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Downend market report BS16 7, Bristol
The BS16 7 (Downend) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 9,741 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS16 7 (Bristol) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 97 registered 2026 sales put the BS16 7 (Bristol) median at £375,000, up 20% on five years earlier, with a mean of £380,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,260 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 9,741 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BS16 7 is one sector of BS16 (Bristol): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BS16 7 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.
The going rate for a home in BS16 7
The 2026 median for BS16 7 is £375,000, taken from 97 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £380,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
Price per square metre in BS16 7
Per square metre, BS16 7 homes have averaged around £4,260 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BS16 7 32% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BS16 7 home, 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 | £375,000 | £375,000 | 97 |
| 2025 | £357,000 | £365,537 | 214 |
| 2024 | £373,000 | £396,576 | 251 |
| 2023 | £358,000 | £393,355 | 291 |
| 2022 | £360,000 | £422,141 | 380 |
| 2021 | £312,000 | £395,032 | 425 |
| 2020 | £290,000 | £376,281 | 321 |
| 2019 | £312,000 | £408,957 | 259 |
| 2018 | £298,500 | £397,906 | 372 |
| 2017 | £283,000 | £385,984 | 363 |
| 2016 | £273,000 | £381,930 | 375 |
| 2015 | £260,000 | £367,380 | 361 |
| 2014 | £230,000 | £326,295 | 287 |
| 2013 | £215,000 | £309,364 | 139 |
| 2012 | £212,000 | £312,038 | 102 |
| 2011 | £208,000 | £314,000 | 145 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 133 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 125 |
| 2008 | £221,000 | £362,266 | 113 |
| 2007 | £215,000 | £364,700 | 228 |
| 2006 | £202,500 | £351,514 | 272 |
| 2005 | £190,000 | £338,123 | 262 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 312 |
| 2003 | £158,200 | £291,443 | 370 |
| 2002 | £144,000 | £270,935 | 396 |
| 2001 | £137,500 | £264,337 | 559 |
| 2000 | £112,000 | £219,800 | 792 |
| 1999 | £94,000 | £187,337 | 760 |
| 1998 | £93,000 | £187,727 | 589 |
| 1997 | £86,000 | £176,369 | 374 |
| 1996 | £74,000 | £156,063 | 73 |
| 1995 | £123,000 | £267,383 | 1 |
In cash terms the typical BS16 7 home went from £123,000 in 1995 to £375,000 in 2026, roughly 3.0 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 40%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 11% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BS16 7 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 (+22.8% on the year before); the weakest, 1996 (−39.8%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BS16 7 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +5.0% | +2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +3.7% | −1.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.2% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BS16 7
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 97 BS16 7 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 399 sales a year before the financial crisis and 247 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.
The rental side of BS16 7
The local authority for BS16 7 is South Gloucestershire, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,450 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
£1,450 a month is £17,400 a year, which against the £375,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 4.6%. 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.
BS16 7 (Downend): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BS16 7 (Downend)?
Is BS16 7 (Downend) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS16 7 (Downend)?
What happens to BS16 7 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 20% over five years in cash but down 5% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
On the market in BS16 today
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 7: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 25% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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- Frenchay Park Road, Bristol, Somerset...
"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 →
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
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BS area, 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%) | — |
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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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 6 | £452,500 | 46 |
| 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 7? 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 7'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 7: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BS16 7.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BS16 7. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS16 7 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.
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.