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Bristol city centre market report BS1 6, Bristol
The standing BS1 6 (Bristol city centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,253 HM Land Registry entries for BS1 6 (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 recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BS1 6 (Bristol) is £285,000, from 32 registered sales, down 19% on five years earlier; the mean is £309,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,253 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BS1 6 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 6 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 6 sells for
32 sales were registered in BS1 6 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £285,000. The mean works out at £309,300, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
BS1 6 prices by floor area
A square metre of BS1 6 home has cost about £5,150 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 6 trades 0% above the country as a whole.
The price of a typical BS1 6 home, 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 | £285,000 | £285,000 | 32 |
| 2025 | £300,000 | £307,174 | 103 |
| 2024 | £337,700 | £359,044 | 102 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 74 |
| 2022 | £350,000 | £410,415 | 117 |
| 2021 | £352,800 | £446,690 | 196 |
| 2020 | £346,000 | £448,942 | 132 |
| 2019 | £374,400 | £490,749 | 136 |
| 2018 | £340,500 | £453,893 | 136 |
| 2017 | £262,500 | £358,024 | 268 |
| 2016 | £282,000 | £394,521 | 173 |
| 2015 | £259,500 | £366,674 | 258 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 139 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 97 |
| 2012 | £167,200 | £246,098 | 98 |
| 2011 | £187,000 | £282,298 | 157 |
| 2010 | £192,800 | £302,360 | 108 |
| 2009 | £200,000 | £321,502 | 76 |
| 2008 | £162,100 | £265,716 | 53 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 111 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 151 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 99 |
| 2004 | £182,000 | £330,548 | 154 |
| 2003 | £200,000 | £368,449 | 154 |
| 2002 | £185,800 | £349,581 | 252 |
| 2001 | £150,000 | £288,367 | 241 |
| 2000 | £83,500 | £163,869 | 97 |
| 1999 | £85,500 | £170,397 | 183 |
| 1998 | £55,500 | £112,031 | 96 |
| 1997 | £52,900 | £108,487 | 84 |
| 1996 | £46,800 | £98,699 | 114 |
| 1995 | £44,000 | £95,649 | 62 |
In cash terms the typical BS1 6 home went from £44,000 in 1995 to £285,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 198%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 42% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS1 6 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 2001 (+79.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−18.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −4.2% | −8.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.1% | −3.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.6% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BS1 6
Sales per year, counted
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.
Over the last twelve months of data, 32 sales completed in BS1 6. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 157 sales a year before the financial crisis and 86 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.
The rental side of BS1 6
For renting purposes BS1 6 sits in Bristol, City of. The ONS average private rent there is £1,883 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £1,224 a month here against £2,552 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £285,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,883 a month (£22,596 a year) works out at a 7.9% 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.
What kind of market BS1 6 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. 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.
Asked and answered: BS1 6 (Bristol city centre)
How much did a house sell for in BS1 6 (Bristol city centre)?
Are property prices falling in BS1 6 (Bristol city centre)?
Is BS1 6 (Bristol city centre) a good place to buy a house?
Are BS1 6 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 19% over five years in cash but down 36% 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.
What is for sale in BS1 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS1 district, not just BS1 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BS prices by size
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BS 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 | — | £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.
Winners and losers across the BS area, five years
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 5 | £325,000 | 31 |
Zoom out to the full BS1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS1 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BS1 6? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BS1 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BS1 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BS1 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BS1 6.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS1 6. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS1 6 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
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.