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Upton market report BH16 5, Poole
The BH16 5 (Upton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. The raw material for this page is 5,633 HM Land Registry entries for BH16 5 (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: 52 registered 2026 sales put the BH16 5 (Poole) median at £303,800, up 10% on five years earlier, with a mean of £329,700, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,990 per square metre over the last five years. Everything rests on 5,633 completed HM Land Registry sales since 1995, refreshed monthly; valuations and asking prices play no part.
A postcode sector like BH16 5 is a single group of streets within BH16 (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 BH16 5 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.
BH16 5 sold prices: where the market stands
In the BH16 5 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £303,800, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £329,700, sitting somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
House prices per square metre in BH16 5
A square metre of BH16 5 home has cost about £3,990 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH16 5 7% above the country at large.
A typical BH16 5 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 | £303,800 | £303,800 | 52 |
| 2025 | £310,000 | £317,413 | 157 |
| 2024 | £305,000 | £324,278 | 155 |
| 2023 | £310,000 | £340,614 | 130 |
| 2022 | £305,000 | £357,647 | 155 |
| 2021 | £276,000 | £349,452 | 174 |
| 2020 | £260,000 | £337,355 | 144 |
| 2019 | £257,500 | £337,521 | 168 |
| 2018 | £268,000 | £357,249 | 175 |
| 2017 | £255,000 | £347,794 | 206 |
| 2016 | £220,500 | £308,482 | 171 |
| 2015 | £225,000 | £317,925 | 154 |
| 2014 | £195,000 | £276,642 | 156 |
| 2013 | £195,000 | £280,586 | 156 |
| 2012 | £180,000 | £264,938 | 121 |
| 2011 | £175,000 | £264,183 | 147 |
| 2010 | £192,500 | £301,890 | 115 |
| 2009 | £165,500 | £266,043 | 120 |
| 2008 | £181,500 | £297,517 | 108 |
| 2007 | £189,500 | £321,445 | 270 |
| 2006 | £170,500 | £295,966 | 256 |
| 2005 | £161,500 | £287,405 | 202 |
| 2004 | £160,000 | £290,591 | 181 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 218 |
| 2002 | £118,500 | £222,957 | 216 |
| 2001 | £95,000 | £182,633 | 256 |
| 2000 | £85,500 | £167,794 | 217 |
| 1999 | £70,000 | £139,506 | 248 |
| 1998 | £65,000 | £131,207 | 216 |
| 1997 | £60,000 | £123,048 | 221 |
| 1996 | £53,000 | £111,775 | 205 |
| 1995 | £55,000 | £119,562 | 163 |
In cash terms the typical BH16 5 home went from £55,000 in 1995 to £303,800 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 154%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. Measured in today's money the market peaked in 2022; the current median sits about 15% 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 BH16 5 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 (+24.7% on the year before); the weakest, 2011 (−9.1%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −2.0% | −4.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.9% | −2.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.3% | −0.2% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
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.
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.
The register shows 52 BH16 5 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 227 sales a year before the financial crisis and 130 a year over the last five. Price without volume misleads: a median built on few sales jumps around, and one street can tilt it. Keep in mind too that the latest year is still filling in, since sales reach the register weeks or months after completion.
What homes rent for around BH16 5
For renting purposes BH16 5 sits in Dorset. The ONS average private rent there is £1,041 a month (May 2026). The spread runs from £721 a month for a typical one-bed to £1,661 at four-plus bedrooms, which is size doing most of the pricing.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £303,800 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 4.1%: gross, before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax, so a ceiling rather than a promise. Rents are published at local-authority level, so nearby districts in the same authority share these figures.
The shape of the BH16 5 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH16 5 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint.
Common questions on BH16 5 (Upton)
How much did a house sell for in BH16 5 (Upton)?
Are property prices falling in BH16 5 (Upton)?
Is BH16 5 (Upton) a good place to buy a house?
Will BH16 5 prices rise from here?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 13% 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 BH16 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 62 homes currently on the market from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH16 district, not just BH16 5: live asking prices are collected per district.
27% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every BH16 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.
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. 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%) | — |
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 BH16
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH16's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH16 6 | £427,500 | 26 |
Zoom out to the full BH16 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH16 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH16 5: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at BH16 5'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 BH16 5.
Take it further
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH16 5 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH16 5 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.
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.