New build homes for sale in Merthyr Tydfil

Your new home is ideally placed whether you're looking to enjoy the great outdoors or head to the city for a weekend of shopping or rugby. The town is enclosed in a network of excellent A-roads connecting Merthyr to the cities of South Wales and the iconic Welsh Valleys. Just 17 miles from the highest point of the Brecon Beacons, Pen Y Fan, while cities such as Cardiff and Neath are 23 miles away, Port Talbot is 29 miles away, and Swansea is 32 miles away. Cardiff Airport is just an hour's drive.

If you'd like high street brands with fast food outlets, the Cyfarthfa Shopping Park brings you a great out-of-town shopping experience with easy parking. You have a choice of supermarket superstores, great schools, a hospital, a railway station with regular services to Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street - plus exciting plans to link to the South Wales Metro network.

Your new house gives you the Brecon Beacons on your doorstep - a mecca for hikers, mountain bikers and climbers. The Brecon Beacons, also known as the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park stretches 350 square miles and boasts South Wales’ highest mountain, Pen Y Fan, among its six peaks.

Just a short drive from a landscape of deep valleys, forests, lakes, waterfalls, and caves. If you like adrenaline, the area is also home to the world’s fastest zip wire, the UK’s largest mountain biking park and the largest indoor climbing wall in Wales. Whatever your level of ability.