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Llantrisant market report CF72 8, Pontyclun
The standing CF72 8 (Llantrisant) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,086 registered sales in CF72 8 (Pontyclun) 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.
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 CF72 8 (Pontyclun) came in at £260,000, out of 43 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £313,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,000 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,086 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
CF72 8 is one sector of CF72 (Pontyclun): 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 CF72 8 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.
Today's CF72 8 prices, from the sold record
The CF72 8 median stands at £260,000 for 2026, built from 43 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £313,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in CF72 8
A square metre of CF72 8 home has cost about £3,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, CF72 8 runs 9% below it.
CF72 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £260,000 | £260,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £265,000 | £271,337 | 141 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 116 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 111 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 135 |
| 2021 | £254,000 | £321,597 | 218 |
| 2020 | £235,000 | £304,917 | 115 |
| 2019 | £197,500 | £258,875 | 165 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 157 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 175 |
| 2016 | £188,200 | £263,294 | 176 |
| 2015 | £188,000 | £265,644 | 155 |
| 2014 | £172,000 | £244,012 | 159 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 183 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 124 |
| 2011 | £172,000 | £259,654 | 129 |
| 2010 | £191,000 | £299,537 | 184 |
| 2009 | £156,800 | £252,057 | 114 |
| 2008 | £143,500 | £235,227 | 112 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 212 |
| 2006 | £164,800 | £286,072 | 204 |
| 2005 | £167,500 | £298,082 | 258 |
| 2004 | £156,000 | £283,326 | 420 |
| 2003 | £139,200 | £256,440 | 307 |
| 2002 | £104,000 | £195,675 | 263 |
| 2001 | £88,000 | £169,176 | 281 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 256 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £151,464 | 267 |
| 1998 | £73,000 | £147,356 | 301 |
| 1997 | £68,000 | £139,454 | 283 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 173 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 149 |
In cash terms the typical CF72 8 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £260,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 135%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the CF72 8 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 2003 (+33.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−15.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.9% | −4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in CF72 8
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.
CF72 8 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 275 sales a year before the financial crisis and 109 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.
Rents around CF72 8
For renting purposes CF72 8 sits in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The ONS average private rent there is £748 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £524 a month here against £991 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Rhondda Cynon Taf
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £260,000 median purchase price, a rent of £748 a month (£8,976 a year) works out at a 3.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the CF72 8 market
This is a thin market: 43 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. Within CF72, this sector trades 11% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: CF72 8 (Llantrisant)
Are property prices falling in CF72 8 (Llantrisant)?
Is CF72 8 (Llantrisant) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF72 8 (Llantrisant)?
Are CF72 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% 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 CF72 now
The live side of the market holds 31 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole CF72 district, not just CF72 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 26% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Poets Way, Llanharan, Pontyclun
- Westfield Court, Llantrisant, Pontyclun, CF72, Pontyclun
- Clos Leland, Llantrisant, Pontyclun
"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 CF72 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: CF prices by size
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in CF72
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of CF72, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| CF72 4 | £219,000 | 9 |
| CF72 9 | £230,000 | 85 |
Zoom out to the full CF72 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how CF72 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in CF72 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CF72 8'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim CF72 8.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to CF72 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual CF72 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on 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.