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Cotham market report BS6, Bristol
The BS6 (Cotham) 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: 21,019 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS6 (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.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: a typical BS6 (Bristol) home changed hands for £415,000 in 2026 (median of 219 registered sales, down 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £526,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,450 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,019 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BS6 covering Cotham, Redland, Montpelier sits in Bristol. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BS6 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.
Today's BS6 prices, from the sold record
Across 219 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BS6 home went for £415,000. The mean is £526,300, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in BS6
Per square metre, BS6 homes have averaged around £5,450 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
For scale: the England and Wales median is £285,000, so BS6 trades 46% above the country as a whole.
A typical BS6 home, priced year by year (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 | £415,000 | £415,000 | 219 |
| 2025 | £476,300 | £487,690 | 502 |
| 2024 | £420,000 | £446,546 | 500 |
| 2023 | £458,000 | £503,230 | 450 |
| 2022 | £465,000 | £545,266 | 526 |
| 2021 | £430,000 | £544,435 | 663 |
| 2020 | £435,000 | £564,421 | 439 |
| 2019 | £372,000 | £487,603 | 439 |
| 2018 | £360,000 | £479,887 | 545 |
| 2017 | £385,000 | £525,101 | 509 |
| 2016 | £340,000 | £475,663 | 537 |
| 2015 | £300,000 | £423,900 | 585 |
| 2014 | £273,000 | £387,298 | 695 |
| 2013 | £276,200 | £397,424 | 586 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 481 |
| 2011 | £262,500 | £396,274 | 495 |
| 2010 | £249,000 | £390,496 | 596 |
| 2009 | £230,900 | £371,174 | 548 |
| 2008 | £250,000 | £409,803 | 421 |
| 2007 | £250,000 | £424,070 | 829 |
| 2006 | £240,000 | £416,609 | 907 |
| 2005 | £225,000 | £400,409 | 827 |
| 2004 | £210,000 | £381,401 | 872 |
| 2003 | £190,000 | £350,026 | 782 |
| 2002 | £172,500 | £324,557 | 964 |
| 2001 | £147,000 | £282,600 | 951 |
| 2000 | £127,000 | £249,238 | 757 |
| 1999 | £110,000 | £219,224 | 1,000 |
| 1998 | £85,500 | £172,588 | 916 |
| 1997 | £77,000 | £157,911 | 1,016 |
| 1996 | £73,500 | £155,008 | 865 |
| 1995 | £67,500 | £146,735 | 597 |
In cash terms the typical BS6 home went from £67,500 in 1995 to £415,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 183%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2020; the current median sits about 26% 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 BS6 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 (+28.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−12.9%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of flats dominate the record here, 54% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £1,239,000 against £318,200 for a flat, 3.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BS6
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 | £1,239,000 | 8 | 781 |
| Semi-detached | £805,000 | 33 | 3,789 |
| Terraced | £737,500 | 56 | 5,129 |
| Flats | £318,200 | 122 | 11,320 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −12.9% | −14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.7% | −5.3% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | −0.8% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.0% | −1.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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 BS6
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 403 BS6 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 861 sales a year before the financial crisis and 439 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 BS6
The local authority for BS6 is Bristol, City of, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,883 a month (May 2026 figures). The spread runs from £1,224 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,552 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Bristol, City of
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £415,000 median sold price, £1,883 a month is £22,596 a year, a gross yield of 5.4%: 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 BS6 is
The stock is flat-led: flats and maisonettes were 56% of last year's sales, so the headline median tracks the flat market more than the house market. 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.
Asked and answered: BS6 (Cotham)
Are property prices falling in BS6 (Cotham)?
Is BS6 (Cotham) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS6 (Cotham)?
What happens to BS6 prices now?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is down 3% over five years in cash but down 24% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What is for sale in BS6 right now
Everything above is what homes in BS6 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 184 homes on the market right now, from 4 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 24% above the BS6 median sold price.
Set against 403 registered sales in the last twelve months, the 184 homes on the market here are roughly 5 months of supply at last year's pace, and more in reality, since only agents who publish to HomesIndex are counted.
Of everything listed here, 9% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"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 BS6 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 is for sale against what sells in BS6
In BS6, terraced homes made up 25% of recent sales yet only 14% of today's listings. Demand outrunning supply for a type is the clearest sign a fairly priced one will go quickly.
| Type | Share of homes for sale now | Share of sales, 2024 and 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | 0% | 3% |
| Semi-detached | 17% | 15% |
| Terraced | 14% | 25% |
| Flats | 69% | 58% |
Listings are the homes agents publish to HomesIndex today; sales are HM Land Registry registrations. A listing whose type does not say detached, semi-detached, terraced or flat (a plain "house", a bungalow, a park home) is left out of the listing shares (28 here).
The BS6 sales calendar
March is when BS6 changes hands most (11.5% of the 2,641 sales dated 2021 to 2025); April is the quiet end at 6.0%. 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 | 214 | 8.1% |
| February | 204 | 7.7% |
| March | 305 | 11.5% |
| April | 158 | 6.0% |
| May | 173 | 6.6% |
| June | 239 | 9.0% |
| July | 178 | 6.7% |
| August | 234 | 8.9% |
| September | 302 | 11.4% |
| October | 234 | 8.9% |
| November | 198 | 7.5% |
| December | 202 | 7.6% |
The price of an extra bedroom in BS
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BS area. 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%) |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BS6 ranks 37 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.
Winners and losers across the BS area, five years
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BS6, 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.
How BS6 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 (this report) | £415,000 | -3% |
| BS20 | £390,000 | +5% |
| BS48 | £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% |
Selling in BS6? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS6'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.
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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.