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Rhos-on-Sea market report LL28 5, Colwyn Bay
The standing LL28 5 (Rhos-on-Sea) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,725 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in LL28 5 (Colwyn Bay) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 29 registered 2026 sales put the LL28 5 (Colwyn Bay) median at £230,000, down 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £257,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,690 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,725 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like LL28 5 is a single group of streets within LL28 (Colwyn Bay), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where LL28 5 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 LL28 5
Across 29 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LL28 5 home went for £230,000. The mean is £257,500, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in LL28 5
Per square metre, LL28 5 homes have averaged around £2,690 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving LL28 5 19% below the national figure.
LL28 5's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £228,500 | £233,964 | 72 |
| 2024 | £212,500 | £225,931 | 76 |
| 2023 | £198,700 | £218,323 | 56 |
| 2022 | £215,000 | £252,112 | 94 |
| 2021 | £260,000 | £329,194 | 114 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 73 |
| 2019 | £168,000 | £220,208 | 92 |
| 2018 | £148,500 | £197,953 | 95 |
| 2017 | £164,500 | £224,361 | 99 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 73 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 91 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 77 |
| 2013 | £156,000 | £224,468 | 85 |
| 2012 | £147,500 | £217,102 | 58 |
| 2011 | £151,000 | £227,952 | 56 |
| 2010 | £155,000 | £243,080 | 61 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 63 |
| 2008 | £157,500 | £258,176 | 36 |
| 2007 | £152,500 | £258,682 | 105 |
| 2006 | £160,000 | £277,740 | 94 |
| 2005 | £135,000 | £240,246 | 86 |
| 2004 | £140,000 | £254,267 | 113 |
| 2003 | £107,200 | £197,488 | 116 |
| 2002 | £74,200 | £139,607 | 138 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 120 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 90 |
| 1999 | £46,000 | £91,676 | 110 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 92 |
| 1997 | £53,700 | £110,128 | 98 |
| 1996 | £46,500 | £98,066 | 93 |
| 1995 | £49,200 | £106,953 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical LL28 5 home went from £49,200 in 1995 to £230,000 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 30% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LL28 5 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 2021 (+52.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2015 (−18.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What LL28 5 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +0.7% | −1.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.4% | −6.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.7% | +1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −0.9% |
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.
Sales activity in LL28 5
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
LL28 5 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 108 sales a year before the financial crisis and 65 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.
What tenants pay around LL28 5
For renting purposes LL28 5 sits in Conwy. The ONS average private rent there is £781 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £578 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,215, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Conwy
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £230,000 median sold price, £781 a month is £9,372 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: 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.
The shape of the LL28 5 market
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LL28 5 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. Within LL28, this sector trades 15% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: LL28 5 (Rhos-on-Sea)
Is LL28 5 (Rhos-on-Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in LL28 5 (Rhos-on-Sea)?
Are property prices falling in LL28 5 (Rhos-on-Sea)?
Are LL28 5 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 30% 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 is for sale in LL28 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 92 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole LL28 district, not just LL28 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
20% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every LL28 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 LL: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the LL area. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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
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 LL28
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of LL28, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LL28 4 | £186,000 | 74 |
Zoom out to the full LL28 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how LL28 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in LL28 5? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in LL28 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from LL28 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded LL28 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about LL28 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual LL28 5 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.