That is the middle of 56 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.5 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
56 homes sold in three years: 15 detached houses, 11 semi-detached houses, 21 terraced houses and 9 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£660K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£490K–£992K
Semi-detached houses£330K
median sale · 11 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£420K
Terraced houses£320K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£288K–£358K
Last 12 months
£373K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 9 sold, median £180K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses27%
Semi-detached houses20%
Terraced houses38%
Flats and maisonettes16%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Beer’s homes sold for between £275K and £565K
One sale in ten was under £190K and one in ten over £825K. 21% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £328,000, sits in the £300–400K band
56 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.5 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £74,250 in 1995 to £337,500 in the last 12 months (£330,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
18 sales in the last 12 months, against 51 in 2002, the busiest year, and 13 in 2024. Sales fell by 31% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 23% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Beer costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Beer, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Terraced houses
—
£83K
£216K
£225K
£253K
£298K
£373K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£60K
£167K
£149K
£136K
£150K
£165K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
21 new homes have been sold in Beer since 1995; the share peaked at 11% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
16% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Beer. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Beer
What is the average house price in Beer?
The median home in Beer sold for £328,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 56 standard sales (£337,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £660,000, semi-detached houses £330,000, terraced houses £320,000 and flats and maisonettes £180,000.
Are house prices going up in Beer?
The median was £305,000 in 2025, down 23% on 2024 (£395,000), and £337,500 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Beer each year?
18 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 23 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.