Living in Wells, Somerset
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Free Wells Area Report
Sold prices, price trends, local rents and house prices against earnings for Wells - compiled from official sources into one report. Enter your email and we will send you your copy.
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Homes in Somerset cost 8.04 times median annual earnings for people working there (2025).
- Across England: 7.63 times (2025)
- Somerset a year earlier: 8.17 times (2024)
What this measures: the median price paid for homes in Somerset over the 12 months to September 2025, divided by the median gross annual pay of full-time employees who work in Somerset, wherever they live. That is what "workplace-based" means - it is about jobs in the area, not the earnings of people who live there. Earnings come from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (April 2025). A higher ratio means homes are less affordable for people working locally. The latest year uses provisional earnings, which ONS revises the following year. This is a council-area figure, not a valuation of any home.
Source: Office for National Statistics, House price to workplace-based earnings ratio, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Last reviewed 20 October 2026.
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Recent sold prices near Wells (postcode sector BA5 2)
| Address | Price | Type | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9, FAIRWAYS | £300,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| FLAT 40, MONDYES COURT, MILTON LANE | £160,000 | Flat | Sep 2026 |
| 5, REGENCY COURT | £240,000 | Terraced | Sep 2026 |
| 8, KIPPAX AVENUE | £410,000 | Detached | Sep 2026 |
| 6, BARNARD COURT | £205,000 | Semi-detached | Aug 2026 |
| 7, SANDFORD GARDENS | £183,000 | Flat | Aug 2026 |
| 52, JOCELYN DRIVE | £327,500 | Semi-detached | Aug 2026 |
| 19, OLD MILL WAY | £605,000 | Detached | Aug 2026 |
| 3, MELBOURNE HOUSE MEWS | £255,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
| 34, ST ANDREWS MEWS | £245,000 | Terraced | Aug 2026 |
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.