Emerson Way, Bristol house prices

Emerson Way, Bristol house prices are built from 283 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1996 and the most recent on 21 Jan 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £136,950. Across the 11 years from 2011 to 2022 the median moved +77.0% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +33.8%.

HM Land Registry283 salesLatest sale 21 Jan 2026

The chart tracks the median Emerson Way, Bristol house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1996 to 2022. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Emerson Way, Bristol is £327,500 in 2022; the lowest is £75,245 in 1997. Across the full 27-year record the cash median has moved from £134,973 to £327,500.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £292,787, so the real change over the whole record is +29.6% — about +1.00% 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: +77.0% in cash against +33.8% 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.

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.

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 Emerson Way, Bristol values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Emerson Way, Bristol is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

28 of the sales on record are leasehold and 255 freehold — 9.9% 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 £195,000 and the median freehold sale £133,500 — a gap of -31.5%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -59.2%. 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 5 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.

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.

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 £136,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 16.50% 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.

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.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Emerson Way, Bristol sits below that national figure — -13.0%.

Within Bristol the street ranks 6357 of 7849 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £180,000 (-23.9%).

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published here. An estimate would be a guess, and the archive does not publish guesses.

The full range on record runs from £49,995 to £635,000. 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.

Emerson Way, 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.

Streets nearby

• Fishponds Road£132,500 median
• Downend Road£163,250 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
• Westons Hill Drive£164,950 median
• Wadham Grove£184,950 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 109 Emerson Way7 sales
• 102 Emerson Way7 sales
• 97 Emerson Way6 sales
• 51 Emerson Way6 sales
• 42 Emerson Way6 sales
• 100 Emerson Way5 sales
• 66 Emerson Way5 sales
• 47 Emerson Way5 sales
• 101 Emerson Way5 sales
• 54 Emerson Way5 sales
• 117 Emerson Way5 sales
• 75 Emerson Way5 sales
• 123 Emerson Way4 sales
• 95 Emerson Way4 sales
• 131 Emerson Way4 sales
• 60 Emerson Way4 sales
• 38 Emerson Way4 sales
• 57 Emerson Way4 sales
• 94 Emerson Way4 sales
• 49 Emerson Way4 sales
• 69 Emerson Way4 sales
• 121 Emerson Way4 sales
• 92 Emerson Way4 sales
• 45 Emerson Way4 sales

Back to Bristol house prices.

What is the average house price in Emerson Way, Bristol?

The median price paid in Emerson Way, Bristol across every sale on the register is £136,950. 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 Emerson Way, Bristol?

283 sales are on record for Emerson Way, Bristol, the most recent completing on 21 Jan 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Emerson Way, Bristol house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +77.0% between 2011 and 2022. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +33.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Emerson Way, Bristol house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £327,500, set in 2022. 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 Emerson Way, Bristol?

No EPC floor areas could be matched to these sales, so no price per square metre is published for this area. Nothing is estimated to fill the gap.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 21 Jan 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, “Emerson Way, 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.