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Wookey market report BA5 2, Wells
The BA5 2 (Wookey) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 4,973 registered sales in BA5 2 (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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BA5 2 (Wells) is £325,000, from 59 registered sales, up 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £378,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,730 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,973 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 2 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 2 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 BA5 2 homes really sell for
59 sales were registered in BA5 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £325,000. The mean works out at £378,400, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BA5 2
A square metre of BA5 2 home has cost about £3,730 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BA5 2 runs 14% above it.
BA5 2's median sold price, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 59 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 145 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 147 |
| 2023 | £308,800 | £339,296 | 126 |
| 2022 | £290,000 | £340,058 | 156 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 186 |
| 2020 | £283,400 | £367,717 | 152 |
| 2019 | £274,000 | £359,148 | 157 |
| 2018 | £287,500 | £383,243 | 176 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 166 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 156 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 143 |
| 2014 | £193,000 | £273,804 | 174 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 149 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 113 |
| 2011 | £190,500 | £287,582 | 134 |
| 2010 | £190,000 | £297,969 | 105 |
| 2009 | £174,700 | £280,832 | 144 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 105 |
| 2007 | £212,400 | £360,290 | 173 |
| 2006 | £190,000 | £329,816 | 165 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 139 |
| 2004 | £174,500 | £316,926 | 186 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 216 |
| 2002 | £132,000 | £248,357 | 236 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 207 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 181 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 163 |
| 1998 | £69,000 | £139,281 | 153 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 167 |
| 1996 | £57,300 | £120,843 | 151 |
| 1995 | £56,800 | £123,474 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical BA5 2 home went from £56,800 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2018, and today's median remains roughly 15% under it: a 2018 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BA5 2 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 (+32.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−16.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BA5 2 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.2% | +0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.7% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −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.
How many homes change hands in BA5 2
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 59 sales completed in BA5 2. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 188 sales a year before the financial crisis and 127 a year over the last five. 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.
The shape of the BA5 2 market
Only 59 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BA5 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
The rental side of BA5 2
The local authority for BA5 2 is Somerset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £990 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £674 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,580, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £325,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 3.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What people ask about BA5 2 (Wookey)
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What happens to BA5 2 prices now?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 14% over five years in cash but down 10% 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.
On the market in BA5 today
Turning to what is actually available: 109 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BA5 district, not just BA5 2: 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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BA5 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in BA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BA area. 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. 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.
BA area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BA5
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BA5's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA5 1 | £337,500 | 48 |
| 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.
Before you sell in BA5 2: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BA5 2, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BA5 2's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BA5 2 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working BA5 2: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BA5 2.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BA5 2 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BA5 2 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.