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Compton Bishop market report BS26, Axbridge
The BS26 (Compton Bishop) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 2,473 registered sales in BS26 (Axbridge) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 25 registered 2026 sales put the BS26 (Axbridge) median at £410,000, up 3% on five years earlier, with a mean of £395,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,600 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,473 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BS26 covering Axbridge, Compton Bishop, Loxton sits in Axbridge. 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 BS26 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 sells for
Take the 25 registered 2026 sales in BS26 and the middle price, the median, is £410,000. The mean lands at £395,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BS26
A square metre of BS26 home has cost about £3,600 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, BS26 runs 44% above it.
A typical BS26 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact 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 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. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% 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 BS26 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% |
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, 50% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £525,000 against £120,000 for a flat, 4.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BS26
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 | £455,000 | 13 | 1,215 |
| Semi-detached | £329,500 (2025) | – | 431 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 7 | 556 |
| Flats | £120,000 (2025) | – | 229 |
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 last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BS26 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 101 sales a year before the financial crisis and 51 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.
What tenants pay around BS26
The local authority for BS26 is Somerset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £410,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 2.9%. 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 kind of market BS26 is
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.
BS26 (Compton Bishop): the questions that come up
Is BS26 (Compton Bishop) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS26 (Compton Bishop)?
Are property prices falling in BS26 (Compton Bishop)?
The questions people bring to BS26 (Compton Bishop)
These are the recorded searches for the wider BS report family, answered with this page's own figures.
For searches like bristol short let index
: the ONS puts the average private rent in Somerset at £990 a month, a gross yield of about 2.9% against the £410,000 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Are BS26 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% 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 BS26 right now
Everything above is what homes in BS26 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 35 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% below the BS26 median sold price.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- West Street, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
- Biddisham Lane, Biddisham, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
- Sparrow Hill Way, Weare, Axbridge, Somerset, BS26
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 BS26 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BS: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BS 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 | — | £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%) | — |
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BS26 ranks 31 of 37 in the BS 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.
Five-year change in the median, BS area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BS26, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BS26 2 | £410,000 | 25 |
How BS26 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BS28 | £565,000 | +9% |
| BS9 | £530,000 | +4% |
| BS41 | £490,000 | -2% |
| BS25 | £480,000 | +21% |
| BS8 | £435,000 | -2% |
| BS7 | £425,000 | +12% |
| BS36 | £425,000 | +13% |
| BS40 | £425,000 | -3% |
| BS3 | £420,000 | +20% |
| BS6 | £420,000 | -2% |
| BS31 | £413,800 | +17% |
| BS26 (this report) | £410,000 | +3% |
| BS20 | £385,000 | +4% |
| BS48 | £372,500 | -1% |
| BS35 | £364,000 | +10% |
| BS32 | £362,200 | +16% |
| BS16 | £362,000 | +17% |
| BS21 | £355,000 | +10% |
| BS4 | £354,000 | +22% |
| BS27 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BS49 | £350,000 | +3% |
| BS5 | £345,000 | +19% |
| BS39 | £335,000 | +14% |
| BS34 | £325,000 | +15% |
Selling a home in BS26? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BS26, open the average prices map and zoom from the BS26 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BS26 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS26.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS26. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS26 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.
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.