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Alltwen market report SA8, Swansea
The SA8 (Alltwen) 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: 5,468 sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA8 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical SA8 (Swansea) home changed hands for £190,000 in 2026 (median of 48 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier), with the mean at £211,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,170 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,468 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district SA8 covering Alltwen, Cwmtawe, Pontardawe sits in Swansea. 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 SA8 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.
SA8 sold prices: where the market stands
Across 48 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) SA8 home went for £190,000. The mean is £211,800, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in SA8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in SA8 costs about £2,170 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 runs 33% below it.
The price of a typical SA8 home, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £190,000 | £190,000 | 48 |
| 2025 | £210,000 | £215,022 | 175 |
| 2024 | £200,000 | £212,641 | 160 |
| 2023 | £195,200 | £214,477 | 144 |
| 2022 | £170,200 | £199,579 | 156 |
| 2021 | £160,000 | £202,581 | 197 |
| 2020 | £167,000 | £216,686 | 184 |
| 2019 | £160,000 | £209,722 | 188 |
| 2018 | £135,000 | £179,958 | 181 |
| 2017 | £145,000 | £197,765 | 226 |
| 2016 | £140,000 | £195,861 | 195 |
| 2015 | £132,500 | £187,223 | 209 |
| 2014 | £130,000 | £184,428 | 170 |
| 2013 | £123,000 | £176,985 | 168 |
| 2012 | £113,000 | £166,322 | 111 |
| 2011 | £122,500 | £184,928 | 106 |
| 2010 | £122,000 | £191,327 | 129 |
| 2009 | £125,800 | £202,225 | 120 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 123 |
| 2007 | £134,200 | £227,641 | 242 |
| 2006 | £125,000 | £216,984 | 184 |
| 2005 | £113,500 | £201,984 | 178 |
| 2004 | £90,000 | £163,458 | 158 |
| 2003 | £71,500 | £131,720 | 225 |
| 2002 | £58,500 | £110,067 | 233 |
| 2001 | £56,000 | £107,657 | 179 |
| 2000 | £50,000 | £98,125 | 185 |
| 1999 | £47,000 | £93,669 | 188 |
| 1998 | £45,000 | £90,836 | 212 |
| 1997 | £45,000 | £92,286 | 193 |
| 1996 | £39,000 | £82,249 | 144 |
| 1995 | £47,000 | £102,171 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical SA8 home went from £47,000 in 1995 to £190,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 86%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2008. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA8 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 (+26.1% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−17.0%). 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 years (since 2025) | −9.5% | −11.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.1% | −0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of semi-detached homes dominate the record here, 46% of the typed total. In 2020, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £210,000 against £73,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, SA8
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 | £278,800 | 20 | 2,193 |
| Semi-detached | £160,000 | 23 | 2,489 |
| Terraced | £138,500 (2025) | – | 717 |
| Flats | £73,000 (2020) | – | 21 |
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
SA8 recorded 112 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 198 sales a year before the financial crisis and 137 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 trades
Only 112 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA8 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Rents around SA8
For renting purposes SA8 sits in Neath Port Talbot. The ONS average private rent there is £681 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £493 a month here against £967 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Neath Port Talbot
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£681 a month is £8,172 a year, which against the £190,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.3%. 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.
What people ask about SA8 (Alltwen)
How much did a house sell for in SA8 (Alltwen)?
Are property prices falling in SA8 (Alltwen)?
Is SA8 (Alltwen) a good place to buy a house?
Are SA8 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.
What is for sale in SA8 right now
Everything above is what homes in SA8 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 28 homes on the market right now, from 2 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 22% above the SA8 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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...
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 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.
What another bedroom costs in SA
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
SA8 ranks 15 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.
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.
Inside SA8, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA8 3 | £220,000 | 19 |
| SA8 4 | £177,500 | 29 |
How SA8 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the SA area, and SA8 itself, which ranks 36 of 51 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| SA42 | £345,000 | -6% |
| SA3 | £342,500 | +0% |
| SA36 | £316,200 | +44% |
| SA41 | £300,000 | +40% |
| SA69 | £295,200 | -5% |
| SA39 | £295,000 | +56% |
| SA32 | £292,500 | -2% |
| SA63 | £290,000 | +3% |
| SA45 | £289,000 | +9% |
| SA67 | £288,500 | +22% |
| SA62 | £275,000 | +10% |
| SA68 | £270,000 | +15% |
| SA35 | £268,500 | +21% |
| SA34 | £268,000 | +3% |
| SA19 | £265,800 | +13% |
| SA33 | £263,500 | +12% |
| SA40 | £250,000 | +49% |
| SA44 | £246,800 | +7% |
| SA2 | £240,000 | +6% |
| SA46 | £238,000 | +6% |
| SA38 | £235,000 | -15% |
| SA37 | £230,000 | -26% |
| SA70 | £230,000 | -10% |
| SA8 (this report) | £190,000 | +19% |
Thinking of selling in SA8? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA8'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 SA8: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SA8.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.