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Ely market report CF5 2, Cardiff
The CF5 2 (Ely) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,525 HM Land Registry entries for CF5 2 (Cardiff), 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 2026 median for CF5 2 (Cardiff) is £313,000, from 50 registered sales, up 9% on five years earlier; the mean is £391,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,525 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
CF5 2 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 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.
The going rate for a home in CF5 2
The CF5 2 median stands at £313,000 for 2026, built from 50 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £391,400, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in CF5 2
Per square metre, CF5 2 homes have averaged around £3,740 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CF5 2 runs 10% above it.
CF5 2's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £313,000 | £313,000 | 50 |
| 2025 | £318,800 | £326,423 | 184 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 224 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 211 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 260 |
| 2021 | £288,000 | £364,645 | 252 |
| 2020 | £265,000 | £343,843 | 140 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 168 |
| 2018 | £230,500 | £307,261 | 174 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 202 |
| 2016 | £224,200 | £313,658 | 186 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 181 |
| 2014 | £212,000 | £300,759 | 199 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 173 |
| 2012 | £185,000 | £272,297 | 145 |
| 2011 | £195,000 | £294,375 | 146 |
| 2010 | £200,000 | £313,651 | 186 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 164 |
| 2008 | £196,000 | £321,285 | 103 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 215 |
| 2006 | £175,000 | £303,778 | 227 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 189 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 216 |
| 2003 | £143,000 | £263,441 | 247 |
| 2002 | £116,900 | £219,946 | 326 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 292 |
| 2000 | £82,100 | £161,121 | 258 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 239 |
| 1998 | £66,200 | £133,629 | 218 |
| 1997 | £64,500 | £132,276 | 293 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 231 |
| 1995 | £57,600 | £125,214 | 226 |
In cash terms the typical CF5 2 home went from £57,600 in 1995 to £313,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 150%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the CF5 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 2002 (+32.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−9.6%). 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) | −1.8% | −4.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.7% | −3.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.4% | 0.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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 CF5 2
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
CF5 2 recorded 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 246 sales a year before the financial crisis and 186 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 2 market
This is a thin market: 50 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the CF5 district median, CF5 2 sits 10% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around CF5 2
For renting purposes CF5 2 sits in Cardiff. The ONS average private rent there is £1,157 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £894 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,677 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
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 £313,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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 CF5 2 (Ely)
Is CF5 2 (Ely) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF5 2 (Ely)?
Are property prices falling in CF5 2 (Ely)?
Where do CF5 2 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in CF5 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 123 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF5 district, not just CF5 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 32% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in CF
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%) | — |
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. 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.
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.
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 1 | £325,000 | 86 |
| 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.
Thinking of selling in CF5 2? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF5 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF5 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF5 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CF5 2.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CF5 2. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual CF5 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.
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.