About £264,000 for a typical house, which buys considerably more spiritual significance per pound than anywhere else in Somerset. Flats go for well under half that. Detached houses go for well over. Council tax mostly sits in the cheap bands. For a town with a Tor, an abbey and a name that half the country recognises, the prices are almost insultingly reasonable.
The Land Registry's figures for the year to May 2026 put the median sale at around £264,000 across 120 sales, which is enough transactions to mean something rather than a handful of outliers pretending to be a market. The split by type is wide. Flats came in at about £141,000 across 20 sales. Terraces, the largest group at 48 sales, sat at roughly £253,000. Semi-detached homes went for around £280,000 across 29 sales, and detached houses for about £415,000 across 23. The gap between the cheapest and dearest type is the whole story of the town in two numbers.
The published house price index for the area, as of May 2026, shows a rise of about 3% over twelve months. Flats moved the other way, down roughly 1% over the same period, which is a small enough change that it counts as flat in every sense. Neither figure is dramatic, and neither is a forecast.
Council tax is where the affordability really shows up. Band B is the most common band in Glastonbury, and around 52% of dwellings sit in bands A or B combined. The band D annual bill runs at about £2,560, so most households here are paying less than that.
Renting is priced from a wider area. Typical private rent across Somerset runs at around £990 a month, which is a mean from the national price index rather than a median of what is currently advertised, and it covers the whole local authority rather than Glastonbury specifically. By size, one-bedroom homes average about £670 a month, two-bedrooms around £890, three-bedrooms roughly £1,100, and four or more about £1,580.
Against local earnings, the numbers work better than they do almost anywhere on this coast or inland of it. Modelled gross household income for the area, before tax, was around £47,900 for the financial year to March 2023. Set that against a £264,000 median and Glastonbury is one of the few places in the South West where an ordinary household is not being asked to perform arithmetic gymnastics to get a mortgage. The dated income figure is worth remembering: it describes 2022 into 2023, not today.
By floor area, the median works out at roughly £3,250 per square metre, on a typical home of about 82 square metres. That covers the 78% of recent sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, so it describes most of the market rather than all of it.
The bedroom mix, from the 2021 census, is what you would expect of a small Somerset town. Three-bedroom homes are the largest group at about 39% of households, two-bedrooms come next at roughly 28%, homes with four or more bedrooms account for around 21%, and one-bedroom homes make up about 13%. Family-sized property dominates, which is why the terraced and semi-detached medians do most of the work in the numbers above.
Whatever else Glastonbury gets wrong, it gets price right. This is genuinely cheap housing in a genuinely interesting place, and the people who moved here in the eighties for the ley lines accidentally made a decent financial decision.