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Bournemouth Town Centre market report BH2 6, Bournemouth
The BH2 6 (Bournemouth Town Centre) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 4,710 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in BH2 6 (Bournemouth) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the 2026 median for BH2 6 (Bournemouth) is £192,000, from 29 registered sales, down 14% on five years earlier; the mean is £227,200, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,490 per square metre over the last five years. Behind the figures sit 4,710 HM Land Registry entries going back to 1995, refreshed monthly, every one a completed sale rather than a valuation or an asking price.
BH2 6 is one sector of BH2 (Bournemouth): 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 BH2 6 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 BH2 6 homes really sell for
Take the 29 registered 2026 sales in BH2 6 and the middle price, the median, is £192,000. The mean lands at £227,200, well clear of it: the mark of a market where a small number of costly homes drag the average upwards.
Price per square metre in BH2 6
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH2 6 costs about £3,490 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 BH2 6 33% below the national figure.
The price of a typical BH2 6 home, 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 | £192,000 | £192,000 | 29 |
| 2025 | £217,500 | £222,701 | 83 |
| 2024 | £226,000 | £240,284 | 70 |
| 2023 | £228,500 | £251,066 | 94 |
| 2022 | £218,000 | £255,630 | 142 |
| 2021 | £222,500 | £281,714 | 168 |
| 2020 | £205,000 | £265,992 | 97 |
| 2019 | £211,800 | £277,619 | 92 |
| 2018 | £190,000 | £253,274 | 109 |
| 2017 | £201,000 | £274,144 | 134 |
| 2016 | £195,000 | £272,807 | 171 |
| 2015 | £165,000 | £233,145 | 169 |
| 2014 | £175,000 | £248,268 | 153 |
| 2013 | £161,000 | £231,663 | 165 |
| 2012 | £158,000 | £232,556 | 107 |
| 2011 | £177,000 | £267,202 | 111 |
| 2010 | £185,000 | £290,128 | 83 |
| 2009 | £157,500 | £253,183 | 97 |
| 2008 | £164,000 | £268,831 | 114 |
| 2007 | £178,000 | £301,938 | 230 |
| 2006 | £170,000 | £295,098 | 197 |
| 2005 | £170,000 | £302,531 | 201 |
| 2004 | £187,500 | £340,537 | 355 |
| 2003 | £148,000 | £272,652 | 189 |
| 2002 | £127,000 | £238,949 | 278 |
| 2001 | £99,500 | £191,284 | 191 |
| 2000 | £92,700 | £181,924 | 214 |
| 1999 | £65,000 | £129,542 | 183 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 149 |
| 1997 | £54,000 | £110,743 | 137 |
| 1996 | £54,700 | £115,360 | 112 |
| 1995 | £43,900 | £95,432 | 86 |
In cash terms the typical BH2 6 home went from £43,900 in 1995 to £192,000 in 2026, roughly 4 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 101%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2004. The market now sits about 44% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH2 6 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 (+42.6% on the year before); the weakest, 2026 (−11.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
What BH2 6 has returned, per year
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −11.7% | −13.8% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.9% | −7.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | −0.2% | −3.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +0.6% | −2.1% |
Each row is compound annual growth of the median; ONS CPIH supplies the real-terms deflator. Annualising irons out the cycle, which the chart above shows in full, and past growth records what happened rather than predicting anything.
Transaction volumes
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 29 BH2 6 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 232 sales a year before the financial crisis and 84 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 kind of market BH2 6 is
This is a thin market: 29 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.
What tenants pay around BH2 6
The local authority for BH2 6 is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and its ONS average private rent currently stands at £1,404 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £922 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £2,092, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
Set against the £192,000 median sold price, £1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, a gross yield of 8.8%: 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.
What people ask about BH2 6 (Bournemouth Town Centre)
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Will BH2 6 prices rise from here?
No honest page predicts prices, so this one sticks to the record: the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Anyone weighing a purchase should read the volume chart with the price chart, remembering that these are completed sales, registered weeks after the deals were actually struck.
What is for sale in BH2 right now
This is what you could actually buy today: 137 homes currently on the market from 13 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH2 district, not just BH2 6: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 23% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, Dorset, BH2
- Terrace Road, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH2
- Bourne Avenue, Bournemouth
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 BH2 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
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 biggest risers and fallers in cash terms; every row links to that district's report.
Other sectors in BH2
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are BH2's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH2 5 | £171,500 | 32 |
Zoom out to the full BH2 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH2 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH2 6? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH2 6, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH2 6 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH2 6 sale is on this page; the same Land Registry record is what agents price from, and it is now in your hands.
For local estate agents: each district report carries one featured-agent spot, free while founding places last. Claim BH2 6.
Go deeper
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See every individual BH2 6 sale on the live map, mapped to the exact address, or zoom the average prices map from neighbourhood shading down to single homes. The report tool writes a custom answer to a specific question, and the mortgage and rent calculator on any sale 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.