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Branksome market report BH12, Poole
The BH12 (Branksome) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 21,201 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH12 (Poole) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Covers registered sales to August 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register. Page updated 19 October 2026.
In short: the 2026 median for BH12 (Poole) is £306,500, from 220 registered sales, up 4% on five years earlier; the mean is £312,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,890 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 21,201 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH12 is a postcode district covering Branksome, Alderney, Upper Parkstone in Poole. It is the most useful size for market figures: tight enough to describe somewhere real, large enough that sales keep coming and the medians hold steady.
Where BH12 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 prices, from the sold record
Take the 220 registered 2026 sales in BH12 and the middle price, the median, is £306,500. The mean lands at £312,200, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
BH12 prices by floor area
Measured by floor area, the last five years of BH12 sales average about £3,890 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH12 8% above the country at large.
A typical BH12 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £306,500 | £306,500 | 220 |
| 2025 | £322,500 | £330,212 | 467 |
| 2024 | £310,000 | £329,594 | 467 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 408 |
| 2022 | £325,000 | £381,100 | 557 |
| 2021 | £295,000 | £373,508 | 727 |
| 2020 | £268,000 | £347,736 | 508 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 569 |
| 2018 | £260,000 | £346,585 | 563 |
| 2017 | £247,000 | £336,883 | 609 |
| 2016 | £235,000 | £328,767 | 647 |
| 2015 | £220,000 | £310,860 | 627 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 661 |
| 2013 | £189,000 | £271,952 | 530 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 443 |
| 2011 | £177,800 | £268,410 | 422 |
| 2010 | £182,500 | £286,207 | 429 |
| 2009 | £171,500 | £275,688 | 427 |
| 2008 | £180,000 | £295,058 | 405 |
| 2007 | £193,000 | £327,382 | 911 |
| 2006 | £177,000 | £307,249 | 921 |
| 2005 | £168,500 | £299,862 | 729 |
| 2004 | £164,700 | £299,127 | 912 |
| 2003 | £155,000 | £285,548 | 956 |
| 2002 | £125,000 | £235,186 | 1,054 |
| 2001 | £98,000 | £188,400 | 995 |
| 2000 | £87,000 | £170,738 | 861 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 957 |
| 1998 | £68,000 | £137,263 | 879 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 925 |
| 1996 | £54,000 | £113,884 | 800 |
| 1995 | £52,000 | £113,040 | 615 |
In cash terms the typical BH12 home went from £52,000 in 1995 to £306,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 171%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 20% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH12 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 (+27.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2008 (−6.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Detached, semi, terraced, flat: four markets in one
A single median hides the split beneath it. Sales of detached houses dominate the record here, 38% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £342,000 against £180,000 for a flat, 1.9 times the price.
Median by property type, BH12
One line per type, years with too few sales omitted. Hover for the year's figures; click a legend entry to isolate a type.
| Type | Median (2026) | Sales that year | All-time sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | £342,000 | 83 | 8,144 |
| Semi-detached | £319,800 | 76 | 6,226 |
| Terraced | £280,000 | 23 | 2,567 |
| Flats | £180,000 | 38 | 4,264 |
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year (since 2025) | −5.0% | −7.2% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.8% | −3.9% |
| 6 years (since 2020) | +2.3% | −2.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
Compound annual growth of the median sold price; the real column deflates by ONS CPIH. Annualised figures smooth the cycle (the chart above shows the cycle), and past growth is a record, not a forecast.
Sales activity in BH12
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.
The monthly pulse, last five years
Registrations by month. The repeating sawtooth is seasonality, and the right-hand edge always dips because the register lags completions.
The register shows 386 BH12 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 917 sales a year before the financial crisis and 424 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.
How BH12 trades
Among the 26 measurable districts of its area, BH12 ranks 21 by median price: towards the affordable end.
What homes rent for around BH12
BH12 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). 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 £306,500 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 5.5% 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.
BH12 (Branksome): the questions that come up
Is BH12 (Branksome) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH12 (Branksome)?
Are property prices falling in BH12 (Branksome)?
Where do BH12 prices go next?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 4% over five years in cash but down 18% 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
Everything above is what homes in BH12 sold for. The live side of the market holds 81 homes at the moment, listed by 6 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% above the BH12 median sold price.
BH12 registered 386 sales in the last twelve months; the 81 homes listed now would take about 3 months to clear at that rate. The count covers agents publishing to HomesIndex, so the real stock is larger.
11% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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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 →
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.
The BH12 sales calendar
Take the 2,626 BH12 sales dated 2021 to 2025 and sort them by month: March completions lead with 10.2% of the total, April trails with 6.4%. The spread between the busiest and quietest months is small, so timing matters less here than in most markets; price and presentation decide more than the calendar.
Sales by month, 2021 to 2025
| Month | Sales | Share |
|---|---|---|
| January | 180 | 6.9% |
| February | 190 | 7.2% |
| March | 267 | 10.2% |
| April | 169 | 6.4% |
| May | 202 | 7.7% |
| June | 258 | 9.8% |
| July | 204 | 7.8% |
| August | 247 | 9.4% |
| September | 247 | 9.4% |
| October | 215 | 8.2% |
| November | 237 | 9.0% |
| December | 210 | 8.0% |
The price of an extra bedroom in BH
What homes of each size actually sold for across the BH area, from the Land Registry record. 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 | £343,321 | £390,000 (+14%) | £450,000 (+15%) | £545,000 (+21%) | £655,000 (+20%) |
| Semi-detached | £286,500 | £320,000 (+12%) | £350,000 (+9%) | £420,000 (+20%) | £536,500 (+28%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £285,000 (+24%) | £322,500 (+13%) | £389,950 (+21%) | £500,000 (+28%) |
| Flat | £160,000 | £220,000 (+38%) | £281,375 (+28%) | £395,000 (+40%) | £495,000 (+25%) |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH12 ranks 14 of 26 in the BH area on five-year growth. The gap between the top and bottom of this chart is the difference between buying well and buying badly in the same city.
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.
Inside BH12, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH12 1 | £312,500 | 50 |
| BH12 2 | £305,000 | 49 |
| BH12 3 | £293,500 | 52 |
| BH12 4 | £310,000 | 51 |
| BH12 5 | £326,000 | 18 |
How BH12 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BH18 | £535,000 | +19% |
| BH13 | £505,000 | -6% |
| BH7 | £445,000 | +16% |
| BH24 | £435,000 | -10% |
| BH19 | £427,500 | +21% |
| BH23 | £416,000 | +10% |
| BH21 | £415,500 | +4% |
| BH25 | £410,000 | -2% |
| BH6 | £406,000 | +4% |
| BH14 | £405,000 | +1% |
| BH31 | £395,000 | +1% |
| BH22 | £385,000 | -4% |
| BH20 | £373,800 | +7% |
| BH9 | £353,800 | +9% |
| BH3 | £350,000 | -26% |
| BH10 | £344,500 | +8% |
| BH15 | £325,000 | +8% |
| BH11 | £318,800 | +11% |
| BH16 | £315,000 | +1% |
| BH17 | £315,000 | +9% |
| BH12 (this report) | £306,500 | +4% |
| BH8 | £291,500 | +6% |
| BH4 | £260,000 | -2% |
| BH5 | £234,500 | -3% |
Selling a home in BH12? Price it on the evidence
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH12, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH12 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH12 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH12. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH12 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.