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Branksome market report BH12 1, Poole
The BH12 1 (Branksome) 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: 4,227 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH12 1 (Poole) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 40 registered 2026 sales put the BH12 1 (Poole) median at £320,000, up 2% on five years earlier, with a mean of £316,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,950 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,227 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
BH12 1 is a postcode sector: one group of streets inside BH12 (Poole). This is as local as the public record gets, but sector medians move on fewer sales than a district's, so expect the lines to be lumpier.
Where BH12 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 buyers actually paid in BH12 1
The BH12 1 median stands at £320,000 for 2026, built from 40 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £316,800, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BH12 1
The last five years of sales put BH12 1 at roughly £3,950 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH12 1 runs 12% above it.
BH12 1's median sold price, 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 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 40 |
| 2025 | £335,000 | £343,011 | 88 |
| 2024 | £291,200 | £309,605 | 98 |
| 2023 | £355,000 | £390,058 | 79 |
| 2022 | £322,500 | £378,168 | 102 |
| 2021 | £312,500 | £395,665 | 164 |
| 2020 | £269,800 | £350,071 | 98 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 89 |
| 2018 | £276,000 | £367,913 | 96 |
| 2017 | £210,000 | £286,419 | 112 |
| 2016 | £245,000 | £342,757 | 117 |
| 2015 | £238,500 | £337,001 | 122 |
| 2014 | £212,000 | £300,759 | 129 |
| 2013 | £193,500 | £278,427 | 110 |
| 2012 | £195,000 | £287,016 | 85 |
| 2011 | £172,500 | £260,409 | 71 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 82 |
| 2009 | £175,000 | £281,314 | 91 |
| 2008 | £168,500 | £276,207 | 69 |
| 2007 | £201,000 | £340,952 | 190 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 161 |
| 2005 | £172,500 | £306,980 | 164 |
| 2004 | £165,000 | £299,672 | 190 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 224 |
| 2002 | £129,500 | £243,653 | 236 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 201 |
| 2000 | £92,200 | £180,943 | 170 |
| 1999 | £77,000 | £153,457 | 199 |
| 1998 | £72,000 | £145,337 | 178 |
| 1997 | £59,200 | £121,407 | 174 |
| 1996 | £53,600 | £113,040 | 159 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 139 |
In cash terms the typical BH12 1 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 189%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2021, and today's median remains roughly 19% under it: a 2021 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH12 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 2018 (+31.4% on the year before); the weakest, 2024 (−18.0%). 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) | −4.5% | −6.7% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.5% | −4.2% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
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
The year-by-year sales count
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.
The register shows 40 BH12 1 sales across the most recent twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 192 sales a year before the financial crisis and 81 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.
How BH12 1 trades
Only 40 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH12 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. 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.
The rental side of BH12 1
The local authority for BH12 1 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands 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.
Set against the £320,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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.
Asked and answered: BH12 1 (Branksome)
How much did a house sell for in BH12 1 (Branksome)?
Are property prices falling in BH12 1 (Branksome)?
Is BH12 1 (Branksome) a good place to buy a house?
Will BH12 1 prices rise from here?
That question has no honest answer, only evidence. The evidence: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Weigh the volume chart alongside the price one before deciding anything, and bear in mind every figure is a completed sale that reached the register weeks after completion.
What you could buy in BH12 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 222 homes currently on the market from 12 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH12 district, not just BH12 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
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 BH12 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
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%) | — |
Built from the last four years of recorded sales by form and bedroom count. Bedroom counts are estimated from EPC records (the register carries none), so expect a small number of homes one size adrift. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH12
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH12's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH12 2 | £305,000 | 44 |
| BH12 3 | £295,000 | 42 |
| BH12 4 | £300,000 | 43 |
| BH12 5 | £331,000 | 16 |
Zoom out to the full BH12 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH12 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH12 1? Get a rough value first
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH12 1'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 BH12 1.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH12 1. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH12 1 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.