High Street, Taunton house prices

High Street, Taunton house prices are built from 192 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 19 Sep 2025. The median price paid across the whole record is £142,500. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +32.2% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -3.0%.

HM Land Registry192 sales6 with floor areaLatest sale 19 Sep 2025

The chart tracks the median High Street, Taunton house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 High Street, Taunton is £412,500 in 2017; the lowest is £39,250 in 1998. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £40,250 to £234,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £89,374, so the real change over the whole record is +175.5% — about +3.56% 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: +32.2% in cash against -3.0% 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 High Street, Taunton values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

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

35 of the sales on record are leasehold and 157 freehold — 18.2% 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 £85,000 and the median freehold sale £167,500 — a gap of +97.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -71.7%. 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 31 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 Mid Devon, 41.1% of 39,696 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 11.0% 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 Mid Devon at £875 a month as of Jun 2026 — £639 for a one-bedroom home and £992 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £142,500 here, that rent is a gross yield of 7.37% 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.

No street-level crime was published for TA4 in Jun 2026. Several forces do not supply street-level data to police.uk, so this is a gap in the source rather than a crime-free month — and printing a zero would say something the data does not.

The 2021 census counted 82,852 residents in Mid Devon across 35,631 households. 68.7% of those households own their home and 31.2% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

10 state and independent schools have a TA4 postcode: 9 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. High Street, Taunton sits below that national figure — -9.5%.

Within Taunton the street ranks 923 of 1288 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £169,500 (-15.9%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,413 per square metre, across 6 of the 192 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 £20,000 to £700,000. 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.

High Street, Taunton sits in Mid Devon, in the South West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Mid Devon at 8.4 times median local earnings of £35,391 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 nearby

• Burge Crescent£170,000 median
• Graham Way£169,975 median
• Burge Meadow£189,475 median
• Silver Street£129,000 median
• Baileys Gate£159,950 median
• Nichol Place£141,000 median
• Church Street£171,250 median
• Long Street£145,000 median
• Nordens Meadow£123,550 median
• Lethbridge Park£395,000 median
• Saxon Close£170,500 median
• Needhams Patch£161,975 median
• Merrifields£153,725 median
• Wood Street£147,500 median
• Venn Close£160,225 median
• Heatherton Park£117,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 8 High Street12 sales
• 4 High Street8 sales
• 6 High Street7 sales
• 14 High Street6 sales
• 12 High Street6 sales
• STABLE COTTAGE, 2 High Street6 sales
• 25 High Street5 sales
• 17 High Street5 sales
• THE CHESTEINE High Street4 sales
• 18A High Street4 sales
• LION COTTAGE, the COURTYARD, 2 High Street4 sales
• STONE COTTAGE High Street4 sales
• 17A High Street4 sales
• 19 High Street4 sales
• 22 High Street4 sales
• 23 High Street4 sales
• 7 High Street3 sales
• 16 High Street3 sales
• SEVEN CROSSES High Street3 sales
• 29 High Street3 sales
• 9 High Street3 sales
• MYRTLE COTTAGE High Street3 sales
• FLAT 5, 2 High Street3 sales
• 11B High Street3 sales

Back to Taunton house prices.

What is the average house price in High Street, Taunton?

The median price paid in High Street, Taunton across every sale on the register is £142,500. 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 High Street, Taunton?

192 sales are on record for High Street, Taunton, the most recent completing on 19 Sep 2025. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have High Street, Taunton house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +32.2% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -3.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were High Street, Taunton house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £412,500, set in 2017. 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 High Street, Taunton?

£1,413 per square metre, from the 6 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 Sep 2025. 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, “High Street, Taunton 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.