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Ely market report CF5 3, Cardiff
The CF5 3 (Ely) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 5,571 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CF5 3 (Cardiff) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 CF5 3 (Cardiff) came in at £247,500, out of 64 registered, up 10% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £238,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,800 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 5,571 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 CF5 3 is a single group of streets within CF5 (Cardiff), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where CF5 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.
The going rate for a home in CF5 3
Across 64 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) CF5 3 home went for £247,500. The mean is £238,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
House prices per square metre in CF5 3
Per square metre, CF5 3 homes have averaged around £2,800 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CF5 3 sits 13% below the national market.
A typical CF5 3 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 | £247,500 | £247,500 | 64 |
| 2025 | £253,000 | £259,050 | 150 |
| 2024 | £240,000 | £255,169 | 161 |
| 2023 | £250,000 | £274,689 | 165 |
| 2022 | £257,500 | £301,948 | 194 |
| 2021 | £225,500 | £285,512 | 204 |
| 2020 | £206,000 | £267,289 | 168 |
| 2019 | £182,000 | £238,558 | 221 |
| 2018 | £173,000 | £230,612 | 193 |
| 2017 | £155,200 | £211,677 | 182 |
| 2016 | £155,000 | £216,847 | 200 |
| 2015 | £148,000 | £209,124 | 155 |
| 2014 | £135,500 | £192,230 | 187 |
| 2013 | £130,000 | £187,057 | 145 |
| 2012 | £125,000 | £183,984 | 152 |
| 2011 | £122,500 | £184,928 | 123 |
| 2010 | £133,000 | £208,578 | 125 |
| 2009 | £124,000 | £199,331 | 95 |
| 2008 | £133,000 | £218,015 | 89 |
| 2007 | £144,000 | £244,264 | 213 |
| 2006 | £126,800 | £220,109 | 246 |
| 2005 | £125,000 | £222,450 | 193 |
| 2004 | £114,000 | £207,046 | 251 |
| 2003 | £90,500 | £166,723 | 249 |
| 2002 | £74,700 | £140,547 | 262 |
| 2001 | £62,500 | £120,153 | 239 |
| 2000 | £54,500 | £106,956 | 198 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 187 |
| 1998 | £46,500 | £93,864 | 146 |
| 1997 | £44,900 | £92,081 | 153 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 153 |
| 1995 | £41,200 | £89,562 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical CF5 3 home went from £41,200 in 1995 to £247,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 176%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the CF5 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 2004 (+26.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−7.9%). 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) | −2.2% | −4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +0.6% |
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 3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
CF5 3 recorded 64 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 231 sales a year before the financial crisis and 147 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 rental side of CF5 3
For renting purposes CF5 3 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.
Set against the £247,500 median sold price, £1,157 a month is £13,884 a year, a gross yield of 5.6%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the CF5 3 market
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. Within CF5, this sector trades 13% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about CF5 3 (Ely)
How much did a house sell for in CF5 3 (Ely)?
Are property prices falling in CF5 3 (Ely)?
Is CF5 3 (Ely) a good place to buy a house?
Are CF5 3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
CF5's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 123 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF5 district, not just CF5 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in CF
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%) | — |
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. 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 CF5
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CF5, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF5 1 | £325,000 | 86 |
| CF5 2 | £313,000 | 50 |
| 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.
Selling a home in CF5 3? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in CF5 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from CF5 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded CF5 3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CF5 3.
Go deeper
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See every individual CF5 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.
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.