SA1 3 house prices are built from 2,007 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 29 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £105,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +33.3% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -4.5%.
Median price paid
£105,500
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+33.3%
Change in real terms
-4.5%
Median per m²
£1,224
HM Land Registry2,007 sales413 with floor areaLatest sale 29 May 2026
Section 01
How SA1 3 prices moved
The chart tracks the median SA1 3 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £42,000 | £93,260 |
| 2000s | 10 | £104,000 | £189,457 |
| 2010s | 10 | £116,500 | £164,265 |
| 2020s | 7 | £161,250 | £164,755 |
The highest yearly median on record for SA1 3 is £167,500 in 2024; the lowest is £38,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £38,000 to £160,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £84,378, so the real change over the whole record is +89.6% — about +2.09% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +33.3% in cash against -4.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 13 EXCELSIOR, 3 Princess Way | 29 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 20 Richardson Street | 28 May 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 23 Clarence Street | 17 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £105,000 | £105,000 |
| 5 Burrows Road | 1 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £163,000 | £163,000 |
| 2 Spring Terrace | 11 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 24D Beach Street | 3 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £64,000 | £64,000 |
| FLAT 49 MORGAN COURT St Helens Road | 11 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £70,000 | £70,000 |
| 32 Bond Street | 9 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 95 Rodney Street | 30 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £183,000 | £183,000 |
| 56 Argyle Street | 29 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| 5 Recorder Street | 23 Jan 2026 | Terraced | £145,000 | £145,000 |
| 17 Anchor Court | 19 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £249,950 | £255,384 |
| 9 Glamorgan Street | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| FLAT 52 MORGAN COURT St Helens Road | 21 Nov 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £87,500 | £89,402 |
| 89 Western Street | 5 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £164,000 | £167,565 |
| 15 Fleet Street | 31 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| FLAT 57 MORGAN COURT St Helens Road | 30 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £102,500 | £104,728 |
| 24 Bond Street | 27 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £127,500 | £130,272 |
| 1 Bathurst Street | 15 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £280,000 | £286,087 |
| 17 Pocketts Wharf | 3 Oct 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £214,565 |
| 38 Rodney Street | 3 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £200,000 | £204,348 |
| 111 Rodney Street | 3 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £185,100 | £189,124 |
| 35 Vincent Street | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £164,000 | £167,565 |
| 54 Victoria Quay | 26 Sep 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 32 Western Street | 24 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £167,000 | £170,630 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to SA1 3 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APARTMENT 13 EXCELSIOR, 3 Princess Way | £150,000 (2007) | £80,000 (2026) | -3.3% | -6.0% |
| 20 Richardson Street | £52,000 (1999) | £160,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.5% |
| 23 Clarence Street | £48,000 (2002) | £105,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 5 Burrows Road | £90,000 (2014) | £163,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.0% |
| 2 Spring Terrace | £124,500 (2005) | £170,000 (2026) | +1.5% | -1.4% |
| FLAT 49 MORGAN COURT St Helens Road | £144,950 (2005) | £70,000 (2026) | -3.4% | -6.1% |
| 32 Bond Street | £24,000 (1995) | £160,000 (2026) | +6.3% | +3.6% |
| 95 Rodney Street | £36,000 (1996) | £183,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 56 Argyle Street | £37,000 (1996) | £210,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
| 5 Recorder Street | £125,000 (2006) | £145,000 (2026) | +0.7% | -2.1% |
| 9 Glamorgan Street | £90,500 (2009) | £180,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.3% |
| 17 Anchor Court | £150,000 (2011) | £249,950 (2025) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. SA1 3 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 1,337 | 66.6% | £95,000 | £5,000 – £360,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 565 | 28.2% | £127,500 | £13,500 – £346,000 |
| Semi-detached | 70 | 3.5% | £108,000 | £15,000 – £355,000 |
| Detached | 35 | 1.7% | £117,500 | £25,000 – £555,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in SA1 3
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 729 certificates cover SA1 3, and their median floor area is 63 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -17.1%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 63 m² | about 678 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 46 m² | about 495 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 91 m² | about 980 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 42.0% | 306 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 3.2% | 23 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in SA1 3
628 of the sales on record are leasehold and 1,379 freehold — 31.3% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £125,000 and the median freehold sale £97,000 — a gap of -22.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 628 | 31.3% | £125,000 |
| Freehold | 1,379 | 68.7% | £97,000 |
| New build | 62 | 3.1% | £146,450 |
| Existing home | 1,945 | 96.9% | £105,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +39.5%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 276 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in SA1 3
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Neath Port Talbot, 40.1% of 75,887 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 5.0% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,102 | 1.5% |
| B | 5,304 | 7.0% |
| C | 24,055 | 31.7% |
| D | 29,984 | 39.5% |
| E | 11,617 | 15.3% |
| F | 2,932 | 3.9% |
| G | 893 | 1.2% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Neath Port Talbot at £687 a month as of Jun 2026 — £497 for a one-bedroom home and £722 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £105,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.81% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around SA1 3
The 2021 census counted 142,289 residents in Neath Port Talbot across 62,377 households. 66.7% of those households own their home and 33.1% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Swansea Rail Station | Rail | 0.2 km |
| Llansamlet Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Gowerton Rail Station | Rail | 7.0 km |
| Skewen Rail Station | Rail | 7.5 km |
Section 09
How SA1 3 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. SA1 3 sits below that national figure — -33.0%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,224 per square metre, across 413 of the 2,007 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £5,000 to £555,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
SA1 3 sits in Neath Port Talbot, in Wales.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Neath Port Talbot at 4.4 times median local earnings of £37,417 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Other sectors in SA1
- SA1 1£140,000 median
- SA1 2£77,000 median
- SA1 4£87,998 median
- SA1 5£85,000 median
- SA1 6£80,000 median
- SA1 7£100,000 median
- SA1 8£104,998 median
The wider district is SA1.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in SA1 3?
The median price paid in SA1 3 across every sale on the register is £105,500. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in SA1 3?
2,007 sales are on record for SA1 3, the most recent completing on 29 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have SA1 3 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +33.3% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -4.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were SA1 3 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £167,500, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in SA1 3?
£1,224 per square metre, from the 413 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 29 May 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “SA1 3 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.