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Bath north of the Avon market report BA1, Bath
The BA1 (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: 25,727 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BA1 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BA1 (Bath) is £420,000, from 231 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £494,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,420 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 25,727 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
The postcode district BA1 covering Bath north of the Avon, Batheaston, Bathford sits in Bath. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BA1 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.
Today's BA1 prices, from the sold record
The BA1 median stands at £420,000 for 2026, built from 231 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £494,400, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BA1
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BA1 sales average about £5,420 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BA1 sits 47% above the national market.
The price of a typical BA1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £420,000 | £420,000 | 231 |
| 2025 | £480,000 | £491,478 | 684 |
| 2024 | £485,000 | £515,655 | 684 |
| 2023 | £450,000 | £494,440 | 563 |
| 2022 | £485,000 | £568,718 | 697 |
| 2021 | £449,800 | £569,505 | 1,000 |
| 2020 | £414,500 | £537,822 | 604 |
| 2019 | £397,500 | £521,027 | 692 |
| 2018 | £423,000 | £563,867 | 698 |
| 2017 | £399,000 | £544,196 | 658 |
| 2016 | £382,000 | £534,422 | 761 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 862 |
| 2014 | £285,000 | £404,322 | 843 |
| 2013 | £275,000 | £395,698 | 790 |
| 2012 | £257,000 | £378,272 | 767 |
| 2011 | £252,500 | £381,178 | 660 |
| 2010 | £275,000 | £431,271 | 670 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 602 |
| 2008 | £249,000 | £408,164 | 530 |
| 2007 | £265,000 | £449,514 | 1,105 |
| 2006 | £245,000 | £425,289 | 1,143 |
| 2005 | £224,500 | £399,520 | 864 |
| 2004 | £225,000 | £408,644 | 895 |
| 2003 | £208,500 | £384,108 | 938 |
| 2002 | £174,700 | £328,697 | 1,168 |
| 2001 | £150,100 | £288,560 | 1,089 |
| 2000 | £130,000 | £255,125 | 864 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 1,082 |
| 1998 | £87,000 | £175,616 | 939 |
| 1997 | £80,000 | £164,064 | 1,052 |
| 1996 | £70,000 | £147,627 | 921 |
| 1995 | £69,500 | £151,082 | 671 |
In cash terms the typical BA1 home went from £69,500 in 1995 to £420,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 178%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 26% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BA1 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 2000 (+30.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.5%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £812,500 against £319,000 for a flat, 2.5 times the price.
Median by property type, BA1
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 | £812,500 | 22 | 3,507 |
| Semi-detached | £534,000 | 38 | 4,019 |
| Terraced | £420,000 | 82 | 8,453 |
| Flats | £319,000 | 89 | 9,748 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −12.5% | −14.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.0% | −2.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
The year-by-year sales count
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 532 sales completed in BA1. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 1,008 sales a year before the financial crisis and 572 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.
What kind of market BA1 is
BA1 is currently the dearest district of its postcode area by median price.
Rents around BA1
The local authority for BA1 is Bath and North East Somerset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,881 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,203 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,535, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bath and North East Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £420,000 median sold price, £1,881 a month is £22,572 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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.
BA1 (Bath north of the Avon): the questions that come up
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What happens to BA1 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% 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
Everything above is what homes in BA1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 231 homes at the moment, listed by 9 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 11% below the BA1 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 28% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Weymouth Court, Weymouth Street, Bath, Somerset
- Jesse Hughes Court, Bath
- Uphill Drive, Larkhall, 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 BA1 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BA: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BA area. 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 | — | £320,000 | £425,000 (+33%) | £650,000 (+53%) | £965,000 (+48%) |
| Semi-detached | £235,000 | £270,000 (+15%) | £328,000 (+21%) | £440,000 (+34%) | £755,000 (+72%) |
| Terraced | £214,997 | £250,000 (+16%) | £310,000 (+24%) | £475,000 (+53%) | £735,000 (+55%) |
| Flat | £150,000 | £242,000 (+61%) | £425,000 (+76%) | £680,000 (+60%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BA1 ranks 16 of 19 in the BA area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
BA area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BA1, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BA1 1 | £280,000 | 7 |
| BA1 2 | £403,000 | 42 |
| BA1 3 | £500,000 | 32 |
| BA1 4 | £425,000 | 26 |
| BA1 5 | £435,000 | 34 |
| BA1 6 | £400,500 | 46 |
| BA1 7 | £422,000 | 32 |
| BA1 8 | £280,000 | 5 |
| BA1 9 | £770,000 | 7 |
How BA1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BA area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BA1 (this report) | £420,000 | -7% |
| BA2 | £395,000 | +4% |
| BA15 | £393,000 | +0% |
| BA10 | £390,000 | +3% |
| BA5 | £327,000 | +7% |
| BA3 | £310,000 | +17% |
| BA11 | £300,000 | -8% |
| BA12 | £290,000 | +0% |
| BA4 | £285,000 | +16% |
| BA6 | £285,000 | +10% |
| BA22 | £282,500 | -4% |
| BA16 | £280,000 | +12% |
| BA9 | £278,500 | +11% |
| BA14 | £270,000 | +5% |
| BA13 | £266,500 | +1% |
| BA20 | £252,500 | +13% |
| BA7 | £240,000 | -29% |
| BA8 | £230,000 | -17% |
| BA21 | £225,000 | +13% |
Before you sell in BA1: what the record supports
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BA1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BA1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BA1 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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See every individual BA1 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.