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Washford market report TA23, Watchet
The standing TA23 (Washford) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 3,290 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in TA23 (Watchet) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical TA23 (Watchet) home changed hands for £244,000 in 2026 (median of 38 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier), with the mean at £262,900, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,070 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 3,290 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
TA23 is a postcode district covering Watchet, Washford, Roadwater in Watchet. 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 TA23 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.
TA23 sold prices: where the market stands
The TA23 median stands at £244,000 for 2026, built from 38 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £262,900, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in TA23
Measured by floor area, the last five years of TA23 sales average about £3,070 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving TA23 14% below the national figure.
The price of a typical TA23 home, 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 | £244,000 | £244,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £255,500 | £261,610 | 88 |
| 2024 | £265,000 | £281,749 | 103 |
| 2023 | £251,000 | £275,788 | 70 |
| 2022 | £262,600 | £307,928 | 95 |
| 2021 | £232,500 | £294,375 | 132 |
| 2020 | £215,000 | £278,967 | 77 |
| 2019 | £208,000 | £272,638 | 87 |
| 2018 | £217,500 | £289,932 | 126 |
| 2017 | £195,000 | £265,960 | 131 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 107 |
| 2015 | £184,500 | £260,699 | 115 |
| 2014 | £172,000 | £244,012 | 83 |
| 2013 | £142,000 | £204,324 | 88 |
| 2012 | £137,000 | £201,647 | 77 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 73 |
| 2010 | £150,500 | £236,023 | 64 |
| 2009 | £161,000 | £258,809 | 99 |
| 2008 | £160,000 | £262,274 | 64 |
| 2007 | £175,000 | £296,849 | 124 |
| 2006 | £159,500 | £276,872 | 157 |
| 2005 | £157,000 | £279,397 | 73 |
| 2004 | £144,000 | £261,532 | 101 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 122 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 159 |
| 2001 | £75,000 | £144,184 | 107 |
| 2000 | £67,000 | £131,488 | 130 |
| 1999 | £59,200 | £117,983 | 166 |
| 1998 | £56,200 | £113,444 | 122 |
| 1997 | £48,000 | £98,438 | 170 |
| 1996 | £47,200 | £99,543 | 72 |
| 1995 | £45,000 | £97,823 | 70 |
In cash terms the typical TA23 home went from £45,000 in 1995 to £244,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 149%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 21% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TA23 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 (+33.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−8.6%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.7% | +0.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
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, 36% of the typed total. In 2025, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £405,000 against £160,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, TA23
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 | £360,000 | 12 | 964 |
| Semi-detached | £244,000 | 12 | 888 |
| Terraced | £190,000 | 12 | 1,177 |
| Flats | £160,000 (2025) | – | 248 |
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
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 62 TA23 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 122 sales a year before the financial crisis and 79 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 shape of the TA23 market
Only 62 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes TA23 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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. Among the 24 measurable districts of its area, TA23 ranks 22 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around TA23
For renting purposes TA23 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £244,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 4.9%: 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.
Common questions on TA23 (Washford)
Is TA23 (Washford) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA23 (Washford)?
Are property prices falling in TA23 (Washford)?
What happens to TA23 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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 TA23 today
Everything above is what homes in TA23 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 81 homes on the market right now, from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 33% above the TA23 median sold price.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Hill View Road, Carhampton, Minehead, Somerset, TA24
- North Croft, Williton, Taunton, Somerset, TA4
- McKinley Terrace, Washford, Watchet, Somerset, TA23
"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 TA23 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in TA
What homes of each size actually sold for across the TA area, 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
TA23 ranks 15 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.
TA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside TA23, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TA23 0 | £244,000 | 38 |
How TA23 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 | £250,000 | +2% |
| TA18 | £247,500 | +2% |
| TA23 (this report) | £244,000 | +5% |
| TA15 | £235,000 | -28% |
| TA6 | £233,000 | +14% |
Thinking of selling in TA23? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at TA23'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 TA23.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with TA23 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual TA23 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.