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Carmarthen town centre market report SA31 2, Carmarthen
The standing SA31 2 (Carmarthen town centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 1,954 HM Land Registry entries for SA31 2 (Carmarthen), 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the typical home in SA31 2 (Carmarthen) sold for £272,200 in 2026, the median of 22 registered sales, up 17% on five years earlier. The mean was £290,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,340 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 1,954 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
SA31 2 is one sector of SA31 (Carmarthen): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where SA31 2 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.
What SA31 2 homes really sell for
In the SA31 2 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £272,200, from 22 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £290,900, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in SA31 2
Per square metre, SA31 2 homes have averaged around £2,340 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving SA31 2 4% below the national figure.
A typical SA31 2 home, priced year by year (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 | £272,200 | £272,200 | 22 |
| 2025 | £272,500 | £279,016 | 52 |
| 2024 | £247,500 | £263,143 | 55 |
| 2023 | £239,000 | £262,603 | 42 |
| 2022 | £260,000 | £304,880 | 58 |
| 2021 | £232,500 | £294,375 | 104 |
| 2020 | £248,800 | £322,823 | 56 |
| 2019 | £187,800 | £246,161 | 64 |
| 2018 | £185,000 | £246,608 | 61 |
| 2017 | £180,000 | £245,502 | 71 |
| 2016 | £183,800 | £257,138 | 82 |
| 2015 | £177,000 | £250,101 | 52 |
| 2014 | £171,500 | £243,303 | 82 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 67 |
| 2012 | £171,200 | £251,985 | 72 |
| 2011 | £156,000 | £235,500 | 52 |
| 2010 | £157,200 | £246,530 | 44 |
| 2009 | £154,800 | £248,842 | 48 |
| 2008 | £169,000 | £277,027 | 34 |
| 2007 | £182,000 | £308,723 | 61 |
| 2006 | £150,000 | £260,381 | 65 |
| 2005 | £137,200 | £244,161 | 52 |
| 2004 | £157,200 | £285,506 | 58 |
| 2003 | £104,500 | £192,514 | 77 |
| 2002 | £78,800 | £148,262 | 80 |
| 2001 | £78,000 | £149,951 | 69 |
| 2000 | £69,000 | £135,413 | 78 |
| 1999 | £63,500 | £126,552 | 69 |
| 1998 | £74,000 | £149,374 | 79 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 67 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 45 |
| 1995 | £64,200 | £139,561 | 36 |
In cash terms the typical SA31 2 home went from £64,200 in 1995 to £272,200 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 95%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 16% 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 SA31 2 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 (+50.4% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−14.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.1% | −2.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.2% | −1.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SA31 2
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SA31 2 recorded 22 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 68 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around SA31 2
The local authority for SA31 2 is Carmarthenshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £680 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £495 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £990, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Carmarthenshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£680 a month is £8,160 a year, which against the £272,200 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.
Reading the SA31 2 market
This is a thin market: 22 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within SA31, this sector trades 30% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Asked and answered: SA31 2 (Carmarthen town centre)
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What happens to SA31 2 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 17% over five years in cash but down 8% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
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 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
30% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Penybanc, Tanerdy, Carmarthen, Carmar...
- Heol Morfa Brenin, Johnstown, Carmart...
- Ferrar Street, Carmarthen, Carmarthen...
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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 1 | £167,500 | 35 |
| 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 2? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA31 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA31 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA31 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim SA31 2.
Take it further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SA31 2. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA31 2 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.