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Backwell market report BS48 1, Bristol
The standing BS48 1 (Backwell) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 2,910 HM Land Registry entries for BS48 1 (Bristol), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: 35 registered 2026 sales put the BS48 1 (Bristol) median at £380,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £432,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,320 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,910 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BS48 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BS48 (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 BS48 1 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 buyers actually paid in BS48 1
35 sales were registered in BS48 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £380,000. The mean works out at £432,400, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
BS48 1 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BS48 1 sales average about £4,320 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BS48 1 33% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BS48 1 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £380,000 | £380,000 | 35 |
| 2025 | £395,000 | £404,446 | 83 |
| 2024 | £400,000 | £425,282 | 66 |
| 2023 | £405,000 | £444,996 | 58 |
| 2022 | £319,000 | £374,064 | 78 |
| 2021 | £371,200 | £469,987 | 98 |
| 2020 | £292,500 | £379,525 | 76 |
| 2019 | £372,500 | £488,258 | 74 |
| 2018 | £312,000 | £415,902 | 91 |
| 2017 | £320,000 | £436,448 | 85 |
| 2016 | £312,000 | £436,491 | 119 |
| 2015 | £281,500 | £397,760 | 74 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 73 |
| 2013 | £236,000 | £339,580 | 72 |
| 2012 | £300,000 | £441,563 | 69 |
| 2011 | £273,000 | £412,125 | 54 |
| 2010 | £223,000 | £349,721 | 57 |
| 2009 | £227,500 | £365,708 | 58 |
| 2008 | £245,500 | £402,426 | 46 |
| 2007 | £285,000 | £483,439 | 115 |
| 2006 | £208,500 | £361,929 | 101 |
| 2005 | £201,000 | £357,699 | 88 |
| 2004 | £235,000 | £426,806 | 105 |
| 2003 | £209,500 | £385,950 | 120 |
| 2002 | £155,800 | £293,136 | 115 |
| 2001 | £140,000 | £269,143 | 160 |
| 2000 | £160,000 | £314,000 | 164 |
| 1999 | £146,200 | £291,369 | 162 |
| 1998 | £105,000 | £211,950 | 122 |
| 1997 | £91,500 | £187,648 | 109 |
| 1996 | £86,500 | £182,425 | 119 |
| 1995 | £65,200 | £141,735 | 64 |
In cash terms the typical BS48 1 home went from £65,200 in 1995 to £380,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 168%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2019, and today's median remains roughly 22% under it: a 2019 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS48 1 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 1999 (+39.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2020 (−21.5%). 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) | −3.8% | −6.0% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 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.
Sales activity in BS48 1
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 35 BS48 1 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 121 sales a year before the financial crisis and 64 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
What homes rent for around BS48 1
For renting purposes BS48 1 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.
£1,197 a month is £14,364 a year, which against the £380,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.8%. 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.
Reading the BS48 1 market
Only 35 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS48 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
Common questions on BS48 1 (Backwell)
Is BS48 1 (Backwell) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS48 1 (Backwell)?
Are property prices falling in BS48 1 (Backwell)?
Will BS48 1 prices rise from here?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What is for sale in BS48 right now
Turning to what is actually available: 135 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS48 district, not just BS48 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
36% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
- Nailsea, Bristol, Somerset, Bristol
- Nailsea, Nailsea
- North Street, Nailsea, North Somerset, North Somerset
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 BS48 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.
Moving up a bedroom in BS: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BS area. 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.
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 BS48
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BS48's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS48 2 | £320,000 | 50 |
| BS48 3 | £595,000 | 20 |
| BS48 4 | £377,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full BS48 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS48 compares with its neighbours.
Selling a home in BS48 1? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BS48 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BS48 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BS48 1 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 BS48 1.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BS48 1 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BS48 1 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.
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.