William Street, Bristol house prices

William Street, Bristol house prices are built from 376 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 22 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £160,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +72.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +23.8%.

HM Land Registry376 sales7 with floor areaLatest sale 22 May 2026

The chart tracks the median William Street, 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.

The highest yearly median on record for William Street, Bristol is £442,500 in 2022; the lowest is £39,475 in 1997. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £375,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,480, so the real change over the whole record is +292.8% — about +4.51% 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: +72.8% in cash against +23.8% 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 William Street, 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. William Street, Bristol is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

185 of the sales on record are leasehold and 191 freehold — 49.2% 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 £163,000 and the median freehold sale £159,000 — a gap of -2.5%. 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 — -16.8%. 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 9 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 £160,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 14.12% 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 BS3, 653 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 222 violent, 24 burglary, 62 vehicle-related and 108 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 3.9 times busier.

Against the 472,465 residents the 2021 census counted in Bristol, City of, that is 1.38 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.

12 state and independent schools have a BS3 postcode: 10 primary, 2 secondary. 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. William Street, Bristol sits above that national figure — +1.6%.

Within Bristol the street ranks 5141 of 7849 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £180,000 (-11.1%).

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,741 per square metre, across 7 of the 376 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 £12,000 to £530,000. 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.

William Street, 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

• North Street£147,000 median
• Coronation Road£163,250 median
• Skypark Road£165,000 median
• West Street£164,000 median
• St Johns Lane£145,000 median
• York Road£158,500 median
• Mendip Road£180,000 median
• Cotswold Road£177,500 median
• St Johns Road£295,500 median
• Greenbank Road£165,975 median
• Chessel Street£165,000 median
• Luckwell Road£178,500 median
• Stackpool Road£195,000 median
• Bedminster Parade£162,500 median
• British Road£175,000 median
• Raleigh Road£212,725 median

Addresses with more than one recorded sale

• 5 William Street11 sales
• 8 William Street11 sales
• 6 William Street10 sales
• 9 William Street9 sales
• 2 William Street8 sales
• UPPER MAISONETTE, 48 William Street6 sales
• 25 William Street6 sales
• 12 William Street6 sales
• 3 William Street6 sales
• GARDEN FLAT, 48 William Street5 sales
• 29 William Street5 sales
• 63, DOUDNEY COURT William Street5 sales
• 24, DOUDNEY COURT William Street5 sales
• 29, DOUDNEY COURT William Street5 sales
• 65, DOUDNEY COURT William Street5 sales
• 18 William Street5 sales
• 59 William Street5 sales
• 53 William Street5 sales
• 1 William Street5 sales
• 50B William Street4 sales
• 19 William Street4 sales
• 70 William Street4 sales
• 57, DOUDNEY COURT William Street4 sales
• 4 William Street4 sales

Back to Bristol house prices.

What is the average house price in William Street, Bristol?

The median price paid in William Street, Bristol across every sale on the register is £160,000. 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 William Street, Bristol?

376 sales are on record for William Street, Bristol, the most recent completing on 22 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have William Street, Bristol house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +72.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +23.8%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were William Street, Bristol house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £442,500, 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 William Street, Bristol?

£2,741 per square metre, from the 7 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 22 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, “William Street, 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.