House prices increased by 1.5% in Carmarthenshire in November, new figures show.

The rise contributes to the longer-term trend, which has seen property prices in the area grow by 12.8% over the last year.

The average Carmarthenshire house price in November was £215,261, Land Registry figures show – a 1.5% increase on October.

Over the month, the picture was different to that across Wales, where prices decreased 1.6%, and Carmarthenshire was above the 0.3% drop for the UK as a whole.

Over the last year, the average sale price of property in Carmarthenshire rose by £24,000 – putting the area 10th among Wales’s 22 local authorities with price data for annual growth.

The highest annual growth in the region was in Caerphilly, where property prices increased on average by 17.2%, to £194,000. At the other end of the scale, properties in Conwy gained 6.4% in value, giving an average price of £217,000.

The average UK house price edged down to £295,000 in November 2022, from the previous month's record high of £296,000.

Property prices increased by 10.3% in the year to November, slowing from 12.4% in October.

Nathan Emerson, CEO of Propertymark, which represents estate agents, said: "In November, our agents reported a market that was on the cusp of seeing purchasing power handed back to buyers which was a trend we hadn’t seen in months."

And Roger Evans, director of home finance distribution at Gatehouse Bank, said: “The property market is slowly becoming more favourable for buyers in some areas as rates stabilise a little following the turbulence of 2022.”

First steps on the property ladder

First-time buyers in Carmarthenshire spent an average of £190,000 on their property – £22,000 more than a year ago, and £67,000 more than in November 2017.

By comparison, former owner-occupiers paid £242,000 on average in November – 27.3% more than first-time buyers.

Property types

Owners of terraced houses saw the biggest rise in property prices in Carmarthenshire in November – they increased 1.6%, to £154,633 on average. Over the last year, prices rose by 13.5%.

Among other types of property:

How do property prices in Carmarthenshire compare?

Buyers paid 2.3% less than the average price in Wales (£220,000) in November for a property in Carmarthenshire. Across Wales, property prices are lower than those across the UK, where the average cost £295,000.

The most expensive properties in Wales were in Monmouthshire – £364,000 on average, and 1.7 times as much as more than in Carmarthenshire. Monmouthshire properties cost 2.7 times as much as homes in Blaenau Gwent (£135,000 average), at the other end of the scale.

The highest property prices across the UK were in Kensington and Chelsea.

Factfile

Average property price in November

Annual growth to November

Highest and lowest annual growth in Wales