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Talgarth market report LD3, Brecon
The LD3 (Talgarth) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,895 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LD3 (Brecon) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in LD3 (Brecon) sold for £254,000 in 2026, the median of 104 registered sales, up 8% on five years earlier. The mean was £292,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,880 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,895 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
LD3 is a postcode district covering Brecon, Talgarth in Brecon. 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 LD3 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 LD3
The LD3 median stands at £254,000 for 2026, built from 104 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £292,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in LD3
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LD3 sales average about £2,880 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LD3 11% below the national figure.
A typical LD3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £254,000 | £254,000 | 104 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 207 |
| 2024 | £271,200 | £288,341 | 224 |
| 2023 | £270,000 | £296,664 | 203 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 277 |
| 2021 | £235,000 | £297,540 | 346 |
| 2020 | £200,000 | £259,504 | 221 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 221 |
| 2018 | £210,000 | £279,934 | 277 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 259 |
| 2016 | £199,500 | £279,102 | 273 |
| 2015 | £187,000 | £264,231 | 240 |
| 2014 | £188,000 | £266,711 | 240 |
| 2013 | £177,000 | £254,685 | 239 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 193 |
| 2011 | £177,800 | £268,410 | 176 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 191 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 183 |
| 2008 | £182,700 | £299,484 | 160 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 348 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 365 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 245 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 312 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 318 |
| 2002 | £94,500 | £177,801 | 302 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 319 |
| 2000 | £74,000 | £145,225 | 275 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 261 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 221 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 255 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 233 |
| 1995 | £54,000 | £117,388 | 207 |
In cash terms the typical LD3 home went from £54,000 in 1995 to £254,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 116%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% 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 LD3 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 (+32.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−9.3%). 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 year (since 2025) | −9.3% | −11.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.6% | −3.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.1% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.7% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 41% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £361,500 against £100,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, LD3
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 | £378,000 | 43 | 3,203 |
| Semi-detached | £232,500 | 31 | 2,140 |
| Terraced | £196,000 | 29 | 2,254 |
| Flats | £100,000 (2025) | – | 294 |
Sales activity in LD3
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
LD3 recorded 174 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 311 sales a year before the financial crisis and 203 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.
The rental side of LD3
LD3 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.
Against the £254,000 median purchase price, a rent of £620 a month (£7,440 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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 LD3 market
LD3 sits 3 of 8 in its area's price order, well inside the expensive end.
What people ask about LD3 (Talgarth)
How much did a house sell for in LD3 (Talgarth)?
Are property prices falling in LD3 (Talgarth)?
Is LD3 (Talgarth) a good place to buy a house?
Are LD3 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 8% over five years in cash but down 15% 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 is for sale in LD3 right now
Everything above is what homes in LD3 sold for. The live side of the market holds 47 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 48% above the LD3 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (174 in LD3), the 47 homes listed here amount to about 3 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
Of everything listed here, 2% 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 LD3 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.
LD3: the homes on offer and the homes that go
Terraced homes are 29% of what sold in LD3 over 2024 and 2025 but only 0% of what is listed now: they sell, and there are few to choose from, so a good one is unlikely to hang about.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 68% | 40% |
| Semi-detached | 32% | 27% |
| Terraced | 0% | 29% |
| Flats | 0% | 5% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (4 here).
When homes in LD3 change hands
Across the 1,257 sales completed in LD3 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (10.9% of the total) and January the quietest (6.1%). 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 | 77 | 6.1% |
| February | 83 | 6.6% |
| March | 123 | 9.8% |
| April | 94 | 7.5% |
| May | 109 | 8.7% |
| June | 137 | 10.9% |
| July | 105 | 8.4% |
| August | 108 | 8.6% |
| September | 118 | 9.4% |
| October | 101 | 8.0% |
| November | 103 | 8.2% |
| December | 99 | 7.9% |
Bedroom by bedroom: LD prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LD area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £225,000 | £260,000 (+16%) | £300,000 (+15%) | £370,000 (+23%) | £460,000 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | — | £205,000 | £227,000 (+11%) | £280,000 (+23%) | — |
| Terraced | — | £164,500 | £176,000 (+7%) | £215,000 (+22%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
LD3 ranks 5 of 8 in the LD 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.
LD area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LD3, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
How LD3 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the LD area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LD2 | £275,000 | +31% |
| LD8 | £267,500 | +9% |
| LD3 (this report) | £254,000 | +8% |
| LD1 | £245,000 | +24% |
| LD7 | £242,000 | +31% |
| LD5 | £235,000 | -20% |
| LD6 | £196,500 | +1% |
| LD4 | £193,000 | +4% |
Thinking of selling in LD3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LD3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LD3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LD3 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every LD3 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.