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Blaenavon market report NP4 8, Pontypool
The NP4 8 (Blaenavon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,401 HM Land Registry entries for NP4 8 (Pontypool), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in NP4 8 (Pontypool) came in at £225,000, out of 23 registered, up 62% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £244,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,140 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,401 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
NP4 8 is one sector of NP4 (Pontypool): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where NP4 8 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 NP4 8 sells for
In the NP4 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £225,000, from 23 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £244,500, sitting modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in NP4 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in NP4 8 costs about £2,140 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 8 trades 21% below the country as a whole.
A typical NP4 8 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £225,000 | £225,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 63 |
| 2024 | £206,500 | £219,552 | 56 |
| 2023 | £170,000 | £186,788 | 67 |
| 2022 | £175,000 | £205,207 | 88 |
| 2021 | £138,800 | £175,739 | 86 |
| 2020 | £170,000 | £220,579 | 69 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 81 |
| 2018 | £168,000 | £223,947 | 93 |
| 2017 | £152,000 | £207,313 | 103 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 115 |
| 2015 | £143,900 | £203,331 | 92 |
| 2014 | £122,500 | £173,788 | 74 |
| 2013 | £99,500 | £143,171 | 52 |
| 2012 | £107,500 | £158,227 | 42 |
| 2011 | £110,200 | £166,360 | 44 |
| 2010 | £96,500 | £151,337 | 44 |
| 2009 | £83,200 | £133,745 | 46 |
| 2008 | £121,500 | £199,164 | 50 |
| 2007 | £113,000 | £191,679 | 102 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 96 |
| 2005 | £125,500 | £223,339 | 77 |
| 2004 | £87,400 | £158,735 | 58 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 92 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 105 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 92 |
| 2000 | £58,000 | £113,825 | 95 |
| 1999 | £67,400 | £134,325 | 104 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 83 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 112 |
| 1996 | £35,800 | £75,501 | 54 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 43 |
In cash terms the typical NP4 8 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 159%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the NP4 8 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 1997 (+81.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−31.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What NP4 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.4% | +15.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +10.1% | +5.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.8% |
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 8
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 register shows 23 NP4 8 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 90 sales a year before the financial crisis and 59 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.
What tenants pay around NP4 8
The local authority for NP4 8 is Torfaen, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £225,000 median sold price, £856 a month is £10,272 a year, a gross yield of 4.6%: 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.
How NP4 8 trades
This is a thin market: 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the NP4 district median, NP4 8 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Common questions on NP4 8 (Blaenavon)
How much did a house sell for in NP4 8 (Blaenavon)?
Are property prices falling in NP4 8 (Blaenavon)?
Is NP4 8 (Blaenavon) a good place to buy a house?
Will NP4 8 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 62% over five years in cash and up 28% 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.
What you could buy in NP4 now
Turning to what is actually available: 85 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole NP4 district, not just NP4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the NP area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
NP area districts: five years of change
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 5 | £203,600 | 37 |
| NP4 6 | £158,000 | 41 |
| NP4 7 | £185,000 | 20 |
| 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 8? 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 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NP4 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NP4 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NP4 8 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.