TA1 house prices are built from 25,221 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £150,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +37.1% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -1.8%.
Median price paid
£150,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+37.1%
Change in real terms
-1.8%
Median per m²
£2,048
HM Land Registry25,221 sales6,010 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How TA1 prices moved
The chart tracks the median TA1 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £56,000 | £124,346 |
| 2000s | 10 | £150,000 | £273,256 |
| 2010s | 10 | £178,000 | £250,980 |
| 2020s | 7 | £250,000 | £255,435 |
The highest yearly median on record for TA1 is £270,000 in 2025; the lowest is £51,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £51,000 to £245,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £113,244, so the real change over the whole record is +116.3% — about +2.52% 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: +37.1% in cash against -1.8% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 NORTHFIELD COURT Pollards Way | 25 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £150,000 | £150,000 |
| 6 Manor Road | 24 Jun 2026 | Detached | £575,000 | £575,000 |
| 1 Hoopers Close | 22 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 101 Galmington Road | 19 Jun 2026 | Detached | £485,000 | £485,000 |
| 83 South Street | 19 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| FLAT 32 DELLERS COURT Dellers Wharf | 19 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 35 Parkfield Crescent | 12 Jun 2026 | Detached | £422,500 | £422,500 |
| 62 Wilfred Road | 11 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £250,000 | £250,000 |
| 87 Shutewater Orchard | 10 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £285,000 |
| 3 TANNERS COURT Tancred Street | 9 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £128,500 | £128,500 |
| 43 Gillards | 8 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £240,000 | £240,000 |
| 15 Pope Close | 5 Jun 2026 | Detached | £490,000 | £490,000 |
| 24 Trendle Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £217,000 | £217,000 |
| 9 Savery Row | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £185,000 | £185,000 |
| FLAT 7 LISIEUX COURT Haywood Road | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £152,000 | £152,000 |
| 15 Queen Street | 5 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £80,000 | £80,000 |
| 42 Trinity Road | 4 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £320,000 | £320,000 |
| 3 Highfield | 3 Jun 2026 | Detached | £510,000 | £510,000 |
| 22 Fullands Road | 3 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £400,000 | £400,000 |
| 29 Firepool Crescent | 3 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £335,000 | £335,000 |
| 78 Firepool View | 2 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £245,000 | £245,000 |
| 48 Leycroft Road | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £165,000 | £165,000 |
| 8 Northfield Gardens | 2 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £127,500 | £127,500 |
| 11 Georges Mews | 1 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £313,250 | £313,250 |
| 13 WATERS EDGE Youngman Place | 1 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £227,500 | £227,500 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 TA1 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 NORTHFIELD COURT Pollards Way | £125,000 (2008) | £150,000 (2026) | +1.0% | -1.8% |
| 1 Hoopers Close | £164,000 (2013) | £315,000 (2026) | +5.1% | +2.1% |
| 83 South Street | £34,000 (1998) | £185,000 (2026) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 101 Galmington Road | £330,000 (2007) | £485,000 (2026) | +2.0% | -0.9% |
| FLAT 32 DELLERS COURT Dellers Wharf | £104,000 (2004) | £80,000 (2026) | -1.2% | -3.9% |
| 35 Parkfield Crescent | £310,000 (2007) | £422,500 (2026) | +1.6% | -1.3% |
| 62 Wilfred Road | £169,000 (2016) | £250,000 (2026) | +4.0% | +0.6% |
| 87 Shutewater Orchard | £189,000 (2012) | £285,000 (2026) | +3.0% | +0.1% |
| 3 TANNERS COURT Tancred Street | £148,000 (2008) | £128,500 (2026) | -0.8% | -3.6% |
| 43 Gillards | £185,000 (2019) | £240,000 (2026) | +3.8% | -0.1% |
| 24 Trendle Road | £60,000 (1999) | £217,000 (2026) | +4.9% | +2.1% |
| 15 Pope Close | £151,000 (2000) | £490,000 (2026) | +4.6% | +1.9% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. TA1 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 8,919 | 35.4% | £136,500 | £9,750 – £1,350,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5,902 | 23.4% | £164,000 | £2,000 – £1,050,000 |
| Detached | 5,298 | 21.0% | £249,000 | £20,000 – £1,500,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 5,102 | 20.2% | £118,000 | £1,000 – £725,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in TA1
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 5,396 certificates cover TA1, and their median floor area is 73 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller 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.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 73 m² | about 786 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 55 m² | about 592 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 92 m² | about 990 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 32.7% | 1,762 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 5.0% | 268 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in TA1
5,381 of the sales on record are leasehold and 19,840 freehold — 21.3% 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 £118,000 and the median freehold sale £161,000 — a gap of +36.4%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 5,381 | 21.3% | £118,000 |
| Freehold | 19,840 | 78.7% | £161,000 |
| New build | 2,452 | 9.7% | £169,000 |
| Existing home | 22,769 | 90.3% | £149,000 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +13.4%. 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 1,410 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.
Section 07
Living in TA1
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 2,239 | 0.8% |
| B | 39,014 | 13.2% |
| C | 92,251 | 31.1% |
| D | 96,815 | 32.7% |
| E | 44,939 | 15.2% |
| F | 16,160 | 5.5% |
| G | 4,998 | 1.7% |
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 £150,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.00% 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 TA1, 361 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 118 violent, 11 burglary, 13 vehicle-related and 67 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.2 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around TA1
13 state and independent schools have a TA1 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary, 1 16 plus. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Castle School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,207 |
| Bishop Fox's School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,123 |
| St James Church School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 479 |
| North Town Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 470 |
| Parkfield Primary School | Primary | Community school | 436 |
| Bishop Henderson Church of England Primary School, Taunton | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 423 |
| Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 363 |
| Holway Park Community Primary School | Primary | Community school | 335 |
| Blackbrook Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 222 |
| St George's Catholic School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 219 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Taunton Rail Station | Rail | 1.1 km |
| Bishops Lydeard (West Somerset Railway) | Tram | 7.9 km |
| Bishop's Lydeard Rail Station | Rail | 7.9 km |
| Crowcombe Heathfield (West Somerset Railway) | Metro or underground | 13.4 km |
Section 09
How TA1 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. TA1 sits below that national figure — -4.8%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,048 per square metre, across 6,010 of the 25,221 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 £1,000 to £1,500,000. 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.
TA1 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside TA1
- TA1 1£139,250 median
- TA1 2£132,500 median
- TA1 3£170,000 median
- TA1 4£156,000 median
- TA1 5£187,998 median
The closest districts
- TA22.3 km · £163,000
- TA2110.6 km · £165,000
- TA413.3 km · £199,400
- TA614.4 km · £128,000
- EX1522.5 km · £169,950
- EX1423.0 km · £168,000
- TA826.9 km · £150,000
- EX1629.1 km · £167,500
This district mostly covers Taunton.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in TA1?
The median price paid in TA1 across every sale on the register is £150,000. 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 TA1?
25,221 sales are on record for TA1, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have TA1 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +37.1% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -1.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were TA1 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £270,000, 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 TA1?
£2,048 per square metre, from the 6,010 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 25 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, “TA1 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.