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Abercraf market report SA9 1, Swansea
The SA9 1 (Abercraf) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,703 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in SA9 1 (Swansea) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for SA9 1 (Swansea) is £166,000, from 24 registered sales, up 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £198,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,050 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,703 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
SA9 1 is one sector of SA9 (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 SA9 1 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.
Today's SA9 1 prices, from the sold record
The 2026 median for SA9 1 is £166,000, taken from 24 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £198,600, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
House prices per square metre in SA9 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of SA9 1 sales average about £2,050 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, SA9 1 runs 42% below it.
SA9 1's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £166,000 | £166,000 | 24 |
| 2025 | £190,000 | £194,543 | 98 |
| 2024 | £221,500 | £235,500 | 116 |
| 2023 | £165,000 | £181,295 | 85 |
| 2022 | £185,000 | £216,934 | 89 |
| 2021 | £140,000 | £177,258 | 105 |
| 2020 | £135,000 | £175,165 | 77 |
| 2019 | £124,000 | £162,534 | 93 |
| 2018 | £125,500 | £167,294 | 100 |
| 2017 | £120,000 | £163,668 | 82 |
| 2016 | £100,000 | £139,901 | 75 |
| 2015 | £106,500 | £150,485 | 84 |
| 2014 | £92,500 | £131,227 | 74 |
| 2013 | £108,000 | £155,401 | 63 |
| 2012 | £83,200 | £122,460 | 70 |
| 2011 | £105,200 | £158,812 | 72 |
| 2010 | £102,500 | £160,746 | 69 |
| 2009 | £108,700 | £174,736 | 72 |
| 2008 | £113,000 | £185,231 | 65 |
| 2007 | £114,000 | £193,376 | 108 |
| 2006 | £106,000 | £184,002 | 94 |
| 2005 | £93,000 | £165,503 | 95 |
| 2004 | £75,800 | £137,668 | 110 |
| 2003 | £73,000 | £134,484 | 94 |
| 2002 | £50,000 | £94,075 | 123 |
| 2001 | £43,200 | £83,050 | 84 |
| 2000 | £38,500 | £75,556 | 81 |
| 1999 | £39,000 | £77,725 | 88 |
| 1998 | £38,000 | £76,706 | 78 |
| 1997 | £34,000 | £69,727 | 91 |
| 1996 | £30,000 | £63,269 | 78 |
| 1995 | £30,600 | £66,520 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical SA9 1 home went from £30,600 in 1995 to £166,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 150%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2024. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA9 1 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 2003 (+46.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−20.9%). 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) | −12.6% | −14.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.5% | −1.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.2% | +1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
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
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 24 sales completed in SA9 1. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 82 sales a year recently, against 99 a year before 2008. 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.
The shape of the SA9 1 market
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
Rents around SA9 1
SA9 1 falls under Powys, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £620 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £461 a month here against £951 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Powys
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£620 a month is £7,440 a year, which against the £166,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.5%. 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 SA9 1 (Abercraf)
How much did a house sell for in SA9 1 (Abercraf)?
Are property prices falling in SA9 1 (Abercraf)?
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Will SA9 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 19% over five years in cash but down 6% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in SA9 today
Turning to what is actually available: 36 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA9 district, not just SA9 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. 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 SA9 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in SA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the SA area, 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%) | — | — |
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.
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 SA9
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of SA9, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA9 2 | £156,500 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full SA9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA9 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in SA9 1? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in SA9 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from SA9 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded SA9 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working SA9 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim SA9 1.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to SA9 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every SA9 1 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.