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Burnham on Sea market report TA8 2, Burnham-On-Sea
The TA8 2 (Burnham on Sea) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 7,439 sales registered with HM Land Registry in TA8 2 (Burnham-On-Sea) 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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for TA8 2 (Burnham-On-Sea) is £296,200, from 92 registered sales, up 13% on five years earlier; the mean is £312,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,370 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 7,439 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
TA8 2 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside TA8 (Burnham-On-Sea). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where TA8 2 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.
TA8 2 sold prices: where the market stands
92 sales were registered in TA8 2 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £296,200. The mean works out at £312,400, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
Price per square metre in TA8 2
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in TA8 2 costs about £3,370 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so TA8 2 trades 4% above the country as a whole.
TA8 2's median sold price, 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 | £296,200 | £296,200 | 92 |
| 2025 | £285,000 | £291,815 | 181 |
| 2024 | £287,500 | £305,672 | 182 |
| 2023 | £281,200 | £308,970 | 170 |
| 2022 | £295,000 | £345,921 | 198 |
| 2021 | £262,500 | £332,359 | 267 |
| 2020 | £250,000 | £324,380 | 158 |
| 2019 | £245,000 | £321,136 | 178 |
| 2018 | £241,000 | £321,258 | 212 |
| 2017 | £229,700 | £313,288 | 220 |
| 2016 | £210,000 | £293,792 | 227 |
| 2015 | £210,500 | £297,437 | 215 |
| 2014 | £183,000 | £259,617 | 221 |
| 2013 | £173,000 | £248,930 | 195 |
| 2012 | £182,500 | £268,617 | 164 |
| 2011 | £167,500 | £252,861 | 171 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 169 |
| 2009 | £165,000 | £265,239 | 159 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 155 |
| 2007 | £187,000 | £317,204 | 277 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 351 |
| 2005 | £164,600 | £292,922 | 254 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 294 |
| 2003 | £146,500 | £269,889 | 290 |
| 2002 | £118,000 | £222,016 | 298 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 312 |
| 2000 | £86,500 | £169,756 | 328 |
| 1999 | £74,500 | £148,475 | 353 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 292 |
| 1997 | £64,000 | £131,251 | 318 |
| 1996 | £56,100 | £118,312 | 296 |
| 1995 | £55,500 | £120,648 | 242 |
In cash terms the typical TA8 2 home went from £55,500 in 1995 to £296,200 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 146%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 14% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the TA8 2 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 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.3%). 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) | +3.9% | +1.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.4% | −2.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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 TA8 2
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 92 TA8 2 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 301 sales a year before the financial crisis and 165 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.
What kind of market TA8 2 is
Against the TA8 district median, TA8 2 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Rents around TA8 2
For renting purposes TA8 2 sits in Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £990 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £296,200 median purchase price, a rent of £990 a month (£11,880 a year) works out at a 4.0% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
Common questions on TA8 2 (Burnham on Sea)
Are property prices falling in TA8 2 (Burnham on Sea)?
Is TA8 2 (Burnham on Sea) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in TA8 2 (Burnham on Sea)?
Will TA8 2 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 13% over five years in cash but down 11% 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.
TA8's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 81 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole TA8 district, not just TA8 2: live asking prices are collected per district.
29% 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.
- Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, Somerset
- Julians Acres, Berrow, Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, TA8
- Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, Somerset
"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 TA8 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.
Moving up a bedroom in TA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the TA area, straight from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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
The spread across the TA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the TA area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in TA8
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are TA8's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| TA8 1 | £256,200 | 54 |
Zoom out to the full TA8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how TA8 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in TA8 2? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in TA8 2, open the average prices map and zoom from the TA8 2 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded TA8 2 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim TA8 2.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual TA8 2 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.