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Branksome market report BH12 3, Poole
The BH12 3 (Branksome) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 4,731 HM Land Registry entries for BH12 3 (Poole), 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 middle 2026 sale in BH12 3 (Poole) came in at £295,000, out of 42 registered, up 0% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £288,600, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,870 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 4,731 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
A postcode sector like BH12 3 is a single group of streets within BH12 (Poole), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BH12 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.
BH12 3 sold prices: where the market stands
In the BH12 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £295,000, from 42 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £288,600, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
What a square metre costs in BH12 3
The last five years of sales put BH12 3 at roughly £3,870 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 3 runs 4% above it.
BH12 3'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 | £295,000 | £295,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 125 |
| 2024 | £315,000 | £334,910 | 100 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 109 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 146 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 175 |
| 2020 | £271,000 | £351,628 | 142 |
| 2019 | £266,200 | £348,924 | 128 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 162 |
| 2017 | £246,000 | £335,519 | 166 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 143 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 138 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 168 |
| 2013 | £196,500 | £282,744 | 150 |
| 2012 | £175,000 | £257,578 | 110 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 85 |
| 2010 | £180,000 | £282,286 | 101 |
| 2009 | £163,000 | £262,024 | 85 |
| 2008 | £178,000 | £291,780 | 111 |
| 2007 | £200,000 | £339,256 | 191 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 220 |
| 2005 | £162,000 | £288,295 | 156 |
| 2004 | £165,500 | £300,580 | 176 |
| 2003 | £146,000 | £268,967 | 207 |
| 2002 | £124,200 | £233,681 | 232 |
| 2001 | £100,000 | £192,245 | 207 |
| 2000 | £87,600 | £171,915 | 172 |
| 1999 | £72,000 | £143,492 | 162 |
| 1998 | £67,000 | £135,244 | 186 |
| 1997 | £62,000 | £127,149 | 185 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 141 |
| 1995 | £52,200 | £113,475 | 110 |
In cash terms the typical BH12 3 home went from £52,200 in 1995 to £295,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 160%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 23% below that. Someone who bought at the 2022 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH12 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 2002 (+24.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−11.0%). 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) | −6.3% | −8.5% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | 0.0% | −4.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.6% | −0.2% |
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, 42 sales completed in BH12 3. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 195 sales a year before the financial crisis and 104 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 kind of market BH12 3 is
This is a thin market: 42 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.
Rents around BH12 3
For renting purposes BH12 3 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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 £295,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. 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.
BH12 3 (Branksome): the questions that come up
Are property prices falling in BH12 3 (Branksome)?
Is BH12 3 (Branksome) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH12 3 (Branksome)?
Are BH12 3 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 21% 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 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 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
22% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
"Under comparable sales" means the asking price sits below what similar homes nearby actually fetched. Treat it as the start of a conversation, never a valuation, and always view the home.
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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
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%) | — |
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 BH12
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH12, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH12 1 | £320,000 | 40 |
| BH12 2 | £305,000 | 44 |
| 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.
Selling in BH12 3? Start from the sold record
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH12 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH12 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH12 3 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Estate agents working BH12 3: the featured spot on this report is free for founding agents, one per district. Claim BH12 3.
Go deeper
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH12 3 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH12 3 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.
About the numbers: everything is computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to the address; today's-money figures use the ONS CPIH index, and rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents by local authority. These are medians of recorded sales, not valuations, and none of it is financial advice.