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What do houses cost in Wedmore?

For anyone buying or renting in Wedmore.

About £565,000 for the middle one, and the middle one is a detached house. Not many change hands. Almost nothing here is a flat. The cheap end of the market is somebody else's postcode. If a number that size makes you flinch, that flinch is the honest answer to the question.

The Land Registry's figures for the year to March 2026 put the typical Wedmore sale at £565,000 across 44 transactions. Detached houses, which is what most of the village actually is, ran to a median of £640,000. Semis came in at £478,000 across five sales. Three flats sold, at a median of £315,000. Forty-four sales in a year across the whole area is a thin market, and a thin market means the property you want may simply not come up in the year you are looking.

The published house-price index for this area sat at an average of £280,800 in May 2026, up 3% over the twelve months and up 15% over five years. That index covers a much broader area than the village and runs on a different basis to the sold-price median above, which is why the two numbers are nowhere near each other. Flats went the other way, down about 1% over the same twelve months. Neither figure is a forecast, and a three-percent move is a shrug, not a story.

Council tax lands where you would expect. The most common band across the area is E, and only 17% of dwellings sit in bands A or B, so the cheap-band cushion most places have does not exist here. A band D bill runs to roughly £2,560 a year, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay.

Renting is possible but not the point. Typical private rent across the Somerset area, measured as a mean by the Office for National Statistics rather than a median of advertised listings, runs at about £990 a month, up around 4% over the year. By size, that averages roughly £670 for a one-bedroom, £890 for two, £1,100 for three and £1,580 for four or more. Those are county-wide figures covering Bridgwater and Yeovil as much as anywhere rural, so treat them as the shape of the market rather than a quote for a farmhouse conversion.

Against local earnings the arithmetic is unkind. Modelled gross household income before tax, for the financial year to March 2023, came in at around £59,000. Set that beside a £565,000 median and the conclusion writes itself: the people buying here are largely not funding it from a local salary. They are arriving with equity from somewhere more expensive, or with a London-shaped income and a broadband connection. That is not a criticism of the village. It is just what the two numbers say when you put them next to each other.

Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is about 30% of them, the median works out at roughly £4,530 per square metre, on a typical floor area of around 116 square metres. That is a small sample and worth treating as an indication rather than a rule, but it is the closest thing to a like-for-like measure available.

The bedroom mix explains the prices better than anything else. In the 2021 Census, 52% of households here had four or more bedrooms and 33% had three. Two-bedroom homes made up 12%, and one-bedroom homes 3%. There is no starter-flat tier to buy into, because it was never built. What is for sale is family houses, and they are priced as such.

Value is where Wedmore is at its weakest. The money buys you a genuinely large house in a genuinely lovely spot, but it buys very little else, and anyone hoping to find a bargain in the gaps will find the gaps are mostly hedgerow.

Sources: HM Land Registry · Valuation Office Agency · EPC register · Ofcom · ONS Census 2021 · Office for National Statistics

Data to March 2026 · Figures checked 4 August 2026 (what this means)