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Bonymaen market report SA1 8, Swansea
The standing SA1 8 (Bonymaen) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,680 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SA1 8 (Swansea) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 36 registered 2026 sales put the SA1 8 (Swansea) median at £152,500, up 15% on five years earlier, with a mean of £161,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,680 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SA1 8 is a single group of streets within SA1 (Swansea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SA1 8 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 8 homes really sell for
Take the 36 registered 2026 sales in SA1 8 and the middle price, the median, is £152,500. The mean lands at £161,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SA1 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SA1 8 costs about £1,860 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, SA1 8 sits 46% below the national market.
SA1 8'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 | £152,500 | £152,500 | 36 |
| 2025 | £155,000 | £158,707 | 103 |
| 2024 | £140,000 | £148,849 | 99 |
| 2023 | £140,000 | £153,826 | 109 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 99 |
| 2021 | £133,000 | £168,395 | 117 |
| 2020 | £130,000 | £168,678 | 74 |
| 2019 | £136,000 | £178,263 | 120 |
| 2018 | £120,000 | £159,962 | 159 |
| 2017 | £130,000 | £177,307 | 156 |
| 2016 | £118,000 | £165,083 | 99 |
| 2015 | £104,000 | £146,952 | 129 |
| 2014 | £115,200 | £163,431 | 138 |
| 2013 | £113,200 | £162,884 | 134 |
| 2012 | £107,000 | £157,491 | 105 |
| 2011 | £109,000 | £164,548 | 102 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 116 |
| 2009 | £126,000 | £202,546 | 226 |
| 2008 | £118,000 | £193,427 | 105 |
| 2007 | £105,000 | £178,109 | 139 |
| 2006 | £100,000 | £173,587 | 173 |
| 2005 | £112,000 | £199,315 | 175 |
| 2004 | £81,500 | £148,020 | 96 |
| 2003 | £58,200 | £107,219 | 114 |
| 2002 | £40,000 | £75,260 | 108 |
| 2001 | £36,000 | £69,208 | 115 |
| 2000 | £36,200 | £71,043 | 94 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 87 |
| 1998 | £36,000 | £72,669 | 106 |
| 1997 | £33,000 | £67,676 | 100 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 74 |
| 1995 | £33,000 | £71,737 | 73 |
In cash terms the typical SA1 8 home went from £33,000 in 1995 to £152,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 113%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2009, and today's median remains roughly 25% under it: a 2009 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA1 8 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 2003 (+45.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−12.7%). 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 years (since 2025) | −1.6% | −3.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SA1 8 recorded 36 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 127 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
Reading the SA1 8 market
This is a thin market: 36 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around SA1 8
SA1 8 falls under Swansea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £677 a month here against £1,257 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £152,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.6%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Asked and answered: SA1 8 (Bonymaen)
How much did a house sell for in SA1 8 (Bonymaen)?
Are property prices falling in SA1 8 (Bonymaen)?
Is SA1 8 (Bonymaen) a good place to buy a house?
Are SA1 8 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
On the market in SA1 today
Turning to what is actually available: 78 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA1 district, not just SA1 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- The Kingsway, City Centre, Swansea, SA1, Swansea
- Ffynone Drive, Swansea, SA1
- Grenfell Park Road, St. Thomas, Swans...
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in SA: the cost
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 | — | £225,000 | £300,000 (+33%) | £420,000 (+40%) | £518,750 (+24%) |
| Semi-detached | £152,000 | £168,000 (+11%) | £190,000 (+13%) | £268,000 (+41%) | £350,000 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £132,500 | £130,000 (-2%) | £148,670 (+14%) | £185,000 (+24%) | £270,000 (+46%) |
| Flat | £107,500 | £145,000 (+35%) | £222,500 (+53%) | — | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the SA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SA1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SA1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA1 1 | £158,000 | 17 |
| SA1 2 | £130,200 | 22 |
| SA1 3 | £160,000 | 13 |
| SA1 4 | £183,200 | 12 |
| SA1 5 | £127,000 | 2 |
| SA1 6 | £140,000 | 42 |
| SA1 7 | £147,500 | 36 |
Zoom out to the full SA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SA1 8? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA1 8'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SA1 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA1 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SA1 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.