Principality Constructing Society has printed its Wales Home Worth Index for Q2 2025 (April – June) and reported a “modest enhance” from the identical interval final yr.
The common worth of a house offered in Wales within the second quarter of 2025 was £238,098, in comparison with £236,369 in the identical interval in 2024, equating to 0.7%. The info covers the rise and fall in home costs in every of the 22 native authorities in Wales.
Torfaen leads the way in which, with by far the best quarterly worth change of any authority (14%). That is adopted by Carmarthen, with a 6.3% quarterly enhance, and Flintshire, up 3.3% for that interval.
Gwynedd has seen a quarterly decline in costs of seven.3%, when Principality’s report suggests is presumably “in response to latest coverage modifications, such because the Welsh authorities’s changes to second dwelling taxation, along with the potential affect of Gwynedd Council’s Article 4 Route, which requires planning permission to be secured earlier than altering the usage of a property right into a second dwelling, short-term vacation let or particular combined use.”
HM Land Registry information reveals there have been over 10,000 property transactions in Wales throughout the second quarter of 2025, a 13% rise in comparison with the identical interval final yr, reflecting a pattern in year-on-year restoration in property gross sales.
Iain Mansfield, chief monetary officer at Principality Constructing Society, mentioned: “The housing market in Wales continued to stabilise within the second quarter of 2025, with costs holding broadly flat in comparison with the beginning of the yr. Encouragingly, the regular enhance in transaction volumes alerts rising confidence amongst patrons.
“Whereas market circumstances stay difficult, a downward pattern in mortgage charges helps to create a extra beneficial atmosphere for patrons. This shift is contributing to a gradual uplift in shopper confidence as we transfer into the second half of 2025.”
