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Clifton market report BS8 3, Bristol
The BS8 3 (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: 4,257 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BS8 3 (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: 33 registered 2026 sales put the BS8 3 (Bristol) median at £492,300, down 6% on five years earlier, with a mean of £584,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £5,890 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,257 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BS8 3 is a single group of streets within BS8 (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 BS8 3 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 BS8 3 sells for
In the BS8 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £492,300, from 33 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £584,200, sitting well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
BS8 3 prices by floor area
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BS8 3 costs about £5,890 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BS8 3 sits 73% above the national market.
The price of a typical BS8 3 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £492,300 | £492,300 | 33 |
| 2025 | £573,800 | £587,521 | 94 |
| 2024 | £535,000 | £568,815 | 95 |
| 2023 | £600,000 | £659,253 | 98 |
| 2022 | £570,000 | £668,390 | 124 |
| 2021 | £522,400 | £661,426 | 187 |
| 2020 | £525,000 | £681,198 | 126 |
| 2019 | £502,200 | £658,264 | 96 |
| 2018 | £540,000 | £719,830 | 123 |
| 2017 | £557,500 | £760,374 | 130 |
| 2016 | £513,800 | £718,811 | 116 |
| 2015 | £487,500 | £688,838 | 144 |
| 2014 | £379,700 | £538,671 | 138 |
| 2013 | £392,500 | £564,768 | 132 |
| 2012 | £336,000 | £494,550 | 94 |
| 2011 | £323,500 | £488,361 | 92 |
| 2010 | £331,000 | £519,093 | 94 |
| 2009 | £292,500 | £470,196 | 120 |
| 2008 | £320,600 | £525,531 | 71 |
| 2007 | £322,500 | £547,050 | 161 |
| 2006 | £286,500 | £497,327 | 183 |
| 2005 | £250,000 | £444,899 | 165 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 143 |
| 2003 | £248,700 | £458,166 | 132 |
| 2002 | £204,000 | £383,824 | 155 |
| 2001 | £180,000 | £346,041 | 163 |
| 2000 | £162,500 | £318,906 | 170 |
| 1999 | £130,000 | £259,083 | 222 |
| 1998 | £121,000 | £244,247 | 184 |
| 1997 | £110,000 | £225,588 | 183 |
| 1996 | £83,800 | £176,730 | 192 |
| 1995 | £93,500 | £203,255 | 97 |
In cash terms the typical BS8 3 home went from £93,500 in 1995 to £492,300 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 142%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2017. The market now sits about 35% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BS8 3 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 1997 (+31.3% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−14.2%). 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) | −14.2% | −16.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.2% | −5.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.4% | −3.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
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.
The register shows 33 BS8 3 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 159 sales a year before the financial crisis and 89 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 BS8 3
For renting purposes BS8 3 sits in Bristol, City of. The ONS average private rent there is £1,883 a month (May 2026). 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.
Against the £492,300 median purchase price, a rent of £1,883 a month (£22,596 a year) works out at a 4.6% 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.
How BS8 3 trades
Only 33 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BS8 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Against the BS8 district median, BS8 3 sits 13% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: BS8 3 (Clifton)
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: no page can honestly value a specific home unseen, and this one does not try. It gives you the evidence a valuer starts from, the £492,300 median and every recorded sale nearby, on the average prices map right down to street level.
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What happens to BS8 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is down 6% over five years in cash but down 26% 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 BS8 now
The live side of the market holds 187 homes at the moment, listed by 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BS8 district, not just BS8 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
19% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
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.
Moving up a bedroom in BS: the cost
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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BS8
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BS8, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BS8 1 | £400,000 | 23 |
| BS8 2 | £385,000 | 45 |
| 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 3? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BS8 3'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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Keep digging
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The live map plots every individual BS8 3 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.