That is the middle of 76 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 5.1 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.
76 homes sold in three years: 28 detached houses, 28 semi-detached houses, 19 terraced houses and 1 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£306K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£272K–£340K
Last 12 months
£253K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£240K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£220K–£273K
Last 12 months
£234K6 sold
Terraced houses£205K
median sale · 19 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£160K–£275K
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 1 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses37%
Semi-detached houses37%
Terraced houses25%
Flats and maisonettes1%
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 Presteigne’s homes sold for between £220K and £320K
One sale in ten was under £170K and one in ten over £350K. 47% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £253,000, sits in the £250–300K band
76 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.1 times as much as in 1995, in step with Wales
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £47,000 in 1995 to £241,000 in the last 12 months (£181,050 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
16 sales in the last 12 months, against 56 in 2004, the busiest year, and 22 in 2025. Sales fell by 43% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 23%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 104% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Presteigne costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Presteigne, 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
£63K
£81K
£183K
£258K
£235K
£235K
£253K
Semi-detached houses
—
£76K
£158K
£155K
£200K
£170K
£234K
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
91 new homes have been sold in Presteigne since 1995; the share peaked at 45% in 2004.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
1% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Presteigne. 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
Castle Road is Presteigne’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
6 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 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
Castle Road
LD8
11
£230,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Warden Close
LD8
10
£245,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Kings Court
LD8
8
£320,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
Clatterbrune
LD8
7
£272,500
Mixed
5
Caenbrook Meadow
LD8
5
£242,000
Mostly detached houses
6
Townend
LD8
5
£167,500
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.
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 Presteigne
What is the average house price in Presteigne?
The median home in Presteigne sold for £253,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 76 standard sales (£241,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £306,250, semi-detached houses £240,000 and terraced houses £205,000.
Are house prices going up in Presteigne?
The median was £268,750 in 2025, up 5% on 2024 (£255,000), 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 Presteigne each year?
16 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 34 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.