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Brynmawr market report NP23 5, Ebbw Vale
The NP23 5 (Brynmawr) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,126 HM Land Registry entries for NP23 5 (Ebbw Vale), 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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NP23 5 (Ebbw Vale) is £193,000, from 39 registered sales, up 25% on five years earlier; the mean is £208,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,126 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NP23 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside NP23 (Ebbw Vale). 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 NP23 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.
What buyers actually paid in NP23 5
Take the 39 registered 2026 sales in NP23 5 and the middle price, the median, is £193,000. The mean lands at £208,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in NP23 5
The last five years of sales put NP23 5 at roughly £1,930 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving NP23 5 32% below the national figure.
A typical NP23 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £193,000 | £193,000 | 39 |
| 2025 | £180,000 | £184,304 | 108 |
| 2024 | £169,800 | £180,532 | 74 |
| 2023 | £167,500 | £184,042 | 86 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 126 |
| 2021 | £154,000 | £194,984 | 168 |
| 2020 | £137,000 | £177,760 | 84 |
| 2019 | £124,100 | £162,665 | 114 |
| 2018 | £126,000 | £167,960 | 123 |
| 2017 | £118,000 | £160,940 | 101 |
| 2016 | £101,000 | £141,300 | 117 |
| 2015 | £106,000 | £149,778 | 89 |
| 2014 | £102,500 | £145,414 | 84 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 91 |
| 2012 | £90,000 | £132,469 | 78 |
| 2011 | £79,000 | £119,260 | 61 |
| 2010 | £87,000 | £136,438 | 61 |
| 2009 | £100,000 | £160,751 | 61 |
| 2008 | £96,000 | £157,364 | 61 |
| 2007 | £115,000 | £195,072 | 108 |
| 2006 | £106,000 | £184,002 | 135 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 121 |
| 2004 | £87,500 | £158,917 | 110 |
| 2003 | £65,200 | £120,114 | 122 |
| 2002 | £47,000 | £88,430 | 145 |
| 2001 | £47,000 | £90,355 | 97 |
| 2000 | £45,200 | £88,705 | 96 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 141 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 77 |
| 1997 | £38,000 | £77,930 | 85 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 88 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical NP23 5 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £193,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 122%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 6% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NP23 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 2003 (+38.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−16.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.2% | +4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.6% | −0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.7% | +3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
How many homes change hands in NP23 5
The year-by-year sales count
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 39 NP23 5 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 117 sales a year before the financial crisis and 87 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Reading the NP23 5 market
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NP23 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within NP23, this sector trades 29% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What tenants pay around NP23 5
The local authority for NP23 5 is Blaenau Gwent, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £674 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £498 a month for a typical one-bed to £897 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Blaenau Gwent
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £193,000 median purchase price, a rent of £674 a month (£8,088 a year) works out at a 4.2% 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.
NP23 5 (Brynmawr): the questions that come up
Is NP23 5 (Brynmawr) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NP23 5 (Brynmawr)?
Are property prices falling in NP23 5 (Brynmawr)?
What happens to NP23 5 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in NP23 now
The live side of the market holds 41 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NP23 district, not just NP23 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
14% 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.
"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 NP23 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: NP prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the NP area, straight 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 | — | £285,000 | £370,000 (+30%) | £525,000 (+42%) | £683,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | £215,000 (+7%) | £250,000 (+16%) | £320,000 (+28%) | £417,500 (+30%) |
| Terraced | £160,000 | £155,000 (-3%) | £170,000 (+10%) | £225,000 (+32%) | £293,750 (+31%) |
| Flat | £120,000 | £137,000 (+14%) | £200,000 (+46%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the NP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the NP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in NP23
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NP23's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NP23 4 | £205,000 | 36 |
| NP23 6 | £129,800 | 52 |
| NP23 7 | £100,000 | 9 |
| NP23 8 | £230,000 | 3 |
Zoom out to the full NP23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NP23 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NP23 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 NP23 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NP23 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NP23 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NP23 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NP23 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NP23 5 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
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.