Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 14,009 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA12 (Port Talbot) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
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
Click the map to open SA12 on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
£168,500median sold price, 2026
+25%five-year change (cash)
348sales in the last 12 months
4.8%gross rental yield (est.)
What a home in SA12 sells for
The 2026 median in SA12 is £168,500, from 105 registered sales; the mean, £189,000, sits modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so SA12 trades 39% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SA12 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
Price at the timeIn today's money (CPIH)
See this chart as a table
Year
Median (cash)
Median (today's £)
Sales
2026
£168,500
£168,500
105
2025
£160,000
£160,000
438
2024
£155,500
£161,467
516
2023
£152,500
£163,647
459
2022
£149,000
£170,639
589
2021
£135,000
£166,935
548
2020
£118,500
£150,165
370
2019
£113,500
£145,297
492
2018
£105,200
£136,958
458
2017
£98,500
£131,207
485
2016
£93,000
£127,069
436
2015
£94,000
£129,720
448
2014
£93,000
£128,855
417
2013
£95,000
£133,503
323
2012
£89,500
£128,656
243
2011
£90,000
£132,692
284
2010
£98,000
£150,100
305
2009
£99,000
£155,427
243
2008
£103,000
£164,896
281
2007
£97,000
£160,696
569
2006
£89,000
£150,885
662
2005
£88,000
£152,947
524
2004
£71,000
£125,938
563
2003
£48,000
£86,362
643
2002
£42,000
£77,177
589
2001
£45,000
£84,490
500
2000
£44,400
£85,100
558
1999
£42,400
£82,528
444
1998
£42,000
£82,800
411
1997
£39,500
£79,115
399
1996
£39,200
£80,740
428
1995
£37,000
£78,554
279
In cash terms the typical SA12 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £168,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper.
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 (−8.2%). 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)
+5.3%
+5.3%
5 years (since 2021)
+4.5%
+0.2%
10 years (since 2016)
+6.1%
+2.9%
20 years (since 2006)
+3.2%
+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.
Transaction volumes
How many homes change hands
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 348 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 421 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.
What homes rent for around SA12
SA12 falls under Neath Port Talbot, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
Set against the £168,500 median sold price, £681 a month is £8,172 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
Will SA12 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 25% over five years in cash and flat 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.
Ladders and snakes: five-year risers and 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
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SA12, street group by street group
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
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.