About £378,000 for a typical one. Detached is where the money goes. Terraces are the cheap seats and there are hardly any. Very little changes hands in a given year. This is a small market with one dominant product and a queue for it.
The Land Registry recorded 29 sales in the year to February 2026, with a median of around £378,000. Split by type, the detached homes ran to a median of about £485,000 across 21 of those sales, semi-detached to roughly £315,000 across four, and terraces to about £282,500 across four as well. Twenty-one detached sales out of twenty-nine is the whole story in one line: the typical Wembury transaction is a detached house, so the typical Wembury price is a detached price. Anyone hoping the median describes something they can afford is reading a number built almost entirely from the expensive end of the stock.
The published house price index for the area, at May 2026, puts the average at about £364,000 and records a fall of roughly 7% over the preceding twelve months, with flats down around 10%. Over five years the same index records a rise of about 8%. That is what has been published, not a forecast, and a one-month move of roughly 1% down is noise rather than news.
Council tax sits mostly in band D, which carries an annual bill of about £2,615. Only around 18% of dwellings fall in bands A or B combined, so the bottom of the banding scale is thinly populated here. Band A runs to roughly £1,743 a year and band H to about £5,230.
Renting is the smaller conversation. The Office for National Statistics puts typical private rent across the South Hams area at about £1,000 a month as of April 2026, up around 3% on the year. That is a mean from the index covering the whole district rather than Wembury alone, and it breaks down to roughly £726 for a one-bedroom, about £907 for two, around £1,121 for three and about £1,611 for four or more. By property type the same series runs from roughly £841 for a flat to about £1,375 for a detached home.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for the area in the financial year to March 2023 came to about £62,000 before tax. Set that against a median sale of around £378,000 and the maths is the familiar rural-coastal squeeze: comfortable for people arriving with equity from somewhere pricier, hard work for anyone building from a local salary. The people who find Wembury affordable have usually sold something first.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is around 97% of them, the median price per square metre came to about £4,072, on a typical floor area of roughly 101 square metres. So the standard Wembury purchase is a hundred-square-metre house at just over four thousand pounds a metre, which is what a protected coastline costs per unit of floorboard.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 Census explains the floor areas. Around 41% of households have three bedrooms and about 33% have four or more, with roughly 24% at two and only about 3% at one. This is a place built for households that expected to need the space, and in many cases have since stopped needing it.
Prices here are middling rather than punishing: not the coastal-premium eye-watering, not a bargain either, and the shortage of anything small or cheap does more damage to affordability than the headline number suggests. What you pay for is the setting, and the setting is not negotiating.