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Canford Heath market report BH17 8, Poole
The BH17 8 (Canford Heath) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Every figure on this page comes from the public record: 5,078 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH17 8 (Poole) since 1995, each one a completed purchase at a real price, plus current rental figures from the ONS. Nothing here is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Sales data to 2026. Rents: ONS, May 2026. Regenerated with every monthly data refresh.
In short: the 2026 median for BH17 8 (Poole) is £317,500, from 48 registered sales, up 15% on five years earlier; the mean is £305,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,200 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 5,078 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH17 8 is one sector of BH17 (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 BH17 8 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.
What BH17 8 homes really sell for
Take the 48 registered 2026 sales in BH17 8 and the middle price, the median, is £317,500. The mean lands at £305,000, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
BH17 8 prices by floor area
Per square metre, BH17 8 homes have averaged around £4,200 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.
Against a national (England and Wales) median of £285,000, BH17 8 runs 11% above it.
A typical BH17 8 home, priced year by year (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 | £317,500 | £317,500 | 48 |
| 2025 | £291,000 | £297,959 | 121 |
| 2024 | £312,500 | £332,252 | 93 |
| 2023 | £300,000 | £329,627 | 94 |
| 2022 | £320,000 | £375,237 | 102 |
| 2021 | £275,000 | £348,185 | 139 |
| 2020 | £269,000 | £349,033 | 105 |
| 2019 | £255,000 | £334,244 | 110 |
| 2018 | £252,000 | £335,921 | 125 |
| 2017 | £268,000 | £365,525 | 182 |
| 2016 | £251,500 | £351,851 | 180 |
| 2015 | £210,000 | £296,730 | 114 |
| 2014 | £200,000 | £283,735 | 125 |
| 2013 | £185,800 | £267,348 | 128 |
| 2012 | £192,500 | £283,336 | 91 |
| 2011 | £180,000 | £271,731 | 90 |
| 2010 | £171,800 | £269,427 | 96 |
| 2009 | £166,500 | £267,650 | 94 |
| 2008 | £182,200 | £298,664 | 80 |
| 2007 | £186,500 | £316,356 | 202 |
| 2006 | £165,000 | £286,419 | 217 |
| 2005 | £153,000 | £272,278 | 185 |
| 2004 | £159,000 | £288,775 | 205 |
| 2003 | £131,000 | £241,334 | 198 |
| 2002 | £110,000 | £206,964 | 232 |
| 2001 | £90,500 | £173,982 | 254 |
| 2000 | £83,000 | £162,888 | 262 |
| 1999 | £69,000 | £137,513 | 270 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 246 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 294 |
| 1996 | £50,200 | £105,870 | 220 |
| 1995 | £51,000 | £110,866 | 176 |
In cash terms the typical BH17 8 home went from £51,000 in 1995 to £317,500 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 186%, 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 BH17 8 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 (+21.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.6%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +9.1% | +6.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.9% | −1.8% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.4% | −1.0% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH17 8
How many homes change hands
Recorded sales per year. The dip after 2008 is the financial crisis; the last bar is still filling in as recent sales get registered.
Over the last twelve months of data, 48 sales completed in BH17 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 219 sales a year before the financial crisis and 92 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.
The rental side of BH17 8
For renting purposes BH17 8 sits in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The ONS average private rent there is £1,404 a month (May 2026). 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.
Set against the £317,500 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 5.3%: 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 BH17 8 market
This is a thin market: 48 sales in the last twelve months of data. With that few transactions, one street selling well (or one block of cheap transfers) can move the median, so read the year lines as a range rather than a verdict.
Asked and answered: BH17 8 (Canford Heath)
Is BH17 8 (Canford Heath) a good place to buy a house?
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Are property prices falling in BH17 8 (Canford Heath)?
Where do BH17 8 prices go next?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
BH17's current homes for sale
Turning to what is actually available: 116 homes on the market right now, from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH17 district, not just BH17 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Each listing is compared with recent recorded sales of similar homes nearby.
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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 BH17 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.
What another bedroom costs in BH
Real sold prices by size across the BH area, straight 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 | — | £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. Blank cells mean too few homes for the figure to mean anything.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
Winners and losers across the BH area, five years
Cash-terms risers and fallers across the area; click any row for that district's full report.
Other sectors in BH17
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH17's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH17 7 | £297,500 | 64 |
| BH17 9 | £366,500 | 34 |
Zoom out to the full BH17 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH17 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in BH17 8: what the record supports
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH17 8, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH17 8 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH17 8 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH17 8.
Go deeper
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH17 8. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH17 8 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.
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.