Nine of the 11 Weston-super-Mare postcode sectors with 30 or more sales in 2025 had a median sale price at or under £300,000, and in six of them the median house did too. That hides a wide gap between house types. Across those six sectors, 293 of 309 terraced sales (94.8%) and 334 of 429 semi-detached sales (77.9%) were at or under £300,000, against 35 of 214 detached sales (16.4%). Wherever a detached median can be measured, it sits above the line, at between £325,000 and £379,997.50.
£300,000 matters because it is the ceiling of the nil-rate band for eligible first-time buyers in England: no Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on the first £300,000 of a purchase up to £500,000 (HMRC, 2026). This guide follows our look at where first-time buyers pay no stamp duty in Weston-super-Mare, which identified those nine sectors, and asks the question that piece left open: which types of house sit behind their medians?
Nine sectors, four property types
The table shows the 2025 median price for each property type in each sector, with the number of sales in brackets. A cell is marked n/a where there were fewer than 30 sales, because a median of a handful of sales moves too much to compare.
| Sector | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flat | All types |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BS22 6 | n/a (22) | £270,000 (48) | £235,500 (48) | n/a (13) | £250,000 (131) |
| BS22 7 | £376,000 (59) | £268,500 (68) | £235,000 (69) | n/a (17) | £262,500 (213) |
| BS22 8 | £325,000 (37) | £270,000 (118) | £235,000 (52) | n/a (13) | £265,500 (220) |
| BS23 1 | n/a (6) | n/a (3) | n/a (11) | £165,000 (61) | £180,000 (81) |
| BS23 2 | n/a (20) | n/a (23) | n/a (15) | £165,000 (155) | £184,000 (213) |
| BS23 3 | n/a (1) | £244,250 (44) | £223,500 (44) | £149,225 (38) | £205,000 (127) |
| BS23 4 | n/a (22) | £330,000 (41) | n/a (29) | £180,500 (48) | £275,000 (140) |
| BS24 7 | £379,997.50 (50) | £279,000 (77) | £252,000 (61) | £178,500 (34) | £272,000 (222) |
| BS24 8 | £365,000 (45) | £276,250 (74) | £242,250 (35) | n/a (9) | £280,000 (163) |
Terraced houses are the most consistent. In the six sectors with 30 or more terraced sales, the median runs from £223,500 (BS23 3) to £252,000 (BS24 7), each at least £48,000 under the line. Semi-detached medians are at or under £300,000 in six of the seven sectors where they can be measured, from £244,250 to £279,000; the exception is BS23 4 at £330,000.
Detached houses can be measured in four sectors: BS22 7 (£376,000), BS22 8 (£325,000), BS24 7 (£379,997.50) and BS24 8 (£365,000). All four are above £300,000. The 22 detached sales in BS22 6 had a median of £314,000, but that is under the 30-sale minimum, so it is shown as n/a and not counted. Where a sector has both a detached and a terraced median, the detached figure is between 1.4 and 1.6 times the terraced one: BS22 7 £376,000 against £235,000 (1.60×), BS24 7 £379,997.50 against £252,000 (1.51×), BS24 8 £365,000 against £242,250 (1.51×), BS22 8 £325,000 against £235,000 (1.38×).
Flats are a separate market. The five sectors with 30 or more flat sales have flat medians of £149,225 to £180,500, and in the two sectors where flats made up around three-quarters of sales (BS23 1 and BS23 2), the all-types median (£180,000 and £184,000) is only £15,000 to £19,000 above the flat median (£165,000 in both).
How many sales reach the £300,000 line, by type
Pooling the 2025 house sales in the six sectors whose median house is at or under £300,000 (BS22 6, BS22 7, BS22 8, BS23 3, BS24 7 and BS24 8) gives a direct count of how the line divides the market. The other three of the nine sectors are left out of this count: BS23 1 has too few house sales (20) to measure, and the house medians in BS23 2 (£355,000) and BS23 4 (£334,500) are above the line.
| House type | Sales | Median | At or under £300,000 | Share | Exactly £300,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | 214 | £360,500 | 35 | 16.4% | 3 |
| Semi-detached | 429 | £270,000 | 334 | 77.9% | 15 |
| Terraced | 309 | £235,813 | 293 | 94.8% | 3 |
| All three types | 952 | £270,000 | 662 | 69.5% | 21 |
Fifteen semi-detached sales completed at exactly £300,000, so a count of sales "at or under" the line is sensitive to where round-number prices fall. At the other end, 10 detached sales (4.7%) went above £500,000, the price over which first-time buyer relief cannot be claimed at all (HMRC). None of the 309 terraced sales did, and 2 of the 429 semi-detached sales did.
Did prices move by type between 2024 and 2025?
