That is the middle of 398 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 4.3 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.
398 homes sold in three years: 75 detached houses, 121 semi-detached houses, 171 terraced houses and 31 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£353K
median sale · 75 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£410K
Last 12 months
£403K18 sold
Semi-detached houses£224K
median sale · 121 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£189K–£273K
Last 12 months
£241K30 sold
Terraced houses£138K
median sale · 171 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£122K–£170K
Last 12 months
£140K47 sold
Flats and maisonettes£89K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£75K–£125K
Last 12 months
£79K7 sold
The mix
A terraced town: 43% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses19%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses43%
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 Bangor’s homes sold for between £129K and £270K
One sale in ten was under £103K and one in ten over £353K. 70% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £175,000, sits in the £150–200K band
398 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £41,750 in 1995 to £179,250 in the last 12 months (£163,800 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
102 sales in the last 12 months, against 281 in 2002, the busiest year, and 110 in 2009. Sales fell by 47% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 3%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 51% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Bangor costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bangor, 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
£68K
£113K
£239K
£215K
£240K
£263K
£403K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£62K
£152K
£156K
£172K
£178K
£241K
Terraced houses
£38K
£48K
£123K
£120K
£130K
£123K
£140K
Flats and maisonettes
£33K
£46K
£93K
£73K
£140K
£70K
£79K
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 27% in 2015
426 new homes have been sold in Bangor since 1995; the share peaked at 27% in 2015.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
7% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Bangor. 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
Caernarfon Road is Bangor’s busiest street, with 16 sales in three years
23 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 4 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
Caernarfon Road
LL57
16
£131,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Penchwintan Road
LL57
11
£170,000
Mixed
3
Holyhead Road
LL57
11
£87,500
Mostly flats
4
Orme Road
LL57
10
£159,250
Mostly terraced houses
5
Upper Garth Road
LL57
9
£275,000
Mixed
6
Penrhos Road
LL57
9
£260,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Ffriddoedd Road
LL57
9
£227,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
8
High Street
LL57
9
£90,000
Mixed
9
Ffordd Cynan
LL57
8
£211,250
Mixed
10
Cilfach Crwys
LL57
7
£309,000
Mixed
11
Garth Road
LL57
7
£102,000
Mixed
12
Maes Berea
LL57
6
£292,000
Mixed
13
Glantraeth
LL57
6
£225,500
Mixed
14
Penlon Gardens
LL57
6
£216,750
Mostly semi-detached houses
15
Ffordd Tegai
LL57
6
£133,000
Mostly terraced houses
Dearest streets
Lon Y Wyddfa: £405,000
Bangor median£175K
Lon Y Wyddfa£405K
Gwel Y Rhos£370K
Cilfach Crwys£309K
Maes Berea£292K
Ffordd Gwyndy£283K
Cheapest streets
Neuadd Yr Eglwys: £81,750
Bangor median£175K
Neuadd Yr Eglwys£82K
Holyhead Road£88K
High Street£90K
Garth Road£102K
Mason Street£127K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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 Gwynedd
Bangor is the 9th most expensive of 13 towns in Gwynedd
Bangor is in the middle of Gwynedd’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 Bangor
What is the average house price in Bangor?
The median home in Bangor sold for £175,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 398 standard sales (£179,250 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £353,000, semi-detached houses £223,500, terraced houses £138,000 and flats and maisonettes £89,000.
Are house prices going up in Bangor?
The median was £165,000 in 2025, down 6% on 2024 (£175,000), and £179,250 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 Bangor each year?
102 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 176 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bangor?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Lon Y Wyddfa (LL57, £405,000), Gwel Y Rhos (LL57, £370,000) and Cilfach Crwys (LL57, £309,000).
Is Bangor expensive for Gwynedd?
Bangor is the 9th most expensive of 13 towns of 2,500 or more in Gwynedd 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.