That is the middle of 72 standard sales recorded by HM Land Registry from September 2023 to August 2026, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. The typical home sells for 4.9 times as much as in 1995. Below: what each type of home sells for, the spread of prices, every year since 1995, new builds, the busiest streets and the neighbours. Rents and council tax are on Cost of living.
72 homes sold in three years: 32 detached houses, 21 semi-detached houses, 13 terraced houses and 6 flats and maisonettes.
Detached houses£493K
median sale · 32 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£420K–£630K
Last 12 months
£429K10 sold
Semi-detached houses£395K
median sale · 21 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£345K–£455K
Last 12 months
£420K11 sold
Terraced houses£300K
median sale · 13 sold in 3 years
Middle half
£280K–£375K
Last 12 months
£305K7 sold
Fewer sales
Flats and maisonettes: 6 sold, median £195K
Too few sales for a card of their own.
The mix
Mostly detached: 44% of homes sold stand on their own plot
Detached houses44%
Semi-detached houses29%
Terraced houses18%
Flats and maisonettes8%
Standard sales, Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. A median needs 5 sales of a type; “middle half” is the 25th to 75th percentile of 10 or more.
Price range
Half of Alveston’s homes sold for between £335K and £515K
One sale in ten was under £270K and one in ten over £630K. 8% sold for under £250K.
Sales by price · Sep 2023 to Aug 2026
The median, £410,000, sits in the £400–500K band
72 standard sales. Each bar is the number sold in that price band; the darker bar holds the median.
Since 1995
The typical home costs 4.9 times as much as in 1995, a slower rise than England’s
Land Registry has recorded every sale since 1995. The median went from £81,000 in 1995 to £400,000 in the last 12 months (£342,000 in 2019).
31 years of sales
About as many homes sell as usual
29 sales in the last 12 months, against 48 in 2021, the busiest year, and 17 in 2008. Sales fell by 41% from 2007 to 2009 in the financial crisis, and the median by 5%. 2021, the stamp duty holiday, saw 60% more sales than 2020.
Homes soldMedian sale price
Against England
Alveston costs more than England as a whole
Median sale price each calendar year: Alveston, every standard sale in England, and the typical UK town (the middle of the town medians, towns of 2,500 or more).
By type
Semi-detached houses rose the most since 1995
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
Last 12 months
Detached houses
£94K
£190K
£333K
£280K
£325K
£525K
£429K
Semi-detached houses
£75K
£136K
£225K
£250K
£295K
£350K
£420K
Terraced houses
—
£94K
£198K
—
£195K
£228K
£305K
Calendar years; a year’s median needs 5 sales of the type, so gaps are years with fewer.
Prices are as paid, not adjusted for inflation. Standard (category A) sales only; Land Registry adds a sale when it is registered, so the newest months fill in later.
New builds
Hardly any new homes: 0% of sales in the last 12 months
35 new homes have been sold in Alveston since 1995; the share peaked at 34% in 1998.
New-build share of sales
Calendar years with 10 or more sales, then the last 12 months.
New builds and tenure · 3 years
10% of sales were leasehold
Nearly every flat in England and Wales is leasehold; among houses, 1.5% sold leasehold in Alveston. A leasehold buyer owns the home for a fixed term and may pay ground rent and service charges; check the lease before you buy.
Streets
Quarry Road is Alveston’s busiest street, with 11 sales in three years
4 streets had five or more sales from Sep 2023 to Aug 2026, 1 of them ten or more. A busy street is often a new estate selling its first homes, or a long road of terraces and flats.
#
Street
Postcode area
Sales
Median
Homes
1
Quarry Road
BS35
11
£302,000
Mixed
2
Down Road
BS35
6
£455,000
Mixed
3
Strode Common
BS35
6
£382,500
Mixed
4
Greenhill Down
BS35
5
£500,000
Mostly detached houses
Standard sales with a street name, grouped by street and postcode district (Sep 2023 to Aug 2026); a name used in two districts shows the district. Medians only: we don’t list individual sales.
Alveston’s neighbours
Cheaper nearby: Thornbury, Bradley Stoke and Patchway.
Median: standard sales over three years (10+ needed). Since 2016: the median over three years against 2016’s. Miles: centre to centre.
Questions about property prices in Alveston
What is the average house price in Alveston?
The median home in Alveston sold for £410,000 from September 2023 to August 2026, across 72 standard sales (£400,000 in the last 12 months). By type: detached houses £492,500, semi-detached houses £395,000, terraced houses £300,000 and flats and maisonettes £195,000.
Are house prices going up in Alveston?
The median was £415,000 in 2025, about the same on 2024 (£407,500), and £400,000 in the last 12 months. A town’s median moves with the mix of homes sold each year as well as with prices.
How many homes sell in Alveston each year?
29 standard sales were recorded in the last 12 months, against an average of 36 a year since 2015. Repossessions, company purchases and other non-standard sales aren’t counted.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid, every standard sale since January 1995 (yearly files of 28 September 2026), inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary by postcode (ONS Postcode Directory) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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