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Brithdir market report LL40, Dolgellau
The LL40 (Brithdir) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,028 HM Land Registry entries for LL40 (Dolgellau), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for LL40 (Dolgellau) is £175,000, from 26 registered sales, down 6% on five years earlier; the mean is £195,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,320 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,028 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district LL40 covering Dolgellau, Brithdir, Drws Y Nant sits in Dolgellau. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where LL40 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 a home in LL40 sells for
Take the 26 registered 2026 sales in LL40 and the middle price, the median, is £175,000. The mean lands at £195,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in LL40
By floor space, homes in LL40 have sold for about £2,320 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts LL40 39% below the country at large.
The price of a typical LL40 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 26 |
| 2025 | £200,000 | £204,783 | 66 |
| 2024 | £202,500 | £215,299 | 74 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 64 |
| 2022 | £205,000 | £240,386 | 66 |
| 2021 | £186,000 | £235,500 | 84 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 59 |
| 2019 | £155,000 | £203,168 | 55 |
| 2018 | £165,000 | £219,948 | 63 |
| 2017 | £148,000 | £201,857 | 69 |
| 2016 | £132,500 | £185,369 | 62 |
| 2015 | £147,200 | £207,994 | 58 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 52 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 49 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 44 |
| 2011 | £133,000 | £200,779 | 52 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 47 |
| 2009 | £155,000 | £249,164 | 64 |
| 2008 | £146,800 | £240,636 | 34 |
| 2007 | £144,500 | £245,112 | 77 |
| 2006 | £162,500 | £282,079 | 85 |
| 2005 | £140,000 | £249,144 | 61 |
| 2004 | £126,500 | £229,749 | 74 |
| 2003 | £83,500 | £153,827 | 94 |
| 2002 | £69,000 | £129,823 | 84 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 83 |
| 2000 | £59,200 | £116,180 | 78 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 82 |
| 1998 | £46,000 | £92,854 | 60 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 67 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 53 |
| 1995 | £43,200 | £93,910 | 42 |
In cash terms the typical LL40 home went from £43,200 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 86%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 38% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
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.
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 £276,200 against £107,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, LL40
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 | £270,000 | 7 | 813 |
| Semi-detached | £243,000 (2025) | – | 408 |
| Terraced | £160,000 | 11 | 708 |
| Flats | £107,000 (2025) | – | 34 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.5% | −14.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.8% | −0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.4% | −2.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 54 LL40 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 80 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
The rental side of LL40
For renting purposes LL40 sits in Gwynedd. The ONS average private rent there is £708 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £548 a month here against £1,035 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Gwynedd
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £175,000 median sold price, £708 a month is £8,496 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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 kind of market LL40 is
Only 54 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LL40 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. Among the 67 measurable districts of its area, LL40 ranks 56 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What people ask about LL40 (Brithdir)
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What happens to LL40 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in LL40 right now
Everything above is what homes in LL40 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 2 homes on the market right now, from an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 114% above the LL40 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
See every LL40 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: LL prices by size
What homes of each size actually sold for across the LL area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
LL40 ranks 54 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.
Winners and losers across the LL area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside LL40, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| LL40 1 | £164,000 | 17 |
| LL40 2 | £277,500 | 9 |
How LL40 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the LL area, and LL40 itself, which ranks 56 of 67 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| LL73 | £420,000 | +50% |
| LL64 | £410,000 | +20% |
| LL37 | £342,500 | +26% |
| LL47 | £315,000 | +107% |
| LL74 | £300,000 | +3% |
| LL58 | £297,600 | +12% |
| LL35 | £294,000 | -8% |
| LL15 | £287,500 | +15% |
| LL77 | £272,500 | +18% |
| LL69 | £270,000 | +59% |
| LL26 | £267,200 | +41% |
| LL61 | £260,000 | +8% |
| LL32 | £253,000 | +3% |
| LL17 | £252,500 | +3% |
| LL52 | £252,500 | -14% |
| LL76 | £252,500 | +28% |
| LL20 | £251,000 | +5% |
| LL63 | £250,000 | +3% |
| LL44 | £248,700 | -2% |
| LL53 | £247,500 | -1% |
| LL12 | £245,000 | +7% |
| LL72 | £245,000 | -26% |
| LL78 | £241,000 | -2% |
| LL40 (this report) | £175,000 | -6% |
Thinking of selling in LL40? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at LL40'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.
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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual LL40 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.