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Henstridge market report BA8 0, Templecombe
The standing BA8 0 (Henstridge) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,483 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BA8 0 (Templecombe) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BA8 0 (Templecombe) is £230,000, from 21 registered sales, down 17% on five years earlier; the mean is £237,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,483 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 BA8 0 is a single group of streets within BA8 (Templecombe), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BA8 0 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 BA8 0 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for BA8 0 is £230,000, taken from 21 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £237,600, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BA8 0
By floor space, homes in BA8 0 have sold for about £3,210 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BA8 0 19% below the country at large.
The price of a typical BA8 0 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 | £230,000 | £230,000 | 21 |
| 2025 | £309,200 | £316,594 | 80 |
| 2024 | £297,500 | £316,304 | 54 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 69 |
| 2022 | £301,800 | £353,895 | 66 |
| 2021 | £277,500 | £351,351 | 74 |
| 2020 | £289,200 | £375,243 | 64 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 65 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 77 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 75 |
| 2016 | £197,500 | £276,304 | 76 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 81 |
| 2014 | £203,000 | £287,991 | 77 |
| 2013 | £184,000 | £264,758 | 61 |
| 2012 | £196,000 | £288,488 | 53 |
| 2011 | £205,000 | £309,471 | 52 |
| 2010 | £175,000 | £274,445 | 55 |
| 2009 | £208,000 | £334,362 | 57 |
| 2008 | £172,500 | £282,764 | 48 |
| 2007 | £185,000 | £313,812 | 109 |
| 2006 | £202,500 | £351,514 | 88 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 98 |
| 2004 | £192,500 | £349,618 | 110 |
| 2003 | £139,500 | £256,993 | 99 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 108 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 108 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 87 |
| 1999 | £80,000 | £159,436 | 107 |
| 1998 | £62,800 | £126,766 | 96 |
| 1997 | £64,200 | £131,661 | 102 |
| 1996 | £60,000 | £126,537 | 82 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 84 |
In cash terms the typical BA8 0 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £230,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 76%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 39% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BA8 0 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 2004 (+38.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−25.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BA8 0 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −25.6% | −27.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −3.7% | −8.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.5% | −1.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
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
Sales per year, counted
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The register shows 21 BA8 0 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 101 sales a year before the financial crisis and 58 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.
What homes rent for around BA8 0
For renting purposes BA8 0 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). 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 £230,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 5.2%: 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.
How BA8 0 trades
This is a thin market: 21 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
BA8 0 (Henstridge): the questions that come up
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What happens to BA8 0 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 17% over five years in cash but down 35% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BA8 today
The live side of the market holds 21 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BA8 district, not just BA8 0: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 38% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Templecombe, BA8, Templecombe
- Milborne Gardens, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Somerset, DT9
- Summerfields, Henstridge, Templecombe
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 BA8 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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BA area, 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Zoom out to the full BA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BA8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BA8 0? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BA8 0, open the average prices map and zoom from the BA8 0 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BA8 0 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 BA8 0: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BA8 0.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual BA8 0 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.