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Ansford market report BA7, Castle Cary
The BA7 (Ansford) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,524 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BA7 (Castle Cary) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 28 registered 2026 sales put the BA7 (Castle Cary) median at £240,000, down 29% on five years earlier, with a mean of £267,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,380 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,524 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BA7 covering Castle Cary, Ansford, Alford sits in Castle Cary. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BA7 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 BA7
28 sales were registered in BA7 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £240,000. The mean works out at £267,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BA7 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BA7 at roughly £3,380 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BA7 sits 16% below the national market.
BA7'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 | £240,000 | £240,000 | 28 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 62 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 61 |
| 2023 | £290,000 | £318,639 | 57 |
| 2022 | £319,200 | £374,298 | 76 |
| 2021 | £337,500 | £427,319 | 104 |
| 2020 | £279,000 | £362,008 | 90 |
| 2019 | £251,200 | £329,263 | 78 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 67 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 53 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 69 |
| 2015 | £184,500 | £260,699 | 90 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 73 |
| 2013 | £187,500 | £269,794 | 72 |
| 2012 | £177,500 | £261,258 | 60 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 41 |
| 2010 | £207,500 | £325,413 | 49 |
| 2009 | £151,500 | £243,538 | 52 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 55 |
| 2007 | £173,000 | £293,456 | 109 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 90 |
| 2005 | £163,000 | £290,074 | 68 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 78 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 103 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 113 |
| 2001 | £102,000 | £196,090 | 109 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 109 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 129 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 99 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 117 |
| 1996 | £50,000 | £105,448 | 97 |
| 1995 | £46,500 | £101,084 | 66 |
In cash terms the typical BA7 home went from £46,500 in 1995 to £240,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 137%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 44% 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 BA7 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 2010 (+37.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−24.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 37% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £525,000 against £151,500 for a flat, 3.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BA7
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 | £470,000 (2025) | – | 703 |
| Semi-detached | £287,500 | 8 | 670 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 13 | 918 |
| Flats | £151,500 (2024) | – | 204 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.1% | −13.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −6.6% | −10.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.8% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
BA7 recorded 63 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 97 sales a year before the financial crisis and 57 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
How BA7 trades
This is a thin market: 63 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. Among the 19 measurable districts of its area, BA7 ranks 17 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around BA7
BA7 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.
£990 a month is £11,880 a year, which against the £240,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
What people ask about BA7 (Ansford)
How much did a house sell for in BA7 (Ansford)?
Are property prices falling in BA7 (Ansford)?
Is BA7 (Ansford) a good place to buy a house?
Will BA7 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 29% over five years in cash but down 44% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in BA7 now
Everything above is what homes in BA7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 10 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 124% above the BA7 median sold price.
56% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Priorygate Court, Castle Cary
- Long Street, Galhampton, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22
- Priorygate Court, Castle Cary, Somerset, BA7
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BA7 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. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BA7 ranks 19 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.
Winners and losers across the BA area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BA7, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA7 7 | £240,000 | 28 |
How BA7 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 | £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 (this report) | £240,000 | -29% |
| BA8 | £230,000 | -17% |
| BA21 | £225,000 | +13% |
Selling a home in BA7? 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 BA7'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.
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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.