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Caergwrle market report LL12 8, Wrexham
The standing LL12 8 (Caergwrle) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,797 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in LL12 8 (Wrexham) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
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 LL12 8 (Wrexham) is £280,000, from 43 registered sales, up 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £331,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,950 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,797 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
LL12 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside LL12 (Wrexham). 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 LL12 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.
The going rate for a home in LL12 8
43 sales were registered in LL12 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £280,000. The mean works out at £331,900, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in LL12 8
The last five years of sales put LL12 8 at roughly £2,950 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so LL12 8 trades 2% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LL12 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £280,000 | £280,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 96 |
| 2024 | £280,000 | £297,698 | 97 |
| 2023 | £277,500 | £304,905 | 74 |
| 2022 | £270,000 | £316,606 | 105 |
| 2021 | £265,000 | £335,524 | 145 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 103 |
| 2019 | £202,500 | £265,429 | 130 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 130 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 111 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 109 |
| 2015 | £188,000 | £265,644 | 105 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 125 |
| 2013 | £174,800 | £251,520 | 80 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 86 |
| 2011 | £165,800 | £250,294 | 70 |
| 2010 | £177,500 | £278,366 | 74 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 83 |
| 2008 | £178,500 | £292,599 | 64 |
| 2007 | £189,800 | £321,954 | 150 |
| 2006 | £189,000 | £328,080 | 157 |
| 2005 | £182,000 | £323,887 | 115 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 150 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 153 |
| 2002 | £124,000 | £233,305 | 190 |
| 2001 | £94,000 | £180,710 | 186 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 195 |
| 1999 | £75,000 | £149,471 | 170 |
| 1998 | £71,500 | £144,328 | 145 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 131 |
| 1996 | £59,000 | £124,428 | 117 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 108 |
In cash terms the typical LL12 8 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £280,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 115%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the LL12 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 2002 (+31.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2019 (−10.0%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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 LL12 8
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.
The register shows 43 LL12 8 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 162 sales a year before the financial crisis and 83 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.
How LL12 8 trades
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LL12 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Against the LL12 district median, LL12 8 sits 14% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around LL12 8
The local authority for LL12 8 is Wrexham, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £757 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £588 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,206 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Wrexham
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £280,000 median purchase price, a rent of £757 a month (£9,084 a year) works out at a 3.2% 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.
LL12 8 (Caergwrle): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in LL12 8 (Caergwrle)?
Is LL12 8 (Caergwrle) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LL12 8 (Caergwrle)?
Where do LL12 8 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 LL12 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 161 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LL12 district, not just LL12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 LL12 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in LL
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LL 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 | — | £217,000 | £310,000 (+43%) | £445,000 (+44%) | £580,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | £180,000 (+13%) | £215,000 (+19%) | £276,000 (+28%) | £360,000 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £125,000 | £146,000 (+17%) | £166,000 (+14%) | £205,000 (+23%) | £262,000 (+28%) |
| Flat | £98,000 | £145,000 (+48%) | £195,000 (+34%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the LL area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
LL area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in LL12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are LL12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LL12 0 | £277,000 | 40 |
| LL12 7 | £200,500 | 32 |
| LL12 9 | £222,200 | 30 |
Zoom out to the full LL12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LL12 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LL12 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 LL12 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim LL12 8.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LL12 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LL12 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.
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.