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Backwell market report BS48 4, Bristol
The standing BS48 4 (Backwell) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 2,587 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS48 4 (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 data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 26 registered 2026 sales put the BS48 4 (Bristol) median at £377,500, down 12% on five years earlier, with a mean of £445,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,290 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,587 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BS48 4 is a single group of streets within BS48 (Bristol), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BS48 4 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 BS48 4 homes really sell for
Across 26 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BS48 4 home went for £377,500. The mean is £445,800, a long way above it, which tells you a few very expensive sales are pulling the average up.
House prices per square metre in BS48 4
By floor space, homes in BS48 4 have sold for about £4,290 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BS48 4 sits 32% above the national market.
The price of a typical BS48 4 home, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £377,500 | £377,500 | 26 |
| 2025 | £430,000 | £440,283 | 129 |
| 2024 | £385,000 | £409,334 | 107 |
| 2023 | £397,000 | £436,206 | 138 |
| 2022 | £430,000 | £504,224 | 103 |
| 2021 | £427,500 | £541,270 | 107 |
| 2020 | £425,000 | £551,446 | 49 |
| 2019 | £385,000 | £504,643 | 63 |
| 2018 | £385,000 | £513,212 | 62 |
| 2017 | £377,000 | £514,190 | 69 |
| 2016 | £362,500 | £507,141 | 73 |
| 2015 | £296,500 | £418,955 | 81 |
| 2014 | £296,000 | £419,928 | 71 |
| 2013 | £273,800 | £393,971 | 68 |
| 2012 | £271,200 | £399,173 | 56 |
| 2011 | £281,200 | £424,504 | 56 |
| 2010 | £270,000 | £423,430 | 55 |
| 2009 | £246,800 | £396,733 | 72 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 34 |
| 2007 | £261,500 | £443,577 | 94 |
| 2006 | £250,000 | £433,968 | 107 |
| 2005 | £230,000 | £409,307 | 77 |
| 2004 | £242,500 | £440,427 | 76 |
| 2003 | £180,500 | £332,525 | 96 |
| 2002 | £181,000 | £340,550 | 105 |
| 2001 | £145,000 | £278,755 | 101 |
| 2000 | £118,000 | £231,575 | 97 |
| 1999 | £100,000 | £199,295 | 93 |
| 1998 | £77,000 | £155,430 | 65 |
| 1997 | £78,000 | £159,962 | 85 |
| 1996 | £77,500 | £163,444 | 97 |
| 1995 | £85,000 | £184,777 | 75 |
In cash terms the typical BS48 4 home went from £85,000 in 1995 to £377,500 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 104%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 32% below that. Someone who bought at the 2020 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BS48 4 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 2004 (+34.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.2%). 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) | −12.2% | −14.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.5% | −7.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.4% | −2.9% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.1% | −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.
How many homes change hands in BS48 4
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 26 sales completed in BS48 4. Turnover has held fairly steady across the cycle: about 101 sales a year recently, against 94 a year before 2008. 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 kind of market BS48 4 is
Only 26 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS48 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Rents around BS48 4
BS48 4 falls under North Somerset, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,197 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Set against the £377,500 median sold price, £1,197 a month is £14,364 a year, a gross yield of 3.8%: 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 people ask about BS48 4 (Backwell)
How much did a house sell for in BS48 4 (Backwell)?
Are property prices falling in BS48 4 (Backwell)?
Is BS48 4 (Backwell) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BS48 4 prices go next?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 30% 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 BS48 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 4: 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
"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 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.
What another bedroom costs in BS
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. 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 BS48
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BS48, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS48 1 | £380,000 | 35 |
| BS48 2 | £320,000 | 50 |
| BS48 3 | £595,000 | 20 |
Zoom out to the full BS48 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS48 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BS48 4? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BS48 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS48 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS48 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BS48 4.
Dig further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS48 4. Free after a one click sign in.
See every individual BS48 4 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.