It may not come as a shock to discover house prices in Bristol are rising at a far greater rate than the rest of the UK. Bristol is expected to experience higher-than-average house price and rental growth than the rest of Britain over the next five years, according to a report by Bristol property experts JLL.

Property prices are not far from most homeowners minds.  Whether they are investments or a big part of plans for retirement, any changes of a house's value are regularly monitored. And of course people are always on the lookout for the area set to become very popular and thus see prices rocket.