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Puriton market report TA7, Bridgwater
The TA7 (Puriton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 7,950 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in TA7 (Bridgwater) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales data to August 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 86 registered 2026 sales put the TA7 (Bridgwater) median at £331,000, up 18% on five years earlier, with a mean of £355,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,210 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 7,950 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district TA7 covering Puriton, Polden Hills, Westonzoyland sits in Bridgwater. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where TA7 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 a home in TA7 sells for
The 2026 median for TA7 is £331,000, taken from 86 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £355,800, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
House prices per square metre in TA7
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TA7 costs about £3,210 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts TA7 16% above the country at large.
A typical TA7 home, priced year by year (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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £331,000 | £331,000 | 86 |
| 2025 | £351,200 | £359,598 | 216 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 206 |
| 2023 | £307,500 | £337,867 | 162 |
| 2022 | £333,000 | £390,480 | 214 |
| 2021 | £280,000 | £354,516 | 329 |
| 2020 | £277,500 | £360,062 | 199 |
| 2019 | £257,500 | £337,521 | 242 |
| 2018 | £261,500 | £348,584 | 248 |
| 2017 | £270,000 | £368,253 | 267 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 275 |
| 2015 | £215,500 | £304,502 | 246 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 232 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 237 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 192 |
| 2011 | £230,000 | £347,212 | 169 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 178 |
| 2009 | £196,000 | £315,072 | 192 |
| 2008 | £200,000 | £327,842 | 125 |
| 2007 | £232,500 | £394,385 | 333 |
| 2006 | £217,200 | £377,031 | 334 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 233 |
| 2004 | £189,000 | £343,261 | 294 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 307 |
| 2002 | £144,000 | £270,935 | 350 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 337 |
| 2000 | £99,700 | £195,661 | 334 |
| 1999 | £84,500 | £168,404 | 340 |
| 1998 | £77,500 | £156,439 | 243 |
| 1997 | £72,000 | £147,657 | 348 |
| 1996 | £61,800 | £130,333 | 278 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 204 |
In cash terms the typical TA7 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £331,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 154%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2007, and today's median remains roughly 16% under it: a 2007 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the TA7 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 (+28.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2012 (−15.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. In 2019, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £340,000 against £95,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, TA7
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 | £385,000 | 43 | 4,254 |
| Semi-detached | £290,000 | 31 | 2,498 |
| Terraced | £250,000 | 11 | 1,053 |
| Flats | £95,000 (2019) | – | 89 |
What TA7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −5.8% | −8.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.4% | −1.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +3.0% | −1.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −0.6% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
Transaction volumes
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 last five years, month by month
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 162 TA7 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 315 sales a year before the financial crisis and 177 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 TA7
The local authority for TA7 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 £331,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 3.6%: 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.
How TA7 trades
This is detached-house territory: 47% of last year's sales were detached, which props the overall median well above the flat and terrace market underneath it. 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.
Common questions on TA7 (Puriton)
How much did a house sell for in TA7 (Puriton)?
Are property prices falling in TA7 (Puriton)?
Is TA7 (Puriton) a good place to buy a house?
Are TA7 prices heading up or down?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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 is for sale in TA7 right now
Everything above is what homes in TA7 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 5 homes on the market right now, from 3 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 111% above the TA7 median sold price.
Set against 162 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 5 homes on the market here are roughly 2 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted. That is a thin shelf: buyers here are choosing from little, and a well priced home is unlikely to wait long.
0% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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.
When homes in TA7 change hands
Across the 1,127 sales completed in TA7 from 2021 to 2025, March was the busiest month for completions (11.7% of the total) and January the quietest (6.6%). That is a marked seasonal rhythm. A sale completes weeks after it is agreed, so the busy month reflects deals struck earlier in the year; a seller who wants competition should be on the market ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 74 | 6.6% |
| February | 91 | 8.1% |
| March | 132 | 11.7% |
| April | 74 | 6.6% |
| May | 75 | 6.7% |
| June | 101 | 9.0% |
| July | 90 | 8.0% |
| August | 99 | 8.8% |
| September | 107 | 9.5% |
| October | 111 | 9.8% |
| November | 90 | 8.0% |
| December | 83 | 7.4% |
Bedroom by bedroom: TA prices by size
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 | £258,500 | £300,000 (+16%) | £339,995 (+13%) | £420,000 (+24%) | £536,000 (+28%) |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | £235,000 (+12%) | £273,000 (+16%) | £327,500 (+20%) | £415,000 (+27%) |
| Terraced | £165,000 | £205,000 (+24%) | £230,000 (+12%) | £280,000 (+22%) | £350,000 (+25%) |
| Flat | £110,000 | £142,500 (+30%) | £188,500 (+32%) | £227,500 (+21%) | £252,500 (+11%) |
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
TA7 ranks 4 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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside TA7, 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.
How TA7 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the TA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| TA17 | £595,000 | +47% |
| TA3 | £392,500 | +5% |
| TA11 | £385,000 | +15% |
| TA22 | £360,000 | +6% |
| TA13 | £355,000 | -1% |
| TA5 | £337,500 | +21% |
| TA14 | £335,300 | +19% |
| TA10 | £335,000 | +10% |
| TA7 (this report) | £331,000 | +18% |
| TA4 | £300,000 | -8% |
| TA19 | £295,000 | +0% |
| TA16 | £292,500 | +6% |
| TA24 | £285,000 | +6% |
| TA8 | £280,000 | +13% |
| TA12 | £272,500 | +5% |
| TA2 | £270,000 | +9% |
| TA21 | £265,000 | -2% |
| TA9 | £260,000 | +7% |
| TA15 | £255,000 | -22% |
| TA20 | £255,000 | +4% |
| TA1 | £254,500 | +11% |
| TA18 | £247,000 | +2% |
| TA23 | £230,500 | -1% |
| TA6 | £230,000 | +12% |
Thinking of selling in TA7? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TA7, open the average prices map and zoom from the TA7 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TA7 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
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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.