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Carmarthen town centre market report SA31, Carmarthen
The SA31 (Carmarthen town centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 8,448 registered sales in SA31 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for SA31 (Carmarthen) is £210,000, from 99 registered sales, up 21% on five years earlier; the mean is £224,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 8,448 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SA31 is the postcode district covering Carmarthen town centre, Cwmffrwd in Carmarthen. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where SA31 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 prices, from the sold record
Take the 99 registered 2026 sales in SA31 and the middle price, the median, is £210,000. The mean lands at £224,500, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SA31
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA31 sales average about £2,170 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 SA31 trades 26% below the country as a whole.
A typical SA31 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £210,000 | £210,000 | 99 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 245 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 209 |
| 2023 | £173,900 | £191,074 | 206 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 268 |
| 2021 | £173,500 | £219,673 | 371 |
| 2020 | £165,000 | £214,091 | 256 |
| 2019 | £155,500 | £203,823 | 271 |
| 2018 | £155,000 | £206,618 | 277 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 315 |
| 2016 | £153,500 | £214,748 | 299 |
| 2015 | £145,000 | £204,885 | 217 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 252 |
| 2013 | £150,000 | £215,835 | 248 |
| 2012 | £140,000 | £206,063 | 229 |
| 2011 | £141,000 | £212,856 | 213 |
| 2010 | £145,000 | £227,397 | 193 |
| 2009 | £135,200 | £217,335 | 156 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 165 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 308 |
| 2006 | £142,000 | £246,494 | 375 |
| 2005 | £130,000 | £231,348 | 303 |
| 2004 | £112,500 | £204,322 | 309 |
| 2003 | £75,500 | £139,089 | 339 |
| 2002 | £59,300 | £111,572 | 406 |
| 2001 | £52,000 | £99,967 | 341 |
| 2000 | £49,500 | £97,144 | 311 |
| 1999 | £52,200 | £104,032 | 291 |
| 1998 | £48,200 | £97,295 | 308 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 272 |
| 1996 | £44,000 | £92,794 | 223 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 173 |
In cash terms the typical SA31 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £210,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 115%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA31 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 (+49.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−8.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SA31 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.7% | −8.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.9% | −0.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £302,500 against £150,000 for a flat, 2.0 times the price.
Median by property type, SA31
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £287,500 | 34 | 2,902 |
| Semi-detached | £225,000 | 30 | 2,513 |
| Terraced | £150,000 | 31 | 2,685 |
| Flats | £150,000 (2025) | – | 332 |
Sales activity in SA31
How many homes change hands
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SA31 recorded 192 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 337 sales a year before the financial crisis and 205 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 homes rent for around SA31
The local authority for SA31 is Carmarthenshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £680 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £495 a month here against £990 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Carmarthenshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £210,000 median purchase price, a rent of £680 a month (£8,160 a year) works out at a 3.9% 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.
Common questions on SA31 (Carmarthen town centre)
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What happens to SA31 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 21% over five years in cash but down 4% 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
Everything above is what homes in SA31 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 41 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 19% above the SA31 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Ferrar Street, Carmarthen, Carmarthen...
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the SA area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
SA31 ranks 12 of 51 in the SA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
Winners and losers across the SA area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside SA31, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA31 1 | £167,500 | 35 |
| SA31 2 | £272,200 | 22 |
| SA31 3 | £225,000 | 42 |
How SA31 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA31 itself, which ranks 29 of 51 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA42 | £345,000 | -6% |
| SA3 | £342,500 | +0% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA69 | £295,200 | -5% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA32 | £292,500 | -2% |
| SA63 | £290,000 | +3% |
| SA45 | £289,000 | +9% |
| SA67 | £288,500 | +22% |
| SA62 | £275,000 | +10% |
| SA68 | £270,000 | +15% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA34 | £268,000 | +3% |
| SA19 | £265,800 | +13% |
| SA33 | £263,500 | +12% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA44 | £246,800 | +7% |
| SA2 | £240,000 | +6% |
| SA46 | £238,000 | +6% |
| SA38 | £235,000 | -15% |
| SA37 | £230,000 | -26% |
| SA70 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SA31 (this report) | £210,000 | +21% |
Thinking of selling in SA31? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA31'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 SA31.
Go deeper
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The live map plots every individual SA31 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.