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Bath north of the Avon market report BA1 3, Bath

The BA1 3 (Bath north of the Avon) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 4,065 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BA1 3 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in BA1 3 (Bath) came in at £500,000, out of 32 registered, up 18% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £498,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,120 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,065 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

BA1 3 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BA1 (Bath). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.

The going rate for a home in BA1 3

In the BA1 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £500,000, from 32 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £498,700, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.

House prices per square metre in BA1 3

Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BA1 3 costs about £5,120 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BA1 3 75% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical BA1 3 home went from £63,500 in 1995 to £500,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 262%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 15% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.

The strongest year on record here is 2003 (+31.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−9.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

The long view: annualised growth

The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.

Transaction volumes

BA1 3 recorded 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 170 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.

What homes rent for around BA1 3

For renting purposes BA1 3 sits in Bath and North East Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,881 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,203 a month here against £2,535 for four or more bedrooms.

Set against the £500,000 median sold price, £1,881 a month is £22,572 a year, a gross yield of 4.5%: 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.

What kind of market BA1 3 is

This is a thin market: 32 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within BA1, this sector trades 19% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.

Common questions on BA1 3 (Bath north of the Avon)

Are BA1 3 prices heading up or down?

Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 18% over five years in cash but down 7% 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.

What you could buy in BA1 now

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The risers and the fallers

The spread across the BA area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

Other sectors in BA1

A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BA1's other sectors, each with its own report:

Zoom out to the full BA1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BA1 compares with its neighbours.

Selling a home in BA1 3? Price it on the evidence

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Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.