That is the middle of 315 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 4.5 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.
315 homes sold in three years: 114 detached houses, 80 semi-detached houses, 111 terraced houses and 10 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£260K
median sale · 114 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£216K–£325K
Last 12 months
£290K31 sold
Semi-detached houses£165K
median sale · 80 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£150K–£192K
Last 12 months
£178K22 sold
Terraced houses£145K
median sale · 111 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£120K–£170K
Last 12 months
£157K30 sold
Flats and maisonettes£108K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£100K–£117K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 36% of sales
Detached houses36%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses35%
Flats and maisonettes3%
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 Newtown’s homes sold for between £140K and £240K
One sale in ten was under £115K and one in ten over £325K. 78% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £178,000, sits in the £150–200K band
315 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,500 in 1995 to £190,000 in the last 12 months (£122,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
85 sales in the last 12 months, against 206 in 2006, the busiest year, and 92 in 2012. Sales fell by 31% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 64% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Newtown costs about what Wales does
Median sale price each calendar year: Newtown, 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
£60K
£85K
£200K
£183K
£175K
£225K
£290K
Semi-detached houses
£42K
£49K
£109K
£118K
£123K
£136K
£178K
Terraced houses
£37K
£36K
£90K
£100K
£93K
£115K
£157K
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
200 new homes have been sold in Newtown since 1995; the share peaked at 21% in 2005.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
4% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0.7% sold leasehold in Newtown. 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
Woodland Way is Newtown’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
21 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 5 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
Woodland Way
SY16
14
£257,500
Mostly detached houses
2
Glandwr
SY16
12
£150,875
Mixed
3
Canal Road
SY16
11
£220,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Sycamore Drive
SY16
10
£190,250
Mostly detached houses
5
Lon Glanyrafon
SY16
10
£167,475
Mostly terraced houses
6
New Road
SY16
8
£193,750
Mixed
7
Garth Owen
SY16
8
£187,500
Mostly terraced houses
8
Llanfair Road
SY16
8
£170,000
Mixed
9
Crescent Gardens
SY16
7
£155,000
Mixed
10
Afon Way
SY16
7
£116,500
Mostly flats
11
Llanidloes Road
SY16
6
£253,750
Mixed
12
Meadow View
SY16
6
£222,950
Mostly terraced houses
13
Brynwood Drive
SY16
5
£272,000
Mostly detached houses
14
Oaklands Park
SY16
5
£250,000
Mostly detached houses
15
Bryn Close
SY16
5
£200,000
Mostly detached houses
Dearest streets
Brynwood Drive: £272,000
Newtown median£178K
Brynwood Drive£272K
Woodland Way£258K
Llanidloes Road£254K
Oaklands Park£250K
Meadow View£223K
Cheapest streets
Afon Way: £116,500
Newtown median£178K
Afon Way£117K
Commercial Street£135K
Lon Helyg£140K
Glandwr£151K
Lon Pantyllyn£155K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 2.3 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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
Newtown is the 7th most expensive of 7 towns in Powys
Newtown is one of Powys’s cheapest 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 Newtown
What is the average house price in Newtown?
The median home in Newtown sold for £178,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 315 standard sales (£190,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £260,000, semi-detached houses £165,000, terraced houses £145,000 and flats and maisonettes £108,000.
Are house prices going up in Newtown?
The median was £199,000 in 2025, up 19% on 2024 (£167,250), and £190,000 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 Newtown each year?
85 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 122 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Newtown?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Brynwood Drive (SY16, £272,000), Woodland Way (SY16, £257,500) and Llanidloes Road (SY16, £253,750).
Is Newtown expensive for Powys?
Newtown is the 7th 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.