Around £312,500 buys the middle of the market, which is roughly what a Bath parking permit queue costs in emotional terms. Detached money starts with a four. Terraced money starts with a two. Flats barely exist and price accordingly. This is a town where the ordinary family house is still an ordinary family price, which is not a sentence you get to write about much of Somerset.
The Land Registry's twelve months to May 2026 recorded 171 sales at a median of around £312,500. The split by type is the useful part. Detached homes ran to a median of about £412,500, semi-detached about £300,000, and terraced about £272,500. Eleven flats sold across the whole year at a median of about £157,500, which tells you both what a flat costs here and how rarely anyone bothers with one. Semi-detached is the volume trade at 64 sales, with terraced on 40 and detached on 56.
Direction of travel is close to flat. The house price index for the wider area shows the average price at about £406,000 as of May 2026, up around 1% over twelve months and around 15% over five years. Flats went the other way, down around 2% over the year. Neither number is dramatic and neither should be treated as a forecast, but a market moving by a percent in a year is a market sitting still with the engine running.
Council tax sits mostly in band C, with around 37% of dwellings in bands A and B combined. The band D annual bill runs to about £2,383, which is the figure worth holding against whatever you currently pay.
Renting is where the numbers stop being comfortable. Typical private rent across the Bath and North East Somerset area is about £1,880 a month as of April 2026, and that is a mean from the Office for National Statistics index across the whole authority, Bath included, rather than a median of what is advertised locally. By bedroom, the area average runs to about £1,200 for a one-bed, about £1,510 for a two-bed, about £1,800 for a three-bed and about £2,530 for four or more. Those are area figures with a Georgian city in the middle of them, so treat them as the ceiling the local market is measured against rather than the local asking price.
On affordability, modelled gross household income for the financial year to March 2023 came to around £54,100 before tax. Set against a median sale near £312,500, that is a stretch rather than a wall: a proper deposit and two incomes, not a lottery win. It is also a three-year-old modelled figure describing that year, not what households earn today.
Of the sales that could be matched to an energy certificate's floor area, which is around 92% of them, the median works out at about £3,567 per square metre, on a typical floor area of about 84 square metres. That is a real house rather than a rebranded corridor, which is more than the same money achieves in a city.
The bedroom mix from Census 2021 explains why the market behaves as it does. Around 46% of households sit in three-bed homes, around 24% have four or more, around 24% have two and only around 6% have one. This is a town built for families and largely still occupied by them, and anyone hunting a small flat is shopping in the wrong postcode.
Prices here are one of the town's genuine strengths. You get a house with rooms in it, a garden, and change from what a Bath two-bed would take, and the trade you make for that is everything the town does not have.