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Cotham market report BS6 5, Bristol
The BS6 5 (Cotham) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 6,676 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BS6 5 (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 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BS6 5 (Bristol) is £335,000, from 69 registered sales, down 12% on five years earlier; the mean is £450,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,150 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,676 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BS6 5 is one sector of BS6 (Bristol): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BS6 5 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 BS6 5 sells for
Across 69 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BS6 5 home went for £335,000. The mean is £450,500, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
House prices per square metre in BS6 5
By floor space, homes in BS6 5 have sold for about £5,150 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BS6 5 runs 18% above it.
The price of a typical BS6 5 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 | £335,000 | £335,000 | 69 |
| 2025 | £412,000 | £421,852 | 167 |
| 2024 | £323,000 | £343,415 | 185 |
| 2023 | £388,000 | £426,317 | 161 |
| 2022 | £365,200 | £428,239 | 176 |
| 2021 | £380,000 | £481,129 | 234 |
| 2020 | £371,200 | £481,640 | 134 |
| 2019 | £301,000 | £394,539 | 137 |
| 2018 | £306,200 | £408,170 | 226 |
| 2017 | £349,500 | £476,683 | 165 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 191 |
| 2015 | £263,000 | £371,619 | 196 |
| 2014 | £216,000 | £306,434 | 246 |
| 2013 | £246,000 | £353,969 | 171 |
| 2012 | £230,000 | £338,531 | 155 |
| 2011 | £211,500 | £319,284 | 143 |
| 2010 | £171,300 | £268,643 | 204 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 198 |
| 2008 | £208,000 | £340,956 | 127 |
| 2007 | £216,000 | £366,396 | 266 |
| 2006 | £215,000 | £373,213 | 289 |
| 2005 | £188,200 | £334,920 | 224 |
| 2004 | £179,000 | £325,099 | 281 |
| 2003 | £159,000 | £292,917 | 231 |
| 2002 | £140,000 | £263,409 | 317 |
| 2001 | £122,500 | £235,500 | 290 |
| 2000 | £115,000 | £225,688 | 216 |
| 1999 | £85,000 | £169,401 | 308 |
| 1998 | £76,500 | £154,421 | 283 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 285 |
| 1996 | £62,700 | £132,231 | 237 |
| 1995 | £58,200 | £126,518 | 164 |
In cash terms the typical BS6 5 home went from £58,200 in 1995 to £335,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 165%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2020, and today's median remains roughly 30% under it: a 2020 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BS6 5 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 (+35.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−18.7%). 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) | −18.7% | −20.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.5% | −7.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.1% | −2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.2% | −0.5% |
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
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, 69 sales completed in BS6 5. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 264 sales a year before the financial crisis and 152 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.
Reading the BS6 5 market
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. Within BS6, this sector trades 20% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
The rental side of BS6 5
The local authority for BS6 5 is Bristol, City of, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,883 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £1,224 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,552, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £335,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,883 a month (£22,596 a year) works out at a 6.7% 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.
Common questions on BS6 5 (Cotham)
Are property prices falling in BS6 5 (Cotham)?
Is BS6 5 (Cotham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS6 5 (Cotham)?
What happens to BS6 5 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 12% over five years in cash but down 30% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in BS6 now
Turning to what is actually available: 196 homes on the market right now, from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS6 district, not just BS6 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 18% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 BS6 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BS area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Five-year change in the median, BS area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BS6
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BS6's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS6 6 | £395,900 | 71 |
| BS6 7 | £640,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full BS6 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS6 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BS6 5? 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 BS6 5, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS6 5's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS6 5 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BS6 5.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS6 5. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS6 5 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.