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Blaenavon market report NP4, Pontypool
The NP4 (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: 18,008 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in NP4 (Pontypool) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices 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 typical home in NP4 (Pontypool) sold for £200,000 in 2026, the median of 221 registered sales, up 27% on five years earlier. The mean was £230,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,130 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 18,008 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
NP4 is a postcode district covering Pontypool, Blaenavon, Little Mill in Pontypool. 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 NP4 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.
NP4 sold prices: where the market stands
The 2026 median for NP4 is £200,000, taken from 221 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £230,900, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
NP4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in NP4 have sold for about £2,130 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, NP4 runs 30% below it.
The price of a typical NP4 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £200,000 | £200,000 | 221 |
| 2025 | £182,500 | £186,864 | 507 |
| 2024 | £180,000 | £191,377 | 475 |
| 2023 | £167,000 | £183,492 | 463 |
| 2022 | £161,200 | £189,025 | 644 |
| 2021 | £158,000 | £200,048 | 690 |
| 2020 | £147,200 | £190,995 | 476 |
| 2019 | £135,000 | £176,953 | 598 |
| 2018 | £137,500 | £183,290 | 657 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 646 |
| 2016 | £128,000 | £179,073 | 575 |
| 2015 | £120,000 | £169,560 | 502 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 539 |
| 2013 | £120,000 | £172,668 | 505 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 433 |
| 2011 | £120,000 | £181,154 | 400 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 377 |
| 2009 | £105,500 | £169,592 | 342 |
| 2008 | £115,000 | £188,509 | 419 |
| 2007 | £121,000 | £205,250 | 776 |
| 2006 | £110,000 | £190,946 | 799 |
| 2005 | £95,000 | £169,062 | 594 |
| 2004 | £87,000 | £158,009 | 625 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 717 |
| 2002 | £53,000 | £99,719 | 825 |
| 2001 | £46,700 | £89,778 | 737 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 702 |
| 1999 | £45,200 | £90,081 | 660 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 523 |
| 1997 | £38,600 | £79,161 | 626 |
| 1996 | £35,500 | £74,868 | 497 |
| 1995 | £35,000 | £76,085 | 458 |
In cash terms the typical NP4 home went from £35,000 in 1995 to £200,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 163%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper.
Year-on-year change in the NP4 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 (+28.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £350,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 2.8 times the price.
Median by property type, NP4
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 | £350,000 | 61 | 3,900 |
| Semi-detached | £215,000 | 63 | 5,314 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 92 | 8,299 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 5 | 495 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +9.6% | +7.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.8% | 0.0% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.2% | +0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 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.
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
The register shows 432 NP4 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 722 sales a year before the financial crisis and 462 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.
What tenants pay around NP4
NP4 falls under Torfaen, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £856 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £200,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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.
Asked and answered: NP4 (Blaenavon)
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Where do NP4 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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.
What you could buy in NP4 now
Everything above is what homes in NP4 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 35 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the NP4 median sold price.
Set against 432 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 35 homes on the market here are roughly 4 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
9% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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.
NP4: the homes on offer and the homes that go
In NP4, terraced homes made up 46% of recent sales yet only 21% of today's listings. Demand outrunning supply for a type is the clearest sign a fairly priced one will go quickly.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 39% | 19% |
| Semi-detached | 39% | 32% |
| Terraced | 21% | 46% |
| Flats | 0% | 3% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (4 here).
When homes in NP4 change hands
July is when NP4 changes hands most (10.1% of the 2,779 sales dated 2021 to 2025); January is the quiet end at 6.8%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 190 | 6.8% |
| February | 208 | 7.5% |
| March | 271 | 9.8% |
| April | 204 | 7.3% |
| May | 199 | 7.2% |
| June | 241 | 8.7% |
| July | 282 | 10.1% |
| August | 244 | 8.8% |
| September | 234 | 8.4% |
| October | 267 | 9.6% |
| November | 236 | 8.5% |
| December | 203 | 7.3% |
What another bedroom costs in NP
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 | £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%) | — | — |
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
NP4 ranks 4 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 NP4, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| NP4 0 | £300,000 | 47 |
| NP4 5 | £210,000 | 44 |
| NP4 6 | £170,000 | 53 |
| NP4 7 | £162,800 | 24 |
| NP4 8 | £236,000 | 29 |
| NP4 9 | £144,500 | 24 |
How NP4 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 | £302,500 | +5% |
| NP10 | £285,000 | +17% |
| NP12 | £220,000 | +29% |
| NP20 | £213,000 | +15% |
| NP44 | £203,000 | +4% |
| NP4 (this report) | £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 NP4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in NP4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from NP4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded NP4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to NP4. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every NP4 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.