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New Radnor market report LD8 2, Presteigne
The LD8 2 (New Radnor) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 1,906 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LD8 2 (Presteigne) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here 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 2026 median for LD8 2 (Presteigne) is £270,000, from 13 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier; the mean is £292,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,830 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,906 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LD8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LD8 (Presteigne). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where LD8 2 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 LD8 2
In the LD8 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £270,000, from 13 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £292,500, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LD8 2
Measured by floor area, the last five years of LD8 2 sales average about £2,830 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, LD8 2 sits 5% below the national market.
The price of a typical LD8 2 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 13 |
| 2025 | £318,800 | £326,423 | 46 |
| 2024 | £275,000 | £292,381 | 61 |
| 2023 | £297,000 | £326,330 | 60 |
| 2022 | £244,800 | £287,056 | 80 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 85 |
| 2020 | £201,000 | £260,802 | 53 |
| 2019 | £211,500 | £277,226 | 60 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 65 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 71 |
| 2016 | £199,400 | £278,963 | 82 |
| 2015 | £235,000 | £332,055 | 55 |
| 2014 | £197,000 | £279,479 | 55 |
| 2013 | £186,800 | £268,787 | 64 |
| 2012 | £191,000 | £281,128 | 48 |
| 2011 | £160,000 | £241,538 | 39 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 48 |
| 2009 | £159,800 | £256,880 | 46 |
| 2008 | £176,000 | £288,501 | 45 |
| 2007 | £220,000 | £373,181 | 82 |
| 2006 | £207,500 | £360,193 | 55 |
| 2005 | £189,000 | £336,344 | 68 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 88 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 81 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 71 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 62 |
| 2000 | £91,000 | £178,588 | 68 |
| 1999 | £67,000 | £133,528 | 67 |
| 1998 | £67,800 | £136,859 | 53 |
| 1997 | £65,500 | £134,327 | 56 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 50 |
| 1995 | £51,300 | £111,518 | 29 |
In cash terms the typical LD8 2 home went from £51,300 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 142%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the LD8 2 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 2000 (+35.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−22.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | −15.3% | −17.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.4% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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 register shows 13 LD8 2 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 72 sales a year before the financial crisis and 52 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.
Reading the LD8 2 market
Only 13 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LD8 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What homes rent for around LD8 2
For renting purposes LD8 2 sits in Powys. The ONS average private rent there is £620 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £270,000 median sold price, £620 a month is £7,440 a year, a gross yield of 2.8%: 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 people ask about LD8 2 (New Radnor)
Are property prices falling in LD8 2 (New Radnor)?
Is LD8 2 (New Radnor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LD8 2 (New Radnor)?
Will LD8 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
What you could buy in LD8 now
Turning to what is actually available: 6 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LD8 district, not just LD8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
See every LD8 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.
What another bedroom costs in LD
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LD area. 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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
The spread across the LD area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, LD area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full LD8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LD8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in LD8 2: 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 LD8 2'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 LD8 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LD8 2.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LD8 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LD8 2 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.