Homes in Merlin's Bridge sell for a median £196,000
That is the middle of 62 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 4.4 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.
Half of Merlin's Bridge’s sales are detached houses
62 homes sold in three years: 29 detached houses, 24 semi-detached houses and 9 terraced houses.
Detached houses£268K
median sale · 29 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£220K–£325K
Last 12 months
£305K9 sold
Semi-detached houses£178K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£220K
Last 12 months
£181K8 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 9 sold, median £140K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses47%
Semi-detached houses39%
Terraced houses15%
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 Merlin's Bridge’s homes sold for between £148K and £260K
One sale in ten was under £135K and one in ten over £325K. 71% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £196,000, sits in the £150–200K band
62 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.4 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,475 in 1995 to £200,000 in the last 12 months (£127,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
19 sales in the last 12 months, against 50 in 2001, the busiest year, and 13 in 2008. Sales fell by 32% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 121% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Merlin's Bridge costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Merlin's Bridge, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£46K
£72K
£160K
£174K
£155K
£204K
£305K
Semi-detached houses
£51K
£50K
£113K
£119K
£106K
£130K
£181K
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
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
76 new homes have been sold in Merlin's Bridge since 1995; the share peaked at 50% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Merlin's Bridge. 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
Tudor Gardens is Merlin's Bridge’s busiest street, with 19 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Tudor Gardens
SA61
19
£192,000
Mixed
2
Pembroke Road
SA61
10
£235,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Woodlands Park
SA61
5
£220,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
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.
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 Merlin's Bridge
What is the average house price in Merlin's Bridge?
The median home in Merlin's Bridge sold for £196,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 62 standard sales (£200,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £267,500, semi-detached houses £178,250 and terraced houses £140,000.
Are house prices going up in Merlin's Bridge?
The median was £192,000 in 2025, up 7% on 2024 (£180,000), and £200,000 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 Merlin's Bridge each year?
19 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 27 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
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.