About £445,000 for a typical one, which buys you a terraced house and a lifetime of window regulations. Flats go for around £310,000. A detached house is closer to £843,000. The famous crescent is not on the menu at any of those numbers. Bath charges a premium for being Bath, and the invoice arrives whether or not you can see the abbey from your kitchen.
The Land Registry's transactions for the twelve months to late May 2026 put the median sale at around £445,000 across 942 sales. The split by type is where the picture sharpens. Flats sat at around £310,000 across 282 sales, terraced houses at around £442,500 across 353, semi-detached at around £525,000 across 191, and detached at around £842,500 across 116. Terraces are the volume market and the median is essentially their number, which tells you what kind of city this is: Georgian and Victorian rows, sold repeatedly, at a price that assumes you knew what you were signing up for.
The published house price index for the area put the average at around £406,000 as of May 2026, up around 1% over the year and around 15% over five years. Flats went the other way over the twelve months, down around 2%. A one percent move is a flat market with a heartbeat, not a story, and the five-year figure is the one doing the real work.
On council tax, the most common band across the valuation list is C, and around 32% of dwellings sit in bands A or B. The band D bill runs to around £2,380 a year, which is the figure most people can hold against their current one and feel something about.
Renting is not the cheap alternative. The typical private rent across the Bath and North East Somerset area was about £1,880 a month in April 2026, up around 8% over the year. That is a mean from the official rent index rather than a median of what is advertised, and it covers the whole local authority rather than the city alone. By bedroom, one-beds run around £1,200 a month, two-beds around £1,510, three-beds around £1,800, and four or more around £2,530. Studio and room rents are not published, so anyone quoting you one is guessing.
Against that, modelled gross household income for the area in the financial year to March 2023 came in around £61,000 before tax. Set that beside a £445,000 median and the arithmetic explains itself without needing a mortgage calculator. Bath is a place where a good household income buys a flat comfortably and a house with a certain amount of grimacing at the deposit.
For the sales that can be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is around 67% of them, the median works out at around £4,900 per square metre, on a typical floor area of around 98 square metres. That is what the money actually buys once you strip out the stone and the view.
The bedroom mix from the 2021 census explains where the competition sits. Around 33% of homes have three bedrooms, around 26% have two, around 24% have four or more, and around 17% are one-bed. Three-bed family houses are the largest group and also the most fought over, which is the usual arrangement in a city with strong schools and a fixed supply of buildings.
Value for money here is middling and honest about it. You are paying a heritage premium on stock that mostly predates central heating, and what you get back is a city that looks like nowhere else in England. Whether that is a bargain depends entirely on how much you like limestone.