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Bournemouth Town Centre market report BH1 1, Bournemouth
The BH1 1 (Bournemouth Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 3,518 HM Land Registry entries for BH1 1 (Bournemouth), going back to 1995: each an actual purchase at an actual price. Rents come from the ONS. Valuations, estimates and asking prices appear nowhere in it.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: the 2026 median for BH1 1 (Bournemouth) is £205,000, from 30 registered sales, up 5% on five years earlier; the mean is £205,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,310 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 3,518 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
A postcode sector like BH1 1 is a single group of streets within BH1 (Bournemouth), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BH1 1 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What BH1 1 homes really sell for
In the BH1 1 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £205,000, from 30 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £205,500, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BH1 1
By floor space, homes in BH1 1 have sold for about £3,310 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.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BH1 1 sits 28% below the national market.
A typical BH1 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The median as recorded at the time, and each year restated in today's money (ONS CPIH), the sharper test of whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the year-by-year figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £205,000 | £205,000 | 30 |
| 2025 | £175,000 | £179,185 | 57 |
| 2024 | £216,000 | £229,652 | 45 |
| 2023 | £198,500 | £218,103 | 60 |
| 2022 | £192,000 | £225,142 | 89 |
| 2021 | £195,500 | £247,528 | 106 |
| 2020 | £178,200 | £231,218 | 84 |
| 2019 | £169,500 | £222,174 | 103 |
| 2018 | £176,500 | £235,278 | 118 |
| 2017 | £154,500 | £210,722 | 116 |
| 2016 | £162,500 | £227,339 | 138 |
| 2015 | £168,500 | £238,091 | 170 |
| 2014 | £154,800 | £219,611 | 96 |
| 2013 | £150,500 | £216,554 | 66 |
| 2012 | £148,000 | £217,838 | 43 |
| 2011 | £166,000 | £250,596 | 63 |
| 2010 | £151,500 | £237,591 | 46 |
| 2009 | £152,500 | £245,145 | 47 |
| 2008 | £146,000 | £239,325 | 91 |
| 2007 | £155,000 | £262,923 | 184 |
| 2006 | £146,000 | £253,437 | 132 |
| 2005 | £141,000 | £250,923 | 124 |
| 2004 | £135,000 | £245,186 | 129 |
| 2003 | £120,000 | £221,069 | 169 |
| 2002 | £99,000 | £186,268 | 160 |
| 2001 | £83,500 | £160,524 | 196 |
| 2000 | £75,000 | £147,188 | 144 |
| 1999 | £57,500 | £114,594 | 179 |
| 1998 | £59,000 | £119,096 | 163 |
| 1997 | £44,500 | £91,261 | 156 |
| 1996 | £41,500 | £87,522 | 109 |
| 1995 | £43,400 | £94,345 | 105 |
In cash terms the typical BH1 1 home went from £43,400 in 1995 to £205,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 117%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2007. The market now sits about 22% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH1 1 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 1998 (+32.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2025 (−19.0%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +17.1% | +14.4% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.7% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.7% | −1.1% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH1 1
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BH1 1 recorded 30 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 155 sales a year before the financial crisis and 56 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
Rents around BH1 1
BH1 1 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). Size sets most of the rent: one-beds average £922 a month here against £2,092 for four or more bedrooms.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Against the £205,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 8.2% gross yield, a ceiling figure that ignores letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax. Because rents are local-authority statistics, districts sharing the authority share the figure.
What kind of market BH1 1 is
Only 30 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH1 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching.
Asked and answered: BH1 1 (Bournemouth Town Centre)
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Are BH1 1 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
What you could buy in BH1 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 200 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH1 district, not just BH1 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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The "under comparable sales" label measures each asking price against real nearby sales of similar homes: an opening position for a conversation rather than a valuation. The home itself still needs looking at.
See every BH1 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
Moving up a bedroom in BH: the cost
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. How much a size step costs is a local fact: the third-bedroom premium runs from about a quarter to nearly four fifths depending on the area, and national rules of thumb miss it.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £375,000 | £500,000 (+33%) | £744,000 (+49%) | £1,083,250 (+46%) |
| Semi-detached | £293,000 | £329,975 (+13%) | £375,000 (+14%) | £480,000 (+28%) | £700,000 (+46%) |
| Terraced | £265,000 | £305,000 (+15%) | £350,000 (+15%) | £460,000 (+31%) | £600,000 (+30%) |
| Flat | £175,000 | £245,000 (+40%) | £372,500 (+52%) | £625,000 (+68%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
BH area districts: five years of change
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH1
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH1's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH1 2 | £145,000 | 3 |
| BH1 3 | £211,500 | 28 |
| BH1 4 | £251,800 | 40 |
Zoom out to the full BH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH1 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH1 1? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH1 1, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH1 1 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH1 1 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BH1 1.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH1 1. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH1 1 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map from area shading down to single homes. The report tool answers a specific question in writing, and each sale's mortgage and rent calculator prices a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.