About a quarter of a million pounds buys the middle of the market. That is a whole house with a garden, not a flat with a view of somebody else's. Terraces go for less. Detached goes for a good deal more. In a county where the pretty bits charge a premium for the postcode, Wellington charges for the house.
The Land Registry recorded 218 sales in the year to May 2026, at a median of about £256,000. Split by type, a flat came in at around £139,000 across 25 sales, a terrace at around £230,000 across 78, a semi-detached house at around £267,000 across 68, and a detached house at around £380,000 across 47. That is a market with actual depth in the middle. Terraces and semis together account for most of what changed hands, which is the sort of pattern that means you can buy a three-bedroom house here without waiting eighteen months for the right one to appear.
The published house-price index for the area put the average at about £281,000 as of May 2026, up around 3% over twelve months and around 15% over five years. Flats went the other way, down around 1% across the same twelve months. Neither of those is a number to lose sleep over in either direction. Houses inched up, flats inched down, and anyone expecting drama from a Somerset market town's price index is going to be disappointed.
Council tax is where the value shows up again. Band B is the most common in Wellington, and around 45% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The band D bill runs at around £2,560 a year, which most readers can hold against their own bill and draw their own conclusions, and most homes here are not paying band D.
Renting, the local picture is a county one. Typical private rent across the Somerset area runs at about £990 a month, which is a mean from the national price index rather than a median of what is currently advertised in Wellington. By size, that breaks down to around £670 for a one-bedroom, around £890 for two, around £1,100 for three and around £1,580 for four or more. Treat those as the regional shape. The Somerset average is doing a lot of averaging.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for the area in the financial year to March 2023 came to around £50,100 before tax. Set that against a median sale price of around £256,000 and Wellington sits in the bracket where a two-income household is buying a house rather than negotiating for a flat and hoping. It is not free money. It is the rare English market town where the arithmetic does not require an inheritance.
Measured by floor area, the median across the sales matched to an energy certificate, which is around 88% of them, works out at around £3,170 per square metre, with a typical matched property at around 83 square metres. That is a decent-sized family home rather than a compact one, and it is the number to carry to a viewing when the room sizes on the floorplan start sounding better than they look.
The bedroom mix backs it up. Census 2021 put around 41% of households in three-bedroom homes and around 21% in four or more, with around 27% in two-bedroom and around 11% in one. Wellington is a three-bedroom town, built for people who wanted a spare room and a lawn.
Of everything this page measures about Wellington, cost is the thing it does best. You get a proper house, in a town with hills behind it, for what a flat costs in the places people talk about more.