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Llanafan Fawr market report LD2 3, Builth Wells
The LD2 3 (Llanafan Fawr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,228 HM Land Registry entries for LD2 3 (Builth Wells), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the LD2 3 (Builth Wells) median at £255,000, up 21% on five years earlier, with a mean of £277,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,500 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,228 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like LD2 3 is a single group of streets within LD2 (Builth Wells), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LD2 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.
What LD2 3 homes really sell for
The LD2 3 median stands at £255,000 for 2026, built from 19 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £277,000, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in LD2 3
The last five years of sales put LD2 3 at roughly £2,500 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LD2 3 runs 11% below it.
A typical LD2 3 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £255,000 | £255,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £275,000 | £281,576 | 58 |
| 2024 | £252,500 | £268,459 | 64 |
| 2023 | £202,500 | £222,498 | 54 |
| 2022 | £259,000 | £303,707 | 82 |
| 2021 | £210,000 | £265,887 | 103 |
| 2020 | £185,000 | £240,041 | 61 |
| 2019 | £176,500 | £231,349 | 79 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 93 |
| 2017 | £150,000 | £204,585 | 83 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 83 |
| 2015 | £184,500 | £260,699 | 64 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 63 |
| 2013 | £172,500 | £248,210 | 56 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 57 |
| 2011 | £154,000 | £232,481 | 46 |
| 2010 | £168,500 | £264,251 | 48 |
| 2009 | £142,000 | £228,266 | 52 |
| 2008 | £167,000 | £273,748 | 49 |
| 2007 | £187,500 | £318,052 | 109 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 87 |
| 2005 | £143,800 | £255,906 | 74 |
| 2004 | £128,200 | £232,836 | 86 |
| 2003 | £89,000 | £163,960 | 89 |
| 2002 | £80,000 | £150,519 | 95 |
| 2001 | £59,000 | £113,424 | 77 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 87 |
| 1999 | £63,200 | £125,954 | 86 |
| 1998 | £55,100 | £111,223 | 69 |
| 1997 | £53,000 | £108,692 | 57 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 53 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 45 |
In cash terms the typical LD2 3 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £255,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LD2 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 (+44.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−21.8%). 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 years (since 2025) | −7.3% | −9.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.8% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 LD2 3
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 19 sales completed in LD2 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 88 sales a year before the financial crisis and 55 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.
Reading the LD2 3 market
This is a thin market: 19 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. 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.
Rents around LD2 3
LD2 3 falls under Powys, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £620 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £461 a month here against £951 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Powys
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£620 a month is £7,440 a year, which against the £255,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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.
Common questions on LD2 3 (Llanafan Fawr)
Is LD2 3 (Llanafan Fawr) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LD2 3 (Llanafan Fawr)?
Are property prices falling in LD2 3 (Llanafan Fawr)?
Will LD2 3 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What you could buy in LD2 now
Turning to what is actually available: 22 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LD2 district, not just LD2 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. 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 LD2 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.
Moving up a bedroom in LD: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the LD area, straight from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £242,135 | £327,250 (+35%) | £450,000 (+38%) | — |
| Semi-detached | — | £215,000 | £235,000 (+9%) | £300,000 (+28%) | — |
| Terraced | £155,500 | £170,000 (+9%) | £200,000 (+18%) | £252,500 (+26%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LD area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Zoom out to the full LD2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LD2 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LD2 3? 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 LD2 3'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.
Estate agents working LD2 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LD2 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to LD2 3. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LD2 3 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.
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.