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Canford Heath market report BH17, Poole
The BH17 (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: 14,671 sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH17 (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 recorded to July 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: a typical BH17 (Poole) home changed hands for £320,000 in 2026 (median of 146 registered sales, up 11% on five years earlier), with the mean at £323,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,240 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 14,671 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
The postcode district BH17 covering Canford Heath, Creekmoor, Waterloo 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 BH17 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 homes really sell for
Across 146 registered 2026 sales, the typical (median) BH17 home went for £320,000. The mean is £323,500, almost on top of it, so sales bunch tightly around the typical price.
Price per square metre in BH17
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH17 costs about £4,240 per square metre. Each sale's Energy Performance Certificate supplies the floor area, and pricing by the metre is what lets flats and houses share one scale.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH17 12% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BH17 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 | 146 |
| 2025 | £315,000 | £322,533 | 334 |
| 2024 | £317,500 | £337,568 | 300 |
| 2023 | £320,000 | £351,602 | 305 |
| 2022 | £330,000 | £386,963 | 315 |
| 2021 | £288,500 | £365,278 | 396 |
| 2020 | £270,000 | £350,331 | 332 |
| 2019 | £265,000 | £347,352 | 331 |
| 2018 | £262,500 | £349,917 | 351 |
| 2017 | £265,000 | £361,433 | 441 |
| 2016 | £246,200 | £344,436 | 420 |
| 2015 | £224,000 | £316,512 | 341 |
| 2014 | £208,500 | £295,794 | 410 |
| 2013 | £197,500 | £284,183 | 368 |
| 2012 | £190,000 | £279,656 | 284 |
| 2011 | £184,000 | £277,769 | 285 |
| 2010 | £186,000 | £291,696 | 300 |
| 2009 | £170,000 | £273,276 | 325 |
| 2008 | £185,000 | £303,254 | 236 |
| 2007 | £190,000 | £322,293 | 531 |
| 2006 | £174,500 | £302,910 | 637 |
| 2005 | £165,000 | £293,634 | 506 |
| 2004 | £162,700 | £295,495 | 588 |
| 2003 | £140,000 | £257,914 | 614 |
| 2002 | £120,000 | £225,779 | 691 |
| 2001 | £98,500 | £189,361 | 755 |
| 2000 | £85,000 | £166,813 | 683 |
| 1999 | £74,000 | £147,478 | 747 |
| 1998 | £65,400 | £132,015 | 703 |
| 1997 | £59,000 | £120,997 | 797 |
| 1996 | £55,000 | £115,993 | 676 |
| 1995 | £56,000 | £121,735 | 523 |
In cash terms the typical BH17 home went from £56,000 in 1995 to £320,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 163%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 17% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the BH17 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 (+21.8% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−8.1%). 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 detached houses dominate the record here, 31% of the typed total. A detached home currently trades at £370,000 against £161,200 for a flat, 2.3 times the price.
Median by property type, BH17
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 | £370,000 | 55 | 4,549 |
| Semi-detached | £325,000 | 39 | 3,976 |
| Terraced | £268,500 | 42 | 4,401 |
| Flats | £161,200 | 10 | 1,745 |
Growth per year, over one to twenty years
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +1.6% | −0.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.1% | −2.6% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +2.7% | −0.7% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +3.1% | +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.
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 last five years, month by month
Sales as they reached the register each month. Expect the seasonal sawtooth, and discount the newest months while late entries land.
Over the last twelve months of data, 303 sales completed in BH17. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 626 sales a year before the financial crisis and 280 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 BH17
For renting purposes BH17 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.
Against the £320,000 median purchase price, a rent of £1,404 a month (£16,848 a year) works out at a 5.3% 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.
Asked and answered: BH17 (Canford Heath)
How much did a house sell for in BH17 (Canford Heath)?
Are property prices falling in BH17 (Canford Heath)?
Is BH17 (Canford Heath) a good place to buy a house?
Are BH17 prices heading up or down?
Prediction is not this page's business. Its business is the record, which says: the median is up 11% over five years in cash but down 12% 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 BH17 today
Everything above is what homes in BH17 sold for. This is what you could actually buy today: 116 homes currently on the market from 10 agents publishing to HomesIndex, at a typical asking price 4% below the BH17 median sold price.
40% of current listings sit under the prices comparable homes actually fetched. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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"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 BH17 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in BH
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
BH17 ranks 4 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
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Inside BH17, sector by sector
Below district level sit the sectors, street groups with reports of their own, and the gaps between neighbouring ones can be sharp.
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH17 7 | £297,500 | 64 |
| BH17 8 | £317,500 | 48 |
| BH17 9 | £366,500 | 34 |
How BH17 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 | £320,000 | +3% |
| BH17 (this report) | £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 BH17? Start from the sold record
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH17, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH17's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH17 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
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Two maps carry on from here: every BH17 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.
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.