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Borth-y-Gest market report LL49, Porthmadog
The LL49 (Borth-y-Gest) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,407 HM Land Registry entries for LL49 (Porthmadog), 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 June 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in LL49 (Porthmadog) came in at £190,000, out of 19 registered, up 6% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £212,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,520 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,407 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
The postcode district LL49 covering Porthmadog, Borth-y-Gest, Morfa Bychan sits in Porthmadog. 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 LL49 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 LL49 sells for
Across 19 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) LL49 home went for £190,000. The mean is £212,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
LL49 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put LL49 at roughly £2,520 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, LL49 runs 33% below it.
The price of a typical LL49 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 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £215,000 | £220,141 | 58 |
| 2024 | £181,000 | £192,440 | 64 |
| 2023 | £210,000 | £230,739 | 67 |
| 2022 | £196,000 | £229,832 | 72 |
| 2021 | £180,000 | £227,903 | 99 |
| 2020 | £177,500 | £230,310 | 75 |
| 2019 | £163,000 | £213,654 | 86 |
| 2018 | £156,800 | £209,017 | 79 |
| 2017 | £175,000 | £238,682 | 98 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 89 |
| 2015 | £156,000 | £220,428 | 69 |
| 2014 | £150,000 | £212,801 | 45 |
| 2013 | £155,000 | £223,030 | 61 |
| 2012 | £155,000 | £228,141 | 47 |
| 2011 | £156,200 | £235,802 | 66 |
| 2010 | £135,000 | £211,715 | 63 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 64 |
| 2008 | £159,800 | £261,946 | 56 |
| 2007 | £164,000 | £278,190 | 94 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 87 |
| 2005 | £137,000 | £243,805 | 69 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 90 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 87 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 109 |
| 2001 | £60,000 | £115,347 | 97 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 104 |
| 1999 | £48,800 | £97,256 | 74 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 95 |
| 1997 | £44,800 | £91,876 | 84 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 73 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 67 |
In cash terms the typical LL49 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 3.7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 71%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the LL49 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 (+80.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−13.8%). 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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £281,200 against £155,000 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, LL49
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 | £281,200 (2025) | – | 681 |
| Semi-detached | £240,000 (2024) | – | 357 |
| Terraced | £155,000 | 13 | 1,098 |
| Flats | £155,000 (2025) | – | 250 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.6% | −13.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.5% | −1.3% |
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
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.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 43 sales completed in LL49. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 92 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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.
Reading the LL49 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes LL49 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.
The rental side of LL49
LL49 falls under Gwynedd, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £708 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £190,000 median sold price, £708 a month is £8,496 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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 LL49 (Borth-y-Gest)
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Where do LL49 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
LL49's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in LL49 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 49 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 20% above the LL49 median sold price.
13% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Llys Emrys, Porthmadog, Gwynedd
- Tanner Terrace, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, ...
- Madoc Street, Porthmadog, Gwynedd, LL49
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 LL49 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.
The price of an extra bedroom 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%) | — | — |
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
LL49 ranks 31 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 LL49, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LL49 9 | £190,000 | 19 |
How LL49 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the LL area, and LL49 itself, which ranks 48 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% |
| LL49 (this report) | £190,000 | +6% |
Before you sell in LL49: 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 LL49'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 LL49: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim LL49.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with LL49 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every LL49 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.