That is the middle of 91 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 5.5 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 Barmouth’s sales are flats and maisonettes
91 homes sold in three years: 15 detached houses, 16 semi-detached houses, 28 terraced houses and 32 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£405K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£325K–£650K
Semi-detached houses£191K
median sale · 16 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£179K–£265K
Last 12 months
£197K6 sold
Terraced houses£178K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£148K–£215K
Last 12 months
£180K9 sold
Flats and maisonettes£135K
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£99K–£190K
Last 12 months
£159K10 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 35% of sales
Detached houses16%
Semi-detached houses18%
Terraced houses31%
Flats and maisonettes35%
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 Barmouth’s homes sold for between £130K and £240K
One sale in ten was under £95K and one in ten over £370K. 78% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £189,950, sits in the £150–200K band
91 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.5 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £34,250 in 1995 to £189,995 in the last 12 months (£176,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
29 sales in the last 12 months, against 77 in 2018, the busiest year, and 27 in 2024. Sales fell by 23% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 7%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 24% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Barmouth costs about what Wales does
Median sale price each calendar year: Barmouth, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Semi-detached houses
—
£58K
—
£155K
—
£139K
£197K
Terraced houses
£38K
£45K
£120K
£130K
£130K
£130K
£180K
Flats and maisonettes
£25K
£22K
£96K
£90K
£86K
£117K
£159K
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 38% in 2018
71 new homes have been sold in Barmouth since 1995; the share peaked at 38% in 2018.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
32% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Barmouth. 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
High Street is Barmouth’s busiest street, with 7 sales in three years
5 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
High Street
LL42
7
£170,000
Mostly flats
2
Marine Parade
LL42
7
£115,000
Mostly flats
3
St Johns Hill
LL42
7
£95,000
Mostly flats
4
Ffordd Pentre Mynach
LL42
5
£270,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
5
Marine Road
LL42
5
£175,000
Mostly terraced 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.
Barmouth’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Barmouth
What is the average house price in Barmouth?
The median home in Barmouth sold for £189,950 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 91 standard sales (£189,995 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £405,000, semi-detached houses £191,250, terraced houses £177,500 and flats and maisonettes £135,000.
Are house prices going up in Barmouth?
The median was £210,000 in 2025, up 31% on 2024 (£160,000), and £189,995 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 Barmouth each year?
29 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 46 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.