That is the middle of 62 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.
62 homes sold in three years: 27 detached houses, 25 semi-detached houses and 10 terraced houses.
Detached houses£380K
median sale · 27 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£340K–£415K
Last 12 months
£393K11 sold
Semi-detached houses£305K
median sale · 25 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£275K–£320K
Last 12 months
£286K8 sold
Terraced houses£251K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£219K–£285K
The mix
Mostly detached: 44% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses44%
Semi-detached houses40%
Terraced houses16%
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 Ruishton’s homes sold for between £280K and £370K
One sale in ten was under £240K and one in ten over £415K. 16% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £316,250, sits in the £300–400K band
62 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 £72,000 in 1995 to £327,500 in the last 12 months (£325,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
20 sales in the last 12 months, against 36 in 1997, the busiest year, and 9 in 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Ruishton costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Ruishton, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£75K
—
£235K
£271K
£225K
—
£393K
Semi-detached houses
—
£107K
£182K
£171K
—
—
£286K
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
1 new homes have been sold in Ruishton since 1995.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
0% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in Ruishton. 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
Virginia Orchard is Ruishton’s busiest street, with 7 sales in three years
4 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.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Virginia Orchard
TA3
7
£292,500
Mostly semi-detached houses
2
Bushy Cross Lane
TA3
6
£340,500
Mixed
3
Newlands Road
TA3
6
£317,500
Mixed
4
Newlands Crescent
TA3
6
£303,500
Mixed
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.
Ruishton’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Monkton Heathfield, Taunton and Norton Fitzwarren.
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 Ruishton
What is the average house price in Ruishton?
The median home in Ruishton sold for £316,250 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 62 standard sales (£327,500 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £380,000, semi-detached houses £305,000 and terraced houses £251,250.
Are house prices going up in Ruishton?
The median was £308,750 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£312,500), and £327,500 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 Ruishton each year?
20 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 21 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.
Photo: Geof Sheppard · CC BY-SA 4.0