The median home in Weston-super-Mare sells for £254,995
That is the middle of 3,967 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 5.4 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.
A third of Weston-super-Mare’s sales are semi-detached houses
3,967 homes sold in three years: 855 detached houses, 1,181 semi-detached houses, 919 terraced houses and 1,012 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.2 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£363K
median sale · 855 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£315K–£430K
Last 12 months
£373K253 sold
New build
£350K
Semi-detached houses£275K
median sale · 1,181 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£245K–£315K
Last 12 months
£285K358 sold
New build
£279K
Terraced houses£236K
median sale · 919 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£211K–£264K
Last 12 months
£240K281 sold
New build
£251K
Flats and maisonettes£162K
median sale · 1,012 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£133K–£194K
Last 12 months
£162K297 sold
New build
£220K
The mix
A mixed market: no one type makes up more than 30% of sales
Detached houses22%
Semi-detached houses30%
Terraced houses23%
Flats and maisonettes26%
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 Weston-super-Mare’s homes sold for between £195K and £318K
One sale in ten was under £146K and one in ten over £400K. 47% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £254,995, sits in the £250–300K band
3,967 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.4 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,500 in 1995 to £260,000 in the last 12 months (£200,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
1,189 sales in the last 12 months, against 2,853 in 2006, the busiest year, and 1,024 in 2009. Sales fell by 62% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 8%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 53% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Weston-super-Mare costs less than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Weston-super-Mare, 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
£77K
£117K
£219K
£204K
£240K
£312K
£373K
Semi-detached houses
£50K
£78K
£152K
£156K
£180K
£225K
£285K
Terraced houses
£43K
£66K
£130K
£138K
£155K
£191K
£240K
Flats and maisonettes
£33K
£49K
£110K
£115K
£115K
£140K
£162K
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: 1.5% of sales in the last 12 months
5,832 new homes have been sold in Weston-super-Mare since 1995; the share peaked at 23% in 2003.
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 £295,495
against £250,000 for a home sold on, 18% 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.
27% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 3.1% sold leasehold in Weston-super-Mare. 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
Beach Road is Weston-super-Mare’s busiest street, with 60 sales in three years
291 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 100 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
Beach Road
BS23
60
£170,000
Mostly flats
2
Boston Road
BS24
39
£300,000
Mixed · new builds
3
Locking Road (BS22)
BS22
38
£290,000
Mostly semi-detached houses
4
South Road
BS23
36
£182,500
Mostly flats
5
Longridge Way
BS24
34
£268,725
Mixed
6
Worle Moor Road
BS24
32
£255,000
Mixed
7
Moorland Road
BS23
32
£165,000
Mixed
8
Bristol Road Lower
BS23
30
£191,000
Mostly flats
9
Lancaster Crescent
BS24
26
£337,500
Mostly detached houses · new builds
10
Dunster Crescent
BS24
24
£210,000
Mostly terraced houses
11
Locking Road (BS23)
BS23
24
£194,250
Mixed
12
Quantock Road
BS23
23
£278,000
Mixed
13
Milton Road (BS23)
BS23
23
£171,000
Mostly flats
14
Walliscote Road
BS23
22
£151,500
Mostly flats
15
Magister Road
BS24
21
£270,750
Mixed · new builds
Dearest streets
Elmsleigh Road: £617,500
Weston-super-Mare median£255K
Elmsleigh Road£618K
Hillcote£542K
Totterdown Lane£476K
St Nicholas Road£463K
Stanhope Road£459K
Cheapest streets
Manilla Crescent: £109,000
Weston-super-Mare median£255K
Manilla Crescent£109K
Birnbeck Court£109K
Station Road (BS23)£118K
Jubilee Road£129K
Victoria Quadrant£130K
Among streets with five or more sales; the dearest street’s median is 5.7 times the cheapest’s. Street medians mix types: a street of detached houses beats one of flats.
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
Weston-super-Mare is the 40th most expensive of 49 towns in Somerset
Weston-super-Mare is one of Somerset’s cheapest 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 Weston-super-Mare
What is the average house price in Weston-super-Mare?
The median home in Weston-super-Mare sold for £254,995 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 3,967 standard sales (£260,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £363,000, semi-detached houses £275,000, terraced houses £235,813 and flats and maisonettes £162,000.
Are house prices going up in Weston-super-Mare?
The median was £255,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£255,000), and £260,000 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 Weston-super-Mare each year?
1,189 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 1,595 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
What are the most expensive streets in Weston-super-Mare?
Among streets with five or more sales in three years: Elmsleigh Road (BS23, £617,500), Hillcote (BS24, £542,000) and Totterdown Lane (BS24, £476,000).
How much does a new build cost in Weston-super-Mare?
New homes sold for a median £295,495 over three years, against £250,000 for homes sold on. New builds were 3.3% of sales.
Is Weston-super-Mare expensive for Somerset?
Weston-super-Mare is the 40th 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.
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