That is the middle of 167 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 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.
167 homes sold in three years: 47 detached houses, 41 semi-detached houses, 64 terraced houses and 15 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 3.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£469K
median sale · 47 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£670K
Last 12 months
£465K12 sold
Semi-detached houses£285K
median sale · 41 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£228K–£325K
Last 12 months
£275K14 sold
Terraced houses£240K
median sale · 64 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£190K–£300K
Last 12 months
£225K23 sold
Flats and maisonettes£148K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£125K–£165K
Last 12 months
£143K6 sold
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 38% of sales
Detached houses28%
Semi-detached houses25%
Terraced houses38%
Flats and maisonettes9%
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 Castle Cary’s homes sold for between £195K and £365K
One sale in ten was under £140K and one in ten over £595K. 42% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £280,000, sits in the £250–300K band
167 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 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 £48,000 in 1995 to £240,000 in the last 12 months (£255,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
55 sales in the last 12 months, against 125 in 1999, the busiest year, and 35 in 2011. Sales fell by 49% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 11%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 23% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Castle Cary costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Castle Cary, 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
£90K
£155K
£250K
£333K
£280K
£430K
£465K
Semi-detached houses
£44K
£77K
£177K
£194K
£185K
£240K
£275K
Terraced houses
£44K
£73K
£146K
£155K
£173K
£213K
£225K
Flats and maisonettes
—
£47K
£100K
£76K
£119K
—
£143K
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
New builds have slowed: 0% of sales in the last 12 months, after 32% in 2021
234 new homes have been sold in Castle Cary since 1995; the share peaked at 32% in 2021.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
17% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 8.6% sold leasehold in Castle Cary. 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
Station Road is Castle Cary’s busiest street, with 14 sales in three years
10 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
Station Road
BA7
14
£190,000
Mostly terraced houses
2
Brookfields
BA7
11
£200,000
Mostly terraced houses
3
Priorygate Court
BA7
7
£355,000
Mixed
4
Cumnock Road
BA7
6
£398,500
Mixed
5
Hallett Road
BA7
6
£335,000
Mostly detached houses
6
South Street
BA7
6
£335,000
Mixed
7
Castle Rise
BA7
6
£325,000
Mixed
8
Victoria Park
BA7
6
£210,000
Mixed
9
West Park
BA7
5
£225,000
Mostly terraced houses
10
Carter Close
BA7
5
£124,950
Mostly 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
Castle Cary is the 26th most expensive of 49 towns in Somerset
Castle Cary 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 Castle Cary
What is the average house price in Castle Cary?
The median home in Castle Cary sold for £280,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 167 standard sales (£240,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £469,000, semi-detached houses £285,000, terraced houses £240,000 and flats and maisonettes £147,916.
Are house prices going up in Castle Cary?
The median was £270,000 in 2025, down 14% on 2024 (£315,000), and £240,000 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 Castle Cary each year?
55 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 70 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Castle Cary?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Cumnock Road (BA7, £398,500), Priorygate Court (BA7, £355,000) and Hallett Road (BA7, £335,000).
Is Castle Cary expensive for Somerset?
Castle Cary is the 26th 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.
Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0