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Downend market report BS16 6, Bristol
The BS16 6 (Downend) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,313 registered sales in BS16 6 (Bristol) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the typical home in BS16 6 (Bristol) sold for £452,500 in 2026, the median of 46 registered sales, up 22% on five years earlier. The mean was £433,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,120 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 5,313 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BS16 6 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BS16 (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 BS16 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 BS16 6 sells for
The 2026 median for BS16 6 is £452,500, taken from 46 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £433,700, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BS16 6
Per square metre, BS16 6 homes have averaged around £4,120 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BS16 6 runs 59% above it.
The price of a typical BS16 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 | £452,500 | £452,500 | 46 |
| 2025 | £448,000 | £458,713 | 135 |
| 2024 | £415,000 | £441,230 | 125 |
| 2023 | £415,000 | £455,984 | 127 |
| 2022 | £439,000 | £514,778 | 151 |
| 2021 | £372,000 | £471,000 | 201 |
| 2020 | £355,000 | £460,620 | 129 |
| 2019 | £360,200 | £472,136 | 140 |
| 2018 | £340,000 | £453,226 | 167 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 161 |
| 2016 | £319,400 | £446,844 | 164 |
| 2015 | £267,200 | £377,554 | 160 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 180 |
| 2013 | £235,000 | £338,142 | 166 |
| 2012 | £233,000 | £342,947 | 145 |
| 2011 | £226,000 | £341,173 | 157 |
| 2010 | £230,000 | £360,699 | 135 |
| 2009 | £219,000 | £352,044 | 123 |
| 2008 | £221,500 | £363,085 | 102 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 186 |
| 2006 | £225,000 | £390,571 | 208 |
| 2005 | £210,500 | £374,605 | 182 |
| 2004 | £208,500 | £378,677 | 231 |
| 2003 | £181,500 | £334,367 | 166 |
| 2002 | £159,000 | £299,157 | 171 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 204 |
| 2000 | £128,000 | £251,200 | 193 |
| 1999 | £105,800 | £210,854 | 264 |
| 1998 | £98,000 | £197,820 | 249 |
| 1997 | £79,700 | £163,449 | 232 |
| 1996 | £75,000 | £158,172 | 192 |
| 1995 | £67,200 | £146,082 | 121 |
In cash terms the typical BS16 6 home went from £67,200 in 1995 to £452,500 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 210%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 12% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BS16 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 1998 (+23.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.4%). 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) | +1.0% | −1.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +4.0% | −0.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.5% | +0.1% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.6% | +0.7% |
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.
Sales activity in BS16 6
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
The register shows 46 BS16 6 sales across the most recent 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 117 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.
What homes rent for around BS16 6
For renting purposes BS16 6 sits in South Gloucestershire. The ONS average private rent there is £1,450 a month (May 2026). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £989 a month here against £2,208 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, South Gloucestershire
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £452,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,450 a month (£17,400 a year) works out at a 3.8% 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 BS16 6 is
Only 46 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS16 6 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the BS16 district median, BS16 6 sits 25% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
What people ask about BS16 6 (Downend)
Are property prices falling in BS16 6 (Downend)?
Is BS16 6 (Downend) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS16 6 (Downend)?
Will BS16 6 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 22% over five years in cash but down 4% 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 you could buy in BS16 now
Turning to what is actually available: 550 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS16 district, not just BS16 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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"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 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BS prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BS area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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. 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.
Winners and losers across the BS area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £335,000 | 33 |
| BS16 4 | £325,000 | 54 |
| BS16 5 | £368,000 | 55 |
| 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.
Selling in BS16 6? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS16 6's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Estate agents working BS16 6: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BS16 6.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS16 6. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BS16 6 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.