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Alltwen market report SA8 4, Swansea
The standing SA8 4 (Alltwen) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 3,130 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in SA8 4 (Swansea) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in SA8 4 (Swansea) came in at £177,500, out of 29 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £205,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,000 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 3,130 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
SA8 4 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside SA8 (Swansea). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where SA8 4 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 4
The SA8 4 median stands at £177,500 for 2026, built from 29 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £205,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SA8 4
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SA8 4 costs about £2,000 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SA8 4 runs 38% below it.
A typical SA8 4 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £177,500 | £177,500 | 29 |
| 2025 | £183,500 | £187,888 | 86 |
| 2024 | £181,000 | £192,440 | 88 |
| 2023 | £192,500 | £211,510 | 85 |
| 2022 | £164,200 | £192,543 | 93 |
| 2021 | £150,000 | £189,919 | 120 |
| 2020 | £145,000 | £188,140 | 88 |
| 2019 | £140,000 | £183,506 | 77 |
| 2018 | £130,000 | £173,292 | 109 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 144 |
| 2016 | £123,000 | £172,078 | 99 |
| 2015 | £124,500 | £175,919 | 122 |
| 2014 | £119,500 | £169,532 | 96 |
| 2013 | £105,000 | £151,085 | 80 |
| 2012 | £98,000 | £144,244 | 58 |
| 2011 | £114,000 | £172,096 | 62 |
| 2010 | £123,500 | £193,680 | 80 |
| 2009 | £145,000 | £233,089 | 75 |
| 2008 | £150,000 | £245,882 | 88 |
| 2007 | £135,000 | £228,998 | 156 |
| 2006 | £108,000 | £187,474 | 109 |
| 2005 | £100,000 | £177,960 | 110 |
| 2004 | £85,000 | £154,377 | 99 |
| 2003 | £65,000 | £119,746 | 143 |
| 2002 | £55,500 | £104,423 | 150 |
| 2001 | £49,000 | £94,200 | 107 |
| 2000 | £47,800 | £93,808 | 102 |
| 1999 | £42,000 | £83,704 | 98 |
| 1998 | £39,000 | £78,724 | 91 |
| 1997 | £40,000 | £82,032 | 103 |
| 1996 | £36,200 | £76,344 | 84 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 99 |
In cash terms the typical SA8 4 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £177,500 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 76%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 28% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the SA8 4 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 (+30.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−22.2%). 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) | −3.3% | −5.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SA8 4
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
SA8 4 recorded 29 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 76 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.
How SA8 4 trades
Only 29 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA8 4 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.
The rental side of SA8 4
The local authority for SA8 4 is Neath Port Talbot, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £681 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £493 a month for a typical one-bed to £967 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Neath Port Talbot
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £177,500 median purchase price, a rent of £681 a month (£8,172 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
SA8 4 (Alltwen): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in SA8 4 (Alltwen)?
Is SA8 4 (Alltwen) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in SA8 4 (Alltwen)?
Will SA8 4 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 SA8 now
The live side of the market holds 28 homes at the moment, listed by 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA8 district, not just SA8 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Ynysmeudwy Road, Pontardawe, Swansea,...
- James Street, Pontardawe, Swansea, Ne...
- Graig Road, Alltwen, Pontardawe, Swan...
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every SA8 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in SA: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SA area, from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in SA8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are SA8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA8 3 | £220,000 | 19 |
Zoom out to the full SA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA8 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in SA8 4: 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 SA8 4'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim SA8 4.
Keep digging
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about SA8 4. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA8 4 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.
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.