That is the middle of 154 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.3 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
154 homes sold in three years: 79 detached houses, 42 semi-detached houses, 3 terraced houses and 30 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£445K
median sale · 79 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£365K–£580K
Last 12 months
£465K13 sold
Semi-detached houses£353K
median sale · 42 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£308K–£410K
Last 12 months
£339K10 sold
Flats and maisonettes£110K
median sale · 30 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£95K–£122K
Last 12 months
£100K8 sold
Fewer sales
Terraced houses: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: half of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses51%
Semi-detached houses27%
Terraced houses2%
Flats and maisonettes19%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Bishopston’s homes sold for between £270K and £468K
One sale in ten was under £110K and one in ten over £638K. 23% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £372,500, sits in the £300–400K band
154 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.3 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than Wales’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £76,950 in 1995 to £327,500 in the last 12 months (£271,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
33 sales in the last 12 months, against 84 in 2002, the busiest year, and 30 in 2008. Sales fell by 33% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 18%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against Wales
Bishopston costs more than Wales as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bishopston, every standard sale in Wales, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£80K
£123K
£228K
£283K
£365K
£328K
£465K
Semi-detached houses
£69K
£106K
£200K
£220K
£234K
£285K
£339K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£62K
—
£163K
£126K
£128K
£100K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
91 new homes have been sold in Bishopston since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 2011.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
22% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.2% sold leasehold in Bishopston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Bishopston Road is Bishopston’s busiest street, with 16 sales in three years
8 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Bishopston Road
SA3
16
£367,500
Mixed
2
Eastlands Park
SA3
10
£400,975
Mostly semi-detached houses
3
Manselfield Road
SA3
9
£410,000
Mostly detached houses
4
Oldway
SA3
7
£570,000
Mixed
5
Pennard Road
SA3
7
£540,000
Mixed
6
Beaufort Drive
SA3
7
£285,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
7
Kilfield Road
SA3
6
£447,750
Mostly detached houses
8
Belvedere Close
SA3
6
£324,975
Mostly detached houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Across West Glamorgan
Bishopston is the most expensive of 19 towns in West Glamorgan
Bishopston is one of West Glamorgan’s dearest towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Bishopston
What is the average house price in Bishopston?
The median home in Bishopston sold for £372,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 154 standard sales (£327,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £445,000, semi-detached houses £352,500 and flats and maisonettes £110,000.
Are house prices going up in Bishopston?
The median was £360,000 in 2025, down 5% on 2024 (£380,000), and £327,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Bishopston each year?
33 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 65 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Bishopston?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Oldway (SA3, £570,000), Pennard Road (SA3, £540,000) and Kilfield Road (SA3, £447,750).
Is Bishopston expensive for West Glamorgan?
Bishopston is the most expensive of 19 towns of 2,500 or more in West Glamorgan by median sale price.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0