Local market reports › SY area › SY21 › SY21 8
Marton market report SY21 8, Welshpool
The SY21 8 (Marton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 1,779 HM Land Registry entries for SY21 8 (Welshpool), 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 typical home in SY21 8 (Welshpool) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 11 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier. The mean was £353,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,630 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,779 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SY21 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SY21 (Welshpool). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SY21 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.
The going rate for a home in SY21 8
In the SY21 8 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 11 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £353,900, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SY21 8
A square metre of SY21 8 home has cost about £2,630 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SY21 8 4% above the country at large.
The price of a typical SY21 8 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 11 |
| 2025 | £260,000 | £266,217 | 53 |
| 2024 | £255,000 | £271,117 | 51 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 43 |
| 2022 | £318,000 | £372,891 | 56 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 71 |
| 2020 | £221,200 | £287,012 | 54 |
| 2019 | £202,500 | £265,429 | 76 |
| 2018 | £230,000 | £306,594 | 63 |
| 2017 | £183,800 | £250,685 | 56 |
| 2016 | £205,000 | £286,797 | 51 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 47 |
| 2014 | £190,000 | £269,548 | 57 |
| 2013 | £190,000 | £273,391 | 57 |
| 2012 | £166,500 | £245,067 | 36 |
| 2011 | £226,800 | £342,381 | 34 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 35 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 43 |
| 2008 | £240,000 | £393,411 | 43 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 66 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 79 |
| 2005 | £156,500 | £278,507 | 64 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 69 |
| 2003 | £124,000 | £228,438 | 85 |
| 2002 | £97,000 | £182,505 | 65 |
| 2001 | £83,800 | £161,101 | 60 |
| 2000 | £69,600 | £136,590 | 96 |
| 1999 | £69,400 | £138,311 | 51 |
| 1998 | £72,200 | £145,741 | 54 |
| 1997 | £57,000 | £116,896 | 55 |
| 1996 | £56,000 | £118,101 | 40 |
| 1995 | £48,500 | £105,432 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical SY21 8 home went from £48,500 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 180%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 25% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SY21 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 2011 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−27.1%). 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 years (since 2025) | +13.5% | +10.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in SY21 8
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 11 sales completed in SY21 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 73 sales a year before the financial crisis and 43 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.
The rental side of SY21 8
The local authority for SY21 8 is Powys, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £620 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £461 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £951, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Powys
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £295,000 median purchase price, a rent of £620 a month (£7,440 a year) works out at a 2.5% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the SY21 8 market
Only 11 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SY21 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Against the SY21 district median, SY21 8 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about SY21 8 (Marton)
How much did a house sell for in SY21 8 (Marton)?
Are property prices falling in SY21 8 (Marton)?
Is SY21 8 (Marton) a good place to buy a house?
Will SY21 8 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 SY21 now
Turning to what is actually available: 64 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SY21 district, not just SY21 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
37% 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.
- Lledan House, Brook Street, Welshpool
- Brynfa Avenue, Welshpool
- High Street, Llanfair Caereinion, Welshpool
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SY21 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SY: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the SY area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £257,700 | £355,000 (+38%) | £522,750 (+47%) | £680,000 (+30%) |
| Semi-detached | £187,500 | £220,000 (+17%) | £257,000 (+17%) | £347,500 (+35%) | £440,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £155,000 | £183,750 (+19%) | £215,000 (+17%) | £275,500 (+28%) | £385,000 (+40%) |
| Flat | £124,000 | £176,500 (+42%) | £280,000 (+59%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SY area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SY area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SY21
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SY21's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SY21 0 | £342,500 | 12 |
| SY21 7 | £205,000 | 13 |
| SY21 9 | £261,500 | 13 |
Zoom out to the full SY21 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SY21 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SY21 8? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SY21 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the SY21 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SY21 8 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 SY21 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SY21 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SY21 8 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.
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.