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St Brides Major market report CF71, Cowbridge
The standing CF71 (St Brides Major) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,596 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in CF71 (Cowbridge) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 54 registered 2026 sales put the CF71 (Cowbridge) median at £463,800, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £527,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,900 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,596 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district CF71 covering Cowbridge, St Brides Major, Welsh St Donats sits in Cowbridge. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where CF71 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 CF71 sells for
The 2026 median for CF71 is £463,800, taken from 54 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £527,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in CF71
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in CF71 costs about £3,900 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CF71 trades 63% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical CF71 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 | £463,800 | £463,800 | 54 |
| 2025 | £475,000 | £486,359 | 168 |
| 2024 | £445,000 | £473,126 | 147 |
| 2023 | £500,000 | £549,378 | 131 |
| 2022 | £470,200 | £551,363 | 175 |
| 2021 | £450,000 | £569,758 | 223 |
| 2020 | £390,000 | £506,033 | 145 |
| 2019 | £400,000 | £524,304 | 176 |
| 2018 | £362,500 | £483,219 | 177 |
| 2017 | £354,000 | £482,820 | 215 |
| 2016 | £370,000 | £517,634 | 161 |
| 2015 | £350,000 | £494,550 | 110 |
| 2014 | £342,000 | £485,187 | 128 |
| 2013 | £314,000 | £451,815 | 140 |
| 2012 | £340,000 | £500,438 | 93 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 87 |
| 2010 | £310,000 | £486,160 | 83 |
| 2009 | £308,000 | £495,113 | 94 |
| 2008 | £285,000 | £467,175 | 97 |
| 2007 | £306,500 | £519,909 | 140 |
| 2006 | £299,000 | £519,026 | 147 |
| 2005 | £300,000 | £533,879 | 91 |
| 2004 | £281,200 | £510,714 | 110 |
| 2003 | £219,500 | £404,372 | 156 |
| 2002 | £189,000 | £355,602 | 175 |
| 2001 | £158,000 | £303,747 | 149 |
| 2000 | £132,100 | £259,246 | 164 |
| 1999 | £126,200 | £251,510 | 237 |
| 1998 | £125,000 | £252,321 | 178 |
| 1997 | £125,000 | £256,350 | 196 |
| 1996 | £110,500 | £233,040 | 139 |
| 1995 | £98,000 | £213,037 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical CF71 home went from £98,000 in 1995 to £463,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 118%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CF71 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 (+28.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−11.0%). 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 year (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.9% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.3% | −1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 62% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £550,000 against £415,000 for a flat, a 33% premium.
Median by property type, CF71
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 | £557,500 | 30 | 2,819 |
| Semi-detached | £345,000 | 15 | 1,096 |
| Terraced | £288,800 | 6 | 470 |
| Flats | £415,000 (2025) | – | 189 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
CF71 recorded 117 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 135 sales a year recently, against 142 a year before 2008. 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.
What homes rent for around CF71
The local authority for CF71 is Vale of Glamorgan, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £984 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £729 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,485, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Vale of Glamorgan
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £463,800 median sold price, £984 a month is £11,808 a year, a gross yield of 2.5%: 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.
What kind of market CF71 is
This is a thin market: 117 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. Detached homes made up 48% of last year's sales, an unusually house-heavy mix that keeps the median well above what a flat or terrace here goes for. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. By median price, CF71 presently tops its postcode area.
Common questions on CF71 (St Brides Major)
Are property prices falling in CF71 (St Brides Major)?
Is CF71 (St Brides Major) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF71 (St Brides Major)?
Are CF71 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
When homes in CF71 change hands
Across the 844 sales completed in CF71 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (13.2% of the total) and February the quietest (4.5%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 63 | 7.5% |
| February | 38 | 4.5% |
| March | 80 | 9.5% |
| April | 57 | 6.8% |
| May | 59 | 7.0% |
| June | 111 | 13.2% |
| July | 48 | 5.7% |
| August | 85 | 10.1% |
| September | 78 | 9.2% |
| October | 63 | 7.5% |
| November | 84 | 10.0% |
| December | 78 | 9.2% |
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 | £235,000 | £275,000 (+17%) | £315,997 (+15%) | £389,995 (+23%) | £485,000 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | £210,000 (+11%) | £235,000 (+12%) | £310,000 (+32%) | £450,000 (+45%) |
| Terraced | £166,000 | £150,000 (-10%) | £168,000 (+12%) | £250,000 (+49%) | £325,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £135,500 | £170,000 (+25%) | £240,000 (+41%) | £279,000 (+16%) | £400,000 (+43%) |
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
CF71 ranks 33 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside CF71, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF71 7 | £463,800 | 54 |
How CF71 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the CF area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CF71 (this report) | £463,800 | +3% |
| CF15 | £370,000 | +23% |
| CF64 | £347,500 | +14% |
| CF36 | £340,800 | +23% |
| CF14 | £335,000 | +7% |
| CF61 | £309,200 | +24% |
| CF23 | £295,000 | +0% |
| CF5 | £287,000 | +10% |
| CF35 | £270,000 | +29% |
| CF62 | £270,000 | +20% |
| CF3 | £250,000 | +14% |
| CF24 | £245,000 | +23% |
| CF72 | £240,000 | +5% |
| CF11 | £234,000 | +11% |
| CF38 | £231,000 | +20% |
| CF83 | £229,000 | +24% |
| CF31 | £225,000 | +18% |
| CF33 | £215,000 | +34% |
| CF63 | £196,000 | +21% |
| CF82 | £195,000 | +21% |
| CF32 | £193,000 | +38% |
| CF10 | £181,000 | +2% |
| CF46 | £181,000 | +30% |
| CF37 | £160,000 | +23% |
Before you sell in CF71: 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 CF71'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.
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Two maps carry on from here: every CF71 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.
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.