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Abercraf market report SA9 2, Swansea
The SA9 2 (Abercraf) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,272 HM Land Registry entries for SA9 2 (Swansea), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 32 registered 2026 sales put the SA9 2 (Swansea) median at £156,500, up 24% on five years earlier, with a mean of £182,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £1,790 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 3,272 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
SA9 2 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 2 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 SA9 2 sells for
The SA9 2 median stands at £156,500 for 2026, built from 32 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £182,700, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in SA9 2
Per square metre, SA9 2 homes have averaged around £1,790 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts SA9 2 45% below the country at large.
The price of a typical SA9 2 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 | £156,500 | £156,500 | 32 |
| 2025 | £150,000 | £153,587 | 100 |
| 2024 | £145,000 | £154,165 | 99 |
| 2023 | £159,000 | £174,702 | 100 |
| 2022 | £140,000 | £164,166 | 119 |
| 2021 | £126,000 | £159,532 | 129 |
| 2020 | £115,000 | £149,215 | 86 |
| 2019 | £120,000 | £157,291 | 107 |
| 2018 | £109,000 | £145,299 | 94 |
| 2017 | £98,000 | £133,662 | 115 |
| 2016 | £90,000 | £125,911 | 117 |
| 2015 | £107,000 | £151,191 | 124 |
| 2014 | £97,200 | £137,895 | 136 |
| 2013 | £90,000 | £129,501 | 87 |
| 2012 | £106,000 | £156,019 | 102 |
| 2011 | £100,000 | £150,962 | 100 |
| 2010 | £100,000 | £156,826 | 93 |
| 2009 | £90,000 | £144,676 | 73 |
| 2008 | £95,000 | £155,725 | 69 |
| 2007 | £102,000 | £173,020 | 111 |
| 2006 | £87,000 | £151,021 | 129 |
| 2005 | £75,000 | £133,470 | 102 |
| 2004 | £68,000 | £123,501 | 128 |
| 2003 | £48,000 | £88,428 | 133 |
| 2002 | £37,500 | £70,556 | 152 |
| 2001 | £35,000 | £67,286 | 92 |
| 2000 | £31,800 | £62,408 | 96 |
| 1999 | £33,000 | £65,767 | 93 |
| 1998 | £29,000 | £58,539 | 95 |
| 1997 | £31,200 | £63,985 | 104 |
| 1996 | £26,500 | £55,887 | 84 |
| 1995 | £30,000 | £65,215 | 71 |
In cash terms the typical SA9 2 home went from £30,000 in 1995 to £156,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 140%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 10% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the SA9 2 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 (+41.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2016 (−15.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What SA9 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.3% | +1.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.4% | −0.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
How many homes change hands in SA9 2
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in SA9 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 118 sales a year before the financial crisis and 90 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 tenants pay around SA9 2
For renting purposes SA9 2 sits in Neath Port Talbot. The ONS average private rent there is £681 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £156,500 median sold price, £681 a month is £8,172 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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 kind of market SA9 2 is
Only 32 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes SA9 2 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.
SA9 2 (Abercraf): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in SA9 2 (Abercraf)?
Are property prices falling in SA9 2 (Abercraf)?
Is SA9 2 (Abercraf) a good place to buy a house?
Where do SA9 2 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 24% 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 you could buy in SA9 now
The live side of the market holds 36 homes at the moment, listed by 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole SA9 district, not just SA9 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 33% 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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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 →
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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%) | — | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, SA area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in SA9
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of SA9, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| SA9 1 | £166,000 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full SA9 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how SA9 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in SA9 2? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at SA9 2'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 SA9 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with SA9 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual SA9 2 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.