Homes for sale hit a new 2026 high of 165 as 10 came on, while sales agreed rose to 5 and 10 sellers cut their price.
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? Sales agreed rose to 5, but 10 new homes came on and 10 sellers cut their price. With 165 for sale, the most this year, the homes that sell are priced right from day one.
Buying? The most choice of the year and 10 price cuts in a week. Rates rose on Thursday, so get your mortgage agreed in principle, then negotiate.
Lettings
On the market = homes available to rent now, not those let agreedLetting? Supply is building: 39 homes to rent is the most since August, and 6 landlords cut their rent. Price it right first time and present it well.
Renting? More choice than at any point since the summer, 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 three weeks, so those two lines stop three 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 | 41 | 153 |
| Share already under offer | 49% | 41% |
| Median asking price, available | £625,000 | £525,000 |
| Median days on the market | 62 | 109 |
| New listings, last 7 days | 4 | 1 |
| Price cuts, last 14 days | 2 | 12 |
Widcombe is still the tighter market: 20 of its 41 listings are already under offer, its homes have been listed for a median 62 days, and only 2 sellers have cut their price in a fortnight.
Bathwick has nearly four times the choice, 12 price cuts in a fortnight and 45 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.
Bank Rate rises to 4%: what it means here
On Thursday 5 November the Bank of England raised Bank Rate by a quarter point, from 3.75% to 4%, because it now expects inflation to climb further next year. Here is what that means for buyers, sellers and landlords in Widcombe (BA2 4) and Bathwick (BA2 6).
What a quarter point costs
| Borrowing | Extra a month |
|---|---|
| £100,000 | about £14 to £15 |
| £300,000 | about £42 to £44 |
| £500,000 | about £70 to £73 |
Our arithmetic, for rates between 4% and 5.25%. Fixed-rate borrowers only feel it when they remortgage; trackers move straight away.
Here, last week
| Last week | 3 months | |
|---|---|---|
| Homes for sale | 165 | 151 then |
| New homes for sale | 10 | 8.8 |
| Sales agreed | 5 | 5.9 |
| Homes to let | 39 | 43 then |
| Lets agreed | 4 | 5.3 |
For buyers: Borrowing costs a little more, but choice is the best it has been all year: 165 homes are for sale and 10 sellers cut their price last week. Speak to a broker now: with the Bank expecting inflation to rise, waiting for cheaper fixed rates may not pay.
For sellers: Buyers are working to tighter budgets. With 31 homes coming on in four weeks and 19 selling, the homes that sell are the ones priced right from the first day. Pricing high and cutting later costs you time in a market like this.
For landlords: Higher rates make buying to let harder, which tends to keep rental supply in check. 39 homes to let is the most since August, but 22 lets were still agreed in four weeks. Price it right first time and present it well.
- Much of the recent weakness in mortgage approvals is likely to reflect the rise in mortgage rates since the start of the conflict in the Middle East.
- The ONS UK house price index fell 0.8% in the three months to August, against the three months before.
- New buyer enquiries were still falling in the September RICS survey, and agents expect house price growth to stay subdued in the near term.
- Average annual mortgage payments are projected to be about £1,500 higher by the end of 2029 than before the conflict.
Bank Rate, inflation, mortgage approvals and quoted mortgage rates: Bank of England, Monetary Policy Summary and Monetary Policy Report, 5 November 2026. Local figures: Flower Property News weekly series, homes on the market from Rightmove Plus and every other weekly figure from TwentyEA, BA2 4 and BA2 6. The next Bank Rate decision is due on Thursday 17 December.
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