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Ely market report CF5 4, Cardiff
The standing CF5 4 (Ely) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,392 sales registered with HM Land Registry in CF5 4 (Cardiff) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 53 registered 2026 sales put the CF5 4 (Cardiff) median at £235,000, up 33% on five years earlier, with a mean of £247,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,392 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
CF5 4 is one sector of CF5 (Cardiff): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where CF5 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 buyers actually paid in CF5 4
The 2026 median for CF5 4 is £235,000, taken from 53 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £247,200, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in CF5 4
By floor space, homes in CF5 4 have sold for about £2,690 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, CF5 4 sits 18% below the national market.
A typical CF5 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 | £235,000 | £235,000 | 53 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 125 |
| 2024 | £215,000 | £228,589 | 123 |
| 2023 | £193,800 | £212,939 | 120 |
| 2022 | £200,000 | £234,523 | 139 |
| 2021 | £176,500 | £223,472 | 132 |
| 2020 | £161,000 | £208,901 | 125 |
| 2019 | £146,000 | £191,371 | 167 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 162 |
| 2017 | £137,000 | £186,854 | 150 |
| 2016 | £125,200 | £175,156 | 154 |
| 2015 | £127,000 | £179,451 | 142 |
| 2014 | £121,200 | £171,943 | 152 |
| 2013 | £112,000 | £161,157 | 131 |
| 2012 | £112,500 | £165,586 | 110 |
| 2011 | £102,000 | £153,981 | 95 |
| 2010 | £116,500 | £182,702 | 120 |
| 2009 | £130,000 | £208,976 | 69 |
| 2008 | £111,500 | £182,772 | 103 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 257 |
| 2006 | £116,500 | £202,229 | 253 |
| 2005 | £97,000 | £172,621 | 200 |
| 2004 | £98,000 | £177,987 | 261 |
| 2003 | £76,000 | £140,010 | 275 |
| 2002 | £68,000 | £127,941 | 290 |
| 2001 | £68,200 | £131,111 | 278 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 325 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 267 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 180 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 141 |
| 1996 | £45,000 | £94,903 | 146 |
| 1995 | £46,000 | £99,997 | 147 |
In cash terms the typical CF5 4 home went from £46,000 in 1995 to £235,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 135%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the CF5 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 1999 (+43.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1998 (−14.8%). 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) | +9.3% | +6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.9% | +1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
CF5 4 recorded 53 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 267 sales a year before the financial crisis and 112 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.
The rental side of CF5 4
The local authority for CF5 4 is Cardiff, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,157 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £235,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.9%. 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 kind of market CF5 4 is
This is a thin market: 53 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. 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. Against the CF5 district median, CF5 4 sits 18% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: CF5 4 (Ely)
How much did a house sell for in CF5 4 (Ely)?
Are property prices falling in CF5 4 (Ely)?
Is CF5 4 (Ely) a good place to buy a house?
Will CF5 4 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in CF5 today
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 4: 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.
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
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 2 | £313,000 | 50 |
| CF5 3 | £247,500 | 64 |
| 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 4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in CF5 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the CF5 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded CF5 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 CF5 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim CF5 4.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about CF5 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every CF5 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.