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Downend market report BS16 3, Bristol
The standing BS16 3 (Downend) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,530 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS16 3 (Bristol) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BS16 3 (Bristol) home changed hands for £335,000 in 2026 (median of 33 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier), with the mean at £331,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,680 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 4,530 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
A postcode sector like BS16 3 is a single group of streets within BS16 (Bristol), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BS16 3 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 BS16 3 sells for
33 sales were registered in BS16 3 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £335,000. The mean works out at £331,800, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BS16 3
Per square metre, BS16 3 homes have averaged around £3,680 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BS16 3 18% above the country at large.
A typical BS16 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 33 |
| 2025 | £313,000 | £320,485 | 112 |
| 2024 | £295,000 | £313,646 | 111 |
| 2023 | £307,500 | £337,867 | 99 |
| 2022 | £310,000 | £363,510 | 128 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 118 |
| 2020 | £259,500 | £336,707 | 78 |
| 2019 | £240,000 | £314,583 | 109 |
| 2018 | £235,000 | £313,259 | 106 |
| 2017 | £228,000 | £310,969 | 155 |
| 2016 | £190,000 | £265,812 | 196 |
| 2015 | £181,200 | £256,036 | 168 |
| 2014 | £173,500 | £246,140 | 122 |
| 2013 | £154,500 | £222,310 | 108 |
| 2012 | £141,200 | £207,829 | 82 |
| 2011 | £145,000 | £218,894 | 95 |
| 2010 | £151,000 | £236,807 | 107 |
| 2009 | £140,000 | £225,051 | 92 |
| 2008 | £145,800 | £238,997 | 132 |
| 2007 | £170,000 | £288,367 | 202 |
| 2006 | £147,200 | £255,520 | 216 |
| 2005 | £138,800 | £247,008 | 198 |
| 2004 | £134,000 | £243,370 | 182 |
| 2003 | £124,500 | £229,359 | 164 |
| 2002 | £100,000 | £188,149 | 210 |
| 2001 | £81,500 | £156,680 | 200 |
| 2000 | £65,000 | £127,563 | 175 |
| 1999 | £59,000 | £117,584 | 224 |
| 1998 | £50,300 | £101,534 | 159 |
| 1997 | £45,500 | £93,311 | 196 |
| 1996 | £42,500 | £89,631 | 131 |
| 1995 | £40,000 | £86,954 | 122 |
In cash terms the typical BS16 3 home went from £40,000 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 8 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 285%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 8% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS16 3 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 (+25.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−14.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.0% | +4.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.8% | +2.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +4.2% | +1.4% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
BS16 3 recorded 33 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 193 sales a year before the financial crisis and 97 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 BS16 3 trades
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS16 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What tenants pay around BS16 3
The local authority for BS16 3 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.
Against the £335,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,883 a month (£22,596 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.
Asked and answered: BS16 3 (Downend)
Is BS16 3 (Downend) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS16 3 (Downend)?
Are property prices falling in BS16 3 (Downend)?
Where do BS16 3 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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.
On the market in BS16 today
The live side of the market holds 550 homes at the moment, listed by 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS16 district, not just BS16 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 BS16 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
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BS area. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is 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 BS16
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BS16, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS16 1 | £362,500 | 61 |
| BS16 2 | £377,500 | 62 |
| BS16 4 | £325,000 | 54 |
| BS16 5 | £368,000 | 55 |
| BS16 6 | £452,500 | 46 |
| BS16 7 | £375,000 | 97 |
| BS16 9 | £350,000 | 61 |
Zoom out to the full BS16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS16 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BS16 3? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BS16 3, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS16 3's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS16 3 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 BS16 3.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS16 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS16 3 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.
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.