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Wookey market report BA5 3, Wells
The standing BA5 3 (Wookey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,844 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BA5 3 (Wells) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BA5 3 (Wells) came in at £320,500, out of 24 registered, up 3% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £417,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,880 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 2,844 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BA5 3 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 3 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 3 homes really sell for
Across 24 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BA5 3 home went for £320,500. The mean is £417,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
Price per square metre in BA5 3
A square metre of BA5 3 home has cost about £3,880 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 3 runs 12% above it.
BA5 3's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,500 | £320,500 | 24 |
| 2025 | £390,000 | £399,326 | 65 |
| 2024 | £350,000 | £372,122 | 61 |
| 2023 | £370,000 | £406,540 | 63 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 69 |
| 2021 | £312,500 | £395,665 | 113 |
| 2020 | £298,800 | £387,699 | 68 |
| 2019 | £274,500 | £359,804 | 72 |
| 2018 | £248,500 | £331,255 | 72 |
| 2017 | £252,500 | £344,385 | 92 |
| 2016 | £267,500 | £374,235 | 88 |
| 2015 | £218,500 | £308,741 | 71 |
| 2014 | £234,000 | £331,970 | 98 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 78 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 67 |
| 2011 | £250,000 | £377,404 | 63 |
| 2010 | £203,800 | £319,611 | 68 |
| 2009 | £185,000 | £297,389 | 75 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 53 |
| 2007 | £221,000 | £374,878 | 114 |
| 2006 | £183,800 | £319,053 | 90 |
| 2005 | £179,000 | £318,548 | 79 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 95 |
| 2003 | £154,000 | £283,705 | 92 |
| 2002 | £129,200 | £243,089 | 126 |
| 2001 | £104,500 | £200,896 | 128 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 107 |
| 1999 | £86,000 | £171,394 | 140 |
| 1998 | £75,500 | £152,402 | 160 |
| 1997 | £69,000 | £141,505 | 147 |
| 1996 | £62,800 | £132,442 | 122 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical BA5 3 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £320,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 192%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BA5 3 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 1996 (+24.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−17.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BA5 3 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −17.8% | −19.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
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 3 recorded 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 104 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 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.
Reading the BA5 3 market
This is a thin market: 24 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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.
The rental side of BA5 3
For renting purposes BA5 3 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.
Against the £320,500 median purchase price, a rent of £990 a month (£11,880 a year) works out at a 3.7% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Asked and answered: BA5 3 (Wookey)
Is BA5 3 (Wookey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BA5 3 (Wookey)?
Are property prices falling in BA5 3 (Wookey)?
Where do BA5 3 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in BA5 now
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
35% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. 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 →
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.
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. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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.
Five-year change in the median, BA area districts
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 2 | £325,000 | 59 |
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 3: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BA5 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BA5 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BA5 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BA5 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BA5 3.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BA5 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BA5 3 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.
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.