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Newcastle Emlyn market report SA38
The SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn) 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: 1,862 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn) 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.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn) is £222,500, from 20 registered sales, down 20% on five years earlier; the mean is £243,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,450 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 1,862 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district SA38 covering Newcastle Emlyn sits in Newcastle Emlyn. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where SA38 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 SA38 prices, from the sold record
20 sales were registered in SA38 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £222,500. The mean works out at £243,900, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
SA38 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put SA38 at roughly £2,450 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SA38 trades 22% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical SA38 home, 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 | £222,500 | £222,500 | 20 |
| 2025 | £287,500 | £294,375 | 52 |
| 2024 | £258,000 | £274,307 | 51 |
| 2023 | £225,000 | £247,220 | 50 |
| 2022 | £275,000 | £322,469 | 63 |
| 2021 | £277,500 | £351,351 | 80 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 57 |
| 2019 | £173,800 | £227,810 | 66 |
| 2018 | £174,000 | £231,945 | 64 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 61 |
| 2016 | £175,000 | £244,827 | 75 |
| 2015 | £160,000 | £226,080 | 63 |
| 2014 | £159,000 | £225,569 | 60 |
| 2013 | £154,000 | £221,591 | 42 |
| 2012 | £170,000 | £250,219 | 48 |
| 2011 | £165,000 | £249,087 | 41 |
| 2010 | £147,200 | £230,848 | 34 |
| 2009 | £131,200 | £210,905 | 38 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 43 |
| 2007 | £202,500 | £343,496 | 70 |
| 2006 | £187,000 | £324,608 | 82 |
| 2005 | £146,000 | £259,821 | 46 |
| 2004 | £162,200 | £294,587 | 80 |
| 2003 | £106,500 | £196,199 | 100 |
| 2002 | £90,000 | £169,334 | 75 |
| 2001 | £79,500 | £152,835 | 80 |
| 2000 | £60,000 | £117,750 | 69 |
| 1999 | £55,000 | £109,612 | 72 |
| 1998 | £57,500 | £116,068 | 52 |
| 1997 | £42,200 | £86,544 | 56 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 43 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 29 |
In cash terms the typical SA38 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £222,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 133%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SA38 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 (+52.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−22.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 69% of the typed total.
Median by property type, SA38
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 | £294,000 | 12 | 1,250 |
| Semi-detached | £201,000 (2025) | – | 326 |
| Terraced | £143,800 | 6 | 247 |
What SA38 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −22.6% | −24.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.3% | −8.7% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +0.2% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.9% | −1.9% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 39 SA38 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 75 sales a year before the financial crisis and 47 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.
Rents around SA38
SA38 falls under Carmarthenshire, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £680 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £222,500 median sold price, £680 a month is £8,160 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
How SA38 trades
Only 39 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA38 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Common questions on SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn)
Is SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn)?
Are property prices falling in SA38 (Newcastle Emlyn)?
Will SA38 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 20% over five years in cash but down 37% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in SA38 now
Everything above is what homes in SA38 sold for. The live side of the market holds 12 homes at the moment, listed by an agent publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 80% above the SA38 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (39 in SA38), the 12 homes listed here amount to about 4 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
8% 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.
See every SA38 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.
When homes in SA38 change hands
August is when SA38 changes hands most (11.8% of the 296 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 5.7%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 20 | 6.8% |
| February | 22 | 7.4% |
| March | 29 | 9.8% |
| April | 17 | 5.7% |
| May | 24 | 8.1% |
| June | 23 | 7.8% |
| July | 18 | 6.1% |
| August | 35 | 11.8% |
| September | 25 | 8.4% |
| October | 34 | 11.5% |
| November | 23 | 7.8% |
| December | 26 | 8.8% |
What another bedroom costs in SA
Real sold prices by size across the SA area, straight 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 | £208,000 | £235,000 (+13%) | £275,000 (+17%) | £342,500 (+25%) | £450,000 (+31%) |
| Semi-detached | £155,000 | £170,000 (+10%) | £180,000 (+6%) | £242,500 (+35%) | £310,000 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £130,000 | £130,500 (+0%) | £141,000 (+8%) | £175,000 (+24%) | £235,000 (+34%) |
| Flat | £102,000 | £127,000 (+25%) | £172,500 (+36%) | £225,675 (+31%) | — |
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
SA38 ranks 48 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.
SA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside SA38, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SA38 9 | £222,500 | 20 |
How SA38 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the SA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA3 | £350,000 | +2% |
| SA42 | £349,000 | -4% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA19 | £290,000 | +23% |
| SA67 | £290,000 | +23% |
| SA32 | £285,000 | -4% |
| SA62 | £285,000 | +14% |
| SA69 | £280,000 | -10% |
| SA45 | £276,200 | +4% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA68 | £266,500 | +13% |
| SA34 | £264,000 | +2% |
| SA44 | £252,500 | +10% |
| SA2 | £250,000 | +11% |
| SA37 | £250,000 | -20% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA46 | £250,000 | +11% |
| SA33 | £244,000 | +4% |
| SA70 | £235,000 | -8% |
| SA38 (this report) | £222,500 | -20% |
| SA43 | £220,000 | -7% |
| SA48 | £220,000 | -1% |
Selling a home in SA38? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA38, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA38 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA38 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.