Bridgwater house prices

Bridgwater house prices are built from 42,470 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 26 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £147,500. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +42.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +2.3%.

HM Land Registry42,470 sales6,827 with floor areaLatest sale 26 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Bridgwater 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 Bridgwater is £260,000 in 2025; the lowest is £45,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £45,000 to £260,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £99,921, so the real change over the whole record is +160.2% — about +3.13% 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: +42.9% in cash against +2.3% 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 Bridgwater values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Bridgwater 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. 11,484 certificates cover Bridgwater, 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.

3,728 of the sales on record are leasehold and 38,742 freehold — 8.8% 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 £92,000 and the median freehold sale £156,000 — a gap of +69.6%. 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 — +23.6%. 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 2,475 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 £147,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.14% 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 TA6, 552 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 207 violent, 12 burglary, 9 vehicle-related and 105 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.3 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.

18 state and independent schools have a TA6 postcode: 13 primary, 3 secondary, 1 16 plus, 1 all-through. 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. Bridgwater sits below that national figure — -6.3%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,791 per square metre, across 6,827 of the 42,470 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 £260 to £4,081,150. 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.

Bridgwater 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 Bridgwater

• Bath Road479 sales
• Taunton Road470 sales
• High Street372 sales
• Bristol Road351 sales
• Main Road263 sales
• Manor Road245 sales
• Church Road242 sales
• Chilton Street227 sales
• Riverside Close226 sales
• Meadowlands Avenue221 sales
• Wembdon Road220 sales
• Duke Street204 sales
• Moravia Close202 sales
• St John Street201 sales
• Holford Road199 sales
• Fore Street193 sales
• Kendale Road192 sales
• Purley Drive188 sales
• Rhode Lane183 sales
• Waverley Wharf179 sales
• Windsor Road177 sales
• Wellington Road165 sales
• Wembdon Hill164 sales
• Broadway162 sales
• Old Taunton Road162 sales
• Countess Avenue160 sales
• Halesleigh Road157 sales
• Camden Road155 sales
• Kings Drive152 sales
• Durleigh Road151 sales
• Polden Street148 sales
• Castle Street147 sales
• Halyard Drive144 sales
• Potterton Close144 sales
• Devonshire Street142 sales
• Lords Way141 sales
• Highcroft140 sales
• Linley Close139 sales
• Clarks Road137 sales
• Victoria Road136 sales
• Ashleigh Avenue132 sales
• Campion Way132 sales
• Lime Street132 sales
• Standish Street129 sales
• Alfoxton Road126 sales
• Lilliana Way126 sales
• Marsa Way124 sales
• Oakgrove Way124 sales
• Parkway123 sales
• Springley Road123 sales
• Meadway120 sales
• Anson Way117 sales
• Bowerings Road116 sales
• Leyton Drive116 sales
• Monmouth Farm Close116 sales
• Carlton Drive113 sales
• Puriton Park113 sales
• Somerville Way111 sales
• Horton Way110 sales
• Willow Court110 sales

Postcode districts covering Bridgwater

• TA6£128,000 median
• TA7£193,750 median
• TA5£208,000 median

What is the average house price in Bridgwater?

The median price paid in Bridgwater across every sale on the register is £147,500. 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 Bridgwater?

42,470 sales are on record for Bridgwater, the most recent completing on 26 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Bridgwater house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +2.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Bridgwater house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £260,000, 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 Bridgwater?

£1,791 per square metre, from the 6,827 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 26 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, “Bridgwater 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.