That is the middle of 95 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 5.3 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.
95 homes sold in three years: 44 detached houses, 19 semi-detached houses, 30 terraced houses and 2 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£289K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£250K–£360K
Last 12 months
£325K13 sold
Semi-detached houses£222K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£192K–£265K
Last 12 months
£240K7 sold
Terraced houses£162K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£145K–£196K
Last 12 months
£195K9 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 2 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses46%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses32%
Flats and maisonettes2%
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 Knighton’s homes sold for between £175K and £298K
One sale in ten was under £142K and one in ten over £385K. 58% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £240,000, sits in the £200–250K band
95 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.3 times as much as in 1995, in step with Wales
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £45,317 in 1995 to £241,000 in the last 12 months (£179,950 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
30 sales in the last 12 months, against 65 in 2001, the busiest year, and 24 in 2011. Sales fell by 54% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 50% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Knighton costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Knighton, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£68K
£85K
£195K
£175K
£205K
£230K
£325K
Semi-detached houses
£46K
£60K
£115K
£135K
£121K
£161K
£240K
Terraced houses
£35K
£43K
£90K
£79K
£140K
£96K
£195K
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
48 new homes have been sold in Knighton since 1995; the share peaked at 16% in 2006.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
2% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Knighton. 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
Underhill Crescent is Knighton’s busiest street, with 6 sales in three years
4 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
Underhill Crescent
LD7
6
£236,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Norton Street
LD7
6
£159,250
Mostly terraced houses
3
Millfield Close
LD7
5
£250,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Under Ffrydd Wood
LD7
5
£245,000
Mostly detached 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
Knighton is the 3rd most expensive of 7 towns in Powys
Knighton 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 Knighton
What is the average house price in Knighton?
The median home in Knighton sold for £240,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 95 standard sales (£241,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £288,750, semi-detached houses £222,000 and terraced houses £162,250.
Are house prices going up in Knighton?
The median was £245,000 in 2025, up 7% on 2024 (£228,500), and £241,000 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 Knighton each year?
30 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 45 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Knighton expensive for Powys?
Knighton is the 3rd 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.