Report 02 · Bristol · 2026
The Bristol areas where short-lets are filling up fastest.
Everyone asks which part of Bristol is best for a short-let. This is the demand side of that answer, measured, not guessed. The share of upcoming nights already booked in each neighbourhood, from our own live tracking of 720 Bristol short-let listings, refreshed to today.
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Our own live data
We track live listings directly and record their real night-by-night availability. No purchased datasets, no stale third-party estimates, no modelled placeholders.
Refreshed every day
Bristol's tracked listings are re-checked on a rolling basis, most within the past week and the newest today. This page reflects the market this week, not last year.
Honest about what's measured
Booked means a night the listing's live calendar no longer offers. Areas with too few listings to be reliable are left out rather than guessed, one was suppressed this month.
Demand by neighbourhood
How booked up each area already is
The share of upcoming nights already taken across every tracked listing in each area, ranked by the next 90 nights. August gets its own column because it's the month every owner asks about.
| Neighbourhood | Booked (next 30 nights) | Booked (next 90 nights) | August already taken | Listings tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01Easton & Greenbank | 74% | 71% | 75% | 19 |
| 02Clifton & the Village | 71% | 65% | 71% | 59 |
| 03Harbourside & City Centre | 67% | 63% | 64% | 102 |
| 04Redland & Cotham | 58% | 57% | 59% | 60 |
| 05Bishopston & Gloucester Road | 67% | 56% | 64% | 44 |
| 06Southville & Bedminster | 53% | 51% | 50% | 32 |
| 07Montpelier & St Pauls | 54% | 46% | 49% | 58 |
| 08Hotwells & Cliftonwood | 53% | 46% | 52% | 29 |
| 09Old Market & St Philips | 48% | 45% | 45% | 43 |
| 10Westbury & Henleaze | 43% | 35% | 42% | 31 |
| 11Totterdown & Knowle | 44% | 31% | 38% | 33 |
| All Bristol, city reference | 56% | 49% | 53% | 720 |
Share of nights already unavailable on each listing's live calendar, July 2026. Each listing counts once, in its nearest named area. Areas with fewer than 10 tracked listings are not published, Fishponds & Stapleton was suppressed this month. The citywide row covers everything within 10km, including listings outside the named areas.
What stands out
Three things this month's data says
The spread between Bristol's fullest and quietest neighbourhoods is wide, forty percentage points, and it doesn't follow the price map you might expect.
booked, next 90 nights
booked, next 90 nights
The 246 Bristol listings run by professional operators and tracked through their own booking systems are 64% booked for the next 90 nights. The wider marketplace pool of 474 listings, a mix of self-managed and professionally run homes, sits at 43%. It's the clearest signal in this month's data that how a property is run moves occupancy at least as much as where it sits.
How we built this
Upgraded Intelligence, our in-house data engine, continuously tracks live short-let listings across Bristol and records their real night-by-night availability. Our data science team aggregates 720 active listings within 10km of the city centre, taking the most recent reading for each listing and night.
- Booked means a night the listing's live calendar no longer offers. That includes the odd night an owner holds back for themselves, so it's demand plus a small holding effect, measured the same way in every area.
- One listing, one area. Every listing is assigned to its nearest of 12 named area centres and counted once. An area's sample only includes listings within 1.6km of its centre; the citywide row covers everything within 10km.
- Reliability: areas with fewer than 10 tracked listings are suppressed rather than reported, and a listing needs at least 30 tracked nights in the window to count at all.
- Demand, not rates. This report ranks how full each area is. Nightly rates and revenue by property size are published at city level in Report 01, and we'll break rates out by area once the sample clears the same reliability bar.
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