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Birchgrove market report SA7 9, Swansea
The standing SA7 9 (Birchgrove) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 6,414 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA7 9 (Swansea) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SA7 9 (Swansea) came in at £190,000, out of 71 registered, up 23% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £208,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,210 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,414 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SA7 9 is one sector of SA7 (Swansea): 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 SA7 9 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 a home in SA7 9 sells for
The 2026 median for SA7 9 is £190,000, taken from 71 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £208,300, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in SA7 9
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SA7 9 costs about £2,210 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 SA7 9 trades 33% below the country as a whole.
A typical SA7 9 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 71 |
| 2025 | £186,800 | £191,267 | 146 |
| 2024 | £175,000 | £186,061 | 153 |
| 2023 | £171,500 | £188,437 | 124 |
| 2022 | £166,000 | £194,654 | 180 |
| 2021 | £155,000 | £196,250 | 173 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 137 |
| 2019 | £136,500 | £178,919 | 162 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 155 |
| 2017 | £125,000 | £170,487 | 203 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 238 |
| 2015 | £135,000 | £190,755 | 180 |
| 2014 | £120,000 | £170,241 | 156 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 117 |
| 2012 | £100,000 | £147,188 | 103 |
| 2011 | £101,800 | £153,679 | 104 |
| 2010 | £115,000 | £180,350 | 113 |
| 2009 | £118,200 | £190,008 | 116 |
| 2008 | £120,000 | £196,705 | 154 |
| 2007 | £118,000 | £200,161 | 283 |
| 2006 | £112,000 | £194,418 | 271 |
| 2005 | £96,000 | £170,841 | 229 |
| 2004 | £87,500 | £158,917 | 233 |
| 2003 | £69,000 | £127,115 | 377 |
| 2002 | £55,000 | £103,482 | 352 |
| 2001 | £52,400 | £100,736 | 318 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 267 |
| 1999 | £49,500 | £98,651 | 305 |
| 1998 | £50,000 | £100,929 | 292 |
| 1997 | £46,000 | £94,337 | 295 |
| 1996 | £43,000 | £90,685 | 251 |
| 1995 | £42,800 | £93,041 | 156 |
In cash terms the typical SA7 9 home went from £42,800 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 104%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 5% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the SA7 9 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 (+26.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−11.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | +1.7% | −0.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.2% | −0.6% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +4.6% | +0.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
The register shows 71 SA7 9 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 291 sales a year before the financial crisis and 135 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 SA7 9
SA7 9 falls under Swansea, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £838 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £677 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,257 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Swansea
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £190,000 median sold price, £838 a month is £10,056 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
What people ask about SA7 9 (Birchgrove)
How much did a house sell for in SA7 9 (Birchgrove)?
Are property prices falling in SA7 9 (Birchgrove)?
Is SA7 9 (Birchgrove) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SA7 9 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 23% over five years in cash but down 3% 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.
What you could buy in SA7 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 3 homes currently on the market from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA7 district, not just SA7 9: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 0% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
See every SA7 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.
Moving up a bedroom in SA: the cost
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the SA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
SA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SA7
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SA7's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA7 0 | £246,200 | 10 |
Zoom out to the full SA7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA7 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SA7 9: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA7 9'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.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA7 9 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA7 9 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.
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.