Frome house prices

Frome house prices are built from 21,112 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £161,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +31.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -5.5%.

HM Land Registry21,112 sales4,438 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Frome house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Frome is £340,000 in 2025; the lowest is £48,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £48,000 to £310,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £106,583, so the real change over the whole record is +190.9% — about +3.50% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +31.9% in cash against -5.5% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Frome values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Frome is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,376 certificates cover Frome, and their median floor area is 79 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are larger than average — +3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

2,398 of the sales on record are leasehold and 18,714 freehold — 11.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £105,000 and the median freehold sale £173,000 — a gap of +64.8%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +11.9%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 997 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Somerset, 45.0% of 296,416 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 7.1% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Somerset at £1,000 a month as of Jun 2026 — £680 for a one-bedroom home and £1,117 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £161,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.45% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BA11, 240 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 83 violent, 3 burglary, 5 vehicle-related and 40 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.4 times busier.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

15 state and independent schools have a BA11 postcode: 11 primary, 2 middle deemed secondary, 1 middle deemed primary, 1 secondary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Frome sits above that national figure — +2.2%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,106 per square metre, across 4,438 of the 21,112 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £7,500 to £4,900,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Frome sits in Somerset, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Somerset at 8.0 times median local earnings of £35,440 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Frome

• High Street300 sales
• Keyford294 sales
• The Butts291 sales
• Catherine Street242 sales
• Ashtree Road236 sales
• Rivers Reach231 sales
• Whatcombe Road226 sales
• Park Road218 sales
• Portway212 sales
• Whitewell Road187 sales
• Nunney Road163 sales
• Rodden Road160 sales
• Locks Hill159 sales
• Courts Barton154 sales
• Croscombe Gardens152 sales
• Broadway150 sales
• Marleys Way146 sales
• Great Western Street143 sales
• Wyville Road141 sales
• Stonebridge Drive140 sales
• Critchill Road136 sales
• Bath Road132 sales
• Vallis Way129 sales
• Butts Hill128 sales
• Upper Whatcombe127 sales
• Oakfield Road126 sales
• Innox Hill124 sales
• Blackberry Road123 sales
• Vallis Road120 sales
• Nightingale Avenue119 sales
• Christchurch Street East116 sales
• Alexandra Road115 sales
• Selwood Road114 sales
• Cabell Court113 sales
• Goose Street113 sales
• Wedmore Close109 sales
• Horton Street106 sales
• Adderwell Road103 sales
• Forest Road102 sales
• Victoria Road102 sales
• Marston Lane100 sales
• Naishs Street100 sales
• Knights Maltings99 sales
• Pedlars Grove99 sales
• Wallington Way99 sales
• Bath Street98 sales
• Henley Way93 sales
• Brunel Way92 sales
• Beechwood Avenue91 sales
• Frome Road91 sales
• New Buildings91 sales
• Berkley Road90 sales
• The Cooperage90 sales
• Westover90 sales
• Weymouth Road90 sales
• Larchfield Close88 sales
• Aspen Close87 sales
• Castle Street86 sales
• Wellow Drive85 sales
• Westfield Road84 sales

Postcode districts covering Frome

• BA11£161,000 median
• BA3£169,950 median

What is the average house price in Frome?

The median price paid in Frome across every sale on the register is £161,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Frome?

21,112 sales are on record for Frome, the most recent completing on 19 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Frome house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +31.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -5.5%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Frome house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £340,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Frome?

£2,106 per square metre, from the 4,438 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 19 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Frome house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.