That is the middle of 84 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 5.3 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.
A third of Machen’s sales are semi-detached houses
84 homes sold in three years: 24 detached houses, 30 semi-detached houses and 30 terraced houses.
Detached houses£395K
median sale · 24 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£365K–£460K
Last 12 months
£390K7 sold
Semi-detached houses£250K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£200K–£270K
Last 12 months
£250K9 sold
Terraced houses£208K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£166K–£233K
Last 12 months
£218K16 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses36%
Terraced houses36%
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 Machen’s homes sold for between £200K and £345K
One sale in ten was under £160K and one in ten over £435K. 48% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £250,000, sits in the £250–300K band
84 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.3 times as much as in 1995, in step with Wales
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,000 in 1995 to £236,500 in the last 12 months (£183,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
32 sales in the last 12 months, against 105 in 1997, the busiest year, and 17 in 2009. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 48% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Machen costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Machen, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£101K
£194K
£215K
£261K
£309K
£390K
Semi-detached houses
£52K
£59K
£137K
£133K
—
£175K
£250K
Terraced houses
£36K
£52K
£113K
£116K
£161K
£160K
£218K
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
128 new homes have been sold in Machen since 1995; the share peaked at 56% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
4% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.6% sold leasehold in Machen. 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
Commercial Road is Machen’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
3 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
Commercial Road
CF83
9
£245,000
Mixed
2
Chatham Street
CF83
6
£272,500
Mixed
3
Lewis Street
CF83
6
£204,000
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.
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 Machen
What is the average house price in Machen?
The median home in Machen sold for £250,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 84 standard sales (£236,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £395,000, semi-detached houses £250,000 and terraced houses £207,750.
Are house prices going up in Machen?
The median was £240,000 in 2025, down 14% on 2024 (£280,000), and £236,500 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 Machen each year?
32 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 33 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.