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West Moors market report BH22 8, Ferndown
The standing BH22 8 (West Moors) property market report, rebuilt from the full public record every month. The raw material for this page is 7,255 HM Land Registry entries for BH22 8 (Ferndown), 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.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the typical home in BH22 8 (Ferndown) sold for £383,800 in 2026, the median of 62 registered sales, down 14% on five years earlier. The mean was £436,000, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,280 per square metre over the last five years. The figures cover 7,255 sales recorded by HM Land Registry since 1995 and refresh with each monthly release: completed sale prices, not valuations or asking prices.
A postcode sector like BH22 8 is a single group of streets within BH22 (Ferndown), the finest slice the public record supports. Fewer sales stand behind each figure than at district level, so the lines jump about more.
Where BH22 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.
BH22 8 sold prices: where the market stands
The BH22 8 median stands at £383,800 for 2026, built from 62 registered sales; the mean, the figure usually quoted as the "average house price", is £436,000, somewhat above it, as happens wherever a market carries an expensive tail.
What a square metre costs in BH22 8
Averaged across five years of sales, floor space in BH22 8 costs about £4,280 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.
The national median for England and Wales is £285,000, which puts BH22 8 35% above the country at large.
A typical BH22 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.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £383,800 | £383,800 | 62 |
| 2025 | £422,500 | £432,603 | 214 |
| 2024 | £430,000 | £457,178 | 185 |
| 2023 | £480,000 | £527,403 | 143 |
| 2022 | £483,200 | £566,607 | 198 |
| 2021 | £445,000 | £563,427 | 265 |
| 2020 | £420,500 | £545,607 | 182 |
| 2019 | £366,500 | £480,394 | 186 |
| 2018 | £410,000 | £546,538 | 186 |
| 2017 | £379,000 | £516,918 | 234 |
| 2016 | £365,000 | £510,639 | 240 |
| 2015 | £325,000 | £459,225 | 258 |
| 2014 | £297,200 | £421,630 | 244 |
| 2013 | £300,000 | £431,670 | 190 |
| 2012 | £270,000 | £397,406 | 171 |
| 2011 | £270,000 | £407,596 | 177 |
| 2010 | £274,800 | £430,957 | 184 |
| 2009 | £261,200 | £419,881 | 164 |
| 2008 | £304,400 | £498,976 | 124 |
| 2007 | £287,500 | £487,680 | 313 |
| 2006 | £270,000 | £468,686 | 319 |
| 2005 | £245,000 | £436,001 | 216 |
| 2004 | £250,000 | £454,049 | 302 |
| 2003 | £245,800 | £452,823 | 282 |
| 2002 | £200,000 | £376,298 | 374 |
| 2001 | £168,000 | £322,971 | 282 |
| 2000 | £140,000 | £274,750 | 246 |
| 1999 | £123,500 | £246,129 | 242 |
| 1998 | £112,000 | £226,080 | 250 |
| 1997 | £106,000 | £217,385 | 323 |
| 1996 | £86,500 | £182,425 | 295 |
| 1995 | £80,500 | £174,995 | 204 |
In cash terms the typical BH22 8 home went from £80,500 in 1995 to £383,800 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 119%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 32% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH22 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 2003 (+22.9% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−14.2%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
The long view: annualised growth
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | −9.2% | −11.3% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | −2.9% | −7.4% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +0.5% | −2.8% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +1.8% | −1.0% |
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.
How many homes change hands in BH22 8
Sales per year, counted
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
BH22 8 recorded 62 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 292 sales a year before the financial crisis and 160 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.
Reading the BH22 8 market
Expect volatility in the annual figures: swings past ten per cent show up repeatedly above, and they usually reflect the mix of homes sold in a given year rather than genuine repricing.
The rental side of BH22 8
For renting purposes BH22 8 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 £383,800 median sold price, £1,041 a month is £12,492 a year, a gross yield of 3.3%: 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.
BH22 8 (West Moors): the questions that come up
Is BH22 8 (West Moors) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH22 8 (West Moors)?
Are property prices falling in BH22 8 (West Moors)?
Are BH22 8 prices heading up or down?
The record answers a different question than "what happens next": the median is down 14% over five years in cash but down 32% after inflation. Put the volume chart beside the price chart before drawing conclusions, and allow for the register's lag behind actual completions.
What you could buy in BH22 now
This is what you could actually buy today: 82 homes currently on the market from 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH22 district, not just BH22 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
25% of what is on the market here is asking below what comparable homes actually sold for. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
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 BH22 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.
What another bedroom costs 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%) | — |
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. Sizes with too few homes to be meaningful are left blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the BH area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
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.
Other sectors in BH22
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH22, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH22 0 | £398,000 | 51 |
| BH22 9 | £367,500 | 72 |
Zoom out to the full BH22 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH22 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH22 8? Get a rough value first
Start from what homes here actually sold for, not an estimate. Before booking a house valuation or flat valuation in BH22 8, use the average prices map for a rough value: zoom from BH22 8's shading down to the sold homes on your own street. The figures above are every recorded BH22 8 sale; agents price with this same Land Registry record, and now you have it too.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim BH22 8.
Dig further
Answers come from the same Land Registry data behind this report, and the AI knows you are asking about BH22 8. Free, with a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH22 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.
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.