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Upton market report BH16, Poole
The standing BH16 (Upton) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,055 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH16 (Poole) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales data to July 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: a typical BH16 (Poole) home changed hands for £320,000 in 2026 (median of 78 registered sales, up 3% on five years earlier), with the mean at £372,800, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,050 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 8,055 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH16 is a postcode district covering Upton, Turlin Moor, Lytchett Minster 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 BH16 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 sold prices: where the market stands
78 sales were registered in BH16 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £320,000. The mean works out at £372,800, well above it, the signature of a heavy top tail: a handful of expensive sales lifting the average.
What a square metre costs in BH16
The last five years of sales put BH16 at roughly £4,050 per square metre. That figure, built from each sale's Energy Performance Certificate floor area, is the one that makes a small flat and a big house comparable.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH16 runs 12% above it.
BH16's median sold price, 1995 to 2026
One line records the median as paid; the other restates every year in today's money via ONS CPIH, the honest measure of getting dearer. Hover for year figures, click the legend to isolate a line.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £320,000 | £320,000 | 78 |
| 2025 | £337,000 | £345,059 | 222 |
| 2024 | £322,000 | £342,352 | 218 |
| 2023 | £340,000 | £373,577 | 195 |
| 2022 | £342,000 | £401,034 | 239 |
| 2021 | £311,200 | £394,019 | 261 |
| 2020 | £281,200 | £364,863 | 210 |
| 2019 | £275,000 | £360,459 | 236 |
| 2018 | £285,000 | £379,910 | 248 |
| 2017 | £267,500 | £364,843 | 280 |
| 2016 | £240,000 | £335,762 | 234 |
| 2015 | £240,000 | £339,120 | 207 |
| 2014 | £220,000 | £312,108 | 223 |
| 2013 | £210,000 | £302,169 | 228 |
| 2012 | £200,500 | £295,111 | 187 |
| 2011 | £190,000 | £286,827 | 191 |
| 2010 | £212,000 | £332,471 | 179 |
| 2009 | £191,000 | £307,034 | 185 |
| 2008 | £213,200 | £349,480 | 172 |
| 2007 | £204,500 | £346,889 | 354 |
| 2006 | £185,000 | £321,136 | 347 |
| 2005 | £172,000 | £306,091 | 279 |
| 2004 | £170,000 | £308,753 | 254 |
| 2003 | £150,000 | £276,336 | 301 |
| 2002 | £126,000 | £237,068 | 318 |
| 2001 | £106,200 | £204,164 | 362 |
| 2000 | £93,500 | £183,494 | 299 |
| 1999 | £77,900 | £155,251 | 352 |
| 1998 | £75,000 | £151,393 | 328 |
| 1997 | £66,000 | £135,353 | 334 |
| 1996 | £57,400 | £121,054 | 294 |
| 1995 | £58,700 | £127,605 | 240 |
In cash terms the typical BH16 home went from £58,700 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Even after inflation that is a real rise of about 151%: homes here genuinely became dearer, not merely more expensive on paper. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 20% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH16 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 (+20.0% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−10.4%). 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) | −5.0% | −7.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +0.6% | −4.1% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.9% | −0.5% |
| 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.
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 £510,000 against £197,000 for a flat, 2.6 times the price.
Median by property type, BH16
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 | £510,000 | 27 | 3,024 |
| Semi-detached | £305,000 | 19 | 2,187 |
| Terraced | £278,000 | 23 | 1,913 |
| Flats | £197,000 | 9 | 931 |
How many homes change hands in BH16
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.
Month by month, five years back
Monthly registrations. The sawtooth is seasonal; the register runs weeks behind completions at the right-hand edge.
The register shows 167 BH16 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 314 sales a year before the financial crisis and 190 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.
What homes rent for around BH16
The local authority for BH16 is Dorset, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,041 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £721 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,661, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Dorset
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, which against the £320,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 3.9%. 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.
BH16 (Upton): the questions that come up
How much did a house sell for in BH16 (Upton)?
Are property prices falling in BH16 (Upton)?
Is BH16 (Upton) a good place to buy a house?
What happens to BH16 prices now?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 3% over five years in cash but down 19% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BH16's current homes for sale
Everything above is what homes in BH16 sold for. Turning to what is actually available: 62 homes on the market right now, from 8 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 2% below the BH16 median sold price.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
"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 BH16 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 price of an extra bedroom 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. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
BH16 ranks 17 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.
BH area districts: five years of change
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Inside BH16, sector by sector
The next slice down is the postcode sector: a group of streets, each with its own report. Two sectors a short walk apart can trade at sharply different prices.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH16 5 | £303,800 | 52 |
| BH16 6 | £427,500 | 26 |
How BH16 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 | £320,000 | +7% |
| BH16 (this report) | £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% |
Selling in BH16? 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 BH16'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.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH16.
Keep digging
Behind the answers sits the same Land Registry record as this page, with BH16 already set as the subject. Free, one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual BH16 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.
How this page is made: the statistics are computed from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0), geocoded to address level; inflation adjustment uses the ONS CPIH index; rents are the ONS Price Index of Private Rents at local-authority level. Medians of recorded sales, not valuations. Nothing on this page is financial advice.