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Poole Town Centre market report BH15, Poole
The BH15 (Poole Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Everything below comes from 21,037 sales recorded by HM Land Registry in BH15 (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 July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BH15 (Poole) home changed hands for £320,000 in 2026 (median of 179 registered sales, up 7% on five years earlier), with the mean at £327,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,940 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 21,037 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BH15 covering Poole Town Centre, Hamworthy, Longfleet sits in Poole. A district is the workhorse unit for reading a market: local enough to be meaningful, busy enough that the medians rest on a steady flow of sales.
Where BH15 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 BH15 prices, from the sold record
In the BH15 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £320,000, from 179 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £327,000, sitting almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in BH15
A square metre of BH15 home has cost about £3,940 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH15 12% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BH15 home, 1995 to 2026
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
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| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 179 |
| 2025 | £316,800 | £324,376 | 538 |
| 2024 | £320,000 | £340,226 | 518 |
| 2023 | £305,000 | £335,121 | 479 |
| 2022 | £321,500 | £376,995 | 557 |
| 2021 | £300,000 | £379,839 | 805 |
| 2020 | £280,000 | £363,306 | 528 |
| 2019 | £276,000 | £361,770 | 643 |
| 2018 | £265,000 | £353,250 | 687 |
| 2017 | £263,000 | £358,706 | 757 |
| 2016 | £238,000 | £332,964 | 773 |
| 2015 | £230,000 | £324,990 | 716 |
| 2014 | £210,000 | £297,922 | 634 |
| 2013 | £196,000 | £282,024 | 529 |
| 2012 | £198,000 | £291,431 | 471 |
| 2011 | £197,000 | £297,394 | 465 |
| 2010 | £195,000 | £305,810 | 538 |
| 2009 | £183,000 | £294,174 | 605 |
| 2008 | £205,000 | £336,038 | 597 |
| 2007 | £210,000 | £356,218 | 987 |
| 2006 | £195,000 | £338,495 | 898 |
| 2005 | £187,000 | £332,785 | 688 |
| 2004 | £185,000 | £335,996 | 741 |
| 2003 | £160,000 | £294,759 | 711 |
| 2002 | £133,000 | £250,238 | 865 |
| 2001 | £110,000 | £211,469 | 922 |
| 2000 | £101,000 | £198,213 | 669 |
| 1999 | £83,000 | £165,415 | 825 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 737 |
| 1997 | £65,000 | £133,302 | 778 |
| 1996 | £59,500 | £125,483 | 660 |
| 1995 | £57,500 | £124,996 | 537 |
In cash terms the typical BH15 home went from £57,500 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 156%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2021. The market now sits about 16% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH15 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 2000 (+21.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.7%). 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 flats dominate the record here, 34% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £414,000 against £185,000 for a flat, 2.2 times the price.
Median by property type, BH15
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 | £414,000 | 52 | 6,116 |
| Semi-detached | £340,000 | 47 | 3,863 |
| Terraced | £300,000 | 35 | 3,956 |
| Flats | £185,000 | 45 | 7,102 |
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.0% | −1.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.3% | −3.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.0% | −0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.5% | −0.3% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH15
The year-by-year sales count
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
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.
BH15 recorded 414 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 810 sales a year before the financial crisis and 454 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 BH15
The local authority for BH15 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.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.3%. 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.
What people ask about BH15 (Poole Town Centre)
Are property prices falling in BH15 (Poole Town Centre)?
Is BH15 (Poole Town Centre) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH15 (Poole Town Centre)?
Are BH15 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 7% over five years in cash but down 16% after inflation. Read the volume chart with the price chart before acting on either, remembering that registrations trail the deals themselves by weeks.
On the market in BH15 today
Everything above is what homes in BH15 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 200 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 25% below the BH15 median sold price.
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
"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 BH15 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.
Bedroom by bedroom: BH prices by size
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight from the Land Registry record. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
BH15 ranks 11 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 BH15, sector by sector
Postcode sectors are the next slice down, each a group of streets with its own market report. Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH15 1 | £245,000 | 42 |
| BH15 2 | £325,000 | 35 |
| BH15 3 | £355,000 | 57 |
| BH15 4 | £295,000 | 45 |
How BH15 compares nearby
Same city, different markets. The neighbouring districts of the BH area, dearest first:
| District | Median | 5-year |
|---|---|---|
| BH18 | £545,000 | +21% |
| BH13 | £518,800 | -3% |
| BH24 | £450,000 | -7% |
| BH7 | £445,000 | +16% |
| BH19 | £433,800 | +23% |
| BH23 | £420,000 | +11% |
| BH21 | £412,500 | +3% |
| BH31 | £410,000 | +4% |
| BH6 | £406,000 | +4% |
| BH14 | £400,000 | +0% |
| BH25 | £400,000 | -5% |
| BH22 | £385,000 | -4% |
| BH20 | £375,000 | +8% |
| BH9 | £353,600 | +9% |
| BH10 | £350,000 | +9% |
| BH3 | £327,500 | -30% |
| BH15 (this report) | £320,000 | +7% |
| BH16 | £320,000 | +3% |
| BH17 | £320,000 | +11% |
| BH11 | £315,000 | +10% |
| BH12 | £308,000 | +4% |
| BH8 | £297,500 | +8% |
| BH4 | £258,500 | -2% |
| BH5 | £225,000 | -7% |
Thinking of selling in BH15? Get a rough value first
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The live map plots every individual BH15 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.
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.