Sales agreed fell to 3, level with the quietest week of 2026, and 10 sellers cut their price as homes for sale eased to 162.
Widcombe & Bathwick's weekly property news, from Jack and Luke Flower.
This week at Flower Property
Properties for sale
Prior Park Road, Bath
Grade II villa, garden studio, parking for three carsGuide price £1,150,000Sydney Place, Bath
3,056 sq ft, three courtyardsOffers over £625,000St James' Passage, Bath
Rooftop terrace, Abbey viewsGuide price £799,000Green Park, Bath
Share of freehold, 7.3% yieldOffers over £370,000Widcombe Crescent, Bath
Grade I listedGuide price £280,000The week in numbers
Sales
On the market = homes available to buy now, not those under offerSelling? Only 3 sales agreed and 10 price cuts in a week: buyers are taking their time. With 162 homes for sale, the ones that sell are priced right and launched well from day one.
Buying? Only 4 new homes came on, but there is still more choice than at almost any point this year, and 10 sellers cut their price: a good moment to negotiate, especially on homes listed since the summer.
Lettings
On the market = homes available to rent now, not those let agreedLetting? Still a landlords' market, but supply is building: 35 homes to rent is the most since August. Only 2 landlords cut their rent, so price it right first time and present it well.
Renting? More choice than at any point since the summer, so take the time to compare, but good homes still go quickly: have references and a deposit ready.
Flat 2, 35 Green Park, Bath · offers over £370,000
Two bedrooms on the first floor, with a share of the freehold, about 949 years on the lease and no ground rent. Long lets only.
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. There has been no price per sq ft or average rent figure for the last two weeks, so those two lines stop two weeks early.
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
- 51 Prior Park Road launched on 28 October at a guide price of £1,150,000.
- 11 Widcombe Crescent launched on 21 October and is now at a guide price of £280,000.
- Flat 1, 103 Sydney Place is now offers over £625,000.
- St James' Passage relaunched on 14 October at £799,000.
- Trinity, Trowbridge: sold out, and all seven homes now complete.
- Julia House completed on 30 September.
The bigger picture
Widcombe and Bathwick, side by side
| WidcombeBA2 4 | BathwickBA2 6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Homes listed | 37 | 156 |
| Share already under offer | 54% | 40% |
| Median asking price, available | £475,000 | £500,000 |
| Median days on the market | 66 | 94 |
| New listings, last 7 days | 2 | 4 |
| Price cuts, last 14 days | 0 | 7 |
Widcombe is still the tighter market: 20 of its 37 listings are already under offer, and no seller there has cut their price in a fortnight.
Bathwick has four times the choice, 7 price cuts in a fortnight and 40 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. Figures as at 22 September 2026.
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.
How 2026 has really gone
Every weekly figure since this newsletter's numbers began on 9 March, for Widcombe (BA2 4) and Bathwick (BA2 6): 31 weeks of sales and lettings, month by month.
Sales, a week on average, by month
| Month | Weeks | New for sale a week | Sales agreed a week | For sale at month end | New to let a week | Lets agreed a week | To let at month end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | 4 | 11.8 | 10.0 | 120 | 7.2 | 6.2 | 25 |
| April | 5 | 11.4 | 7.4 | 139 | 8.6 | 5.6 | 35 |
| May | 4 | 7.8 | 7.0 | 136 | 9.0 | 7.5 | 35 |
| June | 4 | 10.5 | 7.0 | 141 | 7.0 | 4.0 | 39 |
| July | 3 | 11.3 | 5.7 | 151 | 10.3 | 6.0 | 43 |
| August | 2 | 6.5 | 8.5 | 149 | 12.0 | 9.0 | 40 |
| September | 4 | 11.5 | 6.0 | 159 | 5.2 | 4.5 | 23 |
| October | 5 | 7.2 | 5.2 | 162 | 8.4 | 4.6 | 35 |
| 2026 so far | 31 | 9.9 | 7.0 | 162 | 8.2 | 5.7 | 35 |
For sellers: Choice has piled up. Homes for sale rose from 115 in March to 162, while sales agreed slowed from 10.0 a week in March to 5.2 in October. Buyers are still buying, but they compare, so price and presentation decide who sells.
For buyers: The best choice of the year. More homes are for sale than in spring, and 10 sellers cut their price last week alone. Homes listed since the summer are where the room to negotiate is.
For landlords: Still short of homes. Homes to let stayed between 23 and 45 all year, and 5.7 have let every week on average at £1,827pcm. With 35 on the market now, pricing right first time matters more than it did in September.
Flower Property News weekly series: homes on the market from Rightmove Plus, every other weekly figure from TwentyEA, BA2 4 and BA2 6. Two weeks in August (issues 97 and 98) are missing from the series and one issue in September covered a fortnight, so August rests on two weeks of figures. Price per sq ft and average rent agreed stop at the issue of 20 October, as TwentyEA does not publish them weekly.
What's on in Widcombe & Bathwick
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