That is the middle of 92 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.
92 homes sold in three years: 23 detached houses, 17 semi-detached houses, 41 terraced houses and 11 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.5 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£435K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£360K–£555K
Last 12 months
£475K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£275K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£251K–£398K
Last 12 months
£298K8 sold
Terraced houses£280K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£205K–£330K
Last 12 months
£300K13 sold
Flats and maisonettes£177K
median sale · 11 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£155K–£215K
The mix
A terraced town: 45% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses25%
Semi-detached houses18%
Terraced houses45%
Flats and maisonettes12%
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 Hay-on-Wye’s homes sold for between £215K and £390K
One sale in ten was under £170K and one in ten over £550K. 36% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £292,500, sits in the £250–300K band
92 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 £59,500 in 1995 to £323,750 in the last 12 months (£227,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 79 in 2018, the busiest year, and 17 in 2008. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 81% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Hay-on-Wye costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Hay-on-Wye, 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
£83K
£163K
£220K
£343K
£350K
£465K
£475K
Semi-detached houses
£56K
£81K
£190K
£230K
£168K
£219K
£298K
Terraced houses
£54K
£70K
£134K
£250K
£228K
£191K
£300K
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 49% in 2018
190 new homes have been sold in Hay-on-Wye since 1995; the share peaked at 49% 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
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.2% sold leasehold in Hay-on-Wye. 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
Birch Close is Hay-on-Wye’s busiest street, with 10 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Birch Close
HR3
10
£280,000
Mixed
2
Heol Y Dwr
HR3
6
£285,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Warren Close
HR3
6
£232,500
Mixed
4
Booth Gardens
HR3
5
£385,000
Mostly detached houses
5
Mill Bank
HR3
5
£335,000
Mixed
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.
Hay-on-Wye’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 Hay-on-Wye
What is the average house price in Hay-on-Wye?
The median home in Hay-on-Wye sold for £292,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 92 standard sales (£323,750 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £435,000, semi-detached houses £275,000, terraced houses £280,000 and flats and maisonettes £177,000.
Are house prices going up in Hay-on-Wye?
The median was £300,000 in 2025, up 16% on 2024 (£258,000), and £323,750 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 Hay-on-Wye each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 42 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: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0