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Aberavon market report SA12 7, Port Talbot
The standing SA12 7 (Aberavon) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 2,508 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SA12 7 (Port Talbot) 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. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for SA12 7 (Port Talbot) is £175,000, from 23 registered sales, up 33% on five years earlier; the mean is £191,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,930 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,508 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SA12 7 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SA12 (Port Talbot). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SA12 7 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 buyers actually paid in SA12 7
Take the 23 registered 2026 sales in SA12 7 and the middle price, the median, is £175,000. The mean lands at £191,500, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SA12 7
A square metre of SA12 7 home has cost about £1,930 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, SA12 7 runs 39% below it.
SA12 7's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £175,000 | £175,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £165,500 | £169,458 | 58 |
| 2024 | £156,000 | £165,860 | 73 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 77 |
| 2022 | £145,000 | £170,029 | 101 |
| 2021 | £132,000 | £167,129 | 97 |
| 2020 | £124,000 | £160,893 | 63 |
| 2019 | £110,000 | £144,184 | 78 |
| 2018 | £104,500 | £139,300 | 80 |
| 2017 | £95,000 | £129,570 | 73 |
| 2016 | £93,000 | £130,108 | 88 |
| 2015 | £87,500 | £123,638 | 77 |
| 2014 | £90,000 | £127,681 | 87 |
| 2013 | £80,000 | £115,112 | 56 |
| 2012 | £80,500 | £118,486 | 52 |
| 2011 | £78,000 | £117,750 | 49 |
| 2010 | £83,600 | £131,106 | 64 |
| 2009 | £86,500 | £139,049 | 34 |
| 2008 | £99,000 | £162,282 | 47 |
| 2007 | £94,000 | £159,450 | 96 |
| 2006 | £87,500 | £151,889 | 111 |
| 2005 | £87,500 | £155,715 | 96 |
| 2004 | £71,500 | £129,858 | 88 |
| 2003 | £50,000 | £92,112 | 111 |
| 2002 | £43,500 | £81,845 | 102 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 109 |
| 2000 | £46,000 | £90,275 | 113 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 127 |
| 1998 | £38,500 | £77,715 | 71 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 82 |
| 1996 | £38,000 | £80,140 | 78 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 47 |
In cash terms the typical SA12 7 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £175,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs.
Year-on-year change in the SA12 7 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 (+43.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−12.6%). 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 year (since 2025) | +5.7% | +3.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +5.8% | +0.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +5.9% | +1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.5% | +3.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.5% | +0.7% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 23 SA12 7 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 103 sales a year before the financial crisis and 66 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
The rental side of SA12 7
SA12 7 falls under Neath Port Talbot, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £681 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £493 a month for a typical one-bed to £967 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Neath Port Talbot
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £175,000 median purchase price, a rent of £681 a month (£8,172 a year) works out at a 4.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Reading the SA12 7 market
Only 23 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA12 7 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
SA12 7 (Aberavon): the questions that come up
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What happens to SA12 7 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 33% over five years in cash and up 5% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
The price of an extra bedroom in SA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SA area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 SA12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SA12, each linking to its own report:
Zoom out to the full SA12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA12 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SA12 7: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA12 7, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA12 7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA12 7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA12 7. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SA12 7 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.