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Bournemouth Town Centre market report BH1 3, Bournemouth
The standing BH1 3 (Bournemouth Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Underneath every chart here sit 6,031 registered sales in BH1 3 (Bournemouth) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
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 3 (Bournemouth) is £211,500, from 28 registered sales, down 7% on five years earlier; the mean is £230,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,470 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 6,031 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH1 3 is one sector of BH1 (Bournemouth): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where BH1 3 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.
Today's BH1 3 prices, from the sold record
Across 28 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH1 3 home went for £211,500. The mean is £230,100, a little above it, the familiar pattern where pricier homes stretch the average.
What a square metre costs in BH1 3
A square metre of BH1 3 home has cost about £3,470 on average across the last five years of sales, using the floor area on each home's Energy Performance Certificate: the measure that puts a studio and a five-bed on the same footing.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BH1 3 sits 26% below the national market.
A typical BH1 3 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £211,500 | £211,500 | 28 |
| 2025 | £231,000 | £236,524 | 96 |
| 2024 | £243,800 | £259,209 | 116 |
| 2023 | £245,000 | £269,195 | 113 |
| 2022 | £243,000 | £284,945 | 165 |
| 2021 | £227,000 | £287,411 | 175 |
| 2020 | £225,000 | £291,942 | 131 |
| 2019 | £195,000 | £255,598 | 135 |
| 2018 | £203,000 | £270,603 | 168 |
| 2017 | £205,000 | £279,599 | 229 |
| 2016 | £170,000 | £237,832 | 222 |
| 2015 | £193,000 | £272,709 | 195 |
| 2014 | £184,000 | £261,036 | 175 |
| 2013 | £181,200 | £260,729 | 152 |
| 2012 | £166,000 | £244,331 | 107 |
| 2011 | £196,000 | £295,885 | 126 |
| 2010 | £177,500 | £278,366 | 117 |
| 2009 | £173,000 | £278,099 | 133 |
| 2008 | £215,000 | £352,430 | 127 |
| 2007 | £196,500 | £333,319 | 286 |
| 2006 | £172,800 | £299,959 | 280 |
| 2005 | £175,000 | £311,429 | 225 |
| 2004 | £175,000 | £317,834 | 305 |
| 2003 | £180,000 | £331,604 | 361 |
| 2002 | £137,500 | £258,705 | 310 |
| 2001 | £109,500 | £210,508 | 275 |
| 2000 | £90,000 | £176,625 | 231 |
| 1999 | £71,000 | £141,499 | 255 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 236 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 221 |
| 1996 | £55,200 | £116,414 | 194 |
| 1995 | £53,000 | £115,214 | 142 |
In cash terms the typical BH1 3 home went from £53,000 in 1995 to £211,500 in 2026, roughly 4.0 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 84%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2008; the current median sits about 40% below that. Someone who bought at the 2008 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH1 3 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 2003 (+30.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−19.5%). 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
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −8.4% | −10.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −1.4% | −5.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.2% | −1.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.0% | −1.7% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
The turnover behind the prices
How many homes change hands
Each bar is a year's recorded sales. 2008's dip is the financial crisis, and the newest bar always grows for a while as late registrations arrive.
Over the last twelve months of data, 28 sales completed in BH1 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 284 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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 3
The local authority for BH1 3 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £922 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,092, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £211,500 median sold price makes a gross yield of 8.0%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the BH1 3 market
This is a thin market: 28 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: BH1 3 (Bournemouth Town Centre)
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Where do BH1 3 prices go next?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 7% over five years in cash but down 26% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
39% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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- Carysfort Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BH1 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
Moving up a bedroom in BH: the cost
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, from the Land Registry record. The jump between sizes is local: in some areas a third bedroom adds a quarter to the price, in others nearly four fifths, so a national rule of thumb will mislead you here.
| 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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
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
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BH1
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH1, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH1 1 | £205,000 | 30 |
| BH1 2 | £145,000 | 3 |
| 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.
Selling in BH1 3? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH1 3's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH1 3.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH1 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BH1 3 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale runs the numbers on 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.