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Alltwen market report SA8 3, Swansea
The SA8 3 (Alltwen) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,338 registered sales in SA8 3 (Swansea) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 19 registered 2026 sales put the SA8 3 (Swansea) median at £220,000, up 27% on five years earlier, with a mean of £221,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,390 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,338 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like SA8 3 is a single group of streets within SA8 (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 SA8 3 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.
The going rate for a home in SA8 3
Across 19 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SA8 3 home went for £220,000. The mean is £221,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
SA8 3 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA8 3 sales average about £2,390 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 SA8 3 23% below the country at large.
SA8 3's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £220,000 | £220,000 | 19 |
| 2025 | £241,700 | £247,480 | 89 |
| 2024 | £227,500 | £241,879 | 72 |
| 2023 | £200,000 | £219,751 | 59 |
| 2022 | £190,000 | £222,797 | 63 |
| 2021 | £173,000 | £219,040 | 77 |
| 2020 | £174,000 | £225,769 | 96 |
| 2019 | £170,000 | £222,829 | 111 |
| 2018 | £143,500 | £191,288 | 72 |
| 2017 | £145,500 | £198,447 | 82 |
| 2016 | £150,000 | £209,851 | 96 |
| 2015 | £146,000 | £206,298 | 87 |
| 2014 | £144,800 | £205,424 | 74 |
| 2013 | £137,000 | £197,129 | 88 |
| 2012 | £120,000 | £176,625 | 53 |
| 2011 | £123,400 | £186,287 | 44 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 49 |
| 2009 | £103,500 | £166,377 | 45 |
| 2008 | £130,000 | £213,097 | 35 |
| 2007 | £133,000 | £225,605 | 86 |
| 2006 | £144,000 | £249,966 | 75 |
| 2005 | £129,000 | £229,568 | 68 |
| 2004 | £97,000 | £176,171 | 59 |
| 2003 | £78,500 | £144,616 | 82 |
| 2002 | £62,000 | £116,652 | 83 |
| 2001 | £57,800 | £111,118 | 72 |
| 2000 | £52,000 | £102,050 | 83 |
| 1999 | £49,000 | £97,654 | 90 |
| 1998 | £48,000 | £96,891 | 121 |
| 1997 | £49,200 | £100,899 | 90 |
| 1996 | £42,000 | £88,576 | 60 |
| 1995 | £47,700 | £103,692 | 58 |
In cash terms the typical SA8 3 home went from £47,700 in 1995 to £220,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 112%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2006. The market now sits about 12% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA8 3 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 2005 (+33.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−20.4%). 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) | −9.0% | −11.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.9% | +0.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.9% | +0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
SA8 3 recorded 19 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 76 sales a year before the financial crisis and 60 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around SA8 3
The local authority for SA8 3 is Neath Port Talbot, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £681 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £493 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £967, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Neath Port Talbot
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £220,000 median purchase price, a rent of £681 a month (£8,172 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
The shape of the SA8 3 market
Only 19 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the SA8 district median, SA8 3 sits 16% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: SA8 3 (Alltwen)
How much did a house sell for in SA8 3 (Alltwen)?
Are property prices falling in SA8 3 (Alltwen)?
Is SA8 3 (Alltwen) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to SA8 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 27% over five years in cash and flat 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 is for sale in SA8 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA8 district, not just SA8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every SA8 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
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 | — | £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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in SA8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SA8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA8 4 | £177,500 | 29 |
Zoom out to the full SA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in SA8 3? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in SA8 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the SA8 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded SA8 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working SA8 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SA8 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA8 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SA8 3 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.
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.