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Bonymaen market report SA1 3, Swansea
The standing SA1 3 (Bonymaen) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,014 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SA1 3 (Swansea) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in SA1 3 (Swansea) sold for £160,000 in 2026, the median of 15 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier. The mean was £144,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 2,014 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SA1 3 is one sector of SA1 (Swansea): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SA1 3 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What SA1 3 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for SA1 3 is £160,000, taken from 15 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £144,700, below it, which usually means a cluster of very cheap recorded transfers is dragging the average down.
House prices per square metre in SA1 3
A square metre of SA1 3 home has cost about £2,000 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SA1 3 runs 44% below it.
SA1 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £160,000 | £160,000 | 15 |
| 2025 | £165,000 | £168,946 | 43 |
| 2024 | £167,500 | £178,087 | 40 |
| 2023 | £161,200 | £177,119 | 44 |
| 2022 | £165,200 | £193,716 | 58 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 45 |
| 2020 | £140,500 | £182,302 | 36 |
| 2019 | £132,000 | £173,020 | 48 |
| 2018 | £133,800 | £178,358 | 56 |
| 2017 | £125,200 | £170,760 | 62 |
| 2016 | £120,000 | £167,881 | 64 |
| 2015 | £110,000 | £155,430 | 71 |
| 2014 | £117,000 | £165,985 | 62 |
| 2013 | £116,500 | £167,632 | 48 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 38 |
| 2011 | £103,500 | £156,245 | 38 |
| 2010 | £108,500 | £170,156 | 40 |
| 2009 | £104,000 | £167,181 | 41 |
| 2008 | £140,000 | £229,490 | 48 |
| 2007 | £134,000 | £227,301 | 135 |
| 2006 | £124,500 | £216,116 | 86 |
| 2005 | £130,400 | £232,059 | 77 |
| 2004 | £125,000 | £227,024 | 88 |
| 2003 | £80,000 | £147,379 | 112 |
| 2002 | £64,000 | £120,415 | 91 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 95 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 77 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 77 |
| 1998 | £44,000 | £88,817 | 77 |
| 1997 | £42,000 | £86,134 | 77 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 71 |
| 1995 | £38,000 | £82,606 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical SA1 3 home went from £38,000 in 1995 to £160,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 94%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2005, and today's median remains roughly 31% under it: a 2005 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA1 3 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+56.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−25.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −3.0% | −5.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.2% | −2.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.3% | −1.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 15 SA1 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 95 sales a year before the financial crisis and 40 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
The shape of the SA1 3 market
This is a thin market: 15 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Against the SA1 district median, SA1 3 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What tenants pay around SA1 3
SA1 3 falls under Swansea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,257, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £160,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 6.3%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about SA1 3 (Bonymaen)
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Will SA1 3 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in SA1 now
The live side of the market holds 27 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA1 district, not just SA1 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- 3 Princess Way, Swansea, SA1, Swansea
- Princess Way, Princess Way, Swansea, SA1, Swansea
- The Kingsway, City Centre, Swansea, SA1, Swansea
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SA1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Bedroom by bedroom: SA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the SA area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £208,000 | £235,000 (+13%) | £275,000 (+17%) | £342,500 (+25%) | £450,000 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £155,000 | £170,000 (+10%) | £180,000 (+6%) | £242,500 (+35%) | £310,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £130,500 (+0%) | £141,000 (+8%) | £175,000 (+24%) | £235,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £102,000 | £127,000 (+25%) | £172,500 (+36%) | £225,675 (+31%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SA1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SA1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA1 1 | £158,000 | 19 |
| SA1 2 | £130,200 | 26 |
| SA1 4 | £177,500 | 15 |
| SA1 5 | £69,000 | 3 |
| SA1 6 | £140,000 | 49 |
| SA1 7 | £147,500 | 38 |
| SA1 8 | £155,000 | 39 |
Zoom out to the full SA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SA1 3? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA1 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA1 3. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SA1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.