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Carmarthen town centre market report SA31 3, Carmarthen

The SA31 3 (Carmarthen town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,794 registered sales in SA31 3 (Carmarthen) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.

Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the typical home in SA31 3 (Carmarthen) sold for £225,000 in 2026, the median of 42 registered sales, up 32% on five years earlier. The mean was £228,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,290 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,794 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.

A postcode sector like SA31 3 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.

SA31 3 sold prices: where the market stands

The SA31 3 median stands at £225,000 for 2026, built from 42 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £228,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.

Price per square metre in SA31 3

Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA31 3 sales average about £2,290 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.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SA31 3 21% below the country at large.

In cash terms the typical SA31 3 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £225,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 130%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 23% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.

The strongest year on record here is 2004 (+58.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

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 3

The register shows 42 SA31 3 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 147 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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 3

For renting purposes SA31 3 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.

£680 a month is £8,160 a year, which against the £225,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.6%. 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.

The shape of the SA31 3 market

This is a thin market: 42 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.

Common questions on SA31 3 (Carmarthen town centre)

Are SA31 3 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 32% over five years in cash and up 5% 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.

On the market in SA31 today

What another bedroom costs in SA

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the SA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in SA31

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SA31's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full SA31 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA31 compares with its neighbours.

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Take it further

The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA31 3. Free after a one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual SA31 3 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.