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Compton Bishop market report BS26 2, Axbridge
The BS26 2 (Compton Bishop) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,473 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS26 2 (Axbridge) 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 2026 median for BS26 2 (Axbridge) is £410,000, from 25 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £395,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,473 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 BS26 2 is a single group of streets within BS26 (Axbridge), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BS26 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 a home in BS26 2 sells for
25 sales were registered in BS26 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £410,000. The mean works out at £395,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BS26 2
Per square metre, BS26 2 homes have averaged around £3,600 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BS26 2 44% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BS26 2 home, 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 | £410,000 | £410,000 | 25 |
| 2025 | £345,000 | £353,250 | 70 |
| 2024 | £399,200 | £424,432 | 56 |
| 2023 | £325,000 | £357,096 | 51 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 53 |
| 2021 | £400,000 | £506,452 | 125 |
| 2020 | £338,800 | £439,600 | 74 |
| 2019 | £298,000 | £390,607 | 44 |
| 2018 | £348,800 | £464,957 | 48 |
| 2017 | £345,000 | £470,545 | 72 |
| 2016 | £255,000 | £356,748 | 65 |
| 2015 | £286,200 | £404,401 | 72 |
| 2014 | £278,500 | £395,101 | 72 |
| 2013 | £295,000 | £424,476 | 59 |
| 2012 | £250,000 | £367,969 | 68 |
| 2011 | £289,200 | £436,581 | 36 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 62 |
| 2009 | £230,000 | £369,727 | 41 |
| 2008 | £233,100 | £382,100 | 40 |
| 2007 | £260,000 | £441,032 | 95 |
| 2006 | £272,000 | £472,157 | 107 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 81 |
| 2004 | £212,500 | £385,942 | 82 |
| 2003 | £182,000 | £335,288 | 118 |
| 2002 | £167,400 | £314,962 | 140 |
| 2001 | £123,500 | £237,422 | 97 |
| 2000 | £115,800 | £227,258 | 88 |
| 1999 | £89,800 | £178,967 | 116 |
| 1998 | £107,800 | £217,602 | 112 |
| 1997 | £95,800 | £196,466 | 110 |
| 1996 | £92,000 | £194,024 | 116 |
| 1995 | £83,000 | £180,429 | 78 |
In cash terms the typical BS26 2 home went from £83,000 in 1995 to £410,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 127%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS26 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 2006 (+47.0% on the year before); the weakest, 1999 (−16.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +18.8% | +16.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +4.9% | +1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.7% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BS26 2
Sales per year, counted
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, 25 sales completed in BS26 2. 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 51 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 BS26 2 market
Only 25 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS26 2 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
What tenants pay around BS26 2
For renting purposes BS26 2 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £410,000 median purchase price, a rent of £990 a month (£11,880 a year) works out at a 2.9% 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.
BS26 2 (Compton Bishop): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BS26 2 (Compton Bishop)?
Are property prices falling in BS26 2 (Compton Bishop)?
Is BS26 2 (Compton Bishop) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BS26 2 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.
On the market in BS26 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 35 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS26 district, not just BS26 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% 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.
- West Street, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
- Biddisham Lane, Biddisham, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
- Sparrow Hill Way, Weare, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
"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 BS26 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BS
Real sold prices by size across the BS 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 | — | £360,000 | £480,000 (+33%) | £710,000 (+48%) | £960,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £267,000 | £310,000 (+16%) | £372,000 (+20%) | £500,000 (+34%) | £857,110 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £253,750 | £299,000 (+18%) | £367,500 (+23%) | £500,000 (+36%) | £757,500 (+51%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £268,450 (+34%) | £415,000 (+55%) | £582,500 (+40%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BS area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Zoom out to the full BS26 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS26 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BS26 2? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS26 2'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS26 2.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS26 2. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS26 2 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.