A quieter week: 3 sales agreed, the fewest since our weekly figures began in March, with 159 homes still for sale.
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? A quieter week: 3 sales agreed, one each between £350,000 and £750,000. Buyers are still committing, but on homes that are priced right from the start.
Buying? With 159 homes for sale and only 3 agreed last week, there is time to look properly, and room to negotiate on homes that have been listed a while.
Lettings
On the market = homes available to rent now, not those let agreedLetting? Still in landlords' favour. Only 25 homes to rent, under two months' supply, so well-presented homes let fast. 23 came on in the last month against 12 let, and last week's three lets averaged £1,450pcm: price it right from day one.
Renting? Choice is still thin, so good homes go within days: have references and a deposit ready before you view.
Green Park, Bath · £380,000
Two bedrooms, share of freehold, no work needed. At £2,250pcm it would let above the local three-month average of £1,939pcm.
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 | 38 | 153 |
| Share already under offer | 58% | 42% |
| Median asking price, available | £587,500 | £450,000 |
| Median days on the market | 51 | 98 |
| New listings, last 7 days | 2 | 9 |
| Price cuts, last 14 days | 1 | 10 |
Widcombe is the tighter market: more than half of what is listed is already under offer, homes sell faster and only one seller has cut their price in a fortnight.
Bathwick has far more choice and more price cuts, which 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 Widcombe houses really sell for
Street by street: every house sale in Widcombe and Lyncombe (postcode sector BA2 4, leaving out Bear Flat and the Bathwick side of the river) recorded by HM Land Registry from October 2024 to July 2026. 52 sales, with a median of £650,000.
| Street | Sales | Median | Lowest to highest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyncombe Hill | 5 | £1,550,000 | £1,075,000 to £1,857,500 |
| Lyncombe Vale Road | 2 | £1,332,500 | £1,015,000 to £1,650,000 |
| Prior Park Road | 5 | £1,140,000 | £406,000 to £3,300,000 |
| Greenway Lane | 2 | £926,250 | £660,000 to £1,192,500 |
| Pulteney Gardens | 2 | £766,500 | £363,000 to £1,170,000 |
| Pulteney Grove | 2 | £737,500 | £700,000 to £775,000 |
| Lime Grove Gardens | 2 | £630,000 | £545,000 to £715,000 |
| St Mark's Road | 3 | £625,000 | £615,000 to £665,000 |
| Magdalen Avenue | 6 | £565,000 | £520,000 to £792,500 |
| Holloway | 4 | £365,000 | £327,000 to £435,000 |
| Other Widcombe streets* | 19 | £635,000 | One sale on each street |
*Archway Street, Bridge Lock Mews, Broadway, Calton Gardens, Caroline Buildings, Daisy Bank, Excelsior Street, Lyncombe Vale, Magdalen Road, Prior Park Buildings, Prior Park Cottages, Pulteney Avenue, Pulteney Terrace, Rennie Close, Southcot Place, Southville Terrace, Spring Crescent, St Matthew's Place, Sunnybank.
The hill sets the price. The Georgian houses on Lyncombe Hill sold for a median of £1,550,000, while the cottages on Holloway, a few minutes' walk away, went for £365,000.
The street name alone tells you little. Prior Park Road ran from £406,000 for a terraced cottage to £3,300,000 for The Old Vicarage. What sells a house here is the house itself, and how it is launched.
| Type | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 41 | £565,000 |
| Semi-detached | 3 | £1,225,000 |
| Detached | 8 | £1,251,250 |
Next door on Bear Flat, 49 house sales had a median of £750,000.
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright, Open Government Licence. Houses only, standard (category A) sales, completed October 2024 onwards and registered by 12 October 2026. Land Registry records sales two to three months after completion, so recent months will fill in.
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