Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,196 sales registered with HM Land Registry in LL40 (Dolgellau) 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.
Sales data to April 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
LL40 is the postcode district covering Dolgellau, Brithdir, Drws Y Nant in Dolgellau. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where LL40 sits
Click the map to open LL40 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£175,800median sold price, 2026
-2%five-year change (cash)
82sales in the last 12 months
4.8%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in LL40 sells for
The 2026 median in LL40 is £175,800, from 18 registered sales; the mean, £208,500, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so LL40 trades 36% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical LL40 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.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£175,800
£175,800
18
2025
£200,000
£200,000
85
2024
£220,000
£228,442
91
2023
£198,800
£213,331
82
2022
£210,000
£240,498
87
2021
£180,000
£222,581
101
2020
£145,000
£183,747
71
2019
£172,200
£220,442
70
2018
£171,000
£222,623
81
2017
£148,000
£197,143
87
2016
£132,500
£181,040
78
2015
£149,200
£205,896
60
2014
£125,000
£173,193
53
2013
£142,000
£199,552
50
2012
£155,000
£222,813
44
2011
£133,000
£196,090
52
2010
£145,000
£222,087
47
2009
£155,000
£243,345
64
2008
£146,800
£235,016
34
2007
£148,800
£246,511
78
2006
£162,500
£275,491
85
2005
£140,000
£243,325
61
2004
£126,500
£224,383
74
2003
£83,500
£150,235
94
2002
£69,000
£126,791
84
2001
£60,000
£112,653
83
2000
£59,200
£113,467
78
1999
£50,000
£97,320
82
1998
£46,000
£90,686
60
1997
£45,000
£90,131
67
1996
£36,000
£74,149
53
1995
£43,200
£91,717
42
In cash terms the typical LL40 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £175,800 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 92%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 36% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LL40 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 (+51.5% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−16.7%). 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)
−12.1%
−12.1%
5 years (since 2021)
−0.5%
−4.6%
10 years (since 2016)
+2.9%
−0.3%
20 years (since 2006)
+0.4%
−2.2%
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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
LL40 recorded 82 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 73 sales a year recently, against 80 a year before 2008. 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 homes rent for around LL40
LL40 falls under Gwynedd, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £708 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £548 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,035, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Gwynedd
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £175,800 median sold price, £708 a month is £8,496 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Will LL40 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and fallers
LL40 ranks 47 of 67 in the LL 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.
Five-year change in the median, LL area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside LL40, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.