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Pill market report BS20, Bristol
The BS20 (Pill) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 22,024 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BS20 (Bristol) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BS20 (Bristol) came in at £385,000, out of 243 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £414,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 22,024 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BS20 is a postcode district covering Pill, Portishead in Bristol. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BS20 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 BS20 homes really sell for
Take the 243 registered 2026 sales in BS20 and the middle price, the median, is £385,000. The mean lands at £414,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
BS20 prices by floor area
The last five years of sales put BS20 at roughly £4,240 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.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BS20 trades 35% above the country as a whole.
A typical BS20 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.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £385,000 | £385,000 | 243 |
| 2025 | £386,000 | £395,230 | 553 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 518 |
| 2023 | £386,500 | £424,669 | 474 |
| 2022 | £391,000 | £458,492 | 627 |
| 2021 | £371,500 | £470,367 | 727 |
| 2020 | £345,000 | £447,645 | 549 |
| 2019 | £325,000 | £425,997 | 634 |
| 2018 | £332,000 | £442,562 | 671 |
| 2017 | £316,500 | £431,674 | 614 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 783 |
| 2015 | £270,000 | £381,510 | 829 |
| 2014 | £240,000 | £340,482 | 902 |
| 2013 | £220,000 | £316,558 | 853 |
| 2012 | £205,000 | £301,734 | 718 |
| 2011 | £202,000 | £304,942 | 738 |
| 2010 | £218,000 | £341,880 | 741 |
| 2009 | £205,000 | £329,539 | 657 |
| 2008 | £229,000 | £375,379 | 549 |
| 2007 | £240,000 | £407,107 | 1,107 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 1,173 |
| 2005 | £210,800 | £375,139 | 884 |
| 2004 | £195,700 | £355,429 | 880 |
| 2003 | £185,000 | £340,815 | 778 |
| 2002 | £152,000 | £285,987 | 780 |
| 2001 | £130,000 | £249,918 | 711 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 728 |
| 1999 | £90,500 | £180,362 | 752 |
| 1998 | £82,800 | £167,138 | 462 |
| 1997 | £76,100 | £156,066 | 484 |
| 1996 | £72,000 | £151,845 | 498 |
| 1995 | £71,000 | £154,343 | 407 |
In cash terms the typical BS20 home went from £71,000 in 1995 to £385,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 149%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 18% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS20 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 2000 (+30.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.5%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 35% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £545,000 against £212,500 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BS20
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 | £545,000 | 74 | 7,699 |
| Semi-detached | £382,500 | 61 | 5,003 |
| Terraced | £352,200 | 48 | 4,017 |
| Flats | £212,500 | 60 | 5,305 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −0.3% | −2.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.7% | −3.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.5% | −0.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
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 monthly pulse, last five years
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
BS20 recorded 472 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 880 sales a year before the financial crisis and 483 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.
What homes rent for around BS20
For renting purposes BS20 sits in North Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,197 a month (May 2026). A one-bed averages £812 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,830, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, North Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £385,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,197 a month (£14,364 a year) works out at a 3.7% 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.
What people ask about BS20 (Pill)
How much did a house sell for in BS20 (Pill)?
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Searches that land here, answered
These are the recorded searches for the wider BS report family, answered with this page's own figures.
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comes up in the searches for this page. The current ONS figure for North Somerset is £1,197 a month on average, which is a 3.7% 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.
Are BS20 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BS20 today
Everything above is what homes in BS20 sold for. The live side of the market holds 108 homes at the moment, listed by 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 3% above the BS20 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 31% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 BS20 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in BS
Real sold prices by size across the BS area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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
BS20 ranks 28 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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BS20, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BS20 0 | £378,200 | 38 |
| BS20 6 | £342,500 | 64 |
| BS20 7 | £420,000 | 109 |
| BS20 8 | £415,000 | 32 |
How BS20 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BS area, dearest first:
| 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 (this report) | £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% |
| BS34 | £325,000 | +15% |
Selling a home in BS20? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BS20, open the average prices map and zoom from the BS20 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BS20 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS20.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BS20 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BS20 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator 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.