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Bath market report BA
The BA (Bath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 261,620 registered sales in the BA postcode area (Bath) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: 3,168 registered 2026 sales put the the BA postcode area (Bath) median at £305,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £360,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,770 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 261,620 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The BA postcode area centred on Bath covers 19 districts. At this scale the figures average away real local contrasts; the district reports below are the place for anywhere specific.
Where BA sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
The going rate for a home in BA
In the BA property market, the 2026 median sale price is £305,000, from 3,168 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £360,600, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
BA prices by floor area
By floor space, homes in BA have sold for about £3,770 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BA runs 7% above it.
A typical BA home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £305,000 | £305,000 | 3,168 |
| 2025 | £320,000 | £327,652 | 7,185 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 6,798 |
| 2023 | £317,000 | £348,306 | 6,215 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 7,735 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 9,395 |
| 2020 | £281,000 | £364,603 | 6,611 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 7,098 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 7,764 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £340,975 | 7,904 |
| 2016 | £238,500 | £333,664 | 8,523 |
| 2015 | £217,500 | £307,328 | 8,529 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 8,593 |
| 2013 | £193,100 | £277,852 | 7,430 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 6,206 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £279,279 | 6,176 |
| 2010 | £192,000 | £301,105 | 6,151 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 6,032 |
| 2008 | £184,000 | £301,615 | 5,337 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 10,455 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £308,985 | 11,220 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £297,193 | 8,505 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 9,880 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £267,125 | 10,012 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 11,350 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £190,322 | 11,044 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £172,700 | 9,927 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £151,464 | 11,230 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 9,656 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 10,164 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £122,319 | 8,602 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 6,725 |
In cash terms the typical BA home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £305,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 155%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 20% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BA median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+26.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−4.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of terraced homes dominate the record here, 32% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £450,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BA
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £450,000 | 810 | 71,672 |
| Semi-detached | £295,000 | 845 | 67,221 |
| Terraced | £270,000 | 1,015 | 84,374 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 498 | 38,353 |
What BA has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −4.7% | −6.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Sales activity in BA
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The last five years, month by month
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 5,607 BA sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 10,299 sales a year before the financial crisis and 6,220 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Rents around BA
BA falls under Somerset, the local authority covering most of the BA area (parts fall under Wiltshire and Bath and North East Somerset, where rents differ), where the ONS puts the average private rent at £990 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £674 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,580, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £305,000 median purchase price, a rent of £990 a month (£11,880 a year) works out at a 3.9% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
BA (Bath): the questions that come up
Is BA (Bath) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BA (Bath)?
Are property prices falling in BA (Bath)?
Will BA prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
On the market in BA today
Everything above is what homes in BA sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 723 homes currently on the market from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 5% below the BA median sold price.
Set against 5,607 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 723 homes on the market here are roughly 7 weeks of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Bratton Road, Westbury, Westbury
- Bitham Mill, Westbury, Alfred Street
- Cork Street, Bath, BANES, Bath
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
See every BA home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Month by month: when BA sells
Take the 37,328 BA sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 11.0% of the total, April trails with 6.5%. The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 2,477 | 6.6% |
| February | 2,897 | 7.8% |
| March | 4,092 | 11.0% |
| April | 2,410 | 6.5% |
| May | 2,560 | 6.9% |
| June | 3,721 | 10.0% |
| July | 2,769 | 7.4% |
| August | 3,369 | 9.0% |
| September | 3,760 | 10.1% |
| October | 3,252 | 8.7% |
| November | 3,129 | 8.4% |
| December | 2,892 | 7.7% |
Moving up a bedroom in BA: the cost
Real sold prices by size across the BA area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £285,000 | £310,000 (+9%) | £357,500 (+15%) | £460,000 (+29%) | £645,000 (+40%) |
| Semi-detached | £230,000 | £254,497 (+11%) | £283,560 (+11%) | £350,000 (+23%) | £425,000 (+21%) |
| Terraced | £180,000 | £227,500 (+26%) | £275,750 (+21%) | £382,662 (+39%) | £550,000 (+44%) |
| Flat | £138,000 | £187,819 (+36%) | £307,250 (+64%) | £450,000 (+46%) | £595,000 (+32%) |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BA area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
District by district
The spread inside BA matters more than its average. These are its districts with enough sales to measure, priciest first, each with a full report of its own.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA1 Bath north of the Avon, Batheaston | £420,000 | -7% | 270 |
| BA10 Bruton, Pitcombe | £400,000 | +5% | 24 |
| BA2 Bath south of the Avon, Farmborough | £399,000 | +5% | 433 |
| BA15 Bradford-on-Avon, Winsley | £382,500 | -2% | 119 |
| BA5 Wells, Wookey | £320,000 | +5% | 155 |
| BA3 Radstock, Midsomer Norton | £312,500 | +18% | 235 |
| BA11 Frome, Beckington | £310,000 | -5% | 275 |
| BA22 Yeovil (west), East Coker | £290,000 | -2% | 128 |
| BA12 Warminster, Mere | £289,500 | +0% | 220 |
| BA4 Shepton Mallet, Evercreech | £285,000 | +16% | 129 |
| BA6 Glastonbury, Baltonsborough | £285,000 | +10% | 82 |
| BA9 non-geographic | £280,000 | +11% | 49 |
| BA16 Street, Walton | £275,000 | +10% | 86 |
| BA14 Trowbridge | £270,500 | +5% | 375 |
| BA13 Westbury, Chapmanslade | £265,000 | +0% | 200 |
| BA20 Yeovil (centre and south) | £255,000 | +14% | 94 |
| BA7 Castle Cary, Ansford | £240,000 | -29% | 31 |
| BA8 Templecombe, Henstridge | £235,000 | -15% | 23 |
| BA21 Yeovil (north), Mudford | £220,500 | +10% | 240 |
Selling in BA? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BA, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BA's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BA sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BA already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BA sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.