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Chew Valley market report BS40, Bristol
The BS40 (Chew Valley) 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: 5,995 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS40 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BS40 (Bristol) is £425,000, from 67 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier; the mean is £482,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,995 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BS40 is a postcode district covering Chew Valley, Chew Magna, Chew Stoke 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 BS40 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 BS40 sells for
Take the 67 registered 2026 sales in BS40 and the middle price, the median, is £425,000. The mean lands at £482,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BS40
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BS40 costs about £4,150 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BS40 49% above the national figure.
A typical BS40 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 | £425,000 | £425,000 | 67 |
| 2025 | £500,000 | £511,957 | 165 |
| 2024 | £458,000 | £486,948 | 168 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 165 |
| 2022 | £467,500 | £548,197 | 184 |
| 2021 | £440,000 | £557,097 | 315 |
| 2020 | £421,800 | £547,294 | 203 |
| 2019 | £425,000 | £557,073 | 199 |
| 2018 | £378,800 | £504,948 | 164 |
| 2017 | £400,000 | £545,560 | 170 |
| 2016 | £380,000 | £531,624 | 191 |
| 2015 | £353,000 | £498,789 | 189 |
| 2014 | £343,800 | £487,740 | 204 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 139 |
| 2012 | £303,800 | £447,156 | 152 |
| 2011 | £300,000 | £452,885 | 137 |
| 2010 | £302,500 | £474,398 | 197 |
| 2009 | £275,000 | £442,065 | 123 |
| 2008 | £302,500 | £495,861 | 94 |
| 2007 | £315,000 | £534,328 | 201 |
| 2006 | £287,500 | £499,063 | 205 |
| 2005 | £266,200 | £473,729 | 166 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 217 |
| 2003 | £237,500 | £437,533 | 255 |
| 2002 | £210,000 | £395,113 | 290 |
| 2001 | £169,000 | £324,894 | 225 |
| 2000 | £165,000 | £323,813 | 169 |
| 1999 | £131,500 | £262,073 | 210 |
| 1998 | £120,000 | £242,229 | 195 |
| 1997 | £107,200 | £219,846 | 239 |
| 1996 | £97,000 | £204,569 | 235 |
| 1995 | £111,900 | £243,253 | 162 |
In cash terms the typical BS40 home went from £111,900 in 1995 to £425,000 in 2026, roughly 3.8 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 75%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 24% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BS40 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 (+25.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−15.0%). 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) | −15.0% | −17.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.0% | −0.8% |
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.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 62% of the typed total. In 2024, the last year both were recorded here, a detached home traded at £630,000 against £174,000 for a flat, 3.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BS40
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 | £505,000 | 34 | 3,665 |
| Semi-detached | £410,000 | 14 | 1,376 |
| Terraced | £335,000 | 15 | 802 |
| Flats | £174,000 (2024) | – | 107 |
Transaction volumes
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.
Month by month, five years back
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 139 sales completed in BS40. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 216 sales a year before the financial crisis and 150 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 tenants pay around BS40
BS40 falls under North Somerset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,197 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £812 a month here against £1,830 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, North Somerset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £425,000 median sold price, £1,197 a month is £14,364 a year, a gross yield of 3.4%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
What kind of market BS40 is
This is a thin market: 139 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. Among the 37 measurable districts of its area, BS40 ranks 8 by median price: firmly in the dearer tier.
What people ask about BS40 (Chew Valley)
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The questions people bring to BS40 (Chew Valley)
These are the recorded searches for the wider BS report family, answered with this page's own figures.
For searches like bristol short let index
: the ONS puts the average private rent in North Somerset at £1,197 a month, a gross yield of about 3.4% against the £425,000 median. The full rent section below breaks it down by size.
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.
Will BS40 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% 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 BS40 today
Everything above is what homes in BS40 sold for. The live side of the market holds 26 homes at the moment, listed by 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% above the BS40 median sold price.
17% 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.
- Langford, North Somerset, Langford
- Dial Lane, Felton, Bristol, Somerset, BS40
- Stanshalls Lane, Felton, Bristol, Somerset, BS40
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BS40 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. 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BS40 ranks 36 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 BS40, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS40 5 | £390,000 | 35 |
| BS40 6 | £522,500 | 4 |
| BS40 7 | £695,000 | 11 |
| BS40 8 | £400,000 | 11 |
| BS40 9 | £442,500 | 6 |
How BS40 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 (this report) | £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% |
| BS34 | £325,000 | +15% |
Thinking of selling in BS40? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS40'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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS40.
Go deeper
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Two maps carry on from here: every BS40 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.