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Aberavon market report SA12 8, Port Talbot
The SA12 8 (Aberavon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,424 HM Land Registry entries for SA12 8 (Port Talbot), 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.
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 8 (Port Talbot) is £190,000, from 48 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £223,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,090 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,424 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like SA12 8 is a single group of streets within SA12 (Port Talbot), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SA12 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.
The going rate for a home in SA12 8
48 sales were registered in SA12 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £190,000. The mean works out at £223,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
Price per square metre in SA12 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA12 8 sales average about £2,090 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SA12 8 runs 33% below it.
The price of a typical SA12 8 home, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £178,000 | £182,257 | 100 |
| 2024 | £195,000 | £207,325 | 104 |
| 2023 | £193,500 | £212,609 | 93 |
| 2022 | £180,000 | £211,071 | 122 |
| 2021 | £166,500 | £210,810 | 144 |
| 2020 | £143,800 | £186,583 | 90 |
| 2019 | £145,000 | £190,060 | 113 |
| 2018 | £134,200 | £178,891 | 104 |
| 2017 | £135,000 | £184,126 | 110 |
| 2016 | £126,000 | £176,275 | 102 |
| 2015 | £126,500 | £178,745 | 101 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 88 |
| 2013 | £116,000 | £166,912 | 88 |
| 2012 | £110,000 | £161,906 | 59 |
| 2011 | £105,000 | £158,510 | 54 |
| 2010 | £116,500 | £182,702 | 56 |
| 2009 | £120,000 | £192,901 | 77 |
| 2008 | £124,000 | £203,262 | 79 |
| 2007 | £127,500 | £216,276 | 136 |
| 2006 | £115,000 | £199,625 | 139 |
| 2005 | £115,000 | £204,654 | 118 |
| 2004 | £92,000 | £167,090 | 135 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 153 |
| 2002 | £51,500 | £96,897 | 177 |
| 2001 | £53,200 | £102,274 | 148 |
| 2000 | £56,000 | £109,900 | 143 |
| 1999 | £50,000 | £99,647 | 110 |
| 1998 | £48,500 | £97,901 | 135 |
| 1997 | £45,700 | £93,721 | 95 |
| 1996 | £47,000 | £99,121 | 114 |
| 1995 | £42,200 | £91,736 | 89 |
In cash terms the typical SA12 8 home went from £42,200 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 107%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SA12 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 2004 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SA12 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +6.7% | +4.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.8% | +0.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.2% | +0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.2% |
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.
Sales activity in SA12 8
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.
SA12 8 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 144 sales a year before the financial crisis and 93 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 SA12 8 market
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA12 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SA12 district median, SA12 8 sits 12% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
The rental side of SA12 8
The local authority for SA12 8 is Neath Port Talbot, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £681 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £493 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £967, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Neath Port Talbot
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£681 a month is £8,172 a year, which against the £190,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
What people ask about SA12 8 (Aberavon)
Are property prices falling in SA12 8 (Aberavon)?
Is SA12 8 (Aberavon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA12 8 (Aberavon)?
What happens to SA12 8 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
Moving up a bedroom in SA: the cost
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. 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.
SA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full 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.
Thinking of selling in SA12 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SA12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SA12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SA12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA12 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SA12 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.