Average house price in Newport in 2026

Newport — Casnewydd — is the third-largest city in Wales, and in 2025 its typical home changed hands for £236,040. That is the median of 2,150 standard residential sales recorded across the city by HM Land Registry during 2025: the price of the middle sale once every transaction is lined up from cheapest to dearest. It places Newport squarely between its two larger Welsh neighbours — Cardiff, where the 2025 median was £270,000, and Swansea, at £207,000.

That middle position is the story of Newport's housing costs. The city is neither the cheapest nor the dearest of the three South Wales cities to buy, and neither the cheapest nor the dearest to run.

How the three South Wales cities compare

Cardiff costs the most to buy but the least to run; Swansea costs the least to buy but the most to run. Newport sits between the two on both measures. For the capital's market in detail, see Cardiff's average house price; for the western city, Swansea's housing market.

What the typical Newport home is

Across 2025, semi-detached houses were the most-traded type in Newport, narrowly ahead of terraces:

This is a house-led, semi-detached city — the same shape as Swansea, and a contrast with terrace-led Cardiff. Flats account for fewer than one sale in ten. The median floor area recorded on local energy certificates is 88 m², larger than the flat-heavy city centres of Manchester or London and consistent with a market dominated by family houses.

Where prices are highest and lowest

The gap between Newport's dearest and cheapest districts is about 1.6 times. That is among the narrowest spread of any city in this series — far tighter than Sheffield's roughly four-fold range — which means the single "average" figure is an unusually fair description of the whole city. The north-eastern fringe around the Roman town of Caerleon (NP18) sits at the top; the older terraced streets east of the River Usk (NP19) anchor the bottom.

A small number of sales coded to the CF3 postcode district, around Castleton and Marshfield on the Cardiff boundary, fall inside Newport's council area and form the dearest pocket of all — a £375,000 median across 35 sales. All other figures here are anchored on the City of Newport council area; the wider NP postcode also reaches Torfaen, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly and Blaenau Gwent, which are excluded.

Land Transaction Tax, not Stamp Duty

Wales replaced Stamp Duty with its own Land Transaction Tax (LTT) in 2018. On a main home, the first £225,000 is taxed at 0%, then 6% applies to the slice between £225,001 and £400,000 (Welsh Revenue Authority, 2026). At Newport's £236,040 median that is 6% of roughly £11,000 — about £662, an effective rate of 0.28%.

A home-mover buying the same-priced property in England would pay £2,221 in Stamp Duty. Wales has no first-time-buyer relief, so a first-time buyer in Newport pays the same £662 as a mover, where a first-time buyer at that price in England would pay nothing. But Wales's £225,000 starting threshold is far higher than England's £125,000, so most ordinary Welsh purchases still face only a modest bill. The two regimes converge at exactly £350,000, where both come to £7,500; below that a Welsh mover generally pays less, and above it an English buyer does. The mechanics are set out in our guide to how LTT, SDLT and LBTT compare across the UK, and the border-crossing maths in the cost of relocating between England and Wales. You can run any price through the Land Transaction Tax calculator. This is general information, not advice — speak to a qualified adviser or conveyancer before acting.

Council tax

Newport's Band D council tax for 2026-27 is £2,088 (Welsh Government). That is the third-lowest of the 22 Welsh billing authorities, behind Cardiff (£2,013) and Caerphilly (£2,083), and below the Welsh average of £2,283. Welsh council tax runs across nine bands (A to I) based on 2003 property values, rather than England's eight bands on 1991 values, so the band a home falls into is set differently either side of the border. Band D is a benchmark; an individual bill depends on the property's band and any discounts that apply.

Energy efficiency

Of the 41,970 domestic energy certificates lodged for Newport, 41.8% are rated C or above — near the top of the major UK cities measured in this series, effectively level with Newcastle upon Tyne and ahead of Cardiff (37.5%) and Swansea (30.6%). A relatively young housing stock is the likely driver: the regeneration of the former Llanwern steelworks into the Glan Llyn development and other edge-of-city schemes lifted Newport's new-build share to about 15.5% of 2024 sales, well above most cities in this series.

A note of caution on energy figures: the running-cost models behind EPC ratings rest on dated assumptions and bear little relation to a current Ofgem bill, so treat the bands as a guide to relative efficiency rather than an exact pound figure.

What it costs each month

Putting the pieces together for a purchase at the £236,040 median: with a 25% deposit (£59,010) and a £177,030 mortgage over 25 years at 4.32% — the Bank of England's quoted rate for a 75% loan-to-value five-year fix in April 2026 — the repayment works out at roughly £966 a month. Add Band D council tax of £2,088 a year (£174 a month) and the running total is about £1,140 a month before energy, insurance and maintenance. Your own rate will depend on your lender, deposit and credit profile, so treat this as an illustration rather than a quote.

For the wider context, the Office for National Statistics' UK House Price Index put Newport's index at 105.5 in March 2026, up from 100.2 a year earlier — a published year-on-year movement of about 5.3%, the strongest of the Welsh cities in this series. The all-Wales index rose about 2.9% over the same window, while the UK index was broadly flat (+0.1%). The raw median moved from £230,000 in 2024 to £236,040 in 2025, about 2.6%, but raw medians shift with the mix of what sells, so the index is the steadier guide to direction.

To see the all-in monthly cost of an actual Newport street — mortgage at today's rate, council tax, energy and stamp duty for your situation — look up a Newport postcode on Homecost, or browse the other regional price guides. Based on 2,150 HM Land Registry transactions recorded for Newport in 2025, Welsh Government council tax data for 2026-27, and the city's lodged energy certificates.