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Taunton market report TA
The TA (Taunton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 199,766 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the TA postcode area (Taunton) 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 2026 median for the TA postcode area (Taunton) is £270,000, from 2,054 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £309,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,160 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 199,766 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The figures for TA centred on Taunton run across 24 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.
Where TA 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 TA sells for
2,054 sales were registered in TA in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £270,000. The mean works out at £309,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in TA
The last five years of sales put TA at roughly £3,160 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TA trades 5% below the country as a whole.
The price of a typical TA 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 | £270,000 | £270,000 | 2,054 |
| 2025 | £280,000 | £286,696 | 5,321 |
| 2024 | £273,000 | £290,255 | 5,319 |
| 2023 | £279,000 | £306,553 | 4,925 |
| 2022 | £280,000 | £328,332 | 6,364 |
| 2021 | £257,000 | £325,395 | 7,972 |
| 2020 | £237,000 | £307,512 | 5,334 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 5,899 |
| 2018 | £220,000 | £293,264 | 6,251 |
| 2017 | £215,000 | £293,238 | 6,668 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 6,951 |
| 2015 | £193,000 | £272,709 | 6,548 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 6,506 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 5,429 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 4,670 |
| 2011 | £170,700 | £257,691 | 4,580 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 4,693 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 4,509 |
| 2008 | £175,000 | £286,862 | 4,003 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 7,858 |
| 2006 | £168,000 | £291,627 | 8,545 |
| 2005 | £162,500 | £289,185 | 6,371 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 7,424 |
| 2003 | £134,000 | £246,860 | 7,562 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 8,226 |
| 2001 | £87,500 | £168,214 | 8,307 |
| 2000 | £80,000 | £157,000 | 7,327 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 8,320 |
| 1998 | £63,400 | £127,977 | 6,989 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 7,374 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 6,337 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 5,130 |
In cash terms the typical TA home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £270,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 134%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 18% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TA 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 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−5.2%). 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) | −3.6% | −5.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.4% |
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, 33% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £415,000 against £145,000 for a flat, 2.9 times the price.
Median by property type, TA
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 | £415,000 | 671 | 66,359 |
| Semi-detached | £272,500 | 608 | 53,175 |
| Terraced | £220,000 | 568 | 60,559 |
| Flats | £145,000 | 207 | 19,673 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 4,310 TA 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 7,703 sales a year before the financial crisis and 4,797 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 rental side of TA
TA falls under Somerset, the local authority covering most of the TA area, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £990 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£990 a month is £11,880 a year, which against the £270,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.4%. 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 TA (Taunton)
Are property prices falling in TA (Taunton)?
Is TA (Taunton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA (Taunton)?
Are TA prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
TA's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in TA sold for. The live side of the market holds 2,855 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 28% above the TA median sold price.
26% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Derwent Grove, Taunton
- Meredith Close, Creech St. Michael, Taunton, Somerset, TA3
- Beercrocombe, Taunton
"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 TA 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 TA: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the TA area. 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 | — | £300,000 | £390,000 (+30%) | £570,000 (+46%) | £775,000 (+36%) |
| Semi-detached | £220,000 | £255,000 (+16%) | £295,000 (+16%) | £375,000 (+27%) | £492,500 (+31%) |
| Terraced | £190,000 | £220,000 (+16%) | £246,000 (+12%) | £325,000 (+32%) | £433,750 (+33%) |
| Flat | £127,000 | £167,500 (+32%) | £220,000 (+31%) | — | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the TA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the TA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every TA district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| TA17 Hinton St George, Dinnington | £595,000 | +47% | 2 |
| TA22 Dulverton, Brompton Regis | £425,000 | +25% | 11 |
| TA3 North Curry, Isle Abbots | £390,000 | +4% | 69 |
| TA11 Somerton, Keinton Mandeville | £382,000 | +14% | 65 |
| TA14 Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Norton-sub-Hamdon | £350,000 | +25% | 15 |
| TA10 Langport, Curry Rivel | £345,000 | +13% | 41 |
| TA13 South Petherton, Over Stratton | £345,000 | -4% | 23 |
| TA5 Cannington, Nether Stowey | £341,000 | +22% | 78 |
| TA7 Puriton, Polden Hills | £320,000 | +14% | 79 |
| TA4 Bicknoller, Bishops Lydeard | £295,000 | -9% | 110 |
| TA16 Merriott | £292,500 | +6% | 18 |
| TA24 Minehead, Porlock | £285,000 | +6% | 131 |
| TA19 Ilminster, Ashill | £282,500 | -4% | 85 |
| TA8 Burnham on Sea, Berrow | £275,000 | +11% | 146 |
| TA2 Taunton (north), Norton Fitzwarren | £273,500 | +10% | 219 |
| TA12 Martock, Kingsbury Episcopi | £272,500 | +5% | 32 |
| TA9 Highbridge, West Huntspill | £260,000 | +7% | 71 |
| TA21 Wellington, West Buckland | £260,000 | -4% | 123 |
| TA1 Taunton (south and town centre), Comeytrowe | £253,500 | +10% | 224 |
| TA20 Chard, Buckland St Mary | £250,000 | +2% | 117 |
| TA18 Crewkerne, Haselbury Plucknett | £247,500 | +2% | 70 |
| TA23 Watchet, Washford | £244,000 | +5% | 38 |
| TA15 Montacute | £235,000 | -28% | 2 |
| TA6 Bridgwater, North Petherton | £233,000 | +14% | 285 |
Selling in TA? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TA, open the average prices map and zoom from the TA shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TA 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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Dig further
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See every individual TA sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.