Weston-super-Mare Property Market: House Prices, Sold Data & Development Finance, Q3 2026 Review

Weston-super-Mare: North Somerset coastal town with town centre regeneration and Bristol commuter demand.

The Weston-super-Mare property market recorded 3,981 residential sales in the 12 months to 30 June 2026, with a median sale price of £310,000. This places Weston-super-Mare £13k above the Somerset county median of £296,750, and £25k above the approximate UK median of £285,000.

Prices in Weston-super-Mare have been broadly stable, a year-on-year change of -1.6%. Within Somerset, Weston-super-Mare ranks 4th by price out of 8 principal towns, and 1st by transaction volume.

On a quarterly view, Weston-super-Mare median prices moved from £320,000 in Q1 2025 to £312,500 in Q2 2026, a change of -2.3% over 5 quarters.

North Somerset, the local planning authority covering Weston-super-Mare, approved 30 residential planning applications and refused 5 in Q3 2026 (1 July to 30 September 2026), with 67 still awaiting a decision. That is an approval rate of 86%. A further 2 residential decisions in the period have no recorded outcome in the source data and are not counted above. Planning figures come from local planning authority records compiled by Landstack, retrieved on 3 October 2026. Councils and Landstack can take several days to publish decisions, so decisions made in the final days of Q3 2026 may not all be included yet.

Schemes approved in Q3 2026, together with those still awaiting a decision, propose around 3,388 homes, an estimated £1.0bn of development value at local sale prices. Treat the unit total as an upper bound, since an outline permission and its reserved-matters application both count.

Property prices in Weston-super-Mare vary significantly by type. The table below compares Weston-super-Mare prices with Somerset county averages and UK national figures.

Detached homes in Weston-super-Mare command £466,000, while flat properties are most accessible at £180,000. The £286k spread between the most and least expensive types indicates a diverse market with opportunities across the development spectrum.

HM Land Registry has so far registered 117 new-build sales in Weston-super-Mare for the past 12 months, 2.9% of registered transactions. New-build sales are typically registered 6 to 18 months after completion, so this understates current delivery and is not a completions figure.

On those registered sales, new builds in Weston-super-Mare sold at a premium of 28.4% to existing stock.

Across the wider Somerset market, 217 new-build sales have registered so far. See our Somerset property market report for the full county picture.

The table below shows the most recently registered residential sales in Weston-super-Mare, evidence of achieved prices for buyers, sellers and developers:

These transactions are sourced from HM Land Registry Price Paid data and represent completed, registered sales. The range from £120,000 to £341,000 illustrates the breadth of the Weston-super-Mare market.

For developers considering Weston-super-Mare, the local market data translates directly into finance structuring. With a median value of £310,000 and detached homes at £466,000, lenders can assess scheme viability with confidence.

A typical development finance facility for a scheme in Weston-super-Mare with a GDV of £466,000 would attract senior debt of approximately £302,900 at 65% LTGDV. Mezzanine finance can stretch total borrowing to 85-90% of costs, while bridging loans enable rapid site acquisitions completing in as little as 5 working days.

While prices have softened 1.6% year-on-year, experienced developers can still generate strong returns in Weston-super-Mare by targeting well-located sites with clear demand drivers.

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To put Weston-super-Mare's market in context, the table below compares it with similarly-priced towns across Somerset:

For the full Somerset town-by-town breakdown, see our comprehensive Somerset property market report.