| 2019 | £97,800 | £128,192 | 126 |
| 2018 | £77,000 | £102,642 | 89 |
| 2017 | £76,000 | £103,656 | 94 |
| 2016 | £77,000 | £107,724 | 87 |
| 2015 | £68,000 | £96,084 | 106 |
| 2014 | £67,000 | £95,051 | 78 |
| 2013 | £67,500 | £97,126 | 63 |
| 2012 | £69,200 | £101,854 | 56 |
| 2011 | £65,000 | £98,125 | 57 |
| 2010 | £70,000 | £109,778 | 54 |
| 2009 | £68,000 | £109,311 | 69 |
| 2008 | £75,000 | £122,941 | 64 |
| 2007 | £80,200 | £136,042 | 128 |
| 2006 | £74,000 | £128,455 | 128 |
| 2005 | £63,000 | £112,115 | 144 |
| 2004 | £42,800 | £77,733 | 172 |
| 2003 | £32,500 | £59,873 | 198 |
| 2002 | £29,000 | £54,563 | 143 |
| 2001 | £25,000 | £48,061 | 92 |
| 2000 | £27,000 | £52,988 | 87 |
| 1999 | £25,000 | £49,824 | 94 |
| 1998 | £21,000 | £42,390 | 106 |
| 1997 | £24,500 | £50,245 | 73 |
| 1996 | £20,000 | £42,179 | 67 |
| 1995 | £21,800 | £47,390 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical CF48 4 home went from £21,800 in 1995 to £142,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 201%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the CF48 4 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 2005 (+47.2% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−14.3%). 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) | +9.6% | +7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.3% | +2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +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.
How many homes change hands in CF48 4
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 30 sales completed in CF48 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 137 sales a year before the financial crisis and 78 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 4 market
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes CF48 4 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.
What homes rent for around CF48 4
For renting purposes CF48 4 sits in Merthyr Tydfil. The ONS average private rent there is £754 a month (May 2026). 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 £142,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.3%. 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.
Common questions on CF48 4 (Cyfarthfa)
Are property prices falling in CF48 4 (Cyfarthfa)?
Is CF48 4 (Cyfarthfa) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF48 4 (Cyfarthfa)?
Will CF48 4 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in CF48 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF48 district, not just CF48 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CF prices by size
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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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
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 3 | £125,000 | 17 |
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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF48 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF48 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF48 4 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 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF48 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CF48 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CF48 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.