That is the middle of 128 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 5.7 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
128 homes sold in three years: 27 detached houses, 26 semi-detached houses, 65 terraced houses and 10 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£345K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£220K–£415K
Last 12 months
£268K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£217K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£182K–£260K
Last 12 months
£205K9 sold
Terraced houses£145K
median sale · 65 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£132K–£170K
Last 12 months
£144K16 sold
Flats and maisonettes£142K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£85K–£180K
Last 12 months
£176K5 sold
The mix
A terraced town: half of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses21%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses51%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Penmaenmawr’s homes sold for between £140K and £246K
One sale in ten was under £110K and one in ten over £386K. 76% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £177,750, sits in the £150–200K band
128 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.7 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £32,000 in 1995 to £181,000 in the last 12 months (£120,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
36 sales in the last 12 months, against 83 in 2007, the busiest year, and 24 in 2011. Sales fell by 67% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Penmaenmawr costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Penmaenmawr, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£55K
£69K
£141K
£250K
£167K
£220K
£268K
Semi-detached houses
£36K
£47K
£120K
—
£120K
£180K
£205K
Terraced houses
£26K
£31K
£88K
£97K
£104K
£101K
£144K
Flats and maisonettes
—
—
£73K
£95K
—
£140K
£176K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 30% in 2022
73 new homes have been sold in Penmaenmawr since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 2022.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
9% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.8% sold leasehold in Penmaenmawr. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Erasmus Street is Penmaenmawr’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Erasmus Street
LL34
11
£138,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
High Street
LL34
9
£115,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Merton Park
LL34
7
£205,000
Mixed
4
Bangor Road
LL34
7
£199,950
Mixed
5
Fernbrook Road
LL34
6
£178,750
Mixed
6
Esplanade
LL34
5
£265,000
Mixed
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across Clwyd
Penmaenmawr is the 31st most expensive of 39 towns in Clwyd
Penmaenmawr is in the middle of Clwyd’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Penmaenmawr
What is the average house price in Penmaenmawr?
The median home in Penmaenmawr sold for £177,750 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 128 standard sales (£181,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £345,000, semi-detached houses £217,000, terraced houses £145,000 and flats and maisonettes £142,000.
Are house prices going up in Penmaenmawr?
The median was £148,500 in 2025, down 22% on 2024 (£190,000), and £181,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Penmaenmawr each year?
36 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 50 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Penmaenmawr expensive for Clwyd?
Penmaenmawr is the 31st most expensive of 39 towns of 2,500 or more in Clwyd by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.