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Clifton market report BS8 1, Bristol
The BS8 1 (Clifton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 2,720 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS8 1 (Bristol) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: 23 registered 2026 sales put the BS8 1 (Bristol) median at £400,000, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £423,400, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,820 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 2,720 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BS8 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BS8 (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 BS8 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.
The going rate for a home in BS8 1
The 2026 median for BS8 1 is £400,000, taken from 23 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £423,400, modestly above it, the usual shape of a market with an expensive tail.
Price per square metre in BS8 1
The last five years of sales put BS8 1 at roughly £5,820 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BS8 1 40% above the country at large.
A typical BS8 1 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 | £400,000 | £400,000 | 23 |
| 2025 | £340,000 | £348,130 | 49 |
| 2024 | £375,000 | £398,702 | 40 |
| 2023 | £358,200 | £393,574 | 46 |
| 2022 | £356,200 | £417,685 | 52 |
| 2021 | £362,000 | £458,339 | 65 |
| 2020 | £341,000 | £442,455 | 51 |
| 2019 | £342,500 | £448,936 | 47 |
| 2018 | £296,000 | £394,574 | 51 |
| 2017 | £331,200 | £451,724 | 64 |
| 2016 | £300,000 | £419,703 | 73 |
| 2015 | £273,000 | £385,749 | 73 |
| 2014 | £242,000 | £343,319 | 101 |
| 2013 | £215,500 | £310,083 | 92 |
| 2012 | £218,500 | £321,605 | 55 |
| 2011 | £218,800 | £330,304 | 50 |
| 2010 | £218,800 | £343,135 | 62 |
| 2009 | £235,000 | £377,765 | 80 |
| 2008 | £224,000 | £367,183 | 76 |
| 2007 | £223,500 | £379,118 | 117 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 143 |
| 2005 | £195,000 | £347,021 | 111 |
| 2004 | £193,000 | £350,526 | 85 |
| 2003 | £172,000 | £316,866 | 175 |
| 2002 | £159,500 | £300,098 | 106 |
| 2001 | £125,000 | £240,306 | 113 |
| 2000 | £120,800 | £237,070 | 110 |
| 1999 | £116,000 | £231,182 | 167 |
| 1998 | £76,000 | £153,411 | 120 |
| 1997 | £70,800 | £145,197 | 125 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 107 |
| 1995 | £63,500 | £138,039 | 91 |
In cash terms the typical BS8 1 home went from £63,500 in 1995 to £400,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 190%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 13% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BS8 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 (+52.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2018 (−10.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.6% | +14.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.0% | −2.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.7% | +0.8% |
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 BS8 1
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BS8 1 recorded 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 120 sales a year before the financial crisis and 42 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 tenants pay around BS8 1
BS8 1 falls under Bristol, City of, where the ONS puts the average private rent 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.
£1,883 a month is £22,596 a year, which against the £400,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.6%. 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 BS8 1 market
This is a thin market: 23 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict. 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. Against the BS8 district median, BS8 1 sits 8% lower, marking it as a cheaper pocket of the district.
What people ask about BS8 1 (Clifton)
Is BS8 1 (Clifton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BS8 1 (Clifton)?
Are property prices falling in BS8 1 (Clifton)?
What happens to BS8 1 prices now?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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.
On the market in BS8 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 187 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS8 district, not just BS8 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 BS8 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.
What another bedroom costs in BS
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BS area, from the Land Registry record. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| 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 BS8
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BS8, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS8 2 | £385,000 | 45 |
| BS8 3 | £492,300 | 33 |
| BS8 4 | £475,000 | 57 |
Zoom out to the full BS8 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BS8 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BS8 1? 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 BS8 1, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BS8 1's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BS8 1 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 BS8 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BS8 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BS8 1 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.