Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot house prices are built from 82 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 17 Oct 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £86,250. Across the 5 years from 1996 to 2001 the median moved +25.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +13.5%.
Median price paid
£86,250
Change in cash, 1996–2001
+25.6%
Change in real terms
+13.5%
HM Land Registry82 salesLatest sale 17 Oct 2025
Section 01
How Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot prices moved
The chart tracks the median Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2001. 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 | 2 | £43,998 | £97,695 |
| 2000s | 2 | £55,250 | £100,649 |
The highest yearly median on record for Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot is £59,250 in 1999; the lowest is £43,998 in 1996. Across the full 6-year record the cash median has moved from £43,998 to £55,250.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,441, so the real change over the whole record is +13.5% — about +2.57% 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: +25.6% in cash against +13.5% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 17 Oct 2025 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 41 | 1 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £179,995 | £183,908 |
| 71 | 16 Dec 2024 | Detached | £247,000 | £259,903 |
| 41a | 2 Dec 2024 | Semi-detached | £100,000 | £105,224 |
| 28 | 29 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £155,000 | £163,097 |
| 36 | 15 Dec 2023 | Terraced | £213,000 | £230,138 |
| 56 | 13 Dec 2023 | Detached | £245,000 | £264,713 |
| 55 | 1 Feb 2023 | Detached | £150,000 | £162,069 |
| 41 | 14 Apr 2022 | Terraced | £146,000 | £169,154 |
| 60 | 4 Dec 2020 | Detached | £200,000 | £258,953 |
| 20 | 18 Oct 2019 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £176,577 |
| 59 | 26 Jul 2019 | Detached | £195,000 | £255,056 |
| 27 | 8 May 2018 | Terraced | £125,000 | £166,588 |
| 56 | 12 Mar 2018 | Detached | £160,000 | £213,233 |
| 36 | 17 Jan 2018 | Terraced | £155,000 | £206,569 |
| 33 | 28 Jun 2017 | Semi-detached | £155,000 | £210,956 |
| 30 | 5 May 2017 | Detached | £178,000 | £242,259 |
| 32 | 13 Apr 2017 | Semi-detached | £135,000 | £183,736 |
| 29 | 7 Dec 2015 | Semi-detached | £95,000 | £133,950 |
| 50 | 24 Apr 2015 | Terraced | £119,000 | £167,790 |
| 42 | 4 Jul 2014 | Terraced | £91,000 | £130,529 |
| 13 | 15 Apr 2014 | Detached | £175,000 | £251,017 |
| 57 | 17 Dec 2013 | Detached | £160,000 | £233,299 |
| 58 | 11 Dec 2013 | Detached | £174,995 | £255,163 |
| 48 | 29 Oct 2013 | Semi-detached | £77,250 | £112,640 |
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 Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 Gwaun Afan | £40,000 (1996) | £179,995 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.6% |
| 71 Gwaun Afan | £130,000 (2012) | £247,000 (2024) | +5.5% | +2.5% |
| 41A Gwaun Afan | £30,000 (1999) | £100,000 (2024) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 36 Gwaun Afan | £134,000 (2005) | £213,000 (2023) | +2.6% | -0.3% |
| 56 Gwaun Afan | £65,000 (1995) | £245,000 (2023) | +4.9% | +2.2% |
| 55 Gwaun Afan | £44,000 (1996) | £150,000 (2023) | +4.6% | +2.0% |
| 27 Gwaun Afan | £48,000 (2002) | £125,000 (2018) | +6.2% | +3.7% |
| 33 Gwaun Afan | £149,950 (2010) | £155,000 (2017) | +0.5% | -1.8% |
| 30 Gwaun Afan | £83,000 (2002) | £178,000 (2017) | +5.2% | +2.8% |
| 32 Gwaun Afan | £59,500 (1999) | £135,000 (2017) | +4.7% | +2.3% |
| 29 Gwaun Afan | £47,500 (1998) | £95,000 (2015) | +4.2% | +1.8% |
| 50 Gwaun Afan | £105,000 (2010) | £119,000 (2015) | +2.5% | +0.0% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 31 | 37.8% | £108,000 | £44,000 – £247,000 |
| Semi-detached | 26 | 31.7% | £59,000 | £30,000 – £170,000 |
| Terraced | 25 | 30.5% | £91,000 | £40,000 – £213,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot
0 of the sales on record are leasehold and 82 freehold — 0.0% 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.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 0 | 0.0% | — |
| Freehold | 82 | 100.0% | £86,250 |
A further 1 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 Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot
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 £86,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.56% 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.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of SA12, 119 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 51 violent, 3 burglary, 2 vehicle-related and 14 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times quieter.
Against the 142,289 residents the 2021 census counted in Neath Port Talbot, that is 0.84 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baglan Rail Station | Rail | 1.3 km |
| Port Talbot Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 2.1 km |
| Briton Ferry Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
| Neath Rail Station | Rail | 6.1 km |
Section 09
How Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot sits below that national figure — -45.2%.
Within Port Talbot the street ranks 257 of 642 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £84,000 (+2.7%).
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.
The full range on record runs from £30,000 to £247,000. 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.
Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot 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
Streets nearby
- Cae Glas£85,995 median
- Victoria Road£105,000 median
- Mariners Point£114,995 median
- Western Avenue£86,750 median
- Ynys Y Wern£143,000 median
- Harvey Crescent£54,625 median
- Abbottsmoor£124,995 median
- Mariners Quay£161,995 median
- Dinas Baglan Road£133,500 median
- Village Gardens£69,000 median
- Tyn Y Twr£124,500 median
- Afandale£56,498 median
- Albion Road£79,044 median
- Jersey Quay£147,995 median
- Cathedral Way£89,950 median
- St Pauls Road£82,250 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 41 Gwaun Afan6 sales
- 56 Gwaun Afan5 sales
- 36 Gwaun Afan4 sales
- 48 Gwaun Afan4 sales
- 16 Gwaun Afan4 sales
- 41A Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 30 Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 32 Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 50 Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 7 Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 18 Gwaun Afan3 sales
- 71 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 55 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 27 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 33 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 29 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 35 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 47 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 26 Gwaun Afan2 sales
- 17 Gwaun Afan2 sales
Back to Port Talbot house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot?
The median price paid in Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot across every sale on the register is £86,250. 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 Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot?
82 sales are on record for Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot, the most recent completing on 17 Oct 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +25.6% between 1996 and 2001. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +13.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £59,250, set in 1999. 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 Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot?
No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 17 Oct 2025. 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, “Gwaun Afan, Port Talbot 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.