Sales agreed bounced back to 7 last week, while homes for sale reached a new 2026 high of 163.
Widcombe & Bathwick's weekly property news, from Jack and Luke Flower.
This week at Flower Property
Properties for sale
The week in numbers
Sales
On the market = homes available to buy now, not those under offerSelling? Buyers came back: 7 sales agreed, up from 3, from under £100,000 to over £1m. The homes selling are priced right from day one.
Buying? Prices agreed per sq ft are 6% under the three-month average, so there is room to negotiate, especially on homes listed a while.
Lettings
On the market = homes available to rent now, not those let agreedLetting? Busier, but still in landlords' favour. 14 homes came on, the most since early June, yet supply is under two months. Last week's 8 lets averaged £1,693pcm.
Renting? More choice than a fortnight ago, but good homes still go within days: have references and a deposit ready.
1 St James' Passage, Bath · £799,000
A three bedroom townhouse of about 2,268 sq ft, with a rooftop terrace looking at the Abbey. Run as a holiday let, it is grossing about £88,852 for 2026, and the bookings can transfer to a buyer.
The last three months
One number per chart, week by week. The orange dot is last week and the dashed line is the three-month average.
Homes for sale
Sales agreed each week
Price per square foot
Homes to let
Lets agreed each week
Average rent agreed
Who has the upper hand? Homes coming on against homes selling
The bigger picture
Widcombe and Bathwick, side by side
| WidcombeBA2 4 | BathwickBA2 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Homes listed | 37 | 155 |
| Share already under offer | 54% | 41% |
| Median asking price, available | £550,000 | £500,000 |
| Median days on the market | 61 | 97 |
| New listings, last 7 days | 2 | 5 |
| Price cuts, last 14 days | 0 | 4 |
Widcombe is still the tighter market: more than half of what is listed is already under offer, and no seller has cut their price in a fortnight.
Bathwick has four times the choice, and 38 homes listed for over four months: that is where buyers will find room to negotiate.
Homes listed includes homes already under offer, and the areas follow Rightmove's Widcombe and Bathwick boundaries, which is why the totals differ from the weekly figures above.
What homes actually sold for
Each point is the middle sale price over the 12 months to that date, which smooths out the lumpiness of a few big sales. Land Registry records sales two to three months after completion, so the latest figures will firm up.
The last 12 months, by type
| Median | Sales | vs year before | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flats | £350,000 | 87 | +1% |
| Terraced | £700,000 | 69 | −5% |
| Semi-detached | £865,000 | 35 | +21% |
| Detached | £910,000 | 34 | −24% |
Where the money went
Over half of all sales were above £500,000, and one in five was over £1m.
What Bathwick houses really sell for
Street by street: every house sale in Bathwick (postcode sector BA2 6, from Bathwick Street up to Claverton Down, including Holburne Park, and leaving out Bathampton and the Widcombe Hill side) recorded by HM Land Registry from October 2024 to July 2026. 93 sales, with a median of £1,100,000.
| Street | Sales | Median | Lowest to highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunsford Place | 4 | £1,892,500 | £1,840,000 to £2,150,000 |
| Cleveland Walk | 8 | £1,729,000 | £1,100,000 to £4,834,000 |
| Bridgetower Drive | 11 | £1,475,000 | £1,035,000 to £1,750,000 |
| Claverton Down Road | 3 | £1,150,000 | £580,000 to £1,250,000 |
| Darlington Road | 3 | £975,000 | £600,000 to £1,275,000 |
| Holburne Park | 4 | £962,500 | £770,000 to £1,200,000 |
| Rockliffe Avenue | 3 | £945,000 | £700,000 to £1,250,000 |
| Henrietta Gardens | 4 | £855,000 | £646,000 to £1,750,000 |
| Rockliffe Road | 7 | £800,000 | £650,000 to £925,000 |
| Forester Avenue | 3 | £770,000 | £750,000 to £1,100,000 |
| St John's Road | 3 | £735,000 | £550,000 to £1,125,000 |
| Powlett Road | 4 | £602,500 | £537,500 to £770,000 |
| Other Bathwick streets* | 36 | £1,125,000 | One or two sales on each street |
Every street, with a price chart and a budget slider: Bathwick house prices, street by street.
*All Saints Place, Bathwick Hill, Bathwick Street, Copseland, Cussons Street, Daniel Mews, Daniel Street, Darlington Place, Forester Lane, Forester Road, Henrietta Road, Henrietta Villas, Horseshoe Walk, Inglis Court, Lascelles Avenue, Mollie Taylor Avenue, North Road, Oakley, Parkland Avenue, Quarry Rock Gardens, Sham Castle Lane, St Ann's Way, St Catherine's Close, St Mary's Close.
The higher up the hill, the higher the price. Dunsford Place and Cleveland Walk sold for medians of £1,892,500 and £1,729,000, while Powlett Road, near the bottom of the hill, came in at £602,500.
A Bathwick house costs far more than a Widcombe one. The median here is £1,100,000, against £650,000 for Widcombe houses last week. Bridgetower Drive, at Holburne Park, was the busiest street, with 11 sales.
| Type | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 47 | £1,035,000 |
| Semi-detached | 21 | £1,050,000 |
| Detached | 25 | £1,250,000 |
Next door on the Widcombe Hill side, 10 house sales had a median of £930,500.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright, Open Government Licence. Houses only, standard (category A) sales, completed October 2024 onwards and registered by 20 October 2026. Land Registry records sales two to three months after completion, so recent months will fill in.
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