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Cyfarthfa market report CF48, Merthyr Tydfil
The CF48 (Cyfarthfa) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,345 HM Land Registry entries for CF48 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical CF48 (Merthyr Tydfil) home changed hands for £145,000 in 2026 (median of 95 registered sales, up 16% on five years earlier), with the mean at £166,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,820 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 10,345 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
CF48 is the postcode district covering Cyfarthfa, Pant, Merthyr Vale in Merthyr Tydfil. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where CF48 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 sells for
In the CF48 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £145,000, from 95 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £166,800, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
CF48 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of CF48 sales average about £1,820 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CF48 trades 49% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CF48 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £145,000 | £145,000 | 95 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 293 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 252 |
| 2023 | £138,000 | £151,628 | 255 |
| 2022 | £135,000 | £158,303 | 374 |
| 2021 | £125,000 | £158,266 | 391 |
| 2020 | £126,000 | £163,488 | 281 |
| 2019 | £115,000 | £150,737 | 372 |
| 2018 | £95,000 | £126,637 | 304 |
| 2017 | £91,000 | £124,115 | 339 |
| 2016 | £85,000 | £118,916 | 321 |
| 2015 | £87,000 | £122,931 | 301 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 291 |
| 2013 | £93,500 | £134,537 | 276 |
| 2012 | £85,000 | £125,109 | 220 |
| 2011 | £83,000 | £125,298 | 191 |
| 2010 | £90,000 | £141,143 | 217 |
| 2009 | £89,000 | £143,068 | 257 |
| 2008 | £92,500 | £151,627 | 281 |
| 2007 | £94,000 | £159,450 | 492 |
| 2006 | £80,000 | £138,870 | 420 |
| 2005 | £70,000 | £124,572 | 403 |
| 2004 | £54,000 | £98,075 | 462 |
| 2003 | £40,000 | £73,690 | 497 |
| 2002 | £36,000 | £67,734 | 489 |
| 2001 | £37,500 | £72,092 | 423 |
| 2000 | £38,000 | £74,575 | 378 |
| 1999 | £35,700 | £71,148 | 374 |
| 1998 | £30,000 | £60,557 | 309 |
| 1997 | £31,800 | £65,215 | 282 |
| 1996 | £32,500 | £68,541 | 267 |
| 1995 | £31,000 | £67,389 | 238 |
In cash terms the typical CF48 home went from £31,000 in 1995 to £145,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 11% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CF48 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 2004 (+35.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 57% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £309,000 against £60,000 for a flat, 5.2 times the price.
Median by property type, CF48
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £247,000 | 15 | 2,071 |
| Semi-detached | £188,000 | 26 | 2,339 |
| Terraced | £125,000 | 53 | 5,831 |
| Flats | £60,000 (2025) | – | 46 |
What CF48 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.3% | −5.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.0% | −1.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.5% | +2.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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 CF48
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 214 sales completed in CF48. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 446 sales a year before the financial crisis and 254 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.
Reading the CF48 market
In its area's price order CF48 comes 28 of 35, towards the cheaper end of the table.
The rental side of CF48
The local authority for CF48 is Merthyr Tydfil, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Against the £145,000 median purchase price, a rent of £754 a month (£9,048 a year) works out at a 6.2% 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 (Cyfarthfa)
Is CF48 (Cyfarthfa) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF48 (Cyfarthfa)?
Are property prices falling in CF48 (Cyfarthfa)?
Are CF48 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 16% over five years in cash but down 8% 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
Everything above is what homes in CF48 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 32 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 14% above the CF48 median sold price.
31% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
CF48 ranks 24 of 35 in the CF area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, CF area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside CF48, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF48 1 | £189,000 | 25 |
| CF48 2 | £140,000 | 23 |
| CF48 3 | £125,000 | 17 |
| CF48 4 | £142,500 | 30 |
How CF48 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the CF area, and CF48 itself, which ranks 28 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CF71 | £445,000 | -1% |
| CF15 | £365,000 | +22% |
| CF64 | £355,000 | +17% |
| CF36 | £333,000 | +20% |
| CF14 | £330,000 | +6% |
| CF61 | £309,200 | +24% |
| CF23 | £300,000 | +2% |
| CF5 | £285,000 | +9% |
| CF35 | £275,000 | +31% |
| CF62 | £270,000 | +20% |
| CF3 | £250,000 | +14% |
| CF24 | £242,500 | +21% |
| CF83 | £236,000 | +28% |
| CF72 | £233,500 | +2% |
| CF38 | £232,500 | +21% |
| CF11 | £230,000 | +10% |
| CF31 | £225,000 | +18% |
| CF33 | £220,000 | +37% |
| CF32 | £201,000 | +44% |
| CF63 | £200,000 | +23% |
| CF82 | £191,000 | +19% |
| CF10 | £181,800 | +2% |
| CF46 | £172,500 | +24% |
| CF48 (this report) | £145,000 | +16% |
Before you sell in CF48: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF48, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF48 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF48 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: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF48.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with CF48 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual CF48 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.