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Wookey market report BA5 1, Wells
The BA5 1 (Wookey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 3,916 registered sales in BA5 1 (Wells) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BA5 1 (Wells) is £337,500, from 48 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £385,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,580 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,916 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like BA5 1 is a single group of streets within BA5 (Wells), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BA5 1 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 BA5 1
The BA5 1 median stands at £337,500 for 2026, built from 48 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £385,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BA5 1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BA5 1 sales average about £3,580 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BA5 1 trades 18% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BA5 1 home, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £337,500 | £337,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £350,000 | £358,370 | 108 |
| 2024 | £312,200 | £331,933 | 109 |
| 2023 | £362,500 | £398,299 | 126 |
| 2022 | £334,800 | £392,591 | 186 |
| 2021 | £322,500 | £408,327 | 199 |
| 2020 | £306,000 | £397,041 | 106 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 131 |
| 2018 | £296,000 | £394,574 | 148 |
| 2017 | £302,500 | £412,580 | 166 |
| 2016 | £274,900 | £384,588 | 166 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 189 |
| 2014 | £233,000 | £330,551 | 179 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 109 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 63 |
| 2011 | £236,500 | £357,024 | 76 |
| 2010 | £235,200 | £368,854 | 90 |
| 2009 | £223,500 | £359,278 | 70 |
| 2008 | £239,000 | £391,771 | 61 |
| 2007 | £217,800 | £369,449 | 137 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 125 |
| 2005 | £202,500 | £360,368 | 92 |
| 2004 | £198,000 | £359,607 | 112 |
| 2003 | £170,000 | £313,181 | 101 |
| 2002 | £154,000 | £289,750 | 142 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 117 |
| 2000 | £101,500 | £199,194 | 132 |
| 1999 | £91,800 | £182,953 | 144 |
| 1998 | £80,500 | £162,495 | 111 |
| 1997 | £67,500 | £138,429 | 128 |
| 1996 | £63,200 | £133,286 | 127 |
| 1995 | £69,700 | £151,517 | 118 |
In cash terms the typical BA5 1 home went from £69,700 in 1995 to £337,500 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 123%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BA5 1 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 2002 (+37.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−13.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BA5 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −3.6% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.9% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.3% | −0.5% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
How many homes change hands in BA5 1
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
BA5 1 recorded 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 115 sales a year recently, against 120 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.
Rents around BA5 1
For renting purposes BA5 1 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £674 a month here against £1,580 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£990 a month is £11,880 a year, which against the £337,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.5%. 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.
How BA5 1 trades
Only 48 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BA5 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
Asked and answered: BA5 1 (Wookey)
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Are BA5 1 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in BA5 right now
The live side of the market holds 109 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BA5 district, not just BA5 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 BA5 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 BA: the cost
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BA5
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BA5, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA5 2 | £325,000 | 59 |
| BA5 3 | £320,500 | 24 |
Zoom out to the full BA5 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BA5 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BA5 1? Price it on the evidence
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BA5 1'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BA5 1.
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See every individual BA5 1 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.
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.