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Backwell market report BS48, Bristol
The BS48 (Backwell) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 12,814 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BS48 (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 August 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the typical home in BS48 (Bristol) sold for £378,800 in 2026, the median of 150 registered sales, up 1% on five years earlier. The mean was £443,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,330 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 12,814 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
BS48 is the postcode district covering Backwell, Nailsea in Bristol. Districts are a practical way to slice a market: small enough to mean something locally, big enough to have a steady flow of sales to measure.
Where BS48 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 homes really sell for
In the BS48 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £378,800, from 150 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £443,000, sitting well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
What a square metre costs in BS48
A square metre of BS48 home has cost about £4,330 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BS48 runs 33% above it.
A typical BS48 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £378,800 | £378,800 | 150 |
| 2025 | £400,000 | £409,565 | 431 |
| 2024 | £394,200 | £419,116 | 416 |
| 2023 | £400,000 | £439,502 | 379 |
| 2022 | £390,900 | £458,375 | 400 |
| 2021 | £375,000 | £474,798 | 484 |
| 2020 | £348,500 | £452,186 | 290 |
| 2019 | £350,000 | £458,766 | 374 |
| 2018 | £345,500 | £460,558 | 355 |
| 2017 | £330,000 | £450,087 | 345 |
| 2016 | £315,000 | £440,688 | 427 |
| 2015 | £276,200 | £390,271 | 376 |
| 2014 | £250,000 | £354,669 | 369 |
| 2013 | £232,200 | £334,113 | 358 |
| 2012 | £237,500 | £349,570 | 310 |
| 2011 | £245,000 | £369,856 | 250 |
| 2010 | £226,000 | £354,426 | 311 |
| 2009 | £215,500 | £346,418 | 340 |
| 2008 | £232,000 | £380,297 | 190 |
| 2007 | £247,000 | £418,981 | 471 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 496 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 398 |
| 2004 | £208,400 | £378,495 | 388 |
| 2003 | £178,800 | £329,393 | 472 |
| 2002 | £147,400 | £277,332 | 554 |
| 2001 | £137,000 | £263,376 | 601 |
| 2000 | £121,800 | £239,033 | 520 |
| 1999 | £101,000 | £201,288 | 546 |
| 1998 | £92,800 | £187,323 | 454 |
| 1997 | £75,000 | £153,810 | 451 |
| 1996 | £73,000 | £153,954 | 519 |
| 1995 | £72,500 | £157,604 | 389 |
In cash terms the typical BS48 home went from £72,500 in 1995 to £378,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 140%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS48 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 1998 (+23.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−7.1%). 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 year (since 2025) | −5.3% | −7.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.2% | −4.4% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +1.4% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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, 45% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £585,000 against £170,000 for a flat, 3.4 times the price.
Median by property type, BS48
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 | £585,000 | 49 | 5,741 |
| Semi-detached | £365,000 | 55 | 4,179 |
| Terraced | £308,500 | 29 | 2,002 |
| Flats | £170,000 | 17 | 892 |
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
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
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
Over the last twelve months of data, 278 sales completed in BS48. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 488 sales a year before the financial crisis and 355 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 BS48
For renting purposes BS48 sits in North Somerset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,197 a month (May 2026). 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.
£1,197 a month is £14,364 a year, which against the £378,800 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.
Asked and answered: BS48 (Backwell)
How much did a house sell for in BS48 (Backwell)?
Are property prices falling in BS48 (Backwell)?
Is BS48 (Backwell) a good place to buy a house?
Are BS48 prices heading up or down?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 20% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
BS48's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BS48 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 123 homes currently on the market from 5 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 12% below the BS48 median sold price.
At the pace of the last twelve months' registered sales (278 in BS48), the 123 homes listed here amount to about 5 months of supply. Not every agent publishes to HomesIndex, so the true figure is higher.
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.
- Nailsea, North Somerset, Nailsea
- Station Road, Backwell, Bristol, Somerset
- 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 →
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.
Listed against sold: the BS48 mix
Flats are 23% of what is listed in BS48 but 6% of what sold over 2024 and 2025: the market is being offered more of them than it has been taking, which tends to give a buyer of one room to talk.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 41% | 45% |
| Semi-detached | 36% | 36% |
| Terraced | 0% | 13% |
| Flats | 23% | 6% |
The listing shares count homes published to HomesIndex by agents today; the sales shares count HM Land Registry registrations. Listings typed only as "house", "bungalow" or similar, which the register would file under one of the four forms, are excluded from the listing side (16 of them here).
When homes in BS48 change hands
Across the 2,110 sales completed in BS48 from 2021 to 2025, June was the busiest month for completions (12.8% of the total) and April the quietest (5.4%). The gap between the two is wide enough to plan around: completion follows the agreed sale by weeks, so the busiest month for completions points to deals done earlier, and a seller wanting several bidders should list ahead of it.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 148 | 7.0% |
| February | 158 | 7.5% |
| March | 206 | 9.8% |
| April | 113 | 5.4% |
| May | 139 | 6.6% |
| June | 271 | 12.8% |
| July | 136 | 6.4% |
| August | 192 | 9.1% |
| September | 209 | 9.9% |
| October | 169 | 8.0% |
| November | 187 | 8.9% |
| December | 182 | 8.6% |
The price of an extra bedroom in BS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BS area, 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 | £300,000 | £357,500 (+19%) | £414,995 (+16%) | £530,000 (+28%) | £710,000 (+34%) |
| Semi-detached | £244,000 | £285,000 (+17%) | £327,500 (+15%) | £415,000 (+27%) | £550,000 (+33%) |
| Terraced | £218,500 | £280,000 (+28%) | £341,000 (+22%) | £475,000 (+39%) | £640,000 (+35%) |
| Flat | £190,000 | £240,000 (+26%) | £346,756 (+44%) | £438,750 (+27%) | £535,000 (+22%) |
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
BS48 ranks 33 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.
Five-year change in the median, BS area districts
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BS48, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS48 1 | £380,000 | 37 |
| BS48 2 | £330,000 | 58 |
| BS48 3 | £595,000 | 28 |
| BS48 4 | £380,000 | 27 |
How BS48 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BS area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BS28 | £597,500 | +16% |
| BS9 | £537,500 | +6% |
| BS41 | £490,000 | -2% |
| BS25 | £463,800 | +17% |
| BS40 | £445,000 | +1% |
| BS8 | £435,200 | -2% |
| BS26 | £427,000 | +7% |
| BS7 | £426,000 | +12% |
| BS36 | £426,000 | +13% |
| BS3 | £420,000 | +20% |
| BS31 | £418,800 | +18% |
| BS6 | £415,000 | -3% |
| BS20 | £390,000 | +5% |
| BS48 (this report) | £378,800 | +1% |
| BS35 | £367,500 | +11% |
| BS49 | £358,000 | +6% |
| BS16 | £357,000 | +15% |
| BS4 | £355,500 | +23% |
| BS21 | £355,000 | +10% |
| BS27 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BS5 | £343,000 | +18% |
| BS32 | £342,000 | +10% |
| BS34 | £325,000 | +15% |
| BS39 | £325,000 | +10% |
Thinking of selling in BS48? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BS48, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS48's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS48 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BS48 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS48 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.
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.