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Buckland St Mary market report TA20, Chard
The standing TA20 (Buckland St Mary) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 11,991 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TA20 (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 July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in TA20 (Chard) came in at £250,000, out of 117 registered, up 2% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £270,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,040 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 11,991 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
TA20 is a postcode district covering Chard, Buckland St Mary, Forton in Chard. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where TA20 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.
TA20 sold prices: where the market stands
Take the 117 registered 2026 sales in TA20 and the middle price, the median, is £250,000. The mean lands at £270,800, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in TA20
Measured by floor area, the last five years of TA20 sales average about £3,040 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, TA20 sits 12% below the national market.
The price of a typical TA20 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £250,000 | £250,000 | 117 |
| 2025 | £250,000 | £255,978 | 269 |
| 2024 | £257,500 | £273,775 | 333 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 311 |
| 2022 | £265,000 | £310,743 | 419 |
| 2021 | £245,000 | £310,202 | 464 |
| 2020 | £220,000 | £285,455 | 331 |
| 2019 | £225,000 | £294,921 | 335 |
| 2018 | £200,000 | £266,604 | 337 |
| 2017 | £211,800 | £288,874 | 376 |
| 2016 | £180,000 | £251,822 | 388 |
| 2015 | £185,000 | £261,405 | 381 |
| 2014 | £185,000 | £262,455 | 377 |
| 2013 | £168,000 | £241,735 | 340 |
| 2012 | £156,000 | £229,613 | 296 |
| 2011 | £163,000 | £246,067 | 276 |
| 2010 | £169,000 | £265,036 | 296 |
| 2009 | £166,700 | £267,972 | 253 |
| 2008 | £160,500 | £263,093 | 257 |
| 2007 | £180,000 | £305,330 | 497 |
| 2006 | £166,000 | £288,155 | 485 |
| 2005 | £155,000 | £275,838 | 377 |
| 2004 | £149,200 | £270,976 | 452 |
| 2003 | £125,000 | £230,280 | 502 |
| 2002 | £101,000 | £190,031 | 501 |
| 2001 | £85,500 | £164,369 | 471 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 371 |
| 1999 | £68,000 | £135,520 | 502 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 467 |
| 1997 | £55,800 | £114,435 | 471 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 397 |
| 1995 | £50,000 | £108,692 | 342 |
In cash terms the typical TA20 home went from £50,000 in 1995 to £250,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 130%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2023. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TA20 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 (+23.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−10.8%). 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) | 0.0% | −2.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.4% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 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, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £403,000 against £112,500 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, TA20
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 | £403,000 | 40 | 4,586 |
| Semi-detached | £239,000 | 38 | 3,072 |
| Terraced | £155,000 | 31 | 3,573 |
| Flats | £112,500 | 8 | 760 |
How many homes change hands in TA20
How many homes change hands
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.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 236 sales completed in TA20. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 457 sales a year before the financial crisis and 290 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.
What homes rent for around TA20
The local authority for TA20 is Somerset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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 £250,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 4.8%: 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.
What kind of market TA20 is
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. In its area's price order TA20 comes 20 of 24, towards the cheaper end of the table.
Asked and answered: TA20 (Buckland St Mary)
How much did a house sell for in TA20 (Buckland St Mary)?
Are property prices falling in TA20 (Buckland St Mary)?
Is TA20 (Buckland St Mary) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to TA20 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in TA20 now
Everything above is what homes in TA20 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 241 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 34% above the TA20 median sold price.
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
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every TA20 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.
What another bedroom costs in TA
Real sold prices by size across the TA area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
TA20 ranks 19 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.
Five-year change in the median, TA area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside TA20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TA20 1 | £233,000 | 68 |
| TA20 2 | £276,000 | 38 |
| TA20 3 | £460,000 | 5 |
| TA20 4 | £334,500 | 6 |
How TA20 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 | £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 (this report) | £250,000 | +2% |
| TA18 | £247,500 | +2% |
| TA23 | £244,000 | +5% |
| TA15 | £235,000 | -28% |
| TA6 | £233,000 | +14% |
Selling in TA20? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TA20, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TA20's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TA20 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Estate agents working TA20: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim TA20.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TA20 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every TA20 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.
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.