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Aberbargoed market report CF81, Bargoed
The CF81 (Aberbargoed) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,535 registered sales in CF81 (Bargoed) 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.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in CF81 (Bargoed) sold for £160,000 in 2026, the median of 73 registered sales, up 37% on five years earlier. The mean was £179,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,760 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,535 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
CF81 is a postcode district covering Bargoed, Aberbargoed, Darran Valley in Bargoed. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where CF81 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 CF81 homes really sell for
The CF81 median stands at £160,000 for 2026, built from 73 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £179,200, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in CF81
Per square metre, CF81 homes have averaged around £1,760 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so CF81 trades 44% below the country as a whole.
A typical CF81 home, priced year by year (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 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 73 |
| 2025 | £140,000 | £143,348 | 164 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 143 |
| 2023 | £135,000 | £148,332 | 175 |
| 2022 | £131,500 | £154,199 | 214 |
| 2021 | £117,000 | £148,137 | 212 |
| 2020 | £113,500 | £147,269 | 186 |
| 2019 | £93,000 | £121,901 | 191 |
| 2018 | £86,800 | £115,706 | 166 |
| 2017 | £80,000 | £109,112 | 175 |
| 2016 | £80,000 | £111,921 | 169 |
| 2015 | £77,000 | £108,801 | 153 |
| 2014 | £79,000 | £112,075 | 160 |
| 2013 | £72,200 | £103,889 | 122 |
| 2012 | £78,000 | £114,806 | 113 |
| 2011 | £72,500 | £109,447 | 108 |
| 2010 | £75,500 | £118,403 | 120 |
| 2009 | £70,000 | £112,526 | 82 |
| 2008 | £85,500 | £140,153 | 182 |
| 2007 | £88,000 | £149,273 | 260 |
| 2006 | £82,000 | £142,342 | 223 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 226 |
| 2004 | £63,000 | £114,420 | 249 |
| 2003 | £47,500 | £87,507 | 245 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 267 |
| 2001 | £34,800 | £66,901 | 212 |
| 2000 | £31,000 | £60,838 | 197 |
| 1999 | £32,000 | £63,774 | 206 |
| 1998 | £31,000 | £62,576 | 157 |
| 1997 | £29,000 | £59,473 | 121 |
| 1996 | £29,000 | £61,160 | 124 |
| 1995 | £27,200 | £59,129 | 140 |
In cash terms the typical CF81 home went from £27,200 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 171%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash.
Year-on-year change in the CF81 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 (+35.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.1%). 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 year (since 2025) | +14.3% | +11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.5% | +1.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.9% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +7.2% | +3.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.4% | +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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 67% of the typed total. In 2023, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £283,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 2.4 times the price.
Median by property type, CF81
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 | £325,000 | 11 | 537 |
| Semi-detached | £196,000 | 18 | 1,216 |
| Terraced | £140,000 | 44 | 3,684 |
| Flats | £120,000 (2023) | – | 51 |
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
CF81 recorded 123 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 235 sales a year before the financial crisis and 154 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What tenants pay around CF81
CF81 falls under Caerphilly, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £742 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £548 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,091 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Caerphilly
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£742 a month is £8,904 a year, which against the £160,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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.
Reading the CF81 market
This is a thin market: 123 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.
CF81 (Aberbargoed): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in CF81 (Aberbargoed)?
Is CF81 (Aberbargoed) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in CF81 (Aberbargoed)?
Are CF81 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 37% over five years in cash and up 8% 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.
When homes in CF81 change hands
May is when CF81 changes hands most (10.8% of the 908 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 5.6%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 51 | 5.6% |
| February | 68 | 7.5% |
| March | 83 | 9.1% |
| April | 68 | 7.5% |
| May | 98 | 10.8% |
| June | 75 | 8.3% |
| July | 87 | 9.6% |
| August | 68 | 7.5% |
| September | 70 | 7.7% |
| October | 83 | 9.1% |
| November | 75 | 8.3% |
| December | 82 | 9.0% |
The price of an extra bedroom 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 | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
CF81 ranks 3 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.
Winners and losers across the CF area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside CF81, 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.
How CF81 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the CF area, and CF81 itself, which ranks 25 of 35 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| CF71 | £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% |
| CF81 (this report) | £160,000 | +37% |
Thinking of selling in CF81? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at CF81'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 CF81 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.