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Merriott market report TA16
The TA16 (Merriott) 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: 1,085 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in TA16 (Merriott) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to June 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 18 registered 2026 sales put the TA16 (Merriott) median at £292,500, up 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £307,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,190 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 1,085 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
TA16 is the postcode district covering Merriott in Merriott. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where TA16 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 TA16 homes really sell for
The 2026 median for TA16 is £292,500, taken from 18 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £307,300, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in TA16
A square metre of TA16 home has cost about £3,190 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, TA16 runs 3% above it.
TA16's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £292,500 | £292,500 | 18 |
| 2025 | £266,000 | £272,361 | 24 |
| 2024 | £287,000 | £305,140 | 30 |
| 2023 | £269,000 | £295,565 | 28 |
| 2022 | £260,500 | £305,466 | 34 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 57 |
| 2020 | £245,000 | £317,893 | 27 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 43 |
| 2018 | £238,800 | £318,325 | 52 |
| 2017 | £268,500 | £366,207 | 31 |
| 2016 | £208,000 | £290,994 | 51 |
| 2015 | £218,500 | £308,741 | 34 |
| 2014 | £180,000 | £255,361 | 30 |
| 2013 | £162,200 | £233,390 | 19 |
| 2012 | £215,000 | £316,453 | 23 |
| 2011 | £159,200 | £240,331 | 30 |
| 2010 | £181,000 | £283,855 | 22 |
| 2009 | £178,000 | £286,137 | 19 |
| 2008 | £220,000 | £360,626 | 17 |
| 2007 | £184,500 | £312,963 | 40 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 41 |
| 2005 | £177,500 | £315,878 | 30 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 35 |
| 2003 | £147,500 | £271,731 | 47 |
| 2002 | £109,500 | £206,023 | 30 |
| 2001 | £85,000 | £163,408 | 53 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 35 |
| 1999 | £66,000 | £131,535 | 32 |
| 1998 | £63,200 | £127,574 | 38 |
| 1997 | £63,000 | £129,200 | 46 |
| 1996 | £56,500 | £119,156 | 45 |
| 1995 | £52,200 | £113,475 | 24 |
In cash terms the typical TA16 home went from £52,200 in 1995 to £292,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 158%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2017, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2017 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TA16 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 2012 (+35.1% on the year before); the weakest, 2013 (−24.6%). 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) | +10.0% | +7.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.2% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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 terraced homes dominate the record here, 39% of the typed total.
Median by property type, TA16
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 | £515,000 (2024) | – | 267 |
| Semi-detached | £285,000 | 7 | 362 |
| Terraced | £315,000 | 7 | 404 |
How many homes change hands in TA16
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
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.
TA16 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 39 sales a year before the financial crisis and 27 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 homes rent for around TA16
The local authority for TA16 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 £292,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.1%. 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 TA16 is
This is a thin market: 30 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.
Asked and answered: TA16 (Merriott)
Are property prices falling in TA16 (Merriott)?
Is TA16 (Merriott) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA16 (Merriott)?
What happens to TA16 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 6% over five years in cash but down 16% 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.
TA16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in TA16 sold for. The live side of the market holds 17 homes at the moment, listed by 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 23% above the TA16 median sold price.
0% 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.
See every TA16 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in TA
Real sold prices by size across the TA 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 | — | £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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
TA16 ranks 13 of 24 in the TA 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 TA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TA16, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TA16 5 | £292,500 | 18 |
How TA16 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TA17 | £595,000 | +47% |
| TA22 | £425,000 | +25% |
| TA3 | £390,000 | +4% |
| TA11 | £382,000 | +14% |
| TA14 | £350,000 | +25% |
| TA10 | £345,000 | +13% |
| TA13 | £345,000 | -4% |
| TA5 | £341,000 | +22% |
| TA7 | £320,000 | +14% |
| TA4 | £295,000 | -9% |
| TA16 (this report) | £292,500 | +6% |
| TA24 | £285,000 | +6% |
| TA19 | £282,500 | -4% |
| TA8 | £275,000 | +11% |
| TA2 | £273,500 | +10% |
| TA12 | £272,500 | +5% |
| TA9 | £260,000 | +7% |
| TA21 | £260,000 | -4% |
| TA1 | £253,500 | +10% |
| TA20 | £250,000 | +2% |
| TA18 | £247,500 | +2% |
| TA23 | £244,000 | +5% |
| TA15 | £235,000 | -28% |
| TA6 | £233,000 | +14% |
Selling a home in TA16? 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 TA16'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TA16.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TA16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual TA16 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.