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Aberavon market report SA12, Port Talbot
The SA12 (Aberavon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 13,298 HM Land Registry entries for SA12 (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.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical SA12 (Port Talbot) home changed hands for £170,000 in 2026 (median of 140 registered sales, up 23% on five years earlier), with the mean at £183,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,900 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 13,298 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
SA12 is the postcode district covering Aberavon, Baglan, Cwmafan in Port Talbot. 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 SA12 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.
SA12 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 140 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SA12 home went for £170,000. The mean is £183,100, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in SA12
The last five years of sales put SA12 at roughly £1,900 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SA12 40% below the country at large.
SA12'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 | £170,000 | £170,000 | 140 |
| 2025 | £162,000 | £165,874 | 387 |
| 2024 | £164,700 | £175,110 | 428 |
| 2023 | £157,500 | £173,054 | 404 |
| 2022 | £150,000 | £175,892 | 516 |
| 2021 | £138,500 | £175,359 | 486 |
| 2020 | £120,000 | £155,702 | 307 |
| 2019 | £116,000 | £152,048 | 415 |
| 2018 | £107,800 | £143,699 | 408 |
| 2017 | £100,000 | £136,390 | 423 |
| 2016 | £94,500 | £132,206 | 388 |
| 2015 | £93,000 | £131,409 | 389 |
| 2014 | £95,000 | £134,774 | 368 |
| 2013 | £95,000 | £136,696 | 315 |
| 2012 | £89,500 | £131,733 | 243 |
| 2011 | £90,000 | £135,865 | 284 |
| 2010 | £98,500 | £154,473 | 304 |
| 2009 | £99,000 | £159,143 | 243 |
| 2008 | £103,000 | £168,839 | 281 |
| 2007 | £97,000 | £164,539 | 569 |
| 2006 | £89,000 | £154,493 | 662 |
| 2005 | £88,000 | £156,605 | 524 |
| 2004 | £71,000 | £128,950 | 563 |
| 2003 | £48,000 | £88,428 | 643 |
| 2002 | £42,000 | £79,023 | 589 |
| 2001 | £45,000 | £86,510 | 500 |
| 2000 | £44,400 | £87,135 | 558 |
| 1999 | £42,400 | £84,501 | 444 |
| 1998 | £42,000 | £84,780 | 411 |
| 1997 | £39,500 | £81,007 | 399 |
| 1996 | £39,200 | £82,671 | 428 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 279 |
In cash terms the typical SA12 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £170,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 111%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 3% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA12 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 (+47.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 44% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £275,000 against £86,000 for a flat, 3.2 times the price.
Median by property type, SA12
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 | £275,000 | 27 | 2,148 |
| Semi-detached | £173,000 | 67 | 5,829 |
| Terraced | £139,000 | 38 | 4,830 |
| Flats | £86,000 | 8 | 487 |
What SA12 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +6.0% | +2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
Transaction volumes
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
SA12 recorded 282 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 576 sales a year before the financial crisis and 375 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.
The shape of the SA12 market
In its area's price order SA12 comes 43 of 51, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Rents around SA12
The local authority for SA12 is Neath Port Talbot, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £681 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £493 a month here against £967 for four or more bedrooms.
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 £170,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.8%. 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.
Real searches this page gets asked
For searches like rental yields in port talbot
: the ONS puts the average private rent in Neath Port Talbot at £681 a month, a gross yield of about 4.8% against the £170,000 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Common questions on SA12 (Aberavon)
Is SA12 (Aberavon) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA12 (Aberavon)?
Are property prices falling in SA12 (Aberavon)?
Are SA12 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
What is for sale in SA12 right now
Everything above is what homes in SA12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 8 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 13% below the SA12 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every SA12 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SA area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
SA12 ranks 6 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside SA12, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SA12 6 | £145,000 | 53 |
| SA12 7 | £175,000 | 20 |
| SA12 8 | £190,000 | 43 |
| SA12 9 | £154,000 | 24 |
How SA12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA12 itself, which ranks 43 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% |
| SA12 (this report) | £170,000 | +23% |
Thinking of selling in SA12? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA12'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.
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Go deeper
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See every individual SA12 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.