That is the middle of 53 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 3.3 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.
53 homes sold in three years: 12 detached houses, 8 semi-detached houses and 33 terraced houses.
Detached houses£295K
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£290K–£370K
Terraced houses£130K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£105K–£175K
Last 12 months
£105K9 sold
Fewer sales
Semi-detached houses: 8 sold, median £147K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A terraced town: 62% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses23%
Semi-detached houses15%
Terraced houses62%
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 Y Bala’s homes sold for between £120K and £260K
One sale in ten was under £98K and one in ten over £325K. 72% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £150,000, sits in the £150–200K band
53 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 3.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £50,000 in 1995 to £162,500 in the last 12 months (£123,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
12 sales in the last 12 months, against 41 in 2007, the busiest year, and 8 in 2010. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 13%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Y Bala costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Y Bala, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Each type, year by year
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Terraced houses
£29K
£31K
£90K
—
£69K
£113K
£105K
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
27 new homes have been sold in Y Bala since 1995; the share peaked at 19% in 1996.
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 Y Bala. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Questions about property prices in Y Bala
What is the average house price in Y Bala?
The median home in Y Bala sold for £150,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 53 standard sales (£162,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £295,000, semi-detached houses £146,500 and terraced houses £130,000.
Are house prices going up in Y Bala?
The median was £140,000 in 2025, down 19% on 2024 (£173,000), and £162,500 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 Y Bala each year?
12 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.
Photo: Malc McDonald · CC BY-SA 2.0