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Branksome market report BH12 4, Poole
The standing BH12 4 (Branksome) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 4,801 HM Land Registry entries for BH12 4 (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.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: 43 registered 2026 sales put the BH12 4 (Poole) median at £300,000, up 5% on five years earlier, with a mean of £309,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,820 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 4,801 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BH12 4 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 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.
Today's BH12 4 prices, from the sold record
Take the 43 registered 2026 sales in BH12 4 and the middle price, the median, is £300,000. The mean lands at £309,300, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BH12 4
A square metre of BH12 4 home has cost about £3,820 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH12 4 runs 5% above it.
BH12 4's median sold price, 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £300,000 | £300,000 | 43 |
| 2025 | £306,200 | £313,522 | 96 |
| 2024 | £304,500 | £323,746 | 100 |
| 2023 | £314,000 | £345,009 | 87 |
| 2022 | £308,000 | £361,165 | 116 |
| 2021 | £285,000 | £360,847 | 139 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 110 |
| 2019 | £252,000 | £330,312 | 131 |
| 2018 | £246,000 | £327,923 | 121 |
| 2017 | £245,000 | £334,155 | 154 |
| 2016 | £230,000 | £321,772 | 167 |
| 2015 | £204,200 | £288,535 | 116 |
| 2014 | £202,000 | £286,572 | 144 |
| 2013 | £180,000 | £259,002 | 96 |
| 2012 | £172,000 | £253,163 | 115 |
| 2011 | £168,800 | £254,823 | 108 |
| 2010 | £173,000 | £271,309 | 89 |
| 2009 | £160,000 | £257,201 | 95 |
| 2008 | £170,000 | £278,666 | 98 |
| 2007 | £177,500 | £301,089 | 230 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 231 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 153 |
| 2004 | £145,000 | £263,348 | 227 |
| 2003 | £142,100 | £261,783 | 198 |
| 2002 | £115,000 | £216,372 | 230 |
| 2001 | £89,000 | £171,098 | 228 |
| 2000 | £79,000 | £155,038 | 220 |
| 1999 | £69,500 | £138,510 | 223 |
| 1998 | £62,000 | £125,151 | 194 |
| 1997 | £55,000 | £112,794 | 206 |
| 1996 | £52,000 | £109,666 | 193 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 143 |
In cash terms the typical BH12 4 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £300,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 173%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 17% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH12 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 2002 (+29.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.9%). 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) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.0% | −3.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.0% | +0.2% |
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.
Transaction volumes
The year-by-year sales count
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
BH12 4 recorded 43 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 215 sales a year before the financial crisis and 88 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.
What homes rent for around BH12 4
For renting purposes BH12 4 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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 £300,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 5.6% 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.
The shape of the BH12 4 market
Only 43 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH12 4 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
What people ask about BH12 4 (Branksome)
Are property prices falling in BH12 4 (Branksome)?
Is BH12 4 (Branksome) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH12 4 (Branksome)?
Where do BH12 4 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 5% over five years in cash but down 17% 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.
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 4: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 22% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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.
What another bedroom costs in BH
The Land Registry record, split by size: what each kind of home actually sold for across the BH area. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| 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.
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 BH12
Sector boundaries hide real price steps. The rest of BH12, one report each:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH12 1 | £320,000 | 40 |
| BH12 2 | £305,000 | 44 |
| BH12 3 | £295,000 | 42 |
| 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 4? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH12 4, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH12 4's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH12 4 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH12 4.
Dig further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH12 4 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
See every individual BH12 4 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.
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.