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Wookey market report BA5, Wells
The standing BA5 (Wookey) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 11,733 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BA5 (Wells) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BA5 (Wells) came in at £327,000, out of 131 registered, up 7% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £388,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,700 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 11,733 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BA5 is a postcode district covering Wells, Wookey, Westbury-sub-Mendip in Wells. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BA5 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
131 sales were registered in BA5 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £327,000. The mean works out at £388,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in BA5
A square metre of BA5 home has cost about £3,700 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BA5 sits 15% above the national market.
The price of a typical BA5 home, 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £327,000 | £327,000 | 131 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 318 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 317 |
| 2023 | £331,000 | £363,688 | 315 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 411 |
| 2021 | £305,000 | £386,169 | 498 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 326 |
| 2019 | £285,000 | £373,567 | 360 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 396 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 424 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 410 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 403 |
| 2014 | £216,000 | £306,434 | 451 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 336 |
| 2012 | £202,000 | £297,319 | 243 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 273 |
| 2010 | £205,000 | £321,493 | 263 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 289 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 219 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 424 |
| 2006 | £193,500 | £335,891 | 380 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 310 |
| 2004 | £178,500 | £324,191 | 393 |
| 2003 | £152,500 | £280,942 | 409 |
| 2002 | £137,000 | £257,764 | 504 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 452 |
| 2000 | £95,000 | £186,438 | 420 |
| 1999 | £80,500 | £160,432 | 447 |
| 1998 | £73,500 | £148,365 | 424 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 442 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 400 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 345 |
In cash terms the typical BA5 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £327,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 159%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 15% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BA5 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 (+30.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−18.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.4% | −4.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.4% | −3.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 30% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £562,500 against £182,500 for a flat, 3.1 times the price.
Median by property type, BA5
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £562,500 | 33 | 3,517 |
| Semi-detached | £323,000 | 34 | 3,045 |
| Terraced | £312,500 | 48 | 3,384 |
| Flats | £182,500 | 16 | 1,787 |
Sales activity in BA5
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
Over the last twelve months of data, 259 sales completed in BA5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 412 sales a year before the financial crisis and 298 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
How BA5 trades
Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, BA5 ranks 5 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
Rents around BA5
BA5 falls under Somerset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £990 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £674 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,580 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £327,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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 (Wookey)
Are property prices falling in BA5 (Wookey)?
Is BA5 (Wookey) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BA5 (Wookey)?
Will BA5 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 15% 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
Everything above is what homes in BA5 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 109 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 1% above the BA5 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 35% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"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 →
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BA prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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
BA5 ranks 8 of 19 in the BA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BA5, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA5 1 | £337,500 | 48 |
| BA5 2 | £325,000 | 59 |
| BA5 3 | £320,500 | 24 |
How BA5 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BA1 | £420,000 | -7% |
| BA2 | £395,000 | +4% |
| BA15 | £393,000 | +0% |
| BA10 | £390,000 | +3% |
| BA5 (this report) | £327,000 | +7% |
| BA3 | £310,000 | +17% |
| BA11 | £300,000 | -8% |
| BA12 | £290,000 | +0% |
| BA4 | £285,000 | +16% |
| BA6 | £285,000 | +10% |
| BA22 | £282,500 | -4% |
| BA16 | £280,000 | +12% |
| BA9 | £278,500 | +11% |
| BA14 | £270,000 | +5% |
| BA13 | £266,500 | +1% |
| BA20 | £252,500 | +13% |
| BA7 | £240,000 | -29% |
| BA8 | £230,000 | -17% |
| BA21 | £225,000 | +13% |
Selling a home in BA5? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BA5, open the average prices map and zoom from the BA5 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BA5 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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The live map plots every individual BA5 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.