Downend Road, Bristol house prices are built from 889 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 12 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £163,250. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +8.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is -22.0%.
Median price paid
£163,250
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+8.9%
Change in real terms
-22.0%
Median per m²
£3,339
HM Land Registry889 sales16 with floor areaLatest sale 12 Jun 2026
Section 01
How Downend Road, Bristol prices moved
The chart tracks the median Downend Road, Bristol house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £55,438 | £123,097 |
| 2000s | 10 | £161,000 | £293,295 |
| 2010s | 10 | £211,250 | £297,863 |
| 2020s | 7 | £320,000 | £326,957 |
The highest yearly median on record for Downend Road, Bristol is £395,000 in 2024; the lowest is £43,750 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £43,750 to £230,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £97,146, so the real change over the whole record is +136.8% — about +2.82% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +8.9% in cash against -22.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 12 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| Flat 6 Downend Place, 61a | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £230,000 | £230,000 |
| 85 | 20 Apr 2026 | Terraced | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| Flat 15 Felix Court, 23a | 16 Mar 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £173,000 | £173,000 |
| Flat 1 Downend Place, 61a | 6 Feb 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £228,500 | £228,500 |
| 78 | 19 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £338,000 | £345,348 |
| Flat 3 Downend Place, 61a | 11 Dec 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £237,500 | £242,663 |
| 178 | 5 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £410,000 | £418,913 |
| 99 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £279,000 | £285,065 |
| 66 | 7 Nov 2025 | Semi-detached | £435,000 | £444,457 |
| 47 | 6 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £400,000 | £408,696 |
| 52 | 30 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £402,500 | £411,250 |
| 32 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £307,000 | £313,674 |
| 174 | 21 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £475,000 | £485,326 |
| Flat 4 Felix Court, 23a | 4 Aug 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 128 | 23 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £350,000 | £357,609 |
| 74c | 27 Jun 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £168,000 | £171,652 |
| 28 | 30 May 2025 | Terraced | £327,500 | £334,620 |
| 6 | 16 May 2025 | Terraced | £370,000 | £378,043 |
| 107 | 17 Apr 2025 | Semi-detached | £488,500 | £499,120 |
| 22 | 25 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £387,600 | £396,026 |
| 61 | 24 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £365,000 | £372,935 |
| 72 | 21 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £472,000 | £482,261 |
| 80 | 11 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £393,370 |
| 12 Bradley Court | 28 Feb 2025 | Flat or maisonette | £220,000 | £224,783 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Downend Road, Bristol values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 Downend Road | £55,000 (1999) | £425,000 (2026) | +7.9% | +5.1% |
| FLAT 6 DOWNEND PLACE, 61A Downend Road | £180,000 (2015) | £230,000 (2026) | +2.3% | -0.9% |
| 85 Downend Road | £55,000 (1996) | £450,000 (2026) | +7.3% | +4.5% |
| FLAT 15 FELIX COURT, 23A Downend Road | £146,000 (2017) | £173,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.5% |
| FLAT 1 DOWNEND PLACE, 61A Downend Road | £180,000 (2015) | £228,500 (2026) | +2.2% | -1.0% |
| 78 Downend Road | £59,750 (1996) | £338,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| FLAT 3 DOWNEND PLACE, 61A Downend Road | £180,000 (2015) | £237,500 (2025) | +2.8% | -0.4% |
| 178 Downend Road | £133,000 (2003) | £410,000 (2025) | +5.3% | +2.3% |
| 99 Downend Road | £62,995 (2001) | £279,000 (2025) | +6.4% | +3.5% |
| 66 Downend Road | £89,950 (1999) | £435,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.5% |
| 47 Downend Road | £59,950 (1997) | £400,000 (2025) | +7.0% | +4.3% |
| 52 Downend Road | £53,500 (1996) | £402,500 (2025) | +7.2% | +4.5% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Downend Road, Bristol is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 504 | 56.7% | £165,000 | £3,500 – £625,000 |
| Semi-detached | 199 | 22.4% | £176,000 | £18,000 – £650,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 145 | 16.3% | £135,000 | £11,400 – £265,000 |
| Detached | 41 | 4.6% | £226,000 | £76,000 – £475,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Downend Road, Bristol
290 of the sales on record are leasehold and 599 freehold — 32.6% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £156,000 and the median freehold sale £167,000 — a gap of +7.1%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 290 | 32.6% | £156,000 |
| Freehold | 599 | 67.4% | £167,000 |
| New build | 25 | 2.8% | £180,000 |
| Existing home | 864 | 97.2% | £162,500 |
New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +10.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 62 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in Downend Road, Bristol
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bristol, City of, 45.1% of 239,415 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.7% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 1,016 | 0.4% |
| B | 26,153 | 10.9% |
| C | 80,864 | 33.8% |
| D | 88,655 | 37.0% |
| E | 33,796 | 14.1% |
| F | 7,147 | 3.0% |
| G | 1,784 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bristol, City of at £1,883 a month as of Jun 2026 — £1,225 for a one-bedroom home and £1,757 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £163,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 13.84% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of BS16, 266 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 100 violent, 10 burglary, 11 vehicle-related and 36 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 1.6 times busier.
