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Bournemouth Town Centre market report BH1 4, Bournemouth
The BH1 4 (Bournemouth Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 6,560 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH1 4 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in BH1 4 (Bournemouth) came in at £251,800, out of 40 registered, up 39% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £239,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,280 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 6,560 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
BH1 4 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 4 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 a home in BH1 4 sells for
The 2026 median for BH1 4 is £251,800, taken from 40 registered sales. The mean, which is what most sites call the "average house price", is £239,500, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
What a square metre costs in BH1 4
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BH1 4 sales average about £3,280 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
Set against the £285,000 England and Wales median, BH1 4 sits 12% below the national market.
A typical BH1 4 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 | £251,800 | £251,800 | 40 |
| 2025 | £240,000 | £245,739 | 126 |
| 2024 | £230,000 | £244,537 | 115 |
| 2023 | £185,000 | £203,270 | 103 |
| 2022 | £210,000 | £246,249 | 155 |
| 2021 | £181,000 | £229,169 | 150 |
| 2020 | £180,000 | £233,554 | 142 |
| 2019 | £172,500 | £226,106 | 134 |
| 2018 | £160,000 | £213,283 | 179 |
| 2017 | £160,000 | £218,224 | 153 |
| 2016 | £145,000 | £202,856 | 223 |
| 2015 | £155,000 | £219,015 | 176 |
| 2014 | £140,000 | £198,614 | 206 |
| 2013 | £140,500 | £202,165 | 148 |
| 2012 | £129,200 | £190,166 | 128 |
| 2011 | £126,500 | £190,966 | 115 |
| 2010 | £165,000 | £258,762 | 95 |
| 2009 | £135,000 | £217,014 | 95 |
| 2008 | £145,500 | £238,505 | 154 |
| 2007 | £160,000 | £271,405 | 308 |
| 2006 | £149,000 | £258,645 | 350 |
| 2005 | £149,800 | £266,584 | 284 |
| 2004 | £143,200 | £260,079 | 306 |
| 2003 | £115,000 | £211,858 | 339 |
| 2002 | £92,000 | £173,097 | 339 |
| 2001 | £74,500 | £143,222 | 314 |
| 2000 | £68,700 | £134,824 | 350 |
| 1999 | £55,500 | £110,609 | 337 |
| 1998 | £51,800 | £104,562 | 317 |
| 1997 | £43,000 | £88,184 | 273 |
| 1996 | £40,400 | £85,202 | 200 |
| 1995 | £37,000 | £80,432 | 206 |
In cash terms the typical BH1 4 home went from £37,000 in 1995 to £251,800 in 2026, roughly 7 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 213%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2007; the current median sits about 7% below that. Someone who bought at the 2007 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH1 4 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 (+25.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−23.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +4.9% | +2.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +6.8% | +1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +5.7% | +2.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.7% | −0.1% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 40 sales completed in BH1 4. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 324 sales a year before the financial crisis and 108 a year over the last five. Watch the volume as closely as the price. Thin years make jumpy medians, where one street's sales can move the figure, and the newest year is always incomplete because registrations trail completions by weeks or months.
Reading the BH1 4 market
This is a thin market: 40 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. Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing. Within BH1, this sector trades 17% above the district median: one of the dearer corners of its district.
Rents around BH1 4
BH1 4 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
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 £251,800 median sold price makes a gross yield of 6.7%. 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.
What people ask about BH1 4 (Bournemouth Town Centre)
How much did a house sell for in BH1 4 (Bournemouth Town Centre)?
Are property prices falling in BH1 4 (Bournemouth Town Centre)?
Is BH1 4 (Bournemouth Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
Where do BH1 4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 39% over five years in cash and up 10% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
BH1's current homes for sale
The live side of the market holds 200 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH1 district, not just BH1 4: 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.
- Dean Park Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
- Knyveton Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
- Carysfort Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1
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 →
Live asking prices from estate agents who publish a feed to HomesIndex, refreshed every Monday and Thursday: a sample of the market, not every home for sale. Asking prices are not sale prices.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
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%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land 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.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's 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 3 | £211,500 | 28 |
Zoom out to the full BH1 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH1 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH1 4: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH1 4'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 4.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH1 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH1 4 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.
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.