West Mall, Bristol house prices

West Mall, Bristol house prices are built from 244 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 15 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £225,250. Across the 10 years from 2014 to 2024 the median moved +42.9% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +4.8%.

HM Land Registry244 sales9 with floor areaLatest sale 15 May 2026

The chart tracks the median West Mall, Bristol house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2024. 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 West Mall, Bristol is £530,000 in 2023; the lowest is £82,000 in 1996. Across the full 30-year record the cash median has moved from £88,000 to £455,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £195,402, so the real change over the whole record is +145.0% — about +3.14% 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: +42.9% in cash against +4.8% 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 West Mall, 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. West Mall, Bristol is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

231 of the sales on record are leasehold and 13 freehold — 94.7% 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 £220,000 and the median freehold sale £500,000 — a gap of +127.3%. 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 — -4.7%. 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 10 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 £225,250 here, that rent is a gross yield of 10.03% 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 BS8, 423 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 100 violent, 30 burglary, 61 vehicle-related and 61 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.5 times busier.

Against the 472,465 residents the 2021 census counted in Bristol, City of, that is 0.90 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.

3 state and independent schools have a BS8 postcode: 3 primary. 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. West Mall, Bristol sits above that national figure — +43.0%.

Within Bristol the street ranks 2850 of 7849 by median price, and its median is above the town figure of £180,000 (+25.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £3,522 per square metre, across 9 of the 244 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 £35,000 to £2,579,995. 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.

West Mall, 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

• Pembroke Road£205,000 median
• Queens Road£164,000 median
• Hotwell Road£210,000 median
• College Road£250,000 median
• Royal York Crescent£210,000 median
• Apsley Road£235,000 median
• Elmdale Road£188,000 median
• Caledonia Place£220,000 median
• Merchants Road£275,000 median
• Pooles Wharf Court£179,950 median
• Richmond Terrace£169,975 median
• Southleigh Road£153,000 median
• Whatley Road£204,500 median
• West Park£183,475 median
• Rownham Mead£215,000 median
• St Pauls Road£200,000 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 7 West Mall14 sales
• 16 West Mall7 sales
• FLAT 1, 23 West Mall7 sales
• BASEMENT FLAT, 27 West Mall7 sales
• LOWER GROUND FLOOR FLAT, 34 West Mall7 sales
• UPPER MAISONETTE, 28 West Mall6 sales
• 11 West Mall6 sales
• TOP FLOOR FLAT, 32 West Mall5 sales
• TOP FLOOR FLAT, 29 West Mall5 sales
• 21A West Mall5 sales
• BASEMENT FLAT, 10 West Mall5 sales
• FLAT 5, 3 West Mall5 sales
• SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 34 West Mall4 sales
• FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 30 West Mall4 sales
• 32 West Mall4 sales
• FIRST FLOOR FLAT, 28 West Mall4 sales
• THIRD FLOOR FLAT, 34 West Mall4 sales
• GARDEN FLAT, 8 West Mall4 sales
• FLAT 1, 13 West Mall4 sales
• SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 29 West Mall4 sales
• 3 West Mall4 sales
• FLAT 5, 23 West Mall3 sales
• FLAT 3, 23 West Mall3 sales
• SECOND FLOOR FLAT, 8 West Mall3 sales

Back to Bristol house prices.

What is the average house price in West Mall, Bristol?

The median price paid in West Mall, Bristol across every sale on the register is £225,250. 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 West Mall, Bristol?

244 sales are on record for West Mall, Bristol, the most recent completing on 15 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have West Mall, Bristol house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +42.9% between 2014 and 2024. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +4.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were West Mall, Bristol house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £530,000, set in 2023. 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 West Mall, Bristol?

£3,522 per square metre, from the 9 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 15 May 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, “West Mall, 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.