That is the middle of 37 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 6.4 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.
37 homes sold in three years: 15 detached houses, 5 semi-detached houses, 14 terraced houses and 3 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£495K
median sale · 15 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£276K–£690K
Last 12 months
£525K5 sold
Terraced houses£238K
median sale · 14 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£218K–£253K
Last 12 months
£250K5 sold
Fewer sales
Semi-detached houses: 5 sold, median £235K Flats and maisonettes: 3 sold
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 41% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses41%
Semi-detached houses14%
Terraced houses38%
Flats and maisonettes8%
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 West Coker’s homes sold for between £225K and £413K
One sale in ten was under £173K and one in ten over £690K. 43% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £265,000, sits in the £250–300K band
37 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 6.4 times as much as in 1995, a faster rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £42,375 in 1995 to £270,000 in the last 12 months (£195,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
15 sales in the last 12 months, against 26 in 2007, the busiest year, and 5 in 2012. Sales fell by 31% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
West Coker costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: West Coker, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Terraced houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
—
£186K
—
£352K
£375K
£448K
£525K
Terraced houses
£46K
—
£141K
—
£153K
£171K
£250K
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
21 new homes have been sold in West Coker since 1995; the share peaked at 22% in 2009.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
8% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 0% sold leasehold in West Coker. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
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 West Coker
What is the average house price in West Coker?
The median home in West Coker sold for £265,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 37 standard sales (£270,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £495,000, semi-detached houses £235,000 and terraced houses £237,500.
How many homes sell in West Coker each year?
15 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 16 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: John Barnes · CC BY-SA 2.0