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Buckland St Mary market report TA20 1, Chard
The TA20 1 (Buckland St Mary) 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: 5,856 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TA20 1 (Chard) 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.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 68 registered 2026 sales put the TA20 1 (Chard) median at £233,000, up 9% on five years earlier, with a mean of £246,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £2,900 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,856 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like TA20 1 is a single group of streets within TA20 (Chard), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where TA20 1 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.
The going rate for a home in TA20 1
Take the 68 registered 2026 sales in TA20 1 and the middle price, the median, is £233,000. The mean lands at £246,600, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in TA20 1
The last five years of sales put TA20 1 at roughly £2,900 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving TA20 1 18% below the national figure.
TA20 1'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 | £233,000 | £233,000 | 68 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 129 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 169 |
| 2023 | £260,000 | £285,677 | 171 |
| 2022 | £240,000 | £281,427 | 221 |
| 2021 | £213,000 | £269,685 | 221 |
| 2020 | £191,200 | £248,086 | 150 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 179 |
| 2018 | £178,000 | £237,277 | 167 |
| 2017 | £194,500 | £265,278 | 199 |
| 2016 | £160,000 | £223,842 | 179 |
| 2015 | £172,000 | £243,036 | 173 |
| 2014 | £160,000 | £226,988 | 184 |
| 2013 | £152,500 | £219,432 | 166 |
| 2012 | £145,000 | £213,422 | 150 |
| 2011 | £147,000 | £221,913 | 139 |
| 2010 | £147,000 | £230,534 | 133 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 116 |
| 2008 | £145,000 | £237,686 | 133 |
| 2007 | £157,000 | £266,316 | 257 |
| 2006 | £145,000 | £251,701 | 238 |
| 2005 | £134,400 | £239,178 | 185 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 216 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 229 |
| 2002 | £85,000 | £159,927 | 233 |
| 2001 | £80,000 | £153,796 | 237 |
| 2000 | £65,200 | £127,955 | 152 |
| 1999 | £62,800 | £125,157 | 228 |
| 1998 | £51,500 | £103,956 | 223 |
| 1997 | £51,000 | £104,591 | 248 |
| 1996 | £50,500 | £106,502 | 201 |
| 1995 | £46,800 | £101,736 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical TA20 1 home went from £46,800 in 1995 to £233,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 129%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2023; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2023 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the TA20 1 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 2003 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−9.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What TA20 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.9% | −5.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 68 sales completed in TA20 1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 218 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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.
How TA20 1 trades
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.
What tenants pay around TA20 1
TA20 1 falls under Somerset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £990 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £674 a month here against £1,580 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £233,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 5.1%: 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.
Asked and answered: TA20 1 (Buckland St Mary)
Are property prices falling in TA20 1 (Buckland St Mary)?
Is TA20 1 (Buckland St Mary) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA20 1 (Buckland St Mary)?
Are TA20 1 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 9% over five years in cash but down 14% 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.
On the market in TA20 today
Turning to what is actually available: 241 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TA20 district, not just TA20 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% 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.
- Back Street, Winsham, Chard, Somerset, TA20
- Willow Way, Chard, Somerset, TA20
- Spicer Way, Chard, Somerset, TA20
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 TA20 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in TA
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the TA area. 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 | — | £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%) | — | — |
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. 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.
Five-year change in the median, TA area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in TA20
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of TA20, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TA20 2 | £276,000 | 38 |
| TA20 3 | £460,000 | 5 |
| TA20 4 | £334,500 | 6 |
Zoom out to the full TA20 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TA20 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in TA20 1? Price it on the evidence
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TA20 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TA20 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TA20 1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working TA20 1: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim TA20 1.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TA20 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TA20 1 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.