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Bishopston market report SA3 5, Swansea
The SA3 5 (Bishopston) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,499 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA3 5 (Swansea) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SA3 5 (Swansea) came in at £330,000, out of 56 registered, up 5% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £350,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,190 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,499 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SA3 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SA3 (Swansea). 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 SA3 5 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 5
In the SA3 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £330,000, from 56 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £350,800, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SA3 5
A square metre of SA3 5 home has cost about £3,190 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SA3 5 trades 16% above the country as a whole.
SA3 5's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £330,000 | £330,000 | 56 |
| 2025 | £325,000 | £332,772 | 136 |
| 2024 | £331,500 | £352,453 | 124 |
| 2023 | £316,000 | £347,207 | 105 |
| 2022 | £340,000 | £398,689 | 132 |
| 2021 | £315,000 | £398,831 | 180 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 130 |
| 2019 | £252,000 | £330,312 | 135 |
| 2018 | £249,500 | £332,588 | 168 |
| 2017 | £227,500 | £310,287 | 152 |
| 2016 | £242,500 | £339,260 | 175 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 151 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 141 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 125 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 93 |
| 2011 | £187,500 | £283,053 | 108 |
| 2010 | £210,000 | £329,334 | 100 |
| 2009 | £207,000 | £332,754 | 141 |
| 2008 | £234,800 | £384,887 | 100 |
| 2007 | £230,000 | £390,144 | 160 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 165 |
| 2005 | £205,000 | £364,817 | 117 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 131 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 173 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 186 |
| 2001 | £102,000 | £196,090 | 159 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 174 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 179 |
| 1998 | £85,000 | £171,579 | 136 |
| 1997 | £76,200 | £156,271 | 178 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 182 |
| 1995 | £75,000 | £163,038 | 107 |
In cash terms the typical SA3 5 home went from £75,000 in 1995 to £330,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 102%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA3 5 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 2003 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−11.8%). 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) | +1.5% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
Sales activity in SA3 5
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
SA3 5 recorded 56 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 158 sales a year before the financial crisis and 111 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.
Reading the SA3 5 market
This is a thin market: 56 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.
What homes rent for around SA3 5
For renting purposes SA3 5 sits in Swansea. The ONS average private rent there is £838 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,257, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
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.
Asked and answered: SA3 5 (Bishopston)
Is SA3 5 (Bishopston) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA3 5 (Bishopston)?
Are property prices falling in SA3 5 (Bishopston)?
Where do SA3 5 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in SA3 now
Turning to what is actually available: 72 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA3 district, not just SA3 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
28% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- 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 →
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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SA
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SA3
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SA3, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA3 1 | £447,500 | 10 |
| SA3 2 | £360,000 | 9 |
| SA3 3 | £327,500 | 21 |
| SA3 4 | £330,000 | 48 |
Zoom out to the full SA3 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA3 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SA3 5? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA3 5'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SA3 5.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SA3 5. Free, with a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SA3 5 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.