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Bournemouth market report BH

The standing BH (Bournemouth) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 376,777 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in the BH postcode area (Bournemouth) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.

Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.

In short: the middle 2026 sale in the BH postcode area (Bournemouth) came in at £355,000, out of 3,326 registered, up 4% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £407,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,290 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 376,777 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.

The figures for BH centred on Bournemouth run across 26 districts, the broad sweep by design. For a specific place, drop down to its district report below.

What BH homes really sell for

The BH median stands at £355,000 for 2026, built from 3,326 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £407,600, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.

BH prices by floor area

By floor space, homes in BH have sold for about £4,290 per square metre on average over the last five years: the like-for-like measure that lets you compare a small flat with a large house, from the Energy Performance Certificate floor areas behind each sale.

The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH 25% above the country at large.

In cash terms the typical BH home went from £60,000 in 1995 to £355,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 172%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2021; the current median sits about 18% below that. Someone who bought at the 2021 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.

The strongest year on record here is 2002 (+22.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−6.4%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.

Growth per year, over one to twenty years

The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.

Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one

A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 40% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £490,000 against £210,000 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.

Transaction volumes

BH recorded 7,056 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 15,550 sales a year before the financial crisis and 7,671 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.

What homes rent for around BH

For renting purposes BH sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, the local authority covering most of the BH area (parts fall under Dorset and New Forest, where rents differ). The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £922 a month for a typical one-bed to £2,092 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.

Set against the £355,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 4.7%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.

Common questions on BH (Bournemouth)

Will BH prices rise from here?

Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.

BH's current homes for sale

The price of an extra bedroom in BH

The risers and the fallers

The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.

District by district

Averages this wide conceal the interesting part. Every measurable BH district is below, dearest first, each linking to its own full report.

Selling a home in BH? Price it on the evidence

Dig further

Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.

The live map plots every individual BH sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.

How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.