The all-types median fell in three of the six sectors between 2024 and 2025, but the by-type figures do not show a fall in every type. Each change below compares medians only where both years had 30 or more sales of that type.
| Sector | All types | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Detached share of sales, 2024 → 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BS22 6 | +0.5% | n/a | +8.0% | −2.1% | 17.2% → 16.8% |
| BS22 7 | −2.4% | +2.3% | +0.1% | +0.6% | 30.2% → 27.7% |
| BS22 8 | −3.5% | +1.6% | −3.6% | 0.0% | 25.5% → 16.8% |
| BS23 3 | 0.0% | n/a | +4.8% | n/a | 4.6% → 0.8% |
| BS24 7 | −2.9% | −2.2% | −4.9% | +0.8% | 22.4% → 22.5% |
| BS24 8 | 0.0% | +7.4% | +0.5% | n/a | 36.8% → 27.6% |
Terraced medians barely moved: between −2.1% and +0.8% in the four sectors with enough terraced sales in both years. Semi-detached medians ranged more widely, from −4.9% to +8.0%. In BS22 7, the all-types median fell 2.4% while none of the three house types measured fell. In BS22 8, the 3.5% fall in the all-types median coincided with detached homes dropping from 25.5% to 16.8% of sales and semi-detached rising from 44.6% to 53.6%, while the terraced median was unchanged at £235,000, the detached median was 1.6% higher and the semi-detached median was 3.6% lower. Each figure compares two different sets of sales, so it describes what was paid in each year, not a change in the price of any one home.
BS24 7 shows a second reason a median can move. Its semi-detached median fell 4.9%, from £293,497.50 to £279,000. But new-build homes made up 49 of 96 semi-detached sales in 2024 (51.0%) against 16 of 77 in 2025 (20.8%), and new-build semis sold at a median of £305,000 in 2024 against £261,000 for resale semis. Looking at resale semi-detached sales alone, the median rose from £261,000 (47 sales) to £275,000 (61 sales), up 5.4%. The 2025 new-build count is lower than 2024's, which could reflect fewer completions or the timing of registration: the Land Registry says the gap between a sale and its registration in the data "typically ranges between 2 weeks and 2 months" and is occasionally longer. With only 16 new-build semi-detached sales in 2025, no 2025 new-build median is shown. No 2024 or 2025 sale in BS22 6, BS22 7, BS22 8 or BS23 3 is flagged as new-build in the Land Registry data, so every median for those four sectors describes resale homes.
Where in each sector? What the location data can show
The Land Registry records the town as Weston-super-Mare on every 2025 sale in all nine sectors, so town does not separate one part of a sector from another. The finer locality field is blank on between 20.7% (BS24 7) and 77.9% (BS24 8) of 2025 sales, and once sales are split by house type, a place name reaches 30 sales in only three of the 27 sector-and-type cells (semi-detached and terraced in BS22 8, where it is Weston-super-Mare, and semi-detached in BS24 7, where it is Locking). It never does for detached sales. That means this data cannot show whether detached homes are concentrated in a different part of a sector from terraced ones.
BS22 7 is the best-recorded case, with a locality on 72.3% of sales. Weston-super-Mare (85 sales) and St Georges (65 sales) are both named on more than 30 sales across all types, and detached (22 and 15), semi-detached (28 and 20) and terraced (27 and 24) sales all appear in both. Each of those counts is small, so they show the split is not obviously lopsided, not that it is equal.
What the type medians mean for stamp duty
SDLT at a type median is an illustration of how the rules apply, not a quote. Standard rates are 0% up to £125,000, 2% from £125,001 to £250,000 and 5% from £250,001 to £925,000. Eligible first-time buyers pay 0% up to £300,000 and 5% on the portion from £300,001 to £500,000 (HMRC, 2026). Figures below come from the Homecost stamp duty calculator, England, checked on 28 September 2026.
| Sale price | Where it comes from | First-time buyer relief | Standard rates |
|---|---|---|---|
| £235,000 | Terraced median, BS22 7 and BS22 8 | £0 | £2,200 |
| £270,000 | Semi-detached median, BS22 6 and BS22 8 | £0 | £3,500 |
| £325,000 | Detached median, BS22 8 | £1,250 | £6,250 |
| £379,997.50 | Detached median, BS24 7 | £3,999.88 | £8,999.88 |
Conditions apply to first-time buyer relief, and a conveyancer confirms eligibility on completion. The gap between the two columns is £2,200 at the terraced median, £3,500 at the semi-detached median and £5,000 for both detached examples, because relief on a price between £300,000 and £500,000 is worth a flat £5,000 against the standard rates.
Council tax is set by the authority rather than the house type. North Somerset's Band D rate for 2026-27 is £2,491.22 (gov.uk), the same benchmark whichever sector or type is being considered. A home's actual bill depends on the valuation band it was placed in, not on its latest sale price.
How to read these figures
Based on 1,510 HM Land Registry Price Paid transactions across nine Weston-super-Mare postcode sectors in 2025 (3,864 in North Somerset as a whole) and 1,386 in 2024, fetched on 28 September 2026. More area comparisons are in our Regional Prices guides. The nine sectors are those with an all-types median at or under £300,000; the town's other two sectors with 30 or more sales, BS22 9 (£342,500, 166 sales) and BS24 9 (£310,000, 103 sales), are above it and are not covered. Only standard (category A) sales of houses and flats are counted, and each figure is a median of the sales in that cell, so it records what was paid rather than what any home is worth. Property type is a coarse filter: the register holds no floor area, bedroom count, age or condition, so two homes of the same type can differ a great deal.
The same £300,000 test has been run for the four West of England councils, for South Gloucestershire's terraced sectors and for Yate's four sectors, where the type split follows the same pattern. The true cost of buying a £300,000 home sets out the other costs on top of the price. Leasehold sales are covered separately in leasehold houses across Bristol, Bath and the West of England.
To see each property's type, tenure and last recorded sale price for one street, try the Homecost postcode tool with BS22 8QH in Weston-super-Mare.
This is general information, not advice. Speak to a qualified adviser before acting.