That is the middle of 114 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 5.4 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.
114 homes sold in three years: 25 detached houses, 18 semi-detached houses, 58 terraced houses and 13 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£305K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£350K
Last 12 months
£300K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£263K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£285K
Last 12 months
£233K6 sold
Terraced houses£160K
median sale · 58 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£125K–£190K
Last 12 months
£153K18 sold
Flats and maisonettes£112K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£195K
The mix
A terraced town: half of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses22%
Semi-detached houses16%
Terraced houses51%
Flats and maisonettes11%
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 Pwllheli’s homes sold for between £130K and £285K
One sale in ten was under £105K and one in ten over £350K. 65% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £191,500, sits in the £150–200K band
114 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £37,875 in 1995 to £205,000 in the last 12 months (£138,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
37 sales in the last 12 months, against 79 in 2002, the busiest year, and 28 in 2012. Sales fell by 21% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 55% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Pwllheli costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Pwllheli, 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
£57K
£72K
£202K
£188K
£180K
£240K
£300K
Semi-detached houses
—
£68K
£120K
£162K
—
£155K
£233K
Terraced houses
£34K
£40K
£115K
£128K
£110K
£113K
£153K
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 19% in 2017
55 new homes have been sold in Pwllheli since 1995; the share peaked at 19% in 2017.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
11% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Pwllheli. 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
Lon Ceredigion is Pwllheli’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
8 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Lon Ceredigion
LL53
14
£281,000
Mixed
2
Abererch Road
LL53
12
£146,665
Mostly terraced houses
3
Ala Road
LL53
8
£340,000
Mixed
4
West End Parade
LL53
8
£172,250
Mostly flats
5
Victoria Parade
LL53
7
£302,500
Mixed
6
Erwenni
LL53
6
£285,750
Mixed
7
Ffordd Mela
LL53
5
£197,500
Mixed
8
New Street
LL53
5
£142,000
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.
Across Gwynedd
Pwllheli is the 5th most expensive of 13 towns in Gwynedd
Pwllheli 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 Pwllheli
What is the average house price in Pwllheli?
The median home in Pwllheli sold for £191,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 114 standard sales (£205,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £305,000, semi-detached houses £262,500, terraced houses £159,750 and flats and maisonettes £112,000.
Are house prices going up in Pwllheli?
The median was £171,750 in 2025, down 8% on 2024 (£187,500), and £205,000 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 Pwllheli each year?
37 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 44 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Pwllheli?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Ala Road (LL53, £340,000), Victoria Parade (LL53, £302,500) and Erwenni (LL53, £285,750).
Is Pwllheli expensive for Gwynedd?
Pwllheli is the 5th 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.
Photo: Anthony Parkes · CC BY-SA 2.0