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Highcliffe market report BH23 3, Christchurch
The BH23 3 (Highcliffe) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. Underneath every chart here sit 5,128 registered sales in BH23 3 (Christchurch) since 1995, the HM Land Registry record of what buyers really paid, with ONS figures covering rents. Nothing is a valuation, an estimate or an asking price.
Covers registered sales to 2026 and ONS rents for May 2026. Refreshed monthly as new sales reach the register.
In short: a typical BH23 3 (Christchurch) home changed hands for £340,000 in 2026 (median of 52 registered sales, up 10% on five years earlier), with the mean at £356,300, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £4,580 per square metre over the last five years. Source: 5,128 completed sales on the HM Land Registry record since 1995, updated with each monthly release. No valuations, no asking prices.
BH23 3 is one sector of BH23 (Christchurch): 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 BH23 3 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 BH23 3 homes really sell for
In the BH23 3 property market, the 2026 median sale price is £340,000, from 52 registered sales; the mean, the "average house price" most sites quote, is £356,300, sitting nearly identical to it, meaning sales cluster closely around the typical figure.
House prices per square metre in BH23 3
Per square metre, BH23 3 homes have averaged around £4,580 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.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving BH23 3 19% above the national figure.
The price of a typical BH23 3 home, 1995 to 2026
Two lines: the median in the money of its day, and the same years restated by ONS CPIH into today's money, which is the truer test of getting dearer. Hover for exact figures; click a legend entry to isolate a series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £340,000 | £340,000 | 52 |
| 2025 | £337,500 | £345,571 | 126 |
| 2024 | £380,000 | £404,018 | 113 |
| 2023 | £316,200 | £347,427 | 164 |
| 2022 | £375,000 | £439,730 | 127 |
| 2021 | £310,500 | £393,133 | 164 |
| 2020 | £310,000 | £402,231 | 127 |
| 2019 | £310,000 | £406,336 | 113 |
| 2018 | £307,500 | £409,903 | 146 |
| 2017 | £295,000 | £402,350 | 151 |
| 2016 | £282,500 | £395,220 | 154 |
| 2015 | £272,000 | £384,336 | 155 |
| 2014 | £236,000 | £334,807 | 162 |
| 2013 | £216,500 | £311,522 | 150 |
| 2012 | £220,000 | £323,813 | 125 |
| 2011 | £220,000 | £332,115 | 149 |
| 2010 | £220,000 | £345,017 | 137 |
| 2009 | £195,000 | £313,464 | 136 |
| 2008 | £210,000 | £344,234 | 107 |
| 2007 | £219,200 | £371,824 | 184 |
| 2006 | £210,000 | £364,533 | 258 |
| 2005 | £200,300 | £356,453 | 154 |
| 2004 | £180,000 | £326,915 | 201 |
| 2003 | £165,000 | £303,970 | 183 |
| 2002 | £135,000 | £254,001 | 225 |
| 2001 | £128,000 | £246,073 | 200 |
| 2000 | £113,000 | £221,763 | 189 |
| 1999 | £91,500 | £182,355 | 199 |
| 1998 | £81,600 | £164,715 | 202 |
| 1997 | £73,200 | £150,118 | 228 |
| 1996 | £63,500 | £133,919 | 190 |
| 1995 | £68,500 | £148,908 | 157 |
In cash terms the typical BH23 3 home went from £68,500 in 1995 to £340,000 in 2026, roughly 5 times the price. Adjusted for inflation it still comes to a real rise of roughly 128%, so homes here got dearer in substance, not only in cash. In inflation-adjusted terms the high-water mark was 2022. The market now sits about 23% below it, so a peak-time purchase has yet to recover its real value.
Year-on-year change in the BH23 3 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 (+23.5% on the year before); the weakest, 2023 (−15.7%). 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) | +0.7% | −1.6% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +1.8% | −2.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +1.9% | −1.5% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.4% | −0.3% |
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
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.
BH23 3 recorded 52 sales in the last twelve months of data. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 199 sales a year before the financial crisis and 116 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.
Rents around BH23 3
The local authority for BH23 3 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.
£1,404 a month is £16,848 a year, which against the £340,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.0%. 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.
The shape of the BH23 3 market
Only 52 sales completed here in the last twelve months of data, which makes BH23 3 a thin market. Each figure rests on few transactions, so single streets can swing the median and the charts deserve a sceptical squint. The record here is jumpy: year-on-year moves of ten per cent or more are common in the chart above, mostly a function of which homes happened to sell rather than the market lurching. Within BH23, this sector trades 19% below the district median: one of its district's cheaper corners.
Common questions on BH23 3 (Highcliffe)
Are property prices falling in BH23 3 (Highcliffe)?
Is BH23 3 (Highcliffe) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in BH23 3 (Highcliffe)?
What happens to BH23 3 prices now?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 10% over five years in cash but down 14% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
What you could buy in BH23 now
The live side of the market holds 100 homes at the moment, listed by 11 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole BH23 district, not just BH23 3: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 30% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. The comparison behind each listing uses recent recorded sales of similar homes close by.
- Stour Road, Christchurch, BH23
- Canberra Road, Christchurch, Dorset
- Stour Road, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23
"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 BH23 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.
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. 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%) | — |
Medians of recorded sales over the last four years, by built form and bedroom count. Sold homes carry no advertised bedroom count, so sizes are estimated from their EPC records; a small number of homes will sit one size out. 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.
Five-year change in the median, BH area districts
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in BH23
Prices can differ sharply between two sectors a few minutes' walk apart. The rest of BH23, each linking to its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| BH23 1 | £347,500 | 32 |
| BH23 2 | £425,000 | 96 |
| BH23 4 | £480,000 | 81 |
| BH23 5 | £397,500 | 84 |
| BH23 6 | £465,000 | 1 |
| BH23 7 | £360,000 | 25 |
| BH23 8 | £550,000 | 25 |
Zoom out to the full BH23 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how BH23 compares with its neighbours.
Thinking of selling in BH23 3? Get a rough value first
The sold record beats any estimate as a starting point. Before a house valuation or flat valuation in BH23 3, open the average prices map and zoom from the BH23 3 shading down to the sold homes on your own street. Every recorded BH23 3 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 BH23 3.
Keep digging
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to BH23 3. Free after a one click sign in.
Two maps carry on from here: every BH23 3 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.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.