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Puriton market report TA7 8, Bridgwater
The TA7 8 (Puriton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 3,625 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in TA7 8 (Bridgwater) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in TA7 8 (Bridgwater) sold for £295,000 in 2026, the median of 38 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier. The mean was £322,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,220 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 3,625 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like TA7 8 is a single group of streets within TA7 (Bridgwater), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where TA7 8 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 buyers actually paid in TA7 8
Across 38 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) TA7 8 home went for £295,000. The mean is £322,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in TA7 8
The last five years of sales put TA7 8 at roughly £3,220 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TA7 8 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
A typical TA7 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 38 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 94 |
| 2024 | £281,000 | £298,761 | 100 |
| 2023 | £278,000 | £305,454 | 85 |
| 2022 | £300,000 | £351,784 | 88 |
| 2021 | £257,200 | £325,648 | 150 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 84 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 141 |
| 2018 | £240,000 | £319,925 | 136 |
| 2017 | £230,000 | £313,697 | 116 |
| 2016 | £215,000 | £300,787 | 128 |
| 2015 | £200,000 | £282,600 | 132 |
| 2014 | £199,000 | £282,316 | 110 |
| 2013 | £185,000 | £266,197 | 103 |
| 2012 | £188,000 | £276,713 | 83 |
| 2011 | £184,000 | £277,769 | 72 |
| 2010 | £177,000 | £277,582 | 85 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 69 |
| 2008 | £184,100 | £301,779 | 50 |
| 2007 | £191,000 | £323,989 | 131 |
| 2006 | £180,000 | £312,457 | 159 |
| 2005 | £174,000 | £309,650 | 113 |
| 2004 | £163,500 | £296,948 | 122 |
| 2003 | £147,500 | £271,731 | 153 |
| 2002 | £126,000 | £237,068 | 157 |
| 2001 | £96,000 | £184,555 | 157 |
| 2000 | £89,200 | £175,055 | 166 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 155 |
| 1998 | £64,500 | £130,198 | 93 |
| 1997 | £58,000 | £118,946 | 141 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 119 |
| 1995 | £58,000 | £126,083 | 95 |
In cash terms the typical TA7 8 home went from £58,000 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 134%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TA7 8 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 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−7.3%). 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) | −4.8% | −7.1% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −2.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in TA7 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 38 sales completed in TA7 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 145 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around TA7 8
TA7 8 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.
£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.
What kind of market TA7 8 is
This is a thin market: 38 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. Against the TA7 district median, TA7 8 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
TA7 8 (Puriton): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in TA7 8 (Puriton)?
Is TA7 8 (Puriton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA7 8 (Puriton)?
What happens to TA7 8 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% 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.
What you could buy in TA7 now
Turning to what is actually available: 128 homes on the market right now, from 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TA7 district, not just TA7 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 29% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Station Road, Cossington, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7
- Main Road, Westonzoyland, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7
- Puriton Park, Puriton, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7
"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 TA7 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
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. 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.
TA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TA7
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of TA7, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TA7 0 | £328,500 | 26 |
| TA7 9 | £370,000 | 15 |
Zoom out to the full TA7 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TA7 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in TA7 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in TA7 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from TA7 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded TA7 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TA7 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to TA7 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual TA7 8 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.
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.