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Blaenavon market report NP4 5, Pontypool
The NP4 5 (Blaenavon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,388 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NP4 5 (Pontypool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in NP4 5 (Pontypool) sold for £203,600 in 2026, the median of 37 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £218,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,260 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 4,388 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like NP4 5 is a single group of streets within NP4 (Pontypool), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where NP4 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 NP4 5
In the NP4 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £203,600, from 37 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £218,500, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
NP4 5 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NP4 5 costs about £2,260 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NP4 5 trades 29% below the country as a whole.
A typical NP4 5 home, priced year by year (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 | £203,600 | £203,600 | 37 |
| 2025 | £195,000 | £199,663 | 108 |
| 2024 | £186,000 | £197,756 | 99 |
| 2023 | £181,200 | £199,095 | 106 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 151 |
| 2021 | £170,500 | £215,875 | 160 |
| 2020 | £155,000 | £201,116 | 112 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 139 |
| 2018 | £141,000 | £187,956 | 149 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 144 |
| 2016 | £132,000 | £184,669 | 120 |
| 2015 | £126,000 | £178,038 | 124 |
| 2014 | £125,000 | £177,334 | 127 |
| 2013 | £158,500 | £228,066 | 168 |
| 2012 | £144,000 | £211,950 | 163 |
| 2011 | £140,000 | £211,346 | 147 |
| 2010 | £125,000 | £196,032 | 92 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 72 |
| 2008 | £123,000 | £201,623 | 81 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 227 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 220 |
| 2005 | £110,000 | £195,756 | 123 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 127 |
| 2003 | £75,000 | £138,168 | 161 |
| 2002 | £60,000 | £112,889 | 163 |
| 2001 | £53,000 | £101,890 | 207 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 166 |
| 1999 | £45,500 | £90,679 | 165 |
| 1998 | £40,000 | £80,743 | 132 |
| 1997 | £37,000 | £75,880 | 165 |
| 1996 | £36,000 | £75,922 | 127 |
| 1995 | £35,200 | £76,519 | 106 |
In cash terms the typical NP4 5 home went from £35,200 in 1995 to £203,600 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 166%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 11% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the NP4 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2014 (−21.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.4% | +2.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.6% | −1.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.4% | +1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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 NP4 5
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.
NP4 5 recorded 37 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 174 sales a year before the financial crisis and 100 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the NP4 5 market
Only 37 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes NP4 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around NP4 5
NP4 5 falls under Torfaen, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £856 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £613 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,373, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Torfaen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £203,600 median sold price, £856 a month is £10,272 a year, a gross yield of 5.0%: 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.
Common questions on NP4 5 (Blaenavon)
Is NP4 5 (Blaenavon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NP4 5 (Blaenavon)?
Are property prices falling in NP4 5 (Blaenavon)?
What happens to NP4 5 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in NP4 right now
The live side of the market holds 85 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NP4 district, not just NP4 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Brynheulog, Griffithstown, Pontypool
- New Inn, Pontypool, Torfaen, Pontypool
- Meadow Close, Sebastapool, Sebastapol
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every NP4 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 NP
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the NP area. 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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, NP area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in NP4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are NP4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NP4 0 | £322,500 | 38 |
| NP4 6 | £158,000 | 41 |
| NP4 7 | £185,000 | 20 |
| NP4 8 | £225,000 | 23 |
| NP4 9 | £140,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full NP4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NP4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in NP4 5? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at NP4 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim NP4 5.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NP4 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual NP4 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.
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.