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Ely market report CF5 1, Cardiff
The standing CF5 1 (Ely) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 7,489 registered sales in CF5 1 (Cardiff) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in CF5 1 (Cardiff) sold for £325,000 in 2026, the median of 86 registered sales, up 18% on five years earlier. The mean was £343,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,489 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CF5 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside CF5 (Cardiff). 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 CF5 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.
What CF5 1 homes really sell for
The CF5 1 median stands at £325,000 for 2026, built from 86 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £343,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CF5 1
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CF5 1 costs about £3,490 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts CF5 1 14% above the country at large.
A typical CF5 1 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 86 |
| 2025 | £312,000 | £319,461 | 205 |
| 2024 | £330,000 | £350,858 | 174 |
| 2023 | £306,800 | £337,098 | 222 |
| 2022 | £308,400 | £361,634 | 218 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 262 |
| 2020 | £248,000 | £321,785 | 135 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 216 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 214 |
| 2017 | £231,000 | £315,061 | 207 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 211 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 235 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 246 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 212 |
| 2012 | £174,000 | £256,106 | 187 |
| 2011 | £171,800 | £259,352 | 190 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 192 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 190 |
| 2008 | £167,400 | £274,404 | 163 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 284 |
| 2006 | £171,000 | £296,834 | 326 |
| 2005 | £162,800 | £289,718 | 248 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 333 |
| 2003 | £139,000 | £256,072 | 315 |
| 2002 | £112,200 | £211,103 | 318 |
| 2001 | £89,700 | £172,444 | 314 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 320 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 262 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 231 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 321 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 244 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 208 |
In cash terms the typical CF5 1 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 188%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CF5 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 2002 (+25.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−7.0%). 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) | +4.2% | +1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 86 sales completed in CF5 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 307 sales a year before the financial crisis and 181 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 CF5 1 market
Against the CF5 district median, CF5 1 sits 14% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What homes rent for around CF5 1
CF5 1 falls under Cardiff, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,157 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £894 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,677, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Cardiff
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,157 a month is £13,884 a year, which against the £325,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
CF5 1 (Ely): the questions that come up
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What happens to CF5 1 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in CF5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 123 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF5 district, not just CF5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 CF5 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — |
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
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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in CF5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are CF5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF5 2 | £313,000 | 50 |
| CF5 3 | £247,500 | 64 |
| CF5 4 | £235,000 | 53 |
| CF5 5 | £192,500 | 40 |
| CF5 6 | £356,000 | 52 |
Zoom out to the full CF5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CF5 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in CF5 1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CF5 1's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working CF5 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF5 1.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CF5 1. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CF5 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.