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Poole Town Centre market report BH15 1, Poole
The standing BH15 1 (Poole Town Centre) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. Everything below comes from 4,753 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH15 1 (Poole) since 1995, real completion prices from real purchases, alongside the ONS's current rent figures. No valuations, no estimates, no asking prices.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BH15 1 (Poole) is £245,000, from 42 registered sales, down 2% on five years earlier; the mean is £257,100, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,740 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,753 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH15 1 is one sector of BH15 (Poole): 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 BH15 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.
BH15 1 sold prices: where the market stands
42 sales were registered in BH15 1 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £245,000. The mean works out at £257,100, nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
BH15 1 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BH15 1 homes have averaged around £3,740 over the last five years of sales. The floor areas behind the figure come from Energy Performance Certificates, and the by-the-metre view is the fair comparison across home sizes.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH15 1 14% below the national figure.
A typical BH15 1 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
Year by year: the median as it was recorded, and the same figure brought into today's money with ONS CPIH, which is where "did homes get dearer" actually gets answered. Hover shows each year; the legend isolates a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £245,000 | £245,000 | 42 |
| 2025 | £225,000 | £230,380 | 95 |
| 2024 | £235,000 | £249,853 | 115 |
| 2023 | £235,000 | £258,208 | 119 |
| 2022 | £225,800 | £264,776 | 110 |
| 2021 | £250,000 | £316,532 | 139 |
| 2020 | £214,500 | £278,318 | 82 |
| 2019 | £208,000 | £272,638 | 109 |
| 2018 | £215,000 | £286,599 | 165 |
| 2017 | £208,500 | £284,373 | 154 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 195 |
| 2015 | £176,000 | £248,688 | 191 |
| 2014 | £172,500 | £244,721 | 165 |
| 2013 | £175,000 | £251,808 | 115 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 110 |
| 2011 | £192,200 | £290,148 | 120 |
| 2010 | £188,000 | £294,832 | 181 |
| 2009 | £180,000 | £289,352 | 192 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 220 |
| 2007 | £204,500 | £346,889 | 215 |
| 2006 | £197,000 | £341,967 | 239 |
| 2005 | £185,000 | £329,225 | 173 |
| 2004 | £215,000 | £390,482 | 197 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 135 |
| 2002 | £155,600 | £292,760 | 141 |
| 2001 | £112,000 | £215,314 | 150 |
| 2000 | £96,000 | £188,400 | 122 |
| 1999 | £82,500 | £164,418 | 167 |
| 1998 | £70,000 | £141,300 | 141 |
| 1997 | £63,200 | £129,610 | 182 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 152 |
| 1995 | £57,800 | £125,648 | 120 |
In cash terms the typical BH15 1 home went from £57,800 in 1995 to £245,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 95%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2004; the current median sits about 37% below that. Someone who bought at the 2004 peak has not yet seen that price back in real terms.
Year-on-year change in the BH15 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 2002 (+38.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.3%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BH15 1 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +8.9% | +6.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −0.4% | −5.0% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.1% | −1.3% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.1% | −1.7% |
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.
The turnover behind the prices
Sales per year, counted
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
The register shows 42 BH15 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 172 sales a year before the financial crisis and 96 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.
Rents around BH15 1
BH15 1 falls under Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). 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.
Against the £245,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 6.9% 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.
What kind of market BH15 1 is
Only 42 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH15 1 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. Within BH15, this sector trades 23% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
What people ask about BH15 1 (Poole Town Centre)
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How much did a house sell for in BH15 1 (Poole Town Centre)?
Will BH15 1 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is roughly flat over five years in cash but down 23% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in BH15 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 200 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH15 district, not just BH15 1: live asking prices are collected per district.
32% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
- Blandford Road, Poole, Poole
- Blandford Road, Hamworthy, Poole, Dorset
- Hythe Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15
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 BH15 home for sale on the map →
These asking prices come live from estate agents publishing feeds to HomesIndex, refreshed each Monday and Thursday. They are a sample of the market rather than its entirety, and an asking price is not a sale price.
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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
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 districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BH15
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH15, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH15 2 | £325,000 | 35 |
| BH15 3 | £355,000 | 57 |
| BH15 4 | £295,000 | 45 |
Zoom out to the full BH15 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH15 compares with its neighbours.
Selling in BH15 1? Start from the sold record
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH15 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.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BH15 1.
Keep digging
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See every individual BH15 1 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.