That is the middle of 84 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 6 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.
39% of Severn Beach’s sales are semi-detached houses
84 homes sold in three years: 26 detached houses, 33 semi-detached houses, 15 terraced houses and 10 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for twice what a flat does.
Detached houses£359K
median sale · 26 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£295K–£465K
Last 12 months
£357K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£288K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£263K–£325K
Last 12 months
£298K10 sold
Terraced houses£245K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£208K–£275K
Last 12 months
£225K7 sold
Flats and maisonettes£175K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£162K–£190K
Last 12 months
£170K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 39% of sales
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses39%
Terraced houses18%
Flats and maisonettes12%
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 Severn Beach’s homes sold for between £222K and £341K
One sale in ten was under £180K and one in ten over £410K. 37% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £277,500, sits in the £250–300K band
84 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,000 in 1995 to £249,997 in the last 12 months (£240,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
28 sales in the last 12 months, against 142 in 1999, the busiest year, and 20 in 2011. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 110% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Severn Beach costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Severn Beach, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£63K
£89K
£166K
£185K
£225K
£291K
£357K
Semi-detached houses
£45K
£81K
£154K
£168K
£183K
£250K
£298K
Terraced houses
£35K
£66K
£124K
£139K
£168K
£180K
£225K
Flats and maisonettes
£31K
£45K
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£128K
—
£170K
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
220 new homes have been sold in Severn Beach since 1995; the share peaked at 63% 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
12% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Severn Beach. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Beach Road is Severn Beach’s busiest street, with 20 sales in three years
5 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 2 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
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Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Beach Road
BS35
20
£250,000
Mixed
2
Gorse Cover Road
BS35
19
£252,000
Mixed
3
Church Road
BS35
8
£452,500
Mostly detached houses
4
Beach Avenue
BS35
5
£337,500
Mostly detached houses
5
Prospect Road
BS35
5
£312,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Severn Beach’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Severn Beach
What is the average house price in Severn Beach?
The median home in Severn Beach sold for £277,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 84 standard sales (£249,997 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £358,750, semi-detached houses £288,000, terraced houses £245,000 and flats and maisonettes £175,000.
Are house prices going up in Severn Beach?
The median was £252,000 in 2025, down 15% on 2024 (£295,000), and £249,997 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 Severn Beach each year?
28 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 35 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.
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