The median home in Wiveliscombe sells for £270,000
That is the middle of 105 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 5.2 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.
105 homes sold in three years: 33 detached houses, 18 semi-detached houses, 44 terraced houses and 10 flats and maisonettes. A detached house sells for 2.4 times what a flat does.
Detached houses£380K
median sale · 33 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£335K–£450K
Last 12 months
£356K6 sold
Semi-detached houses£276K
median sale · 18 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£240K–£315K
Last 12 months
£310K7 sold
Terraced houses£230K
median sale · 44 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£193K–£268K
Last 12 months
£223K15 sold
Flats and maisonettes£162K
median sale · 10 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£148K–£190K
The mix
A terraced town: 42% of homes sold are terraced
Detached houses31%
Semi-detached houses17%
Terraced houses42%
Flats and maisonettes10%
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 Wiveliscombe’s homes sold for between £210K and £365K
One sale in ten was under £155K and one in ten over £450K. 44% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £270,000, sits in the £250–300K band
105 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 5.2 times as much as in 1995, in step with England
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £48,125 in 1995 to £250,000 in the last 12 months (£247,500 in 2019).
31 years of sales
Fewer homes sell than in most years
31 sales in the last 12 months, against 90 in 1997, the busiest year, and 22 in 2008. Sales fell by 51% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, though the median held.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Wiveliscombe costs about what England does
Median sale price each calendar year: Wiveliscombe, 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
£74K
£110K
£251K
£240K
£284K
£340K
£356K
Semi-detached houses
£57K
£78K
£167K
£163K
£217K
£208K
£310K
Terraced houses
£46K
£63K
£138K
£164K
£170K
£205K
£223K
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
116 new homes have been sold in Wiveliscombe since 1995; the share peaked at 31% in 1997.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
15% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 6.3% sold leasehold in Wiveliscombe. 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
Church Street is Wiveliscombe’s busiest street, with 6 sales in three years
3 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
Church Street
TA4
6
£302,500
Mostly terraced houses
2
Market Place
TA4
6
£227,500
Mixed
3
High Street
TA4
5
£300,000
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.
Wiveliscombe’s neighbours
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries.
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 Wiveliscombe
What is the average house price in Wiveliscombe?
The median home in Wiveliscombe sold for £270,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 105 standard sales (£250,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £380,000, semi-detached houses £276,000, terraced houses £230,000 and flats and maisonettes £161,500.
Are house prices going up in Wiveliscombe?
The median was £310,000 in 2025, up 15% on 2024 (£269,337), and £250,000 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 Wiveliscombe each year?
31 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.
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.