That is the middle of 95 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 4.9 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.
95 homes sold in three years: 28 detached houses, 15 semi-detached houses, 35 terraced houses and 17 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£510K
median sale · 28 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£440K–£567K
Last 12 months
£532K10 sold
New build
£525K
Semi-detached houses£300K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£285K–£345K
Last 12 months
£290K5 sold
Terraced houses£310K
median sale · 35 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£253K–£430K
Last 12 months
£343K14 sold
Flats and maisonettes£168K
median sale · 17 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£99K–£185K
Last 12 months
£145K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 37% of sales
Detached houses29%
Semi-detached houses16%
Terraced houses37%
Flats and maisonettes18%
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 Axbridge’s homes sold for between £250K and £485K
One sale in ten was under £168K and one in ten over £566K. 23% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £322,500, sits in the £300–400K band
95 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £70,000 in 1995 to £342,500 in the last 12 months (£263,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
34 sales in the last 12 months, against 91 in 2002, the busiest year, and 17 in 2018. Sales fell by 31% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 23%.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Axbridge costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Axbridge, 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
£87K
£150K
£245K
£289K
£335K
£365K
£532K
Semi-detached houses
£42K
£87K
£166K
—
£193K
£273K
£290K
Terraced houses
£58K
£120K
£163K
£270K
£279K
£295K
£343K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£35K
£110K
—
£115K
£125K
£145K
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
12% of homes sold in the last 12 months were new builds
114 new homes have been sold in Axbridge since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
A new home sold for a median £519,995
against £311,000 for a home sold on, 67% more, over three years. New homes are often a different mix from the homes sold on, so part of the gap is size and type.
18% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Axbridge. 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
St Marys Street is Axbridge’s busiest street, with 9 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. 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
St Marys Street
BS26
9
£237,500
Mixed
2
Moorland Street
BS26
8
£309,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
West Street
BS26
7
£440,000
Mixed
4
St Johns Court
BS26
6
£96,750
Mostly flats
5
Homefield Avenue
BS26
5
£474,995
Mostly detached houses · new builds
6
Mendip Close
BS26
5
£330,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Crossmoor Road
BS26
5
£315,000
Mostly terraced 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.
Axbridge’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 Axbridge
What is the average house price in Axbridge?
The median home in Axbridge sold for £322,500 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 95 standard sales (£342,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £509,997, semi-detached houses £300,000, terraced houses £310,000 and flats and maisonettes £168,000.
Are house prices going up in Axbridge?
The median was £321,250 in 2025, down 9% on 2024 (£351,350), and £342,500 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 Axbridge each year?
34 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 33 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
How much does a new build cost in Axbridge?
New homes sold for a median £519,995 over three years, against £311,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 7.4% of sales.
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.