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Blue Anchor market report SA4 8, Swansea
The standing SA4 8 (Blue Anchor) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,298 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA4 8 (Swansea) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in SA4 8 (Swansea) sold for £196,000 in 2026, the median of 43 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier. The mean was £217,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,100 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,298 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 SA4 8 is a single group of streets within SA4 (Swansea), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where SA4 8 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 SA4 8 homes really sell for
Across 43 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SA4 8 home went for £196,000. The mean is £217,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
SA4 8 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SA4 8 costs about £2,100 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so SA4 8 trades 31% below the country as a whole.
SA4 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £196,000 | £196,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £203,300 | £208,162 | 100 |
| 2024 | £190,000 | £202,009 | 113 |
| 2023 | £178,000 | £195,579 | 110 |
| 2022 | £179,000 | £209,898 | 102 |
| 2021 | £165,000 | £208,911 | 112 |
| 2020 | £156,000 | £202,413 | 84 |
| 2019 | £147,500 | £193,337 | 106 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 117 |
| 2017 | £133,500 | £182,081 | 116 |
| 2016 | £125,000 | £174,876 | 87 |
| 2015 | £125,000 | £176,625 | 86 |
| 2014 | £115,000 | £163,148 | 87 |
| 2013 | £117,000 | £168,351 | 65 |
| 2012 | £119,800 | £176,331 | 74 |
| 2011 | £136,000 | £205,308 | 148 |
| 2010 | £130,000 | £203,873 | 134 |
| 2009 | £125,000 | £200,939 | 115 |
| 2008 | £117,900 | £193,263 | 106 |
| 2007 | £125,000 | £212,035 | 138 |
| 2006 | £120,000 | £208,305 | 107 |
| 2005 | £113,000 | £201,094 | 119 |
| 2004 | £120,000 | £217,943 | 118 |
| 2003 | £77,200 | £142,221 | 158 |
| 2002 | £52,300 | £98,402 | 148 |
| 2001 | £52,800 | £101,505 | 144 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 109 |
| 1999 | £40,000 | £79,718 | 89 |
| 1998 | £41,500 | £83,771 | 86 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 62 |
| 1996 | £34,200 | £72,126 | 64 |
| 1995 | £37,500 | £81,519 | 51 |
In cash terms the typical SA4 8 home went from £37,500 in 1995 to £196,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2004, and today's median remains roughly 10% under it: a 2004 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA4 8 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 (+55.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−11.9%). 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) | −3.6% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.6% | +1.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SA4 8 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 130 sales a year before the financial crisis and 94 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 homes rent for around SA4 8
SA4 8 falls under Swansea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £677 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,257, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£838 a month is £10,056 a year, which against the £196,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.1%. 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 SA4 8 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA4 8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about SA4 8 (Blue Anchor)
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Are SA4 8 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
SA4's current homes for sale
This is what you could actually buy today: 89 homes currently on the market from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA4 district, not just SA4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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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 SA4 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
The price of an extra bedroom in SA
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. 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.
Winners and losers across the SA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SA4
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SA4, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA4 0 | £233,800 | 22 |
| SA4 3 | £235,000 | 50 |
| SA4 4 | £175,200 | 70 |
| SA4 6 | £225,000 | 33 |
| SA4 9 | £260,000 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full SA4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA4 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SA4 8? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA4 8'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.
Estate agents working SA4 8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SA4 8.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA4 8. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual SA4 8 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.