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Carmarthen town centre market report SA31 1, Carmarthen
The SA31 1 (Carmarthen town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,694 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA31 1 (Carmarthen) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical SA31 1 (Carmarthen) home changed hands for £167,500 in 2026 (median of 35 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier), with the mean at £178,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,860 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 2,694 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like SA31 1 is a single group of streets within SA31 (Carmarthen), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SA31 1 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.
Today's SA31 1 prices, from the sold record
Across 35 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SA31 1 home went for £167,500. The mean is £178,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in SA31 1
Per square metre, SA31 1 homes have averaged around £1,860 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SA31 1 41% below the country at large.
A typical SA31 1 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 | £167,500 | £167,500 | 35 |
| 2025 | £146,500 | £150,003 | 61 |
| 2024 | £142,000 | £150,975 | 53 |
| 2023 | £150,000 | £164,813 | 81 |
| 2022 | £142,500 | £167,098 | 89 |
| 2021 | £148,500 | £188,020 | 90 |
| 2020 | £126,500 | £164,136 | 62 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 106 |
| 2018 | £122,000 | £162,628 | 102 |
| 2017 | £127,200 | £173,488 | 90 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 77 |
| 2015 | £105,000 | £148,365 | 63 |
| 2014 | £107,800 | £152,933 | 76 |
| 2013 | £112,800 | £162,308 | 68 |
| 2012 | £103,000 | £151,603 | 51 |
| 2011 | £110,000 | £166,058 | 52 |
| 2010 | £119,000 | £186,623 | 51 |
| 2009 | £108,500 | £174,415 | 44 |
| 2008 | £121,200 | £198,672 | 66 |
| 2007 | £120,000 | £203,553 | 104 |
| 2006 | £123,000 | £213,512 | 129 |
| 2005 | £114,000 | £202,874 | 101 |
| 2004 | £88,000 | £159,825 | 145 |
| 2003 | £68,000 | £125,272 | 132 |
| 2002 | £49,000 | £92,193 | 139 |
| 2001 | £43,500 | £83,627 | 131 |
| 2000 | £39,500 | £77,519 | 98 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 89 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 94 |
| 1997 | £39,000 | £79,981 | 102 |
| 1996 | £40,000 | £84,358 | 59 |
| 1995 | £38,200 | £83,041 | 54 |
In cash terms the typical SA31 1 home went from £38,200 in 1995 to £167,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 102%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2006; the current median sits about 22% below that. Someone who bought at the 2006 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SA31 1 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 (+38.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SA31 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +14.3% | +11.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.6% | −1.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SA31 1 recorded 35 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 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.
What tenants pay around SA31 1
For renting purposes SA31 1 sits in Carmarthenshire. The ONS average private rent there is £680 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £495 a month for a typical one-bed to £990 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Carmarthenshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £167,500 median purchase price, a rent of £680 a month (£8,160 a year) works out at a 4.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
The shape of the SA31 1 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA31 1 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 SA31 district median, SA31 1 sits 20% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about SA31 1 (Carmarthen town centre)
How much did a house sell for in SA31 1 (Carmarthen town centre)?
Are property prices falling in SA31 1 (Carmarthen town centre)?
Is SA31 1 (Carmarthen town centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SA31 1 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
What is for sale in SA31 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 41 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA31 district, not just SA31 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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"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 SA31 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
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. 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%) | — | — |
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
The spread across the SA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, SA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SA31
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SA31, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA31 2 | £272,200 | 22 |
| SA31 3 | £225,000 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full SA31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA31 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SA31 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SA31 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SA31 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SA31 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SA31 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA31 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual SA31 1 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.
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.