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Magor market report NP26, Caldicot
The standing NP26 (Magor) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 12,622 HM Land Registry entries for NP26 (Caldicot), 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 data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for NP26 (Caldicot) is £302,500, from 174 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £340,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,340 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 12,622 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NP26 is a postcode district covering Caldicot, Magor, Newport in Caldicot. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where NP26 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 NP26 sells for
In the NP26 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £302,500, from 174 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £340,700, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in NP26
Per square metre, NP26 homes have averaged around £3,340 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts NP26 6% above the country at large.
NP26's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £302,500 | £302,500 | 174 |
| 2025 | £303,800 | £311,065 | 352 |
| 2024 | £302,500 | £321,620 | 349 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 275 |
| 2022 | £302,500 | £354,716 | 474 |
| 2021 | £287,000 | £363,379 | 553 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 305 |
| 2019 | £244,000 | £319,826 | 347 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 353 |
| 2017 | £204,000 | £278,236 | 381 |
| 2016 | £199,500 | £279,102 | 382 |
| 2015 | £187,000 | £264,231 | 351 |
| 2014 | £193,000 | £273,804 | 363 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 335 |
| 2012 | £176,000 | £259,050 | 325 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 267 |
| 2010 | £177,500 | £278,366 | 253 |
| 2009 | £167,000 | £268,454 | 183 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 163 |
| 2007 | £178,000 | £301,938 | 463 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 440 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 396 |
| 2004 | £150,000 | £272,429 | 514 |
| 2003 | £123,000 | £226,596 | 409 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 520 |
| 2001 | £88,200 | £169,560 | 548 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 715 |
| 1999 | £73,000 | £145,485 | 595 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 410 |
| 1997 | £62,500 | £128,175 | 535 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 504 |
| 1995 | £56,500 | £122,822 | 388 |
In cash terms the typical NP26 home went from £56,500 in 1995 to £302,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 146%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the NP26 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 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−11.0%). 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 year (since 2025) | −0.4% | −2.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.2% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.3% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 47% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £382,500 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, NP26
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 | £409,000 | 78 | 5,918 |
| Semi-detached | £277,200 | 66 | 4,219 |
| Terraced | £256,200 | 26 | 2,221 |
| Flats | £150,000 (2025) | – | 244 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 286 NP26 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 501 sales a year before the financial crisis and 325 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 shape of the NP26 market
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.
Rents around NP26
NP26 falls under Monmouthshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £992 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £729 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,494 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Monmouthshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£992 a month is £11,904 a year, which against the £302,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
NP26 (Magor): the questions that come up
Is NP26 (Magor) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NP26 (Magor)?
Are property prices falling in NP26 (Magor)?
Are NP26 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
On the market in NP26 today
Everything above is what homes in NP26 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 4 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 16% below the NP26 median sold price.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every NP26 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.
Month by month: when NP26 sells
June is when NP26 changes hands most (11.4% of the 2,003 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 5.6%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 113 | 5.6% |
| February | 148 | 7.4% |
| March | 188 | 9.4% |
| April | 181 | 9.0% |
| May | 165 | 8.2% |
| June | 228 | 11.4% |
| July | 151 | 7.5% |
| August | 149 | 7.4% |
| September | 175 | 8.7% |
| October | 163 | 8.1% |
| November | 179 | 8.9% |
| December | 163 | 8.1% |
What another bedroom costs in NP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NP area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £257,500 | £267,500 (+4%) | £307,500 (+15%) | £385,000 (+25%) | £510,000 (+32%) |
| Semi-detached | £190,000 | £210,000 (+11%) | £230,000 (+10%) | £290,000 (+26%) | £349,999 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £158,250 | £152,000 (-4%) | £160,000 (+5%) | £197,000 (+23%) | £245,000 (+24%) |
| Flat | £110,000 | £135,000 (+23%) | £175,000 (+30%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
NP26 ranks 14 of 18 in the NP 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 NP area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside NP26, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
How NP26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the NP area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| NP8 | £412,500 | +20% |
| NP15 | £340,000 | -8% |
| NP7 | £335,000 | +20% |
| NP25 | £327,500 | +3% |
| NP16 | £324,000 | +10% |
| NP18 | £315,000 | +5% |
| NP26 (this report) | £302,500 | +5% |
| NP10 | £285,000 | +17% |
| NP12 | £220,000 | +29% |
| NP20 | £213,000 | +15% |
| NP44 | £203,000 | +4% |
| NP4 | £200,000 | +27% |
| NP19 | £200,000 | +11% |
| NP11 | £173,000 | +24% |
| NP23 | £150,000 | +25% |
| NP22 | £132,000 | +15% |
| NP13 | £125,000 | +33% |
| NP24 | £115,000 | +40% |
Selling in NP26? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NP26'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.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NP26. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NP26 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.