Against the 472,465 residents the 2021 census counted in Bristol, City of, that is 0.56 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Downend Road, Bristol
The 2021 census counted 472,465 residents in Bristol, City of across 191,638 households. 54.8% of those households own their home and 44.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
29 state and independent schools have a BS16 postcode: 25 primary, 3 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downend School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,415 |
| Mangotsfield School | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,191 |
| Bristol Metropolitan Academy | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 1,103 |
| Mangotsfield Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 615 |
| Lyde Green Primary School | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 488 |
| Begbrook Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 462 |
| Blackhorse Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 419 |
| Stanbridge Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 415 |
| Wallscourt Farm Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 400 |
| Avanti Gardens School | Primary | Free schools | 381 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Parkway Rail Station | Rail | 3.7 km |
| Filton Abbey Wood Rail Station | Rail | 4.2 km |
| Stapleton Road Rail Station | Rail | 4.5 km |
| Ashley Down | Rail | 4.7 km |
Section 09
How Downend Road, Bristol compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Downend Road, Bristol sits above that national figure — +3.7%.
Within Bristol the street ranks 5012 of 7849 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £180,000 (-9.3%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,339 per square metre, across 16 of the 889 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £3,500 to £650,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
Downend Road, Bristol sits in Bristol, City of, in the South West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bristol, City of at 8.3 times median local earnings of £42,160 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Fishponds Road£132,500 median
- Albert Road£150,000 median
- Berkeley Road£207,500 median
- Richmond Road£196,000 median
- Westons Brake£159,950 median
- Long Down Avenue£205,000 median
- Colliers Break£160,975 median
- Guest Avenue£142,995 median
- Bye Mead£139,500 median
- Grove Road£220,000 median
- Marina Gardens£88,000 median
- Pinkers Mead£150,000 median
- Johnson Road£211,500 median
- Emerson Way£136,950 median
- Westons Hill Drive£164,950 median
- Wadham Grove£184,950 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 71 Downend Road13 sales
- 55 Downend Road13 sales
- 105 Downend Road11 sales
- 114 Downend Road11 sales
- 28 Downend Road10 sales
- 81 Downend Road10 sales
- 47 Downend Road9 sales
- 107 Downend Road9 sales
- 80 Downend Road9 sales
- 112 Downend Road9 sales
- 172 Downend Road9 sales
- 8 Downend Road9 sales
- 57 Downend Road9 sales
- 45 Downend Road9 sales
- 118 Downend Road9 sales
- 6 Downend Road8 sales
- 63 Downend Road8 sales
- 60 Downend Road8 sales
- 122 Downend Road8 sales
- 49 Downend Road8 sales
- 59 Downend Road8 sales
- 126 Downend Road8 sales
- 77 Downend Road7 sales
- 32 Downend Road7 sales
Back to Bristol house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Downend Road, Bristol?
The median price paid in Downend Road, Bristol across every sale on the register is £163,250. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in Downend Road, Bristol?
889 sales are on record for Downend Road, Bristol, the most recent completing on 12 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Downend Road, Bristol house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +8.9% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is -22.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Downend Road, Bristol house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £395,000, set in 2024. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in Downend Road, Bristol?
£3,339 per square metre, from the 16 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 12 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Downend Road, Bristol house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.