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Bicknoller market report TA4, Taunton
The TA4 (Bicknoller) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 10,959 HM Land Registry entries for TA4 (Taunton), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in TA4 (Taunton) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 110 registered sales, down 9% on five years earlier. The mean was £358,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 10,959 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
TA4 is the postcode district covering Bicknoller, Bishops Lydeard, Cotford St. Luke in Taunton. 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 TA4 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.
TA4 sold prices: where the market stands
The TA4 median stands at £295,000 for 2026, built from 110 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £358,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
TA4 prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in TA4 have sold for about £3,310 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts TA4 4% above the country at large.
The price of a typical TA4 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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 110 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 266 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 330 |
| 2023 | £333,800 | £366,765 | 332 |
| 2022 | £316,000 | £370,546 | 483 |
| 2021 | £325,000 | £411,492 | 441 |
| 2020 | £282,500 | £366,550 | 276 |
| 2019 | £250,000 | £327,690 | 299 |
| 2018 | £255,000 | £339,920 | 303 |
| 2017 | £262,500 | £358,024 | 317 |
| 2016 | £250,000 | £349,752 | 357 |
| 2015 | £246,000 | £347,598 | 316 |
| 2014 | £228,000 | £323,458 | 309 |
| 2013 | £225,000 | £323,753 | 250 |
| 2012 | £228,000 | £335,588 | 261 |
| 2011 | £215,000 | £324,567 | 207 |
| 2010 | £228,700 | £358,660 | 256 |
| 2009 | £210,000 | £337,577 | 261 |
| 2008 | £235,200 | £385,542 | 194 |
| 2007 | £225,000 | £381,663 | 379 |
| 2006 | £201,000 | £348,910 | 455 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 410 |
| 2004 | £186,000 | £337,812 | 463 |
| 2003 | £167,200 | £308,023 | 422 |
| 2002 | £139,000 | £261,527 | 477 |
| 2001 | £118,800 | £228,387 | 532 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 491 |
| 1999 | £87,100 | £173,586 | 485 |
| 1998 | £82,500 | £166,532 | 401 |
| 1997 | £74,900 | £153,605 | 338 |
| 1996 | £69,100 | £145,729 | 302 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 236 |
In cash terms the typical TA4 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 126%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 28% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TA4 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 (+20.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). 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) | −6.3% | −8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.9% | −6.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.7% | −1.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.9% | −0.8% |
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, 46% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £125,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, TA4
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 | £450,000 | 49 | 5,013 |
| Semi-detached | £271,800 | 28 | 2,711 |
| Terraced | £222,500 | 25 | 2,713 |
| Flats | £125,000 | 8 | 522 |
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
TA4 recorded 218 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 454 sales a year before the financial crisis and 304 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.
The rental side of TA4
For renting purposes TA4 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). 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 £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.0%. 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.
Common questions on TA4 (Bicknoller)
Are property prices falling in TA4 (Bicknoller)?
Is TA4 (Bicknoller) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA4 (Bicknoller)?
Will TA4 prices rise from here?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 9% over five years in cash but down 28% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in TA4 right now
Everything above is what homes in TA4 sold for. The live side of the market holds 187 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 53% above the TA4 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Burge Crescent, Cotford St. Luke, Taunton
- Luscombe Road, Cotford St. Luke, Taunton
- West Street, Bishops Lydeard, 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 TA4 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: TA prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the TA area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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
TA4 ranks 23 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside TA4, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TA4 1 | £276,000 | 35 |
| TA4 2 | £270,000 | 27 |
| TA4 3 | £360,000 | 25 |
| TA4 4 | £315,000 | 23 |
How TA4 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 (this report) | £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 | £244,000 | +5% |
| TA15 | £235,000 | -28% |
| TA6 | £233,000 | +14% |
Selling a home in TA4? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TA4, open the average prices map and zoom from the TA4 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TA4 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working TA4: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim TA4.
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See every individual TA4 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.
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.