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Mere market report BA12 8, Warminster
The BA12 8 (Mere) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 6,067 HM Land Registry entries for BA12 8 (Warminster), 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: 74 registered 2026 sales put the BA12 8 (Warminster) median at £270,000, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £301,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,430 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 6,067 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BA12 8 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BA12 (Warminster). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BA12 8 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 buyers actually paid in BA12 8
Take the 74 registered 2026 sales in BA12 8 and the middle price, the median, is £270,000. The mean lands at £301,700, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BA12 8
By floor space, homes in BA12 8 have sold for about £3,430 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BA12 8 trades 5% below the country as a whole.
BA12 8's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 74 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 209 |
| 2024 | £300,000 | £318,962 | 245 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 199 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 184 |
| 2021 | £255,000 | £322,863 | 209 |
| 2020 | £240,000 | £311,405 | 175 |
| 2019 | £252,500 | £330,967 | 182 |
| 2018 | £229,500 | £305,928 | 185 |
| 2017 | £200,000 | £272,780 | 145 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 182 |
| 2015 | £170,500 | £240,917 | 181 |
| 2014 | £163,000 | £231,244 | 191 |
| 2013 | £148,000 | £212,957 | 124 |
| 2012 | £168,000 | £247,275 | 137 |
| 2011 | £170,000 | £256,635 | 170 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 137 |
| 2009 | £145,800 | £234,375 | 113 |
| 2008 | £170,800 | £279,977 | 89 |
| 2007 | £165,500 | £280,734 | 221 |
| 2006 | £152,000 | £263,853 | 219 |
| 2005 | £150,000 | £266,940 | 157 |
| 2004 | £132,500 | £240,646 | 181 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 246 |
| 2002 | £95,000 | £178,742 | 247 |
| 2001 | £81,500 | £156,680 | 267 |
| 2000 | £72,000 | £141,300 | 240 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 274 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 254 |
| 1997 | £54,500 | £111,769 | 274 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 193 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical BA12 8 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 148%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BA12 8 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 (+36.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BA12 8 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −6.9% | −9.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.1% | −3.5% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.6% | +0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
Sales activity in BA12 8
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 74 sales completed in BA12 8. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 182 sales a year recently, against 222 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.
What kind of market BA12 8 is
The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
What homes rent for around BA12 8
The local authority for BA12 8 is Wiltshire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,064 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £736 a month here against £1,711 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Wiltshire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,064 a month is £12,768 a year, which against the £270,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.7%. 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.
BA12 8 (Mere): the questions that come up
Is BA12 8 (Mere) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BA12 8 (Mere)?
Are property prices falling in BA12 8 (Mere)?
Are BA12 8 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
BA12's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 146 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BA12 district, not just BA12 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BA12 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Bedroom by bedroom: BA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BA area, straight 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 | — | £320,000 | £425,000 (+33%) | £650,000 (+53%) | £965,000 (+48%) |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | £270,000 (+15%) | £328,000 (+21%) | £440,000 (+34%) | £755,000 (+72%) |
| Terraced | £214,997 | £250,000 (+16%) | £310,000 (+24%) | £475,000 (+53%) | £735,000 (+55%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £242,000 (+61%) | £425,000 (+76%) | £680,000 (+60%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BA12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BA12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA12 0 | £322,500 | 28 |
| BA12 6 | £399,500 | 28 |
| BA12 7 | £420,000 | 21 |
| BA12 9 | £245,000 | 42 |
Zoom out to the full BA12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BA12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BA12 8? 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 BA12 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BA12 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BA12 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BA12 8.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BA12 8 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BA12 8 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.