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UK Property Check · Printed on 8 November 2026ukpropertycheck.co.uk/house-prices/region/south-west

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House prices in the South West

Homes in the South West sold for a median of £310,000 from September 2024 to August 2026, across 158,638 standard sales.

That makes the South West the fourth most expensive of the nine English regions and Wales, 5% above the £295,000 median across England and Wales.

Median sale price£310,000158,638 standard sales
Middle half of prices£233,000 to £425,000
Change since 2016+36%Median, 2016 to 2025, before inflation

Council areas ranked by median price

The dearest council area was Cotswold, at £450,000, and the cheapest was Plymouth, at £225,000. The dearest median is 2.0 times the cheapest.

The next dearest were Bath and North East Somerset and South Hams, and the next cheapest Torbay and Gloucester.

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Each dot is a council area, placed at the centre of its postcodes and shaded by the median price of its standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026. The ranked list below gives the same figures.

13 of the 26 council areas had a median above £310,000, the figure for the South West as a whole. The most sales were in Somerset (16,224), Cornwall (15,662), Wiltshire (13,920), Dorset (11,776) and Bristol (11,315).

Council areas with at least 300 standard sales, September 2024 to August 2026
  1. Cotswold2,593 sales£450,000£4,455−1%
  2. Bath and North East Somerset4,969 sales£395,000£4,2250%
  3. South Hams2,956 sales£360,000£3,702−4%
  4. Bristol11,315 sales£350,000£4,177+3%
  5. Dorset11,776 sales£345,000£3,7450%
  6. South Gloucestershire8,092 sales£340,000£3,998−1%
  7. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole10,621 sales£338,000£3,955+2%
  8. Stroud3,516 sales£335,000£3,718−4%
  9. East Devon4,790 sales£330,000£3,750−3%
  10. Cheltenham3,698 sales£328,000£4,366−2%
  11. Tewkesbury3,243 sales£325,000£3,837+3%
  12. North Somerset7,012 sales£320,000£3,590+2%
  13. Wiltshire13,920 sales£320,000£3,620+2%
  14. Exeter3,076 sales£300,000£3,8010%
  15. Teignbridge3,888 sales£300,000£3,3030%
  16. Mid Devon2,136 sales£295,000£3,172−1%
  17. West Devon1,599 sales£295,000£3,076+3%
  18. North Devon2,775 sales£293,000£3,185+1%
  19. Cornwall15,662 sales£287,500£3,373−1%
  20. Somerset16,224 sales£285,000£3,222+3%
  21. Swindon6,286 sales£280,000£3,440+3%
  22. Forest of Dean2,102 sales£275,000£3,2890%
  23. Torridge2,050 sales£275,000£3,0180%
  24. Gloucester3,497 sales£255,000£3,227+3%
  25. Torbay3,854 sales£250,000£2,5740%
  26. Plymouth6,952 sales£225,000£2,781+3%

Fewer than 300 sales, not ranked: Isles of Scilly £428k (36 sales).

1-year change: 2025 against 2024, where both years had 100 or more standard sales. It moves with which homes sold, so treat it as a guide, not a price index.

Prices by property type

Standard sales in the South West, September 2024 to August 2026. Per m² uses sales HM Land Registry has linked to a property reference that has an energy certificate
TypeSalesMedian priceMiddle halfPer m²
Detached48,135£450,000£360,000 to £595,000£3,883/m²from 1,915 sales
Semi-detached40,446£307,000£258,000 to £373,000£3,563/m²from 1,601 sales
Terraced45,028£265,000£215,000 to £330,000£3,353/m²from 1,541 sales
Flats and maisonettes25,029£187,500£140,000 to £260,000£3,125/m²from 677 sales

Detached houses and terraced houses sold in similar numbers in the South West, at 30% and 28% of sales.

Leasehold is less common here: 17% of sales were leasehold, against 21% across England and Wales.

Prices over time

  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. 2019
  5. 2020
  6. 2021
  7. 2022
  8. 2023
  9. 2024
  10. 2025
  11. 2026
Yearly median of standard sales, not adjusted for inflation. 2026 covers January to August only, and the ringed bar, 2025, is the latest full year.

The median rose 36%, from £230,000 in 2016 to £312,000 in 2025, close to the 35% rise across England and Wales as a whole.

From 2016 to 2025, the median rose most in Forest of Dean, up 47%, and least in Teignbridge, up 29%, among council areas with at least 50 sales in both years.

Postcode areas in the South West

About these figures

The 158,638 standard sales behind these figures are placed in the South West by each home's postcode, and 5,734 of them have a floor area for the price per m² (our methodology).

Updated 15 October 2026 with sales recorded to August 2026. Next update due in late November 2026.

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Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Energy certificate data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Both are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.