That is the middle of 65 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 4.1 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.
65 homes sold in three years: 32 detached houses, 12 semi-detached houses and 21 terraced houses.
Detached houses£219K
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£187K–£275K
Last 12 months
£200K7 sold
Semi-detached houses£200K
median sale · 12 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£170K–£250K
Last 12 months
£215K5 sold
Terraced houses£153K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£140K–£180K
Last 12 months
£169K6 sold
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses49%
Semi-detached houses18%
Terraced houses32%
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 Rhayader’s homes sold for between £153K and £250K
One sale in ten was under £130K and one in ten over £290K. 72% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £190,000, sits in the £150–200K band
65 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.1 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £44,500 in 1995 to £184,500 in the last 12 months (£159,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
18 sales in the last 12 months, against 42 in 2007, the busiest year, and 12 in 2009. Sales fell by 71% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 15%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Rhayader costs less than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Rhayader, 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
£72K
£71K
£175K
£167K
£180K
£215K
£200K
Semi-detached houses
£41K
—
£135K
£125K
—
£148K
£215K
Terraced houses
£35K
£42K
£96K
£105K
£109K
£124K
£169K
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 17% in 2017
33 new homes have been sold in Rhayader since 1995; the share peaked at 17% in 2017.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Rhayader. 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
Maesmawr is Rhayader’s busiest street, with 8 sales in three years
3 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
Maesmawr
LD6
8
£208,500
Mostly detached houses
2
Bryngwy
LD6
7
£275,000
Mostly detached houses
3
Cae Herbert Lane
LD6
5
£215,000
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.
Rhayader’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 Rhayader
What is the average house price in Rhayader?
The median home in Rhayader sold for £190,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 65 standard sales (£184,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £218,750, semi-detached houses £200,000 and terraced houses £152,500.
Are house prices going up in Rhayader?
The median was £174,500 in 2025, down 11% on 2024 (£196,000), and £184,500 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 Rhayader each year?
18 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 27 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.