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Bristol city centre market report BS1 5, Bristol
The BS1 5 (Bristol city centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 2,537 HM Land Registry entries for BS1 5 (Bristol), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BS1 5 (Bristol) is £325,000, from 31 registered sales, up 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £359,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,660 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 2,537 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BS1 5 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BS1 (Bristol). 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.
Where BS1 5 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.
What a home in BS1 5 sells for
The BS1 5 median stands at £325,000 for 2026, built from 31 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £359,200, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BS1 5
A square metre of BS1 5 home has cost about £4,660 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BS1 5 trades 14% above the country as a whole.
A typical BS1 5 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 | £325,000 | £325,000 | 31 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 61 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 53 |
| 2023 | £330,000 | £362,589 | 45 |
| 2022 | £298,500 | £350,025 | 38 |
| 2021 | £320,000 | £405,161 | 54 |
| 2020 | £338,800 | £439,600 | 44 |
| 2019 | £335,000 | £439,105 | 99 |
| 2018 | £285,800 | £380,977 | 74 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 73 |
| 2016 | £292,500 | £409,210 | 82 |
| 2015 | £243,600 | £344,207 | 83 |
| 2014 | £225,000 | £319,202 | 148 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 155 |
| 2012 | £222,500 | £327,492 | 61 |
| 2011 | £235,000 | £354,760 | 150 |
| 2010 | £297,000 | £465,772 | 103 |
| 2009 | £208,800 | £335,648 | 102 |
| 2008 | £232,000 | £380,297 | 156 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 117 |
| 2006 | £184,000 | £319,400 | 178 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 43 |
| 2004 | £176,500 | £320,558 | 61 |
| 2003 | £165,500 | £304,891 | 119 |
| 2002 | £161,300 | £303,485 | 168 |
| 2001 | £105,000 | £201,857 | 41 |
| 2000 | £100,000 | £196,250 | 26 |
| 1999 | £89,000 | £177,372 | 68 |
| 1998 | £83,000 | £167,541 | 33 |
| 1997 | £57,600 | £118,126 | 30 |
| 1996 | £52,800 | £111,353 | 24 |
| 1995 | £60,000 | £130,431 | 17 |
In cash terms the typical BS1 5 home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £325,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 149%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2010. The market now sits about 30% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BS1 5 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 (+53.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−20.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +12.1% | +9.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.3% | −4.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +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.
Transaction volumes
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 31 sales completed in BS1 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 94 sales a year before the financial crisis and 46 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.
What kind of market BS1 5 is
This is a thin market: 31 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. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within BS1, this sector trades 8% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
What homes rent for around BS1 5
BS1 5 falls under Bristol, City of, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,883 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,224 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,552, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £325,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,883 a month (£22,596 a year) works out at a 7.0% 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.
BS1 5 (Bristol city centre): the questions that come up
Is BS1 5 (Bristol city centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS1 5 (Bristol city centre)?
Are property prices falling in BS1 5 (Bristol city centre)?
Are BS1 5 prices heading up or down?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What is for sale in BS1 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 62 homes on the market right now, from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS1 district, not just BS1 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BS1 home for sale on the map →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
What another bedroom costs in BS
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BS area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £360,000 | £480,000 (+33%) | £710,000 (+48%) | £960,000 (+35%) |
| Semi-detached | £267,000 | £310,000 (+16%) | £372,000 (+20%) | £500,000 (+34%) | £857,110 (+71%) |
| Terraced | £253,750 | £299,000 (+18%) | £367,500 (+23%) | £500,000 (+36%) | £757,500 (+51%) |
| Flat | £200,000 | £268,450 (+34%) | £415,000 (+55%) | £582,500 (+40%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BS area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BS1
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BS1, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS1 1 | £242,500 | 2 |
| BS1 2 | £350,000 | 4 |
| BS1 3 | £225,000 | 6 |
| BS1 4 | £360,000 | 6 |
| BS1 6 | £285,000 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full BS1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BS1 5? 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 BS1 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS1 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS1 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS1 5.
Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual BS1 5 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.