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Bristol city centre market report BS1, Bristol
The BS1 (Bristol city centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 9,191 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BS1 (Bristol) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to July 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 81 registered 2026 sales put the BS1 (Bristol) median at £300,000, down 7% on five years earlier, with a mean of £330,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,020 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,191 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
The postcode district BS1 covering Bristol city centre, Redcliffe sits in Bristol. 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 BS1 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 BS1 prices, from the sold record
In the BS1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £300,000, from 81 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £330,500, sitting a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
BS1 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BS1 at roughly £5,020 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BS1 5% above the country at large.
A typical BS1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 81 |
| 2025 | £290,000 | £296,935 | 205 |
| 2024 | £325,000 | £345,542 | 191 |
| 2023 | £285,000 | £313,145 | 174 |
| 2022 | £257,000 | £301,362 | 371 |
| 2021 | £322,500 | £408,327 | 321 |
| 2020 | £335,000 | £434,669 | 210 |
| 2019 | £323,800 | £424,424 | 290 |
| 2018 | £268,700 | £358,182 | 320 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 521 |
| 2016 | £275,000 | £384,728 | 402 |
| 2015 | £245,000 | £346,185 | 446 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 432 |
| 2013 | £195,500 | £281,305 | 306 |
| 2012 | £183,500 | £270,089 | 228 |
| 2011 | £187,000 | £282,298 | 370 |
| 2010 | £224,000 | £351,290 | 261 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 346 |
| 2008 | £217,000 | £355,709 | 264 |
| 2007 | £192,500 | £326,534 | 376 |
| 2006 | £183,500 | £318,533 | 384 |
| 2005 | £174,500 | £310,540 | 208 |
| 2004 | £168,000 | £305,121 | 305 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 327 |
| 2002 | £175,000 | £329,261 | 497 |
| 2001 | £135,500 | £260,492 | 396 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 147 |
| 1999 | £88,200 | £175,778 | 288 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 147 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 137 |
| 1996 | £48,000 | £101,230 | 150 |
| 1995 | £48,200 | £104,779 | 90 |
In cash terms the typical BS1 home went from £48,200 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 31% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BS1 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 (+55.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2022 (−20.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BS1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +3.4% | +1.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −6.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.9% | −2.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 93% of the typed total. In 2003, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £475,000 against £181,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BS1
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 | £475,000 (2003) | – | 36 |
| Semi-detached | £380,000 (2011) | – | 111 |
| Terraced | £562,500 (2025) | – | 450 |
| Flats | £290,000 | 77 | 8,519 |
How many homes change hands in BS1
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.
The last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
BS1 recorded 152 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 330 sales a year before the financial crisis and 204 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.
How BS1 trades
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. Among the 37 measurable districts of its area, BS1 ranks 31 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What tenants pay around BS1
The local authority for BS1 is Bristol, City of, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,883 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,224 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,552 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,883 a month is £22,596 a year, which against the £300,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 7.5%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
What people search before landing on BS1 (Bristol city centre)
These are the recorded searches for the wider BS report family, answered with this page's own figures.
bristol short let index
comes up in the searches for this page. The current ONS figure for Bristol, City of is £1,883 a month on average, which is a 7.5% gross yield at the local median; sizes and caveats are in the rent section below.
Search phrases quoted verbatim from Google Search Console for this site (last 16 months); each is answered from the page's own Land Registry figures.
Asked and answered: BS1 (Bristol city centre)
Are property prices falling in BS1 (Bristol city centre)?
Is BS1 (Bristol city centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS1 (Bristol city centre)?
Will BS1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 27% 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.
BS1's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BS1 sold for. The live side of the market holds 62 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% above the BS1 median sold price.
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.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BS1 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.
The price of an extra bedroom in BS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BS area, from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BS1 ranks 37 of 37 in the BS 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.
BS area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Inside BS1, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| 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 |
| BS1 6 | £285,000 | 32 |
How BS1 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The dearest districts of the BS area, and BS1 itself, which ranks 31 of 37 by median price:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BS28 | £565,000 | +9% |
| BS9 | £530,000 | +4% |
| BS41 | £490,000 | -2% |
| BS25 | £480,000 | +21% |
| BS8 | £435,000 | -2% |
| BS7 | £425,000 | +12% |
| BS36 | £425,000 | +13% |
| BS40 | £425,000 | -3% |
| BS3 | £420,000 | +20% |
| BS6 | £420,000 | -2% |
| BS31 | £413,800 | +17% |
| BS26 | £410,000 | +3% |
| BS20 | £385,000 | +4% |
| BS48 | £372,500 | -1% |
| BS35 | £364,000 | +10% |
| BS32 | £362,200 | +16% |
| BS16 | £362,000 | +17% |
| BS21 | £355,000 | +10% |
| BS4 | £354,000 | +22% |
| BS27 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BS49 | £350,000 | +3% |
| BS5 | £345,000 | +19% |
| BS39 | £335,000 | +14% |
| BS1 (this report) | £300,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in BS1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BS1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BS1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BS1 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.
Go deeper
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See every individual BS1 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.
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.