The median home in Builth Wells sells for £246,000
That is the middle of 101 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 5.2 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.
101 homes sold in three years: 42 detached houses, 27 semi-detached houses, 28 terraced houses and 4 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£300K
median sale · 42 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£260K–£355K
Last 12 months
£310K14 sold
Semi-detached houses£240K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£178K–£287K
Last 12 months
£249K8 sold
Terraced houses£176K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£220K
Last 12 months
£178K5 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 4 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 42% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses42%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses28%
Flats and maisonettes4%
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 Builth Wells’s homes sold for between £175K and £300K
One sale in ten was under £133K and one in ten over £355K. 50% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £246,000, sits in the £200–250K band
101 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.2 times as much as in 1995, in step with Wales
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £53,000 in 1995 to £275,000 in the last 12 months (£163,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
27 sales in the last 12 months, against 66 in 2002, the busiest year, and 30 in 2008. Sales fell by 45% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 14%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 62% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Builth Wells costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Builth Wells, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£81K
£83K
£183K
£244K
£220K
£269K
£310K
Semi-detached houses
£49K
£54K
£143K
£157K
£184K
£178K
£249K
Terraced houses
£45K
£53K
£112K
£93K
£118K
£130K
£178K
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
68 new homes have been sold in Builth Wells since 1995; the share peaked at 22% in 1999.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
5% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1% sold leasehold in Builth Wells. 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
Cae Castell is Builth Wells’s busiest street, with 8 sales in three years
7 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
Cae Castell
LD2
8
£330,000
Mostly detached houses
2
Castle Street
LD2
7
£178,000
Mixed
3
Parc Yr Irfon
LD2
6
£280,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Daffodil Wood
LD2
5
£255,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Garth Road
LD2
5
£240,000
Mixed
6
Brecon Road
LD2
5
£230,000
Mostly terraced houses
7
Oaklands
LD2
5
£170,000
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 Powys
Builth Wells is the 2nd most expensive of 7 towns in Powys
Builth Wells is in the middle of Powys’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 Builth Wells
What is the average house price in Builth Wells?
The median home in Builth Wells sold for £246,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 101 standard sales (£275,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £300,000, semi-detached houses £240,000 and terraced houses £175,500.
Are house prices going up in Builth Wells?
The median was £251,000 in 2025, up 4% on 2024 (£241,500), and £275,000 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 Builth Wells each year?
27 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.
Is Builth Wells expensive for Powys?
Builth Wells is the 2nd most expensive of 7 towns of 2,500 or more in Powys 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.