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Bishopston market report SA3 4, Swansea
The standing SA3 4 (Bishopston) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 5,534 HM Land Registry entries for SA3 4 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 48 registered 2026 sales put the SA3 4 (Swansea) median at £330,000, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £398,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,800 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,534 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SA3 4 is a single group of streets within SA3 (Swansea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SA3 4 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 SA3 4
The SA3 4 median stands at £330,000 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £398,600, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
What a square metre costs in SA3 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA3 4 sales average about £3,800 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SA3 4 trades 16% above the country as a whole.
A typical SA3 4 home, priced year by year (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 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £377,500 | £386,527 | 141 |
| 2024 | £404,500 | £430,067 | 132 |
| 2023 | £347,000 | £381,268 | 117 |
| 2022 | £377,500 | £442,662 | 160 |
| 2021 | £355,000 | £449,476 | 226 |
| 2020 | £350,000 | £454,132 | 127 |
| 2019 | £271,500 | £355,872 | 154 |
| 2018 | £279,000 | £371,912 | 134 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 173 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 169 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 170 |
| 2014 | £260,000 | £368,855 | 166 |
| 2013 | £245,800 | £353,682 | 148 |
| 2012 | £260,000 | £382,688 | 139 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 125 |
| 2010 | £267,500 | £419,509 | 128 |
| 2009 | £215,000 | £345,614 | 149 |
| 2008 | £249,000 | £408,164 | 121 |
| 2007 | £245,000 | £415,588 | 189 |
| 2006 | £236,000 | £409,666 | 222 |
| 2005 | £234,700 | £417,671 | 218 |
| 2004 | £207,500 | £376,861 | 149 |
| 2003 | £141,800 | £261,230 | 208 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 252 |
| 2001 | £97,500 | £187,439 | 243 |
| 2000 | £86,000 | £168,775 | 231 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 225 |
| 1998 | £79,000 | £159,467 | 249 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 277 |
| 1996 | £68,000 | £143,409 | 181 |
| 1995 | £62,000 | £134,778 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical SA3 4 home went from £62,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 145%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 27% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SA3 4 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 (+46.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−13.7%). 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) | −12.6% | −14.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.6% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SA3 4 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 214 sales a year before the financial crisis and 120 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 rental side of SA3 4
For renting purposes SA3 4 sits in Swansea. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,257 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £330,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.0%. 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 kind of market SA3 4 is
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What people ask about SA3 4 (Bishopston)
Are property prices falling in SA3 4 (Bishopston)?
Is SA3 4 (Bishopston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA3 4 (Bishopston)?
What happens to SA3 4 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
SA3's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 72 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA3 district, not just SA3 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Reynoldston, Swansea, SA3
- Clyne Common, Clyne Common, Swansea
- Eastlands Park, Bishopston, Swansea, SA3, Swansea
"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 SA3 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.
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. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — | — |
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SA3
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SA3's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA3 1 | £447,500 | 10 |
| SA3 2 | £360,000 | 9 |
| SA3 3 | £327,500 | 21 |
| SA3 5 | £330,000 | 56 |
Zoom out to the full SA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA3 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SA3 4? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA3 4, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA3 4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA3 4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SA3 4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SA3 4.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA3 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA3 4 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices 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.