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Blaenavon market report NP4 9, Pontypool
The standing NP4 9 (Blaenavon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,278 HM Land Registry entries for NP4 9 (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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for NP4 9 (Pontypool) is £140,000, from 19 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier; the mean is £187,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,780 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,278 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
NP4 9 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 9 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 9 sells for
In the NP4 9 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £140,000, from 19 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £187,900, sitting a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in NP4 9
A square metre of NP4 9 home has cost about £1,780 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so NP4 9 trades 51% below the country as a whole.
A typical NP4 9 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £140,000 | £140,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £138,200 | £141,505 | 62 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 73 |
| 2023 | £130,000 | £142,838 | 73 |
| 2022 | £129,500 | £151,854 | 104 |
| 2021 | £126,000 | £159,532 | 114 |
| 2020 | £113,200 | £146,879 | 80 |
| 2019 | £98,000 | £128,455 | 97 |
| 2018 | £95,000 | £126,637 | 87 |
| 2017 | £97,000 | £132,298 | 105 |
| 2016 | £94,000 | £131,507 | 69 |
| 2015 | £77,500 | £109,508 | 63 |
| 2014 | £74,000 | £104,982 | 57 |
| 2013 | £70,000 | £100,723 | 47 |
| 2012 | £80,000 | £117,750 | 47 |
| 2011 | £84,000 | £126,808 | 41 |
| 2010 | £75,500 | £118,403 | 44 |
| 2009 | £80,000 | £128,601 | 41 |
| 2008 | £80,000 | £131,137 | 60 |
| 2007 | £90,000 | £152,665 | 72 |
| 2006 | £88,800 | £154,145 | 98 |
| 2005 | £82,000 | £145,927 | 69 |
| 2004 | £66,500 | £120,777 | 86 |
| 2003 | £45,000 | £82,901 | 117 |
| 2002 | £35,000 | £65,852 | 133 |
| 2001 | £30,000 | £57,673 | 90 |
| 2000 | £28,000 | £54,950 | 69 |
| 1999 | £27,000 | £53,810 | 62 |
| 1998 | £28,000 | £56,520 | 57 |
| 1997 | £30,000 | £61,524 | 51 |
| 1996 | £27,000 | £56,942 | 40 |
| 1995 | £26,000 | £56,520 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical NP4 9 home went from £26,000 in 1995 to £140,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 148%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the NP4 9 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 (+47.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−12.5%). 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) | +1.3% | −1.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.1% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
NP4 9 recorded 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. 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 66 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.
How NP4 9 trades
This is a thin market: 19 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. Against the NP4 district median, NP4 9 sits 30% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around NP4 9
For renting purposes NP4 9 sits in Torfaen. The ONS average private rent there is £856 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £613 a month here against £1,373 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Torfaen
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£856 a month is £10,272 a year, which against the £140,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.3%. 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.
Common questions on NP4 9 (Blaenavon)
Are property prices falling in NP4 9 (Blaenavon)?
Is NP4 9 (Blaenavon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in NP4 9 (Blaenavon)?
Will NP4 9 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
NP4's current homes for sale
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 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
23% 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.
- Brynheulog, Griffithstown, Pontypool
- New Inn, Pontypool, Torfaen, Pontypool
- Meadow Close, Sebastapool, Sebastapol
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 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.
Moving up a bedroom in NP: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the NP 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 | — | £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.
Winners and losers across the NP area, five years
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 8 | £225,000 | 23 |
Zoom out to the full NP4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how NP4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in NP4 9? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in NP4 9, open the average prices map and zoom from the NP4 9 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded NP4 9 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim NP4 9.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with NP4 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual NP4 9 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.