Local market reports › BA
Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 271,507 sales registered with HM Land Registry in the BA postcode area (Bath) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to May 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
BA is the postcode area centred on Bath, taking in 19 districts. Figures this wide smooth over big local differences, so use the district reports below for anywhere specific.
Click the map to open BA on the live map, with every sale plotted at its address. The average pricing view shades the whole country the same way.
The 2026 median in BA is £300,000, from 1,819 registered sales; the mean, £366,600, sits well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £274,000, so BA trades 9% above the country as a whole.
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 1,819 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £315,000 | 7,714 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £321,896 | 7,796 |
| 2023 | £315,000 | £338,025 | 7,280 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £366,473 | 8,830 |
| 2021 | £298,000 | £368,495 | 10,710 |
| 2020 | £278,200 | £352,540 | 7,568 |
| 2019 | £264,500 | £338,599 | 8,187 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £338,491 | 8,950 |
| 2017 | £250,000 | £333,012 | 8,944 |
| 2016 | £237,500 | £324,505 | 9,338 |
| 2015 | £215,000 | £296,700 | 9,078 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £277,108 | 9,017 |
| 2013 | £192,500 | £270,519 | 7,599 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £273,125 | 6,209 |
| 2011 | £185,000 | £272,756 | 6,176 |
| 2010 | £192,000 | £294,073 | 6,154 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £274,744 | 6,034 |
| 2008 | £183,300 | £293,450 | 5,339 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £314,766 | 10,455 |
| 2006 | £178,000 | £301,769 | 11,219 |
| 2005 | £167,000 | £290,252 | 8,507 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £292,674 | 9,878 |
| 2003 | £145,000 | £260,887 | 10,012 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £229,694 | 11,350 |
| 2001 | £99,000 | £185,878 | 11,042 |
| 2000 | £88,000 | £168,667 | 9,927 |
| 1999 | £76,000 | £147,927 | 11,230 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £134,057 | 9,656 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £120,174 | 10,164 |
| 1996 | £58,000 | £119,463 | 8,601 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £116,769 | 6,724 |
In cash terms the typical BA home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 157%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not just more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 19% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
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, 2026 (−4.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −4.8% | −4.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.1% | −4.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −0.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BA recorded 6,138 sales in the last 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 6,688 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
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.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £300,000 median sold price, £990 a month is £11,880 a year, a gross yield of 4.0%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
The spread across the BA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
The area medians above hide a lot. Here is every BA district with enough sales to measure, dearest first; each links to its own full report.
| District | Median (2026) | 5-year | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| BA15 Bradford-on-Avon, Winsley | £425,000 | +10% | 61 |
| BA1 Bath north of the Avon, Batheaston | £420,500 | -5% | 153 |
| BA2 Bath south of the Avon, Farmborough | £400,600 | +5% | 224 |
| BA10 Bruton, Pitcombe | £400,000 | -6% | 12 |
| BA5 Wells, Wookey | £335,000 | +11% | 87 |
| BA3 Radstock, Midsomer Norton | £315,000 | +19% | 137 |
| BA11 Frome, Beckington | £304,500 | -5% | 172 |
| BA4 Shepton Mallet, Evercreech | £285,000 | +14% | 88 |
| BA16 Street, Walton | £281,200 | +12% | 50 |
| BA6 Glastonbury, Baltonsborough | £274,000 | +4% | 48 |
| BA12 Warminster, Mere | £270,000 | -7% | 143 |
| BA9 non-geographic | £265,000 | +6% | 27 |
| BA14 Trowbridge | £265,000 | +5% | 214 |
| BA13 Westbury, Chapmanslade | £261,200 | -1% | 116 |
| BA22 Yeovil (west), East Coker | £260,000 | -12% | 75 |
| BA20 Yeovil (centre and south) | £227,500 | +3% | 44 |
| BA7 Castle Cary, Ansford | £226,000 | -34% | 22 |
| BA21 Yeovil (north), Mudford | £217,000 | +9% | 129 |
| BA8 Templecombe, Henstridge | £198,000 | -31% | 17 |
See every individual BA sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or the quick-reference BA price page. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.