That is the middle of 109 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 6.8 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.
109 homes sold in three years: 31 detached houses, 23 semi-detached houses, 41 terraced houses and 14 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.7 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£470K
median sale · 31 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£410K–£645K
Last 12 months
£470K15 sold
Semi-detached houses£295K
median sale · 23 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£380K
Terraced houses£260K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£215K–£320K
Last 12 months
£278K14 sold
Flats and maisonettes£127K
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£110K–£183K
Last 12 months
£130K5 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses21%
Terraced houses38%
Flats and maisonettes13%
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 Bruton’s homes sold for between £221K and £450K
One sale in ten was under £129K and one in ten over £650K. 31% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £295,000, sits in the £250–300K band
109 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.8 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £55,500 in 1995 to £380,000 in the last 12 months (£242,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
38 sales in the last 12 months, against 88 in 1999, the busiest year, and 25 in 2009. Sales fell by 68% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 94% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Bruton costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Bruton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Flats and maisonettes rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£78K
£165K
£290K
£303K
£420K
£375K
£470K
Terraced houses
£49K
£69K
£146K
£170K
£212K
£250K
£278K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£28K
£72K
—
£85K
—
£130K
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
100 new homes have been sold in Bruton since 1995; the share peaked at 30% in 1999.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
13% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.2% sold leasehold in Bruton. 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
Vineys Yard is Bruton’s busiest street, with 13 sales in three years
7 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Vineys Yard
BA10
13
£125,000
Mostly flats
2
Westfield
BA10
8
£237,500
Mostly terraced houses
3
Quaperlake Street
BA10
7
£416,750
Mostly detached houses
4
Cole Road
BA10
7
£232,000
Mostly terraced houses
5
High Street
BA10
6
£712,500
Mostly terraced houses
6
Brue Avenue
BA10
6
£440,000
Mostly detached houses
7
Burrowfield
BA10
6
£298,750
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.
Across Somerset
Bruton is the 22nd most expensive of 49 towns in Somerset
Bruton is in the middle of Somerset’s towns to buy in; the typical UK town’s median is £277,000.
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 Bruton
What is the average house price in Bruton?
The median home in Bruton sold for £295,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 109 standard sales (£380,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £470,000, semi-detached houses £295,000, terraced houses £260,000 and flats and maisonettes £127,000.
Are house prices going up in Bruton?
The median was £344,000 in 2025, up 10% on 2024 (£312,500), and £380,000 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 Bruton each year?
38 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 42 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Is Bruton expensive for Somerset?
Bruton is the 22nd most expensive of 49 towns of 2,500 or more in Somerset by median sale price.
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.