Local market reports › SA area › SA1
Bonymaen market report SA1, Swansea
The standing SA1 (Bonymaen) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 21,085 HM Land Registry entries for SA1 (Swansea), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SA1 (Swansea) home changed hands for £142,800 in 2026 (median of 180 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £148,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,085 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SA1 is the postcode district covering Bonymaen, Copper Quarter, Crymlyn Burrows in Swansea. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SA1 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 a home in SA1 sells for
Take the 180 registered 2026 sales in SA1 and the middle price, the median, is £142,800. The mean lands at £148,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in SA1
A square metre of SA1 home has cost about £1,860 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SA1 50% below the country at large.
The price of a typical SA1 home, 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 | £142,800 | £142,800 | 180 |
| 2025 | £145,000 | £148,467 | 521 |
| 2024 | £135,000 | £143,533 | 512 |
| 2023 | £138,000 | £151,628 | 527 |
| 2022 | £136,000 | £159,476 | 577 |
| 2021 | £128,800 | £163,077 | 652 |
| 2020 | £125,000 | £162,190 | 448 |
| 2019 | £125,000 | £163,845 | 549 |
| 2018 | £117,500 | £156,630 | 660 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 683 |
| 2016 | £115,000 | £160,886 | 614 |
| 2015 | £107,500 | £151,898 | 667 |
| 2014 | £105,000 | £148,961 | 627 |
| 2013 | £98,000 | £141,012 | 561 |
| 2012 | £105,000 | £154,547 | 463 |
| 2011 | £107,200 | £161,831 | 500 |
| 2010 | £110,000 | £172,508 | 552 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 739 |
| 2008 | £135,000 | £221,294 | 706 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 1,218 |
| 2006 | £109,000 | £189,210 | 1,038 |
| 2005 | £105,000 | £186,858 | 793 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 783 |
| 2003 | £66,000 | £121,588 | 974 |
| 2002 | £50,600 | £95,203 | 942 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 835 |
| 2000 | £44,000 | £86,350 | 762 |
| 1999 | £41,000 | £81,711 | 730 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 648 |
| 1997 | £36,400 | £74,649 | 626 |
| 1996 | £35,000 | £73,813 | 535 |
| 1995 | £36,000 | £78,258 | 463 |
In cash terms the typical SA1 home went from £36,000 in 1995 to £142,800 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 82%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA1 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 (+36.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2010 (−12.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −1.5% | −3.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.4% | −1.4% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 55% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £234,000 against £131,800 for a flat, 1.8 times the price.
Median by property type, SA1
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £234,000 (2025) | – | 980 |
| Semi-detached | £178,500 | 28 | 3,293 |
| Terraced | £142,000 | 111 | 11,558 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 37 | 5,250 |
How many homes change hands in SA1
The year-by-year sales count
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 421 sales completed in SA1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 918 sales a year before the financial crisis and 463 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.
What kind of market SA1 is
By median price SA1 sits at the bottom of its postcode area: the cheapest way in, with the least expectation already in the price.
Rents around SA1
The local authority for SA1 is Swansea, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £142,800 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 7.0%: 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.
Asked and answered: SA1 (Bonymaen)
How much did a house sell for in SA1 (Bonymaen)?
Are property prices falling in SA1 (Bonymaen)?
Is SA1 (Bonymaen) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SA1 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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
Everything above is what homes in SA1 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 78 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the SA1 median sold price.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- 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 →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: SA prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SA area. 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
SA1 ranks 28 of 51 in the SA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Five-year change in the median, SA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SA1, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| 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 |
| SA1 8 | £152,500 | 36 |
How SA1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA1 itself, which ranks 51 of 51 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA42 | £345,000 | -6% |
| SA3 | £342,500 | +0% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA69 | £295,200 | -5% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA32 | £292,500 | -2% |
| SA63 | £290,000 | +3% |
| SA45 | £289,000 | +9% |
| SA67 | £288,500 | +22% |
| SA62 | £275,000 | +10% |
| SA68 | £270,000 | +15% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA34 | £268,000 | +3% |
| SA19 | £265,800 | +13% |
| SA33 | £263,500 | +12% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA44 | £246,800 | +7% |
| SA2 | £240,000 | +6% |
| SA46 | £238,000 | +6% |
| SA38 | £235,000 | -15% |
| SA37 | £230,000 | -26% |
| SA70 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SA1 (this report) | £142,800 | +11% |
Before you sell in SA1: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA1'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.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SA1